A NATION IN DISTRESSPresident Chyrise Elliot's first term of office was completing a fairly uneventful first four months when four simultaneous kidnapping incursions are made into the residences of her children. Twenty-four hours later a ransom video is furnished to the news media revealing the kidnapped children in a desert setting and the beheading of one. The Jihadi John type kidnapper threatens to behead them all in forty-eight hours unless the president resigns from her positio...

Where better to hide a body than at the bottom of a deep lake? A deep lake that is frozen over? The only problem—ice fishermen. Of course, the fishermen expect to catch fish, not parts of a human body. As the saying goes, "The Best Laid Plans Of MIce and Men." When Zebulah Pyke reels in his fish and finds that he has caught a human finger, the mystery begins. Who is the body in the ice and why was the body put in the lake. And who killed the deceased. Cameron's best work to date, The Body ...

When fifteen-year-old Jennifer Wilson awoke in the middle of the night, she discovered that she was colder than she had ever been before – perhaps because her mother's ghost was standing at the foot of her bed. That night her mother told her three things that would impact her young life: that her mother had died in a freak accident that night during a ritual performed on the late winter ice of Hibbard Pond; that she (Jennifer) was a witch like her mother; and that one of the three other "w...

An unusual friendship between an Amish youth and teenager results in deep comradeship and changes the way some people look at others. Emotionally stirring and moving.A most unlikely but extremely strong bond of friendship develops between two teenage boys of different ethnic backgrounds. Joshua, a young Amish boy of thirteen, forbidden to form friendships with "outsiders," has his life saved by Chris Waters after being critically injured by a wildly careening lumber truck. In turn,...

"There's gold in them there hills."An adage from the old west. And indeed there was gold in Alder Gulch…lots of gold with lots of miners looking to strike it rich. And lots of bandits just waiting for the right moment to strike and get rich in their own way.Sent by President Abraham Lincoln to assure that the newly discovered riches didn't help the Confederate cause, Wilhelm Clark, part-time judge and full-time lawyer recruits several men of good—more or less—character to a...

They were leaving. I didn't wave. They didn't wave. They didn't even look back! I guess you don't if you've just killed someone. Especially if that someone is your brother-in-law. Thus began Stuart Andrews' sixteen-hour survival ordeal in the Caribbean Sea off the island of St. Nantes. Once miraculously ashore, he had to remain dead to the people who had done their best to drown him while on a fishing excursion during the time their cruise ship was in port. Luckily, Stuart had funds and re...

A late night fire in Al's Hard Hat Bar near Barton City discovered by Alcona Deputy Sheriff Andrew Carmody brings Fire Inspector Daniel Colquhoun on the scene to investigate. When a body is discovered under the bar, the investigation becomes murder and arson. The main questions are: How did the fire start and whose body is it?More fires and evidence of old fires point to an arsonist possibly just learning his trade. But a naked woman who escaped from a sex slave environment leads to...

With three confessions to the murder of Pierre LeBeuf (The Body Under the Ice), two of the confessors dead, and the third non compos mentis, Sheriff Nathanial Jefferson is in a quandary – he doesn't believe any of the confessions and he has no other leads.Caught in a sudden downpour, Rachel and Jeremy, two summer lake deputies patrolling Hibbard Pond, seek shelter under the West Branch covered bridge. While climbing the dirt embankment to tie a line, Jeremy unearths the skeleton of ...

DYNAMIC CONCLUSION TO THE PAYBACK TRILOGYAction and mystery thriller at its best in the finale to Cameron's blockbuster series Payback Trilogy is full of unexpected surprises, unusual twists and cliff-hanging adventure as his quasi-hero is under attack by unknown sources.It can't possibly be... he's dead! I know, I killed him.A threat from the past?Harriet and Paul Peterson left St. Maartin aboard their yacht Seventh Heaven on the first leg of their sail around...

Cameron's dubious hero returns in this action adventure romance thriller sequel to best-selling Payback is A Bitch, as miscreants, including a judge, seek revenge against a dead man.~~Payback: Time to die… again~~In the thrilling action adventure thriller sequel to Payback is a Bitch, returning to the 'House at the End of the Road', Dawoh "Daws" Mbayo becomes a semi-recluse except for his live-in lover, Treshana "Tres" Jones. To his amazement, a uninvited visitor drops by, a...