There's a fog in the meadow.Ron Wilson is a university history professor. He discovers his back yard deck is a portal from which he can see snippets of space and time from ages long ago. The images appear to float through the meadow behind his house in fog banks that suddenly form and quickly disappear.After seeing a herd of bison in one fog, he goes out into the meadow to investigate. Much to his surprise, he discovers they left hoof prints, even though th...

A family is torn apart.It wasn't an accident. It wasn't a disease. It wasn't a natural disaster that took eight young children from their parents in the spring of 1952. It was an act of the county government that tore the family apart.In early April 1952, a North Dakota district court judge signed an order removing eight children from the custody of their parents. The children became wards of the State. Seven were immediately taken to the North Dakota Child...

"WE HAVE TO LEAVE HERE," Loma, the stone-age tribe's headman, told the villagers. The guides had told him a great drought with dirt and sand-filled winds would soon sweep over their village in the woods by the lake. The lake would quickly become a dry sand-filled basin and great dunes would cover the woods. The entire region would be barren. No food. No water.The guides who talked with the headman were mysterious beings with many strange powers. The tribe's oral tradition was that ...

About this bookGeorge Grant is a 15-year-old farm boy who is struck by lightning while helping his dad with the summer harvest. His dad is killed but George survives with burns on his arms and back. When the burns heal George and his younger brother Roy resume their baseball practices. That fall George is a high school sophomore and his goal is to pitch for the high school baseball team.George has lingering effects from the lightning strike. When h...

GEORGE GRANT RETIRED from baseball after leading a professional team to back-to-back World Series Championships. George is content to return to his first love—farming. He's looking forward to getting back on a tractor and helping with the spring planting.That won't happen for two months. In early March George and Marcy plan to spend several days visiting with their friends Toby and Mona Corbet. Toby is the baseball coach at the State University in the state capital. Toby was George...

THE PERFECT ROOKIE is the fourth novel in the George Grant Series. George was struck by lightning as a teenager. The doctors said the tingles in his arms and hands would fade away as he recovered. That was almost 40 years ago. He's 55 and still has them.The tingles were initially known to his family, a few close friends and the doctors who examined him. Now only his wife Marcy, his brother Roy and Roy's wife Sally know about them. Marcy has always been able to sense and fe...

George Grant is a farm boy who is struck by lightning while helping his dad harvest grain. His dad is killed, but George recovers with lingering effects that cause him to get tingles in his hands and arms whenever he throws a baseball or lifts anything heavy. The tingles make him stronger and give him great speed and accuracy when pitching a baseball. His vision is also affected and he now sees a baseball in flight moving like it is in slow motion.This second book in the George Gra...

THE AMAZING PLAYER is the fifth novel in the George Grant Series. When George was 15 he was struck by lightning. Doctors said the residual tingles in his arms and hands would soon fade away. George is 55 and he still has them. The only people who know that are his wife, his brother and his brother's wife.The tingles give George extra strength and greater accuracy when he pitches a baseball. He rarely throws anything but a strike. His vision was affected by the lightning st...

It's been 35 years since George Grant graduated from high school. In that long-ago summer an essential farm worker left and George was unable to quickly find a replacement. He had to forego college and give up his dream to play professional baseball. The top priority was to keep the farm running. His brother Roy was still in high school.It takes more than a year to find a replacement farm worker and by then George and Marcy Caldwell, his high school sweetheart, are married and mana...