My daddy was a phony tent revival preacher that could not keep his hands off the till, women, or the bottle. When daddy was too drunk to stand up one night, he told me to do the preaching for him. A wild night of revelation, a deputy, a murder or two, and I became The Deacon. Oh, and there was a girl. Or, should I say, two?

What's a man to do? He's survived the Civil War and worked hard to earn everything he has. Finally, he has found the place he wants to settle down and build a ranch. First he is robbed in his sleep, causing him to chase his money afoot. The he buys a ranch. the seller dies, greed rides in and the fight is one. Oh, wait, there's a woman and kids involved which makes the war over the land harder to win. What more could happen?

Krissy is ready for a wedding and the happily ever after when out of nowhere come outlaws who kill her family in the worst of ways. As she seeks help from her husband-to-be she finds she is a widow before the wedding even begins. What's a girl to do? Vengeance. Throw in a Chinaman, a young orphan, a Marshal, his son, and many miles of travel, and you have a story worth sitting up all night to read before you find out that Krissy has her own ideas of Vengeance.

Will worked hard all his life until he had a herd to sell. On the way everything was stolen; lock, stock, and barrel. He couldn't even find the fence posts when he returned home. A grizzled Army sergeant, a red head and her brother, a black horse, and time allowed him to recaptured it all. But, the road was long, bloody, and dangerous to the final confrontation in a town he'd only heard of. Eastern Arizona in the 1880's.

Number 3 in the new Deacon Series.The Deacon married off one mother, someone has claimed to be his birth mother, a young woman follows him everywhere he goes, and that's just his women problems. He is being shot at, challenged, ambushed, wounded, loses his horse, finds out he is filthy rich, and the mine is in trouble, folks want to be baptized, all hell breaks loose. What can happen now???

In the latter half of the 1800's, James Reavis found a document granting an area 75 north to south, and 250 miles east to west, including Phoenix Arizona, and Silver City, New Mexico, to a soldier named Peralta. It established a plot of land called the Barony of Arizona. Most of the productive mines and land in these states were involved in the claim. With other documents and some convincing, Reavis established himself and a young orphan girl as the Baron and Baroness of Arizona, laying cl...

The Deacon is in trouble again. He got himself married to his bodyguard who is kidnapped three times as she struggles to set herself up as a private detective. The Deacon comes to her rescue only to kill a man with many kin. Strange men come to town, strange crimes take place, and a strange ending about covers his life for this period of time. How much more could he ask for?

What's a sailor to do when he's free of the Navy and wants to go find his lost Grandfather, but when he is ready to cast off for the time of his life, a damsel in distress enters the picture. She is beautiful and sultry, dressed only in a string bikini, but says she has experience as a deckhand and will pay her own way. And, oh yeah, don't touch.

IN DIME'S WORDSWe set out to serve our country and were danged good at it. We retired with our pittance of a check coming in each month. That check wouldn't even pay for our gas to go fishing. Me and Nickel rented ourselves out like a couple of military town young women of the night, only the servicing was with guns and experience. The nickel and dime jobs put us in a position to walk away with millions, and we did. We went fishing. BUT, we ran into even more money in the Dallas/For...

Submarines are dangerous war machines. They are dangerous to the enemy and to the crew. When one goes to the bottom of the sea, never to return, it is a national tragedy. When one is attacked, all hands are involved. When a crew of 140 is attack and one survives, it is a different story. This is the story of that one man.

A study in the life and times of Jonah the Prophet. There's more here than a man and a big sea monster. It's all about God and a man's relationship with Him. You just might see some holes in your relationship or find that you are tracking God's journey for you, which includes all the best.

This is a study in the Bible book of James. Some say James argued with Paul by declaring a different Gospel in this book. Read and make up your own mind,