Civil Action

‘The Life and Redemption of Teddy Miller’ is a rip-roaring adventure story, filled with horse chases, gunfights and even has a beautiful Pinkerton Detective. But it is more than just an adventure story; the hero, a young man named Teddy Miller, is forced to grow up and make serious decisions for which he has no experience and no adult guidance. Root for him, cry with him, and cheer for him as he travels from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Virginia to the tip of Florida and back during the last months of the American Civil War in search of love and redemption. 'The Life and ...

Americans can’t get along anymore. That’s what everybody said. Better to separate than to burn. Or is it? President Stowe struggles to keep the society together, as the demonic forces of evil strive to destroy Christianity once and for all. There is something new happening in the land. Riots between the factions of the Seward and Harris regime rage no more. Christians were targeted, churches burned, Christian faithful standing strong, resisting the evil, but where have the Christians gone now? Jackson, Kelso, and Anderson are being prepared, but for what? Riots are turning into battles....

Young ranch hand Cole Tyler’s best friend, Martin, has been captured while on a cattle drive through Indian Territory. And if Cole doesn’t get there fast, Martin will be a dead man. Martin has been forcibly taken hostage by an outlaw. One named Bones Foster. A violent robber on a crazed mission for a Spanish Treasure. If the treasure is found and presented to him, he’ll let Martin live… But nobody knows where the treasure is. And Clare Whitley, Martin’s sister, doesn’t care if the treasure is real or a myth. Clare is no sharpshooter. Nonetheless, her guns are ready and she has ...

“The bridge.” Sheriff Dean Coleman paused, then said, “The bridge? What about it?” “The bridge that the Texas Pacific rides on, over Bitter Gorge. That’s a drop of one hundred feet or more, down into the Pecos River.” Dean leaned in. “You don’t figure they’re blowing it up?” “I don’t know. It makes sense. Blow up the bridge, take the gold.” After finding a train schedule in the pocket of a dead outlaw, Sheriff Dean uncovers the most sinister plot yet of the deadly militia Los Bandidos Rojos. There’s a train car full of gold due to pass through Dean’s town. ...

Welcome to Ironhead Station, Indian Territory, where the train tracks end and the real action begins. The hell-on-wheels construction camp is the final destination for hard-drinking sinners, gamblers, and outlaws. And woe to the man who tries to clean it up. Morgan Clyde is a former New York City policeman and Union sharpshooter who lost everything in the Civil War. But he’s still got his guns and his guts. Some folks say he is meaner and tougher than the Devil himself. Which is why the owners of the MK&T Railroad hired Clyde for one hell of a job.

Myles Parker is just an ordinary builder in his town of Willow Creek. His life is mundane, simple and far from special. The only thing that made it special is his wife, Betty. However, all of that is about to change. On a fateful Sunday, a notorious gang called The Bronze Boys rob the local church during a service, killing several people. One of the victims turns out to be Betty. Myles wants justice. But above all, he is waging a personal vendetta against The Bronze Boys. Myles may not have been a lawman or a bounty hunter. All he has is his determination, his Colt Paterson and a box of ...

Land law, water rights, deeds of ownership? Boring. Unless of course, people are shooting at you because of them. The Civil War has disrupted thousands of lives, including that of Sarah Jackson, whose husband was killed for not joining the Confederate Army in Georgia. Sarah and her daughter flee to Nevada Territory and are eligible for homestead rights. After claiming her one hundred sixty acres in the lush Golden Valley, her world crumbles again. Banker Preston Miller claims he owns the entire Golden Valley and all the water in the Good Hope River. Jackson cries foul in a letter to the U.S...

Jackson Chandler, a Union Army veteran, values Afton town’s calm and quiet as do most of the townsfolk. And Afton, in Kansas, wants no part of being a cattle town. Cattle, plentiful in Texas, have to be shipped back east to a hungry public, who couldn’t get enough beef. The closest railroad hubs are in Kansas. Texas drovers move massive herds through Indian Territory and into Kansas. Corrupt banker Morton Ludwig wants his share of the lucrative cattle trade and will do anything to make Afton a wide open yet violent cattle town. He has help from a vicious outlaw he employs, named Decker ...

Marcus Tychon Triarius is a Kentuckian, a Bluegrass Borderline. He admires President Lincoln but has enormous respect for Jefferson Davis. Marcus is a remarkable sharpshooter with a divided conscience and a cantankerous sibling forever talking of their valiant ancestors. Rebelling against his family, he dons the Union Blue but is blown off his feet at the Battle of Perryville on his first day at war. He sees his friend's heart beat its last beat and he runs; he runs straight into trouble. Discharged, he falls into a ruinous lifestyle and very soon becomes involved in a gunfight where three ...

Welcome to Stanti, a land that is on the verge of ruin. Enly and Matthew have one mission, to keep Stanti’s government from collapsing. The problem? The dictator of Travania is desperate to annex their kingdom, which is full of bountiful resources. Meanwhile, misguided rebels are determined to assassinate the members of the royal line. Enly and Matthew are unable to go through the proper channels to save Stanti, since traitors are lurking in high places. Winning the war will depend on what the royals are willing to sacrifice.

'Quality from cover to cover.' Helen Hollick - Author of Harold the King Shire is far, far from home, his old life in Victorian England a fading memory. He’s battled through war-torn America to keep a cherished promise to his childhood companion. Now she’s pushing him away, while the war won’t let him go. Fighting for the Union, Shire must survive the brutal campaign for Atlanta and try to imagine a future without her. Clara is free from her husband but not from his ghost. After a violent end to an abusive marriage, she struggles to keep her home in the Tennessee hills as the war ...

The clouds of war once more threaten the new nation the mysterious entities of light have nourished. The entities must find outstanding specimens among the human race to guide their fellow sentients back to peace. An unlikely duo -- a gangly lawyer from Illinois and a diminutive woman author -- arise as voices of reason and leadership. As the war rages, two farmer brothers from Illinois try to navigate between their duty to country and duty to their responsibilities back home. This story is the final episode of the Ebook series based from the novel, A Most Promising Planet.

Hunting the men who did it. One by one. After learning the truth about his family’s killers, Deputy Lucas Butler leaves behind his East Texas home and tracks down the Bloodhoof Gang, the seven men responsible for the fateful night that tore apart his childhood. Some of the brutes have vanished from sight. But others still eke out their heartless trades. Elwood Roscoe, the engine behind the Bloodhoof reign of terror, hasn’t lost his taste for blood and theft. He’s made his living making a mockery of justice. As Lucas uncovers an ocean of pain left behind by the gang, he also finds ...

Caleb McCallister does not have a normal childhood. His mother rejected him, and his father is an alcoholic. Despite everything, Caleb sticks to his morals and becomes a respected citizen of his hometown. Everyone loves him because of his determination to uphold the law and protect the innocent. Due to his unyielding sense of justice, Sheriff Craig Dalton believes Caleb is the only person that possesses the right set of skills to go after a notorious outlaw by the name of Silas “Blackheart” Kane. The outlaw has been wreaking havoc in Colorado for a while. Somebody needs to stop him. ...

Sitting in a jail cell on the eve of his hanging, April 1, 1875, freedman Persimmon "Persy" Wilson wants nothing more than to leave some record of the truth - his truth. He may be guilty but not of what he stands accused: the kidnapping and rape of his former master's wife. In 1860 Persy had been sold to Sweetmore, a Louisiana sugar plantation, alongside a striking light-skinned house slave named Chloe. Their deep and instant connection fueled a love affair and inspired plans to escape their owner, Master Wilson, who claimed Chloe as his concubine.

Silver Medalist Global Book Awards - Mystery / Women Sleuths Winner PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence - Fiction / Mystery / Sleuths "Once again, Chappell delivers!" –The American ReporterWrenn Grayson’s first summer as archivist for the Foundling Historical Society and Museum begins as unsettlingly as the electrical storms that plague Havens, Ohio. On her initial assignment, she investigates Madelaine Manor and its deceased owner, Hollis Bronwyn Jenner. Hollis blazed a trail in the late-1910s as a women’s rights activist. Her past is shadowed by World War I and the belief she ...

'The Light from Darkness' is the story of a young man's epic journey home in search of love and redemption. There are tears, tragedy and a final reckoning which will forever change the course of his life. The young man, Teddy, travels from the tip of Florida back to his beloved Shenandoah Valley during the last months of the American Civil War. Along the way, he encounters heroes and villains alike that test both his courage and his moral character.

Vermont, 1850s. Bell's Star is a brown Morgan colt with a white star and two white stockings. He was bred for hard work, yet he longs to run free with his human friend, Katie, on his back. But when Star helps rescue a runaway slave girl, his ideas about freedom may change forever. Here is Star's story . . . in his own words.

Zach Walker has one goal: to get home and try to develop a relationship with the girl he has shared so much with. The last thing he wants is to get distracted and sidetracked. Unfortunately, that is exactly what he stumbles upon in the form of an outlaw, a snakebite, a pretty girl, and a long-standing feud. After getting bitten by a poisonous snake, Zach is rescued by a kindly couple and unknowingly gets involved in a feud involving murder and revenge. Add to it all, a pretty girl he rescues and is now vying for Zach’s attention on The Augusta Road.

In October 1863, Ian Steele, having taken on the identity of Captain Samuel Forbes, is fighting the Pashtun on the north-west frontier in India. Half a world away, the real Samuel Forbes is a lieutenant in the third New York Volunteers and is facing the Confederates at the Battle of Mission Ridge in Tennessee. Neither is aware their lives will change beyond recognition in the year to come. In London, Ella, the love of Ian's life, is unhappily married to Count Nikolai Kasatkin.