Western Wars

Novelist and prizewinning historian Winston Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought - and thought about - war. This is Groom's account of what would become the most dreaded place on Earth.

In a desolate world where dirigibles rule the skies and blood soaks the dry earth, a young man joins the fight against a tyrant who has problems of his own. Andrew Sutter returns home from hunting to find drought-wracked Carroll Town under the thumb of a tax collector from the cannibalistic Flesh-Eating Legion. A riot becomes a battle, leaving Carroll Town in ruins and Andrew alone in the merciless Iron Desert. Saved from certain death by the riders of rebel chieftain Alonzo Merrill, Andrew finds himself fighting for their doomed cause. Meanwhile, Grendel, first lord of the Northlands and ...

London, 2017: When Aurelia Leclaire inherits an opulent Paris apartment, she is shocked to discover her grandmother’s hidden secrets - including a treasure trove of famous art and couture gowns. One obscure painting leads her to Gabriel Seymour, a highly respected art restorer with his own mysterious past. Together they attempt to uncover the truths concealed within the apartment’s walls.

“Do I need to remind you to take care of yourself?” she reminded him. “Don’t worry about me. I still hate to lose, dear,” Colton mildly admonished her. Colton Day does not get a chance to rest much as yet another threat has come to the rugged frontier town of Temple Ridge. Earlier in the year, former lawman Colton defeated a killer gang and then thwarted a group of kidnappers. Now, Birch Simmons has come to town and killed Temple Ridge’s Mayor Huck Flinton. But bringing the corrupt rancher Simmons to justice will be a monumental challenge. This challenge naturally falls on ...

At the dawn of the 19th century, the great powers of Western Europe treated the United States like a disobedient child. America's complaints were ignored, until President James Madison declared a second war on Great Britain. British forces would descend on the United States, but America rallied and survived. With stunning detail on land and naval battles, the role Native Americans played in the hostilities, and the larger backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, this is the story of the turning points of this strange conflict, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner".

A historical fiction book set in England and the Middle East during World War I. In "Secret Plot of WWI," the stakes of war are heightened as Major Richard Hannay embarks on a perilous mission that could change the course of history. Battling his own demons and the scars of recent combat, Hannay must navigate the treacherous waters of espionage and military strategy to thwart a potential uprising led by a charismatic figure threatening to ignite Islamic jihad against the Allied forces. With influences from the past haunting him, Hannay's journey takes him beyond the battlefield, revealing ...

21st Century America has one historical trend: it’s more and more divided each year. There are dozens of factors that warn if a country is headed toward civil war. After the 2020 Pandemic almost all those alarms are sounding. The state of the union is weak at best. Most Americans are barely surviving economically. Years of high inflation forced millions to live off credit cards and so debts are increasing. Wages have trailed behind growth for decades. As people get more desperate, millions turn to crime. Mass shootings, violent crime, armed robberies all increased after the pandemic. More...

You can take the man out of law enforcement. But you can’t take the law enforcement out of the man. Logan McCoy has a ranch and he just wants to work on it. However his peace is short-lived, as deadly attacks spread across his town. His townsfolk are suddenly violated by torture, murder, arson, kidnapping, and cattle rustling. Logan is forced to take up his badge again – as deputy sheriff. Cattle baron Brock Collins wants a ranch empire for himself. Brock is using the simple invention of the barbed wire to colonize a territory, at the expense of the innocent. Deputy Sheriff Logan needs ...

Evelyn Chang and her husband were vacationing in the Philippines when they were ambushed by terrorists. Evelyn’s husband was killed. She was kidnapped and disappeared into the lawless netherworld of the Sulu Archipelago. There was no hope of a rescue. Former Green Beret Gene Yu was five years out of the military, unemployed, and struggling with his transition back to the real world when Evelyn’s family asked for help. His improbable mission: infiltrate one of the most dangerous corners of the world and get her back. Alone.

When Sheriff Ben Stillman’s deputy and best friend, Leon McMannigle, shoots a young woman who was about to shoot Stillman in the back, Leon takes the outlaw girl’s lifeless body back to her mountain ranch to turn her over to her family. He feels the need to explain himself, to personally account for the girl’s death. His explanation falls on deaf ears. Old Watt Hollister sends his wild sons led by his eldest boy, Nash, out on the trail to exact revenge for their poor dead sister. Wounded, McMannigle is alone and on the run in the Two-Bear Mountains, hunted.

The Colonization and Establishment of Liberia looks at how the colony grew, the ideals behind it, what life was like there, and how a tenuous democracy lasted in the colony for over 100 years. You will learn about the settlement of Liberia like never before.

Reverend Maloney isn't the world's greatest spiritual advisor. He drinks gin out of his coffee cup and has sex dreams about the Holy Ghost. His best friend Eli isn't perfect either, but he's a chess genius, so Maloney sees an opportunity in traveling around the country so Eli can win major chess tournament after chess tournament (while Maloney pockets Eli's winnings).

Levon Cade and his daughters are on the run and living under assumed names in a remote corner of Idaho where Levon has taken on the role of gentlemen rancher. But when someone rustles his girls’ favorite horses, Levon puts aside his gentlemanly ways in exchange for hunting them down. Too bad Lew Dollinger, a man Levon unwisely allowed to live, is—at the same time—tasked with locating the runaway Cades by an international crime cartel.

Sawyer McCade came up tough and mean, trained as a killer for the Confederate Army. But those days are behind him now, and he’s eager to begin a new—and peaceful—chapter of his life back home in Kansas. His ranch is almost up and running, and his army buddies are on their way, driving a herd of cattle from the wilds of South Texas. He’s even more excited about the arrival of a girl he was sweet on down in Texas. Everything is falling into place. But halfway between Clarksville, Texas and Humboldt, Kansas. Sawyer gets word that his friends and the animals he's relying on for his new ...

Lottie Sinclair’s ordinary life takes a dramatic turn after one fateful night. Her husband is walking home from his long shift in the town’s mines when he is attacked and killed by a masked gang. A few weeks later, more aggressors invade Lottie’s home and kidnap her two sons. Suddenly, she is all alone. Her family is gone, and she doesn’t know why. A couple of townsfolk claim they saw the Comanches riding through town last night. They are the ones that took Lottie’s sons. Lottie seeks help from the town’s sheriff, but it is evident that he is not going to help. The sheriff is ...

***Award-winner BookFest Spring 2024 - First place in Fiction > Literary - Love Story & Romance, Fiction > Romance - Small Town*** Where grit meets grace—and love is as wild as the West. In the rugged chaos following the Civil War, the American frontier is no place for the faint of heart. Outlaws rule the roads, justice is scarce, and survival is a daily fight. But one fierce and fearless woman is about to change everything. Kandice isn’t your average schoolteacher. She's the sharp-minded, sharpshooting leader of a bold group of women determined to bring education—and order—to a ...

The birth of the United States of America signaled a deadly struggle that cost the lives of thousands of American and British soldiers. The conflict between the mother country, Britain, and the colonists didn't start overnight; it was series of events over a decade that finally led to the first shots being fired at the battle of Lexington and Concord. This bitter war would drag on for years, with battlegrounds scattered up and down the eastern seaboard of the now United States - few were spared the effects of the war.

When Ron Freeman suggested I write a historical novel, I instantly thought of family but also hesitated, knowing of merely a few intriguing stories—certainly not enough to base a full book. Nonetheless, using my penchant for creating something suspenseful, I began with a few fictional characters, intending to use them as enemies, crisscrossing through the lives of a few of my kindred dead as they experienced the great European diaspora of the nineteenth century. Starting with the Tattons and Davenports was reasonable since they left England at the appropriate time. However, I knew I ...

A Call to Duty The greatest conflict in human history started brothers Ray F. and John B. Lewis on a journey that they never imagined as farm boys picking cotton in the dusty fields of West Texas during the Great Depression. World War II took them across the Atlantic to places they had only read about in books or seen on movie screens when they could afford theater tickets. By the time they returned to the States, they had lost their country-boy naivete. In To War and Back: The World War II Journey of Two West Texas Farm Boys, award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction Preston Lewis ...

🔥 When cultures collided on the American frontier, history was written in blood, betrayal, and survival. 🚂 Westward and Warpath chronicles 25 pivotal encounters between settlers and Native American tribes—moments of conflict, diplomacy, and devastation that shaped the course of American history. ⚔️ Inside, you’ll discover: ✔️ Legendary battles like Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee ✔️ Betrayals and broken treaties that led to war ✔️ Heroic Native resistance against westward expansion ✔️ The untold struggles of settlers in hostile territory ✔️ The true stories...