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Former rodeo champion and cowboy Walker Thompson trains horses at Brush Creek Horse Ranch, where he lives a simple life in his cabin with his 10-year-old son, Michael. He's worked with Tess Wagner, a widow who came to Brush Creek to escape the turmoil of her life to give her seven-year-old son, Graham, a slower pace of life. Together, they run a cotton candy stand at the town's Heritage Festival every fall, and Walker gets up the nerve to ask Tess to dinner.

With nothing more than a skeleton crew and his 70,000-acre ranch on death watch, Woody finds himself backed into a corner. His neighbor Senator Bell greedily awaits the bankruptcy so he can grab the ranch on the cheap and build the biggest spread in the county. But Woody isn’t out of ideas yet. Determined to pull the ranch back from the brink, he hatches an ingenious plan to snag some orphaned teenagers and put them to work as cowboys.

The complete Brush Creek Cowboys Romance series, in one collection!

This book is dramatically inspired and heavily informed by true historical occurrences, which took place in October 1962. In play were the USSR’s "Operations Anadyr and Kama". It all later became known, in the West as the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is a fictionalized version of events that occurred on a Russian submarine, highlighting one officer, who made decisions that prevented World War III.

The troubles at the Walking Y are far from over for Woody and his crew. Though they might have stopped the senator's plans to seize the ranch, that doesn't mean that William Bell will be so willing to drop the fight.

Knox Lansbury has a dark secret he’s dying to get off his chest. He returns home during winter break with his best friend and film student Hitch to unload his secret on video. When strange things turn up on the film and unexplainable events take root, they set their sights on The Killing Tree.

Markiewitz Audioworks is proud to present "A Cratchit Christmas," a full cast audio dramatization based upon the 1843 story "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. In this original script, an international cast of voice actors, a Victorian soundscape and sound effects, and a beautiful Christmassy score, serve to bring you a rendition of this tale you've never heard before!

This is an original multi-voice dramatization of Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece, The Raven. The story tells of a forlorn gentleman who is still mourning the loss of his one true love. With a raging storm outside, he peers out into the ever-after. Then, while becoming lost in a state of melancholy, he is visited by an ominous raven with a ghastly single-word vocabulary.

The Treehouse in the Woods is an intricately-woven tale of nine pre-teens who develop lifelong friendships during an unlikely summer together at a northern California vineyard. Author David Girard uses his own life experiences as a successful vintner and lawyer, his love of history, and his extensive knowledge of the region to intertwine specific details with a heartfelt story of relationships, family, conflict resolution, teamwork, and love.

This production is a full audio dramatization of one of the most popular horror stories of the past 200 years. In this story, a man (Edward) is afforded a place to stay in exchange for doing chores around the house. However, his landlord (Mr. Graves), a friendly and gracious old man, has one characteristic which drives Edward to the brink of madness: a pale blue eye. Eventually, Edward decides that he can't take the eye any longer, and despite his generally cordial relationship with Mr. Graves, is determined to kill him, thus ridding himself of the eye forever.

Somewhat About Wine is a collection of newsletter entries and blogs composed for members of the David Girard Vineyard Wine Club. Through these blogs, the listener will learn about the trials and tribulations surrounding the owning, running, developing, and farming of a Northern California vineyard, thoughts and musings related to wine and vineyard cultivation, a little history, a little friendship, and a lot of fun.

This production is a full-cast audio dramatization (with incredible original music and magnificent sound effects) of one of the most revered stories of revenge in literary history. This adaptation takes a unique look into the crime itself and establishes a fresh perspective on why Montresor is recounting the story at all. With three new characters and never-before heard dialogue/effects, this rendition of "The Cask of Amontillado" is sure to entertain even the most well-versed Poe fan.

She held the phone in front of her, feeling excitement, or something. When Marcus rested his hand over the phone, she thought he was going to take it from her. As she lifted her gaze to her brother’s, his expression was anything but friendly. “Please do not be one of those girls,” he said. As a female firefighter in a small town, Suzanne O’Connell knows that every day will go one of two ways: Either nothing happens, or she suddenly finds herself in over her head.

Blake Gibbons knows farming like the back of his hand. He knows when to plant, what to do if an early frost comes, and how to deal with pests. He also knows how to fix old buildings, and when his construction work takes him to the bakery, he meets Erin Shields, the niece of the bakery owner. Erin has moved to Brush Creek to help her aunt and uncle with the pie-making side of the bakery. Divorced a year ago, she's determined to find a way to support herself and her kids. Both Blake and Erin will have to search their souls—and rely on God—to find their path to a happily ever after.

Ted Caldwell has been a retired bronc rider for years, and he thought he was perfectly happy training horses to buck at Brush Creek Ranch. When he meets April Nox, who comes to the ranch to hide her pregnancy from her friends back in Jackson Hole, Ted realizes he has a huge family-shaped hole in his life. April is embarrassed, heartbroken, and trying to find her extinguished faith. As she and Ted spend more time together, she begins to question her decision to put her baby up for adoption. Can Ted and April create a family of happiness and love from a tragedy?

Cowboy and professional roper Justin Jackman has found solitude at Brush Creek Horse Ranch, preferring his time with the animals he trains over dating. But when flirty and fun Renee Martin picks him up at a church ice cream bar—on a bet, no less—he finds himself more than just a little interested. Renee's living with her cousin in Brush Creek, having just graduated from college. She starts working for Dinosaur National Park, which has an hourlong commute that she spends thinking about Justin. Can Justin look past their differences and take a chance on another engagement?

Haunted by thousands of years of demon slaying to protect women from fallen angels (demons), Perseus regrets his decision to forgo afterlife with his beloved wife, Andromeda, when he is offered immortality by his father, the god Zeus. As he says, Hero stuff is hard to give up. Living in present day Philadelphia as billionaire philanthropist, David Danos, he walks in the shadows, hides from police, and tries to avoid Azriel, the Angel of Death, who wants to kill him for slaying all those angels.

Even though Claudia is part of the McCabe family, with four older brothers she barely knows, she has a dark side no one in their right mind would mess with, and she still sees herself as alone. That is until one night, when she witnesses an unspeakable crime that blurs the lines of morality. Her first instinct is to run, but when a mysterious handsome man enters her life, promising to keep her safe, she’s caught up in a web of secrets, not knowing who to trust. When her brothers unite, will they expose the truth or destroy any hope Claudia has of finding love?

"The Silence of Sherlock Holmes" has both Holmes and Watson battle murder in a library, but when Holmes becomes a critical patient, can Watson rise to save the day? "He Who Would Be Holmes" reveals the capers of their northern counterparts. The impersonators have flair and panache, but not the ability to solve cases quite as well as those who occupy of 221b Baker Street. Holmes is ex circus and Watson may have only seen one doctor in his life. When an American woman turns up promising retirement money, the pair can’t resist.

Terrance Mack has a wife and two young boys. Never in a million years did he expect to find his family living on the streets, with no home, no jobs, in a position where everything they owned has been taken from them in the cruelest of ways. As the family struggles to stay together, they encounter a hard and unfriendly way of life, having to move from town to town, being harassed by the police and by locals, and confronting danger each day. Living on the streets is nothing as he expected. All Terrance wants for his family is for someone to give them a chance.