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“Partners”Renegades and Wilderness! Survival?Tom Brash is educated, traveled, trained and for 1866 well agedFrank Clement is uncouth, unsophisticated, uneducated and young.Tom believes young Frank who has no idea where they are and is completely unaware of the dangers they face will not survive traveling alone.Frank thinks the “old man” will get himself killed with his fancy talk and fancy guns.Can they work together to fend off the renegades trying to kill them out on the plains in Canada’s Western Wilderness? Will their differences make it impossible to work together at all?Ride along with these men who find renegades, Blackfeet, the most feared people on the northern plains...

“Homesteader: Finding Sharon”Facing down a bullyHank James and riding partner Harry Gilmore ride the rails east to look for the woman Hank thought would be his mate for life. They unload their horses and gear at Canmore and immediately make an enemy.Riding on into Calgary they find Sharon but Hank is suddenly not sure if she is who he thought she was. He does decide to stay around long enough to see if she is.Or isn’t.If they are staying around for awhile anyway, Hank and Harry become homesteaders. When they met Portis Martin east of Canmore, he did not think they showed him proper respect but as homesteaders they became threatening enemies.Hank and Harry’s new enemy is manager of a ...

“Homesteader: Finding Sharon”Facing down a bullyHank James and riding partner Harry Gilmore ride the rails east to look for the woman Hank thought would be his mate for life. They unload their horses and gear at Canmore and immediately make an enemy.Riding on into Calgary they find Sharon but Hank is suddenly not sure if she is who he thought she was. He does decide to stay around long enough to see if she is.Or isn’t.If they are staying around for awhile anyway, Hank and Harry become homesteaders. When they met Portis Martin east of Canmore, he did not think they showed him proper respect but as homesteaders they became threatening enemies.Hank and Harry’s new enemy is manager of a ...

“The Great Liquor War”I’ll take care of my business. You take care of yours.https://books2read.com/DM-McGowan Hank James is trying to make his fortune panning gold but it isn’t exactly working that way. However, with the help of an “inside source” he does well betting on a prize fight.With his winnings Hank invests in a new business hauling freight to build the new railroad. With luck, hard work and good help he does well. Then his “inside source” from the days of the prize fight expects help when the BC Provincial Police face off against the North West Mounted Police.While the police forces fight each other who is watching the criminals? If Hank is identified as helping...

“The Great Liquor War”I’ll take care of my business. You take care of yours.https://books2read.com/DM-McGowan Hank James is trying to make his fortune panning gold but it isn’t exactly working that way. However, with the help of an “inside source” he does well betting on a prize fight.With his winnings Hank invests in a new business hauling freight to build the new railroad. With luck, hard work and good help he does well. Then his “inside source” from the days of the prize fight expects help when the BC Provincial Police face off against the North West Mounted Police.While the police forces fight each other who is watching the criminals? If Hank is identified as helping...

The country celebrates newfound prosperity and peace. Does Westchester Farm benefit?Western Pennsylvania, 1920. Henderson Westchester lords over his massive farm and family. The widower and father of seven children contemplates the unthinkable. The transfer of his family farm to his youngest child, a girl!Feisty, brilliant, outspoken, Olive Westchester remains at odds with her father after her favorite brother’s death.The nineteen-year-old who dreams of independence via a college education, not property ownership, succeeds in making her family’s life miserable as she awaits Henderson’s decision.Westchester Farm is the sequel to the multi-award-winning Becoming Olive W., and the prequel...

She’s beautiful and brilliant. But the world is not ready for her to shine….Western Pennsylvania, 1905. Olive Westchester dreams of being valued. Misunderstood, resented, and ignored by her large family after her mother's death, her only ally is an older brother who loves her unconditionally. And the hard-headed girl’s visions of making her mark are threatened by a close-minded society resentful of her superior intellect.Stunned after a jealous teacher expels her from the eighth grade, Olive's anger swells when her dismissive father does nothing to get her readmitted…instead pushing her to learn to be a wealthy man’s wife. But as tragedy strikes, she turns to a local laborer enamor...

Beautiful, brilliant, wealthy. The world should be Olive’s oyster. Does she want too much?For young women in the early 1900s, a string of pearls is sometimes the closest they can get to owning the world.Orphaned as a toddler, Olive, a bright, feisty child, struggles to establish her place in a wealthy farming family. Her sisters are jealous, her brothers feel threatened, and her father, inept as a parent, is dependent on her skills.Without a mother’s guidance, is it possible for this young woman to break social barriers on her own? Can she become the independent woman scholar that she has the potential to be?Set in the early 1900s in rural Pennsylvania, follow this spitfire through an em...

There's nothing magical about midlife for Abby McBride, unless dealing with pesky ghosts counts.Between hot flashes and brain fog and the dead paying a call at all hours, she's had her share of spirited mayhem, while trying to hold up a perfect image among her cul-de-sac crowd. Not easy! But, after decades of suppressing her psychic gift, it all comes crashing down at the annual Halloween bash and her quiet suburban life goes up in spectral smoke.The ghosts of 125 Magnolia Lane have demands and are not opposed to dragging the living into their hellish afterlife if that's what it takes. Can Abby finally embrace the powers she's long denied in order to save her family and friends from eternal ...

A blockbuster of a thriller. Robert “Doc” Langdon sells Timeshares. At least this is what his relatives and a few close friends believe. A retired Navy SEAL, “Doc” lives a clandestine life. Widowed and left without his precious young daughter, his true line of work has become his existence. As an elite member of a little-known operative group, he is the best of the best among its small ranks.Nathan Thomas, a former U.S. President, now owner and Chief Executive of an international corporation, is the antithesis of Langdon. Sure, they share a few traits. Both men are dogged in all they do. Both strive for dominance. Langdon, though, does things for others and his country. Thomas? Well,...

Everyday Romantic Doggerel is a collection of poems for ordinary but quirky people, by an ordinary but quirky writer who is much more confident in her prose than in her poetic abilities. Still, she aims to entertain. You will find poems about love, grief, and cats within.

Crossings take us from one point to another. In these stories journeys are made between different states of being. Boundaries are broken. Envelopes are pushed. Beliefs are abandoned and replaced, and transgressions are entertained and occasionally acted upon. All of this is done by fairly ordinary people just like the ones sharing space with you—even if their realm is not your own. Includes: "Shroedinger's Landlord," "The Old Man," "Lot's Daughter," "A Mediocre and Fairly Public Place," "In a Name," "Vocations," and "More Than the Quest."