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Will Bucklett returns home after the Civil War to find his mother dying of a mysterious illness. His father has been taken hostage by a ruthless band of traitors and Army deserters. The leader of the gang, ex-Colonel John Bullard, has threaten to kill Will’s father, Silas Bucklett, unless Silas discloses the location a certain missing alleged Government gold shipment. Outraged, Will vows to free his father and bring Bullard and his gang to justice. With his younger brother, Dain and a long time friend of the family, Booger Red, a half-breed tracker, Will sets his sights west to the last known location of the renegades, Tascosa, Texas. a sanctuary for outcast and criminals

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“Incident at Doubletree” is a riveting murder mystery of the disappearance and death of a young lady (Mary Bodeen). Poke Bodeen, the victim’s brother, turns detective in this fast moving story of who-done-it suspense. Poke encounters a community (Doubletree) of indifferent citizens and a manipulative, hypocritical sheriff is more of a hindrance than lawful assistance. Could his sister have came across some destructive information during her relationship with certain criminal elements have been the cause for her death?

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As a sequel to "When Two Trails Become One," Jessie finds herself caught up in a world of crime that she's unfamiliar with as she continues to search her heart as she searches for her long-lost love, Clayton. She finds good advice from her Native American friends and puts her life in jeopardy as she tries to clear her name when she is accused of murder.

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"When Two Trails Become One" has a western flair that takes place in 1972, with flashbacks to 1940, and mainly centers on Jessie and Clayton as they essentially find each other again after about three decades. A "loveless marriage" and a less than fulfilling "relationship" start Jessie looking back on her past, which begins to virtually overlap with the present. In numerous twists and turns, the story explores the complexities of human nature, highlighting qualities relating to identity, beliefs, and love in various forms. The story opens with Jessie feeling "annoyed that her seclusion is in danger of being interrupted by 'some city slicker' on horseback who wouldn't have the foggiest notion of how to find his way back down the mountain after dark." Her feelings about Jace Edwards, her live-in lover, take something of a turn, and saying "I'll be back in two weeks," she heads out for a ride up on Cry Baby Mountain to the cabin she and Clayton had discovered all those years ago. Over the last thirty-one years thoughts of Clayton had surfaced at random and usually at the most inconvenient times. Her father viewed Clayton as a 'worthless drifter' and had told Jessie she was never to lay eyes on him again, and Clayton felt Jessie didn't stand up for him. As the narrative moves back and forth in time marking certain experiences that may lead to a reunion of sorts, Jessie and Clayton strive to reconcile their individual motivations and responses. When she seemingly goes missing, a rescue team takes action and the sheriff commences an investigation into 'who attacked Jessie up on Cry Baby Mountain.' In the concluding pages of the story, the sheriff focuses a degree of attention toward Dakota Jay, a longtime friend of both Jessie and Clayton. A journal entry from Clayton furnishes some potentially unexpected information, and Jessie ponders whether or not, in her overzealous quest to find Clayton, maybe she had overlooked some important details. With elements of suspense and emotion, this offering is designed to capture the imgination as well as to provoke thought. The possibility of a sequel is left open with Jessie heading down "a dirt road with Clayton's blue hand-painted truck just ahead" and thinking to herself, "sometimes love isn't so much about what you give as it is what you don't give."

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This is in the Western genre. While doing research for my other western novel I made an interesting discovery: there were a moderate number of families who went west during the 1849 California Gold Rush with no intention of staying in California. There reasons for doing this varied, but the one constent was they all considered the dangerous journey to be a long vacation or an extended camping trip. The Cook family is one of these families. The Cook family is fictional however the events they face are factual and were found in various emigrant diaries. I have intentionally kept them naive of both the dangers and the distance involved. However, they will have a reality check when they are out on the trail, far too late to head back home. This is a work in progess and is only the first draft. The novel is not complete. I have completed fourteen chapters. Each chapter starts of with a fictious diary entry from the main charcter, Nadine Cook. I should also mention that besides being in the western genre, it is also a wagon train and a gold rush novel set in 1849.

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With apologies to all the fine poets on this site. I can't write poetry, but this morning I finally snapped and this jumped into my head. This is the reason I never have time to do my writing.

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A beautiful, young Cheyenne girl, shunned by her own people and the whites who raised her, falls in with a band of outlaws. Luke Winslow loves her deeply, and scours the west to find the girl who must stay one step ahead of the law.

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