Was That A Goose In The Kitchen?

A murder, a missing sculpture, and a nose for crime…

Angela Atkinson lives a peaceful life in the sleepy town of Hummings Hollow with her best friend and dog, border collie Ruff McPaw. However, life on Angela’s hobby farm at her little historic home might be too peaceful.

Barista by day in a town with no bars and approximately five-and-a-half churches, Angela and Ruff are the sympathetic ears that collect most of the town gossip — occasionally hearing things that were never meant for their ears — or anyone else’s. When not tending her farm in the rolling countryside, working in the coffee shop, or fending off concern from nieces who worry over their forty-years-old-and-still-single-aunt — Angela and Ruff are usually right on the tail of a mystery.

When Ruff finds retired-carpenter Randy Miller dead in the town lake following the disappearance of an expensive sculpture from a nearby exhibit, the dynamic duo believes there may be more to both crimes than meets the eye. With multiple leads and little cooperation from the police, will they be able to put the pieces together in time to keep an innocent person from going to jail?

A young mother vanishes. Another disappears. But this time, the killer picked the wrong woman…

Private Investigators Eva Roberts and Dan Bradley are hired to find Willow Jackson — a single mum who never came home. But when a body turns up on the edge of town, riddled with drugs and strange signs of water damage, all hope seems lost.

Except it’s not Willow. And Willow never touched drugs.

Her mother demands answers. The missing person case becomes a murder hunt.

As Eva and Dan dig deeper, they’re pulled into a three-way race to stop a sadistic killer. The police are chasing leads. A mysterious outsider is hunting for revenge. And another woman is fighting to survive — before her time runs out.

Who will find the killer first? The cops? The PIs? Or the man with nothing left to lose?

101 A.D. Emperor Trajan, the heralded new Caesar of the Roman Empire, seeks to reverse fifteen years of humiliating losses for Rome in wars against Dacia and its brilliant military leader King Decebal. To punish Dacia and Decebal, Trajan launches an invasion of Dacia with the largest army ever assembled in the history of Rome.
Decebal And Trajan is the story of the middle years (100 – 102 AD) of the Roman – Dacian wars, which is also often called Trajan’s First Dacian War. It is told from the point of view of King Decebal and the Dacian people fighting for their freedom and survival, and also from the point of view of Emperor Trajan fighting to assert Rome’s power and restore Rome’s pride and honor. The story of Decebal and Trajan is a clash of towering personalities and brutal military conflicts that would decide the fate of two nations.

All either of them wants for Christmas are some jingle bells, to deck the halls, and for everyone to stop finding them dates.

Macie Zimmerman would love to get married and start a family. But after so much searching, she’s sick of having hope that something will work out. All she needs is a good six months of no dating– time she could spend building her business, Paws and Relax, and hanging out with the animals who show her all the love she needs– to be able to face it again. If only she can keep everyone in town from trying to find her a husband.

High school teacher Aaron Hall plans to never get married. He got engaged once, and it turned out as awful as his parents’ marriage had. But that doesn’t stop all his married friends from trying to convince him otherwise. And worst of all, his students are now determined to find him a wife before the end of the school year.

This Christmas, Macie and Aaron are teaming up to make everyone believe they’re dating each other so they’ll quit trying to line them up with others. But as this fake relationship takes them to holiday parties, events around town, and his school’s winter formal, and “fake” starts to feel “real,” can they overcome the obstacles in their way?

“I fought through the War Between the States and have seen many men shot, but the Cherokee Removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.” – Georgia soldier on the Trail of Tears

The “Five Civilized Tribes” are among the best known Native American groups in American history, and they were even celebrated by contemporary Americans for their abilities to adapt to white culture. But tragically, they are also well known tribes due to the trials and tribulations they suffered by being forcibly moved west along the “Trail of Tears”.

Though the Trail of Tears applied to several different tribes, it is most commonly associated today with the Cherokee. The Cherokee began the process of assimilation into European America very early, even before the establishment of the Unites States, but it is unclear what benefits that brought the tribe. Throughout the colonial period and after the American Revolution, the Cherokee struggled to satisfy the whims and desires of American government officials and settlers, often suffering injustices after complying with their desires. Nevertheless, the Cherokee continued to endure, and after being pushed west, they rose from humble origins as refugees new to the southeastern United States to build themselves back up into a powerhouse both economically and militarily. The Cherokee ultimately became the first people of non-European descent to become U.S. citizens en masse, and today the Cherokee Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States, boasting over 300,000 members.

The continuing saga of Nate Grisham, Black Mountain Man

From the Authors of Nate Grisham & The Fur Seekers
When fellow trapper, Coon Turner, turns renegade killer to steal the plew of his friends, Nate and Cotton decide justice must be served, and they will go to any length to see the job completed. Coon knows if he can reach Missouri Territory, where the United States law has no jurisdiction, he’ll be a free man. But making it safely to Saint Louis, with Nate and Cotton hot on his heels, isn’t going to be easy.

Gathering up some men, he moves west once more and this time he discovers gold, while trading guns and whiskey to the Indians. Overtaken by his own unrelenting greed, Coon butchers his own men, one by one on the way to Missouri. Coon hopes to escape his trackers by becoming a gentleman, but soon he’s visited by two mountain men, one white and the other black, both determined to kill him, but he escapes west once more. Nate seeks to challenge Coon to a fight to the death and by tribal law, only one man can survive.