What if you are to inherit a business empire on the death of its surviving elderly founder and learn its startup capital was from Nazi war loot? Then you learn the empire's founders obtained that loot by stealing it from the Nazi Party and they kept a portion of what they stole for themselves to atone for the Nazi Party stealing their families' businesses and executing their families. That is Paul Adler's dilemma.
Set in Victorian England, Jonathan comes home badly beaten from his school and his mother aids his recover and discovers something about herself and her husband.
Bill Haskell, a Deputy US Marshal, starts out to find some children kidnapped by a band of Navajos, and winds up finding a wife. He has a dog that is very adept in fighting Indians and acquires a bitch with pups that joins the group. Eventually, he is forced to give up on the missing children and returns to being a regular federal marshal working in Arizona Territory. 7 chapters.
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Howard Randolph returns home to Virginia after the War Between the States. A former Confederate Officer deals with the loss of his parents, the disappearance of his sister and the loss of his humanity. Period language and extreme violence.
Sgt. Tully and his fellow Texas Rangers pursue Comanche raiders who have killed settlers and captured their women, taking them back to Mexico to make them slaves. This is the story of the Rangers' rescue and of the two women Tully finds.
For Halloween: By long custom, Siberian Prince Mikhail Melikov has been accorded the privilege of being offered a young man for his permanent service on All Hallows' Eve from one of the towns, in succession, in his nineteenth-century Russian princedom. Prince Melikov has received this privilege for centuries. The young, to-the-manor-born Alexei is this year's offering and Prince Melikov has come to take delivery.
A Thank You Note Story This is my thank you note for those men who served in WWI. I had two great-uncles who were in France, and one was gassed, but survived. He fought a battle with what mustard gas had done to his lungs for the rest of his life. This is a what-if kind of story. Suppose the US Army had used a little imagination. What might have happened then? One squad tests out an idea. Read what might have happened.
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The Great War ended with a human victory - but only thanks to God's smallest lifeform. The common cold killed the Tripod Builders, but not before they left the world in ruins. Now, George Wells - son of a British author living in exile in New York - finds himself caught up in a deadly conspiracy centered on the surviving Red Martians and the hope of a nightmare future which might only be averted with all out war.