For Halloween: By long custom, Siberian Prince Mikhail Melikov has been accorded the privilege of being offered a fourteen-year-old boy 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 Story in the Jake's Merle Haggard Invitational Universe
Slade Ransom gets shot by the Sheriff in Ogallala, mistaking him for a bank robber. Eluding the posse he hides out then makes his way to Northern Colorado to take over as foreman of a troubled ranch, the Circle R. Between rustlers, trail drives and two beautiful women maybe the posse was a better choice. This is a straight Western.
Eva Van der Heiden knows she will never find a man to love her. Her days are spent caring for her siblings and enjoying spinsterhood until her aunt matches her with a man under false pretenses. Luc de Jeu marries Eva thinking she will provide him with an heir when in fact, she thinks their union is a marriage of convenience. Can their marriage last when they both have different expectations?
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.
In 1917 Joanna Begg and her family were on a peaceful cruise off San Diego when the yacht broke down. They believed their luck was in when their SOS signal was picked up by a mysterious sailing ship.
A Mat Sullivan and Sarah York story This is the sequel to "The Rancher's Daughter." This story will take Mat and Sarah, etc. up to statehood for New Mexico. All the loose ends should come together in this story. It is a true sequel; no background will be covered. Read "The Rancher's Daughter" before "The York Ranch!"