Ma/Fa Stories

This is a Western story in two parts. The Palmer Ranch with Randy and Sheila on the East end of the valley, and the Ferris Ranch with Dave and Teresa on the West end with the town of Ferris in the center. The first part will stand alone. The second part has the same stand alone quality. It tells the story of the long valley where Ferris Town draws characters from both. Some characters speak in dialect. Ignore the spelling. Sound these words out to get the meaning.

A man's life has changed after losing his family. Will it change again and will it be for the good?

Coming of Age. Dean and his friends are board game players. None of them ever expected that gaming could lead to meeting girls, and to romance. Dean never expected his best friend's sister to be interested in him.

Ireland, 983 AD. Princess Saoirse doesn't know she's royalty—the monks who raised her kept that secret. When Vikings raid her monastery, she's sold as a slave in Dublin and brought to the Danish royal court. Prince Sweyn Forkbeard claims her at a winter feast. She refuses him, choosing to freeze on his balcony rather than submit. Intrigued by her defiance, he offers her something no slave should have: choices. Over months of patient courtship, she becomes his translator, his advisor, his partner

Northern California, 1870. The Yahi people are nearly gone — twenty-two survivors hiding in the hills above a young rancher's land. Three women walk through his gate with an impossible request: become their husband, father their children, save what remains of their people. What follows is not an arrangement. It becomes love. It becomes family. It becomes everything. History cannot be outrun. But it can be remembered.

When her tribe's water rights die with a rancher, Alachooshe Lame Bull rides onto Branson land on a carefully engineered errand — charm the new owner into a fair deal. David Branson is expecting her. Neither expects what happens next. Set against the Montana landscape where Crow land and ranch land share the same water, The Honey Trap is a story about two straight dealers who came at each other sideways and couldn't maintain the angle.