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Who owns what is traditionally considered sacred? Can the Catholic Church legally conspire with the federal government to steal the most sacrosanct of Native American holy places? Holes in the Sky, the second in the series Zeb Hanks: Small Town Sheriff with Big Time Troubles, explores these questions in a clash of cultures mixed with mysterious deaths.

Brokenhearted after losing the only woman he ever loved to another man, Reverend Joshua Holmes returns to England. Thirty years later, he is summoned to Willow Creek, Arizona. His rival has died, and his deathbed request is for Josh to marry Amanda and keep her safe from harm. But he fears she will not accept his steadfast love.

The hunters noticed the circling birds against the rose-tinted sky above the rim rock and saw where the flat rays of the early morning sun glinted on something that didn't belong there, and the three of them walked that way. What they find sends FBI agent Zack Tolliver and his friend Eagle Feather in pursuit of a dangerous and powerful killer.

Why abduct a small child from the heart of Queensland’s Channel Country? Does the mother know or even suspect the real reason? Being 400 kilometers from the nearest lone police officer, Myall Downs’ own stationhands must act. Instinctively, Adam Mann, a tenacious, determined aboriginal stockman and known black-tracker, relentlessly chases the villains, dogging them across some of Queensland’s harshest and most beautiful terrain.

When Shandra Higheagle’s dog brings her a dead body in a sleigh full of presents, her world is turned upside down. The man is a John Doe, and within twenty-four hours, another body is found. Detective Ryan Greer receives a call that has them both looking over their shoulders. A vengeful brother of a gang member who died in a gang war is out for Ryan’s blood. Shandra’s dreams and Ryan’s fellow officers may not be enough to keep them alive to share Christmas.

After battling the elements to cross the Great Plains to Colorado then fighting horse rustlers and a vengeful killer, the Jakes family hopes to finally settle down on their new ranch and breed horses. But a wedding celebration provides the cover for Frank Jakes' young daughter Franny to be kidnapped by a young man known only as Jack. Unless Frank and his family can do something fast, the terrified girl will be sold to the Comanches as a slave. Frank and his family must turn once again to the only man who can help: Frank's new brother-in-law, rugged mountain man Roy Scuggins.

After the death of the man that raised him as his own, Daniel begins to have reoccurring dreams about people and places unfamiliar to him. They make him begin to wonder what his life would have been like if his birth parents had not been killed when he was four years old. The dreams, seeds planted in his brain by spirits, seem to be a key in finding the answers to his questions. His search takes him to Browning, Montana, where he discovers many details of the life he had been separated from and falls in love with the very woman he may have been intended to be with all along.

In the twilight years of Indian Territory, young mixed-blood Edward Perryman realizes his dream of becoming a member of the Lighthorsemen, the Creek police. These romantic knights of the prairie face cattle rustlers, bootleggers, and thieves, only to be stalked by a distant foe - the United States Congress. Edward transitions from lawman to lawyer as he seeks to protect the Five Civilized Tribes from the Congressional Dawes Act. He is tasked with finding a way to protect Oklahoma’s Indian tribes from a government set on doing what it thinks is best for cultures it can't understand.

A 15-year-old first-time hunter and her father go missing on the first day of hunting season. A wilderness guide whose only hope until now has been the ghost of his late wife, a wilderness hunt, an abandoned mine, a struggle to survive, a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and a daring escape attempt with a killer giving chase.

Fort Sarpy tells the story of the American Fur Company's most dangerous post. The fort was built on the Yellowstone River in 1850 for the trade with the Crow. This audiobook is about Fort Sarpy, the American Fur Company men who dared to build it in the wilderness, and the Crow tribe, who owe their existence to its creation.

A Wyoming blizzard. A crashed car. Haloke's only six years old, but there's no one else. Her father's dead. Her mother's clinging to life. She draws deep within her, to her Arapaho and Navajo roots, and sets out to find help. Twenty years later, it's Haloke's younger half-sister, Johona, who desperately needs help. She'd been knocked unconscious and then brutally raped. Johona steadfastly clings to the belief Deputy Logan can find those who are responsible. Maybe - just maybe - her sister would be able to return home from deployment overseas to spend Christmas with the family.

Saponi is both the heartwarming and heartbreaking tale of two peoples with one cause. Saponi and colonists alike lived together in peace until the King’s Rangers show up and destroy tranquility. Come join The People of the Red Clay and a few determined colonials as they show us what makes our nation what it is today. Saponi, while fiction, was written with breathtaking historical accuracy. This is a story of love, war, racism, and eventually togetherness. Anyone that has ever enjoyed listening and learning about Native American culture, the American Revolution, or Eastern North Carolina will thoroughly enjoy this piece.

The Mapps, a fiercely independent Native American family, fight back as government agencies ignore treaty agreements and try to exert control over Mapp family land. Nick Delgado, a young wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management, searches for his own place in a world that teeters between alien and achingly familiar. Faced with the driest fire season on record, the Mapps must place their trust in a government less than honorable, while Nick struggles with regulations and familial expectations to become the man he needs to be.

Assassinating Custer is book one of the Disclosure Files. Based on the never-before-published manuscript of William D. Nugent, who fought and survived the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Xeechagillapxtuurii jumps into the raging current to be carried downstream in search of his vision. He finds his vision, including the one he is looking for. But this world is totally foreign to him. Nobody understands him. Somehow he must gain her trust and communicate with them. Somehow he must get her to want to come back to his world to help him save it. Sylvia is a college student. When she sees a hippie being driven towards her truck, she responds as she always does when she sees someone in need - she opens the door and pull some blankets from the back for him to wrap up in.

Upon learning a cousin is suspected of murder, potter Shandra Higheagle travels to the Colville Reservation to support her family in any way she can, including the insight she receives from her Nez Perce grandmother in dreams. When the tribal police and FBI refuse to look for additional clues or suspects, Shandra becomes even more determined to uncover the truth.

This book contains two short stories, inspired by my experiences thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. The first tells of the Ugalu, a Cherokee Nation spirit-beast and how it was instrumental in the creation of the balds in the Southern Appalachians. The second is a tale of Pamola, the Penobscot Nation demon-beast who inhabits the summit of Mount Katahdin, the Northern Terminus of the Appalachian Trail in Maine.

It's 30,000 BC. Hiding in a giant mimosa tree, Maru watches her father meet with the leader of a treacherous Andean tribe. Her father, furious that she's followed him, tells her that if he is killed - something he fully expects - she must warn their people to flee. The people are prepared, but Maru, at age seven, is not. Her father places heavy responsibility on her because she followed him.

How could Sadie have lived so long in this town without knowing it was harboring a very old secret? The dark side of the woods was a place she walked by nearly every single day and it seemed perfectly normal. But one day, she realized that nothing that walked in there walked back out. Curses and wolves are somehow entangled in Sadie's new romance, and a gruesome transformation threatens to change everything she has ever known. She's the only one who can save her town, her love, and herself. It has to end where it started, in the center of the forest.

Once again, Shandra Higheagle finds herself a suspect in a murder investigation when an ex-lover is found murdered on a Huckleberry ski run. A past she'd planned to never divulge now must be shared with the first man she's trusted, Detective Ryan Greer. Ryan puts his job in jeopardy when he's booted from the case and uses all resources plus a few extra to prove Shandra is innocent. The information leads them down a road of blackmail and betrayal of the ugliest kind.