Mug Full Of Money

There’s a new PI in town.
It’s one of the coolest small towns in America.

The critically acclaimed Jackson Flint mysteries.

“Strong series launch… Assured prose matches the credible plot. Fans of realistic PI fiction will look forward to the sequel.” – Publishers Weekly (Dec 2021)

A rainy night on a back road. He knew it was a bad idea to stop.

A mysterious teen and a woman missing more than twenty years.

A family secret and the homeless underworld.

Following her father’s death and her own attempted suicide, pampered socialite Karen Butler reluctantly seeks refuge at the home of Sophia Taylor, the grandmother she has never known. Determined to escape Sophia’s broken-down ranch as soon as she can, Karen resists connecting with its inhabitants – especially Dusty Stoddard, the driven director of the Golden T’s summer camp for at-risk youth. Karen is not the only one who has been wounded; Sophia, Dusty, and the boys have all suffered tremendous pain and loss. But by the time Karen discovers this, it is too late to escape; they have become a part of her healing and she a part of theirs. For through their kindness and acceptance, along with the diaries of a remarkable women who died twenty-eight years before she was born, Karen will discover hidden secrets and amazing truths that could lead her to the greatest love of all. Winner of the 2000 Christy Award for Excellence in Christian Fiction Finalist for the 2000 RITA Award for Best Inspirational Romance

“Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.” Thus Robert Frost warns President Kennedy about the Shadow, before departing on a classified mission on the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus.

Past and present collide in this thriller. In the present, on the Nazca Plain in Chile, an old woman has been studying ancient lines in the ground for decades. Now she finally understands their terrifying message.

In 480 BC, King Leonidas leads 300 Spartans to Thermopylae to try to delay the massive Persian Army. Known only to the King, they have an even more important mission: to escort and protect a powerful priestess to a mystical gate through which she can travel to help save the world. It’s a mission for which Leonidas will gladly sacrifice his own, and his men’s lives.

In the present, tremors deep inside the Earth threaten the world. Eric Dane races against time to find the key to stopping this assault from the dark Shadow. He must reach across time to the Spartans and the priestess they escort to find the key to this defense. And in doing so, he must travel to the Space Between, the boundary between our world, and the world of the Shadow.

One year ago Chellie Morris drove through a stop sign–less than a mile from her house–into the stampeding traffic of State Route 30. Nathan, her husband, arrived home after the accident to find a four-word note on a bookshelf; not a suicide note, not a goodbye, not even a reminder for something he might forget, just four unexplainable words.
Too much alcohol and too little sleep have turned the last 365 days into a stagnant haze. Painful flashes from the last day, uneven rewinds of the past, and the haunting words of the note chaotically rumble and roll through his mind.
Four words–only four words left.

They sent her to seduce him. They never expected her to fall for him.

Charlotte is a master assassin trained in poisons, seduction, and the art of the kill. Her target is Master Nicolo: the prince’s closest friend, the kingdom’s fiercest protector, and the most feared man in the castle. Known as The Unbreakable, he’s cunning, deadly, and impossible to get close to.

Disguised as a humble maid, Charlotte infiltrates the royal stronghold of Woodfall Gath, a sprawling fortress of intrigue, decadence, and danger. But Nicolo isn’t some spoiled courtier. He’s a peasant-born warrior with violet eyes that see through every lie. And he has secrets of his own, secrets that could shake the kingdom to its foundations.

As Charlotte’s mission drags on, their battles of will turn into something far more dangerous: desire. She knows she should stay focused. That she can’t afford to feel anything for a man she’s sworn to kill. But the more she learns about Nicolo — his loyalty, his wounds, his hidden honor — the harder it is to finish the job.

When enemies close in and assassination plots unravel, Charlotte will have to choose: complete her mission… or risk everything for the man she was sent to destroy.

“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.