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The Western Mail Order Bride: Preacher Man and Dinah with the Dark Hair, is a love story about a Civil War vet who is a preacher, and who decides to settle in a Baptist church in Phoenix, in the Arizona Territory. He's there over a decade and feeling quite lonely when an aunt from back east recommends that he meets up with a young lady she has under her wing. He agrees to meet them and Dinah goes to Phoenix. Now, all the preacher has to do is find out why she seems to be carrying a great burden of guilt and sadness deep within her.

Here are thirteen short Cooper Stories compiled into one novella.

The two women found dead in their beds had been executed. There was no robbery, no sexual motivation, and the satanic writings and red candles found at the scene had been staged to throw investigators off track. The killer, or killers, just wanted the women dead! One of them, Betty Lou Gray, had been the primary target, while the other, a close friend, was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The life of Ethan Aaron Douglas is chronicled as the ten-year-old joins his grandfather for a life on the Chesapeake Bay. With his grandfather as captain of a steamboat traveling between Norfolk, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, the boy learns quickly about life on the water. From hurricanes to blue crabs, life on the Bay changes quickly. Learning Shakespeare and witnessing a hanging are just part of the life along the river.

Mike Parsons knows there is one last showdown with Allison Branch. What he doesn't know is where and when it will happen. The question in his mind is, will he be able to pull the trigger? The thrilling end of this trilogy twists and turns its way into a final showdown. Mike has to make one last decision that could mean life or death.

One man is ready to change history. Living on a small island in the Florida Keys is a dream for many. For salvor, diver, and fisherman Mac Travis, though, it’s a way to become invisible. But trouble has a way of finding Mac. He makes a shocking discovery while attempting to save his friends and his boat from the wrath of the storm and deliver desperately needed supplies to the Bahamas.

Strange events are rocking the presidential election, and an unlikely candidate is emerging. The president has learned this is the work of The Fixer, a mysterious operative he used in the past, and who is employing a new set of tools and cohorts to tilt the election. Charged with exposing the plot in the pages of The Washington Post, Geoffrey Wines seeks the help of a skillful colleague who has the moral compass and computing power to uncover practically any person, misdeed, or link to put the whole story together. But the elusive Fixer stays one step ahead.

The compelling small-town series continues with an escalating body count in the hundreds while the aftermath of the discovery of cave kids and another serial killer stirs up more secrets, conflict, guilt, and irony. A new arrival introduces new tension for the Farmer family.

Partnered with his charismatic son, Mako, they embark on a mission to thwart a diabolical plan to reshape the European Union. As they unravel the intricate threads of a plot involving a mystical artifact, they discover that betrayal lurks closer than they could ever imagine. With an ally turned adversary, playing a dangerous game, the father-son duo must navigate through ancient fortresses, decode historical mysteries, and outsmart their enemies in a race against time.

There was no doubt the man was dead. A bullet through the head will do that. But, who was dead? The man had no identification, no known address, no Social Security information could be found, and the fingerprint search came up empty. Detective Nate Burns, Albuquerque Police Department, knew two things. The man was dead and he was blood type O+. The most common type of blood in the country.

Nate knelt beside the dead girl. This wasn't his first homicide, it wasn't even the first dead prostitute he'd investigated. It wasn't the first strangling death he'd been assigned to. But this one bothered him. Maybe it was her youth; she appeared to be in her early twenties. Maybe it was her looks, as death had yet to rob her of her beauty. Maybe she reminded him of his own daughter, Lizzie, who was only a few years younger. Maybe it was something else entirely.

More dark secrets are revealed for the Southeast Missouri town of Farmerville. As the body count rises and an Amber Alert is issued, the town is thrust into the national spotlight, forcing Ron to confront his suppressed memories. With each passing day, it becomes clear that something more sinister is at play. The Amber Alert sets off a chain of events with gruesome results catapulting the town back on the National spotlight.

When a chilling murder rocks the tranquil shores of the Virgin Islands, Kurt Hunter, a seasoned Special Agent, finds himself thrust into the heart of paradise with a mission that goes deeper than the azure waters surrounding him. Assigned to the Virgin Islands National Park on a temporary basis, Hunter must untangle the threads of a sinister plot that weaves through the idyllic landscape, turning paradise into a perilous labyrinth.

The Call Home continues the same tradition as previous books based on the harrowing saga of Bill Jay Cader, Florida's most dangerous killer. The setting is Apalachicola, Florida, in The Forgotten Gulf Coast, where town USA is tucked in the mid-eighties when things were far more relaxed and backwoods in the South.

Mac Travis dives into the crystal-clear depths of the Florida Keys and the U.S. Virgin Islands to rescue a friend from the hands of an old nemesis. Set In the Florida Keys and the idyllic U.S. Virgin Islands, danger lurks beneath the turquoise waters and among the swaying palms. Mac Travis, a rugged adventurer with a penchant for trouble, is plunged into a high-stakes game of survival and intrigue in "Wood’s Justice."

When Sam, Rory, Daisy, and Gina, a motley bunch of stray dogs, attempt to rescue Rose from an animal testing centre, they inadvertently unleash a new virus into the world. Facing new threats from the now rabid humans, as well as the changes which Rose has undergone, the group must rely upon each other in order to survive. Food is scarce, danger lies around every corner, nobody can be trusted. 196 Days Later is a unique take on the zombie genre, filled with courage, adventure, love and horror.

Late one evening, on a fog-shrouded suspension footbridge, Dakota Storm stares into the abyss below. The din of rushing water over boulders seventy-five feet below intensifies the pain he feels over the loss of his wife and toddler son. How simple would it be to step off the bridge and end his unrelenting grief? Through the clamor of his thoughts and a roaring stream, he recognizes the yelp of a wounded dog. With his original purpose for being on the bridge forgotten, he rushes toward the sound. He finds a trapped and starving border collie. Rescuing the canine becomes his focus.

A pop icon is found dead aboard a lavish yacht that happens to be anchored in Biscayne National Park. Murder knows no boundaries, and with the yacht in his jurisdiction, Special Agent Kurt Hunter becomes entangled in a world he knows nothing about. While Kurt is no stranger to high-profile cases, he’s not looking for the spotlight or notoriety-he’s had both with disastrous results. Hounded by the media, promoters, and an Internal Affairs investigator, Kurt is forced to face his own inner demons to solve the case.

Washington Post metro reporter Geoffrey Wines becomes suspicious when the presidential election cycle begins and two of his “metro-beat” contacts ask him about strange events: A pizza parlor owner can’t understand why groups of armed men are showing up at his restaurant demanding to know why he is keeping kidnapped children captive in his downstairs game room; an inner-city Baptist minister can’t figure out why his congregants are so concerned about Facebook stories they are reading.

It's easy to become invisible in the Florida Keys. Mac Travis is laying low: fishing, diving and doing enough salvage work to pay his bills, until three fishermen trolling the Gulf Stream discover a square grouper.