"What do you want to be when you're older?" "Dead." * Zaki Kealoha has had a difficult life, ever since his father killed his mother before taking his own life. Zaki has never fit in, never had a true friend. He doesn't see a need for a friend, because he simply wants to leave this world. Reese Callaghan is more than mad when his dad moves their family down to Beaufort, North Carolina from upstate New York his senior year of high school. He figures this school is going to be just like his last one, full of people he can't stand. That is until he sees a boy with butterfly tattoos on his neck, and pen marks on his arm. Reese desperately tries to help Zaki, wanting him to realize there is a point in staying in this world.

Goldie lives in the mid-west in the early 1900s. She has a sick mother, a ornery little brother and a huge crush on a man who has a lot of Indian blood running through his veins. The problem lies in all the responsibilities that she has as well as two people in town who give her a hard way to go. How will she manage to get through her hardships and will she find love along the way or just more hard times...

Outlaw and all around bad guy Marston finds a dying man along the railroad tracks. His only plan is to take the mans nearby horse, his gun and whatever money he might have in his pockets but the dying mans words gnaw at him 'Give my love to Rose' the man had said and 'Tell my boy I'm proud of him'. Without knowing why Marston feels the need to honor the dying mans wishes. The mans quest leads him to Harper Louisianna and when he finds Rose she is not what he expected and neither is the boy.... Marston has spent his whole life hurting people and not caring. Willl these people make him want to change and what will Rose say when she learns what kind of man he really is?

The third book in my 'outlaw' series (for lack of what else I should call it!) Make sure to read 'Give my Love to Rose' and 'Give My Heart to Kaitlyn' before reading this one!! Langly gets more than he bargained for on his adventures with his uncle Jeremiah and after learning that he can't trust his uncle he decides to continue with his journey alone, only to end up partnered up with Jessie Burke in an adventure that would test them both. While chasing after the man who killed her pa they encounter gangs, deadly snakes, and rocky canyons. There are poker games, five finger matches, shootouts and danger... And then somewhere admist all of that there is a fiery passion that rises between them both and refuses to be denied. Jessie doesn't want love... She doesn't want to give that much of herself to another person, but she finds herself struggling to deny Langly anything he wants from her. Join them on their wild ride in the wild west... And just in case you're wondering, Jeremiah himself might find that he isn't so far above love as he thought he was. :) Hope you like it!

*** All places and people in this story are fictional. Any similarities or parallels to real people, places or events is purely coincidence! Enjoy reading :) *** Vince Griffin is all work and no play.Running his company takes every spare second of his life and that is the way he prefers it. He has no urge for a wife, children, or a family. That all changes when he arrives in Grant County Kentucky to do development research and meets Grace, a tired woman caring for her handicapped daughter and aging grandmother. They, and the other hardworking people in this tiny town, teach Vince that there are things other than work and that sometimes, love comes first.

*** Ansel Adams, or Ance as those he knows tend to call him, is a bad man though he didn't consider that to be his fault. His father had been a bad man, his grandfather had been a bad man--hell as far as Ance knew he came from a long line of men were just a bitten rotten down at their core. Everyone that knew Ance knew he was a man who would never change, never give up his lifestyle, never settle down....Until Penelope Reynolds came sobbing into his life. Ance hadn't given much thought to offering this rich man protection as he took a load of stolen goods to market until he realized that the banging sound coming from the crate was a tiny little blond with pigtails, freckles and a bad leg. Suddenly he's struck with a choice. Save the girl and return her to her family or simply let life do what life does and chalk it up to bad luck for little Penelope--in the past the latter choice would have been easy, but not now. *** Audrey Reynolds had never been so afraid in her life. Her daughter has been stolen. Her daughter is all she has left in the world since the murder of her husband five years earlier. Desperate to find Penelope, Audrey enlists the help of U.S. Marshall Rodger York who also happens to be the man who's been trying to marry her since the day after her husband had been placed under the ground. They embark on a journey to find Penelope and Rodger has vowed to kill whoever took the girl away. But things go wrong and Audrey learns that the very man she went to for help might be the man responsible for every bad thing that's happened in the last five years...... Will Audrey find a way to survive but more importantly will she ever see her daughter alive again?

America 1887 Times have changed. The country that was once booming, growing and thriving is now a wasteland of death and destruction. A sickness has swept through the land and the results have been devastating. The war fought twenty years ago may have caused father and son to pick up guns against one another, but this sickness has caused father to eat sons face off while daughter gnaws on mother's leg. Those that have avoided the sickness refer to those sick as 'rabid'. The 'rabid' are mad. Crazy. They are rotting, mindless, killing machines that want only one thing; to sink their teeth into those that are not 'rabid'. And in doing so cause their prey to catch the sickness and join their rabid mob. As if hiding from the 'rabid' weren't enough of a struggle, survivors must also worry about one another. Decency, honor and helping thy neighbor are a thing of the past. Now it's survival of the fittest and only the strong will make it out alive. Then an old man arrives, recruiting survivors to help him on a quest. A quest to the far west and the salvation that is said to lie there. Join Colt, Ox, Silas, Comanche, Katherine, Charlotte, Frankie and Evangeline as each of them fights their own battle for survival, somehow ending up together on a journey to peace, redemption and possibly..... a cure?

Wyoming Territory 1884 Leah lived a sheltered and comfortable life. It changes the night she goes against her family's wishes and runs away to marry her beau. Attacked by a band of outlaws, her beau apparently murdered, Leah is thrust into the fear of the unknown with men who seem pure evil. Confusion accompanies the explainable passion she feels toward the tall Indian who is holding her prisoner and yet keeping her safe inside this camp of outlaws? Chase Caldwell was raised a man who took what he wanted to survive without guilt. He had never thought anything could change that until Leah came tumbling into his life and made him question the way he was living. A love unlike any other but it seems impossible. Will peace ever find these young lovers or will Leah's family or Chase's outlaw past and Indian blood keep them forever apart?

Sequal to 'Give My Love to Rose' Pete has changed in the five years since he let Marston leave town after the man had killed the Marshall. Life has been hard on him and every dream and belief he once had has been crushed and killed. Left alone to die in the middle of a snowy Dakota territory road he gives in to the cold and accepts his fate only to find that maybe God hasn't given up on him the way he has his life. Kaitlyn is seventeen years old now and while she is beautiful and soft and draws plenty of attention from the men she cannot bring herself to trust any of them. All she wants is to learn medicine from the doctor in town and help the sick. But what happens when the shot up new patient at the docs doesn't want to take no for answer and her determination to tell him no is quickly fading? Pete doesn't realize who this enchanting young woman is until her father comes to pick her up one day and he realizes that she is none other than Marston Jacob's daughter. Can Pete forgive the man who helped ruin his life and accept Kaitlyn anyway? And what will happen when enemies from Marston's past come back to haunt eveyrone and threaten to take away the second chance at life that Pete has been given?