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What would you do if a teenager showed up and said he was your son? Slim Hanson is in for the shock of his life when 15-year-old Richie comes calling. His mother, Marie, who was Hanson’s true love after the death of his first wife, has just been murdered.

John Crudder is back as the Midnight Marauder, this time facing his greatest challenge to rescue Charlotte Hanson, the woman he loves. She has been kidnapped to force her father to sell the H&F Ranch. Only the Midnight Marauder can save her, and so far, his efforts have proved unsuccessful.

Driven from his home to protect his loved ones from retaliation from the town council of Bandera, Texas, John Crudder becomes a vagabond. As he moves across the state, each place he stops he sees injustice, and so continues his role as the Midnight Marauder. In Huntsville, he finds cruelty worse than anything he has previously seen. And the man responsible escapes justice for murder and lives beyond the reach of the law. Crudder’s stand against such evil is the only way he can get the scales of justice to balance.

On Leila's way to meet her intended as his mail order bride, Dan McCall, a federal agent, finds her lying on the side of the road unconscious. He rescues her and she attaches her heart to him immediately. Dan is not the marrying kind...or is he? Joe, her intended, is not happy to lose yet another mail order bride, and takes drastic measures to insure their marriage. Leila faces a dilemma - risk the man's life who saved hers, or marry a man she despises.

Lost follows Clint Hazard, a modern-day cowboy who believes he was born 150 years too late. He loses his truck, his marriage, his son, his friends, and faces the loss of job and a term in prison. He struggles with habits that threaten to derail his life. His journey is aided by watching the change that takes place in his best friend who took the same journey about a year before him.

Bounty hunter Logan McGuire is aggressively hunting down a desperado who killed someone dear to him. A saloon woman, Paulina Flanders finagles herself into accompanying him, since she’s holding back valuable information about the criminal. Word gets back to the outlaw that Paulina is a witness to his crime, and Logan McGuire is on his trail for the bounty money. Both Paulina's and Logan’s lives are in danger, especially when a woman assists the killer in trying to murder Paulina. Will Logan’s friend Woody come to the rescue - or will he cause more havoc?

John Crudder is an ordinary 25-year-old law school graduate looking for work in the Old West. What he finds instead is the love of 18-year-old Charlotte and the reality that he cannot have her without placing her in mortal danger. Raised to privilege, Crudder finds life as a cowhand, and later as a marshal, satisfying. Rather than being about to live that simple life, he finds himself thrust into the role of Midnight Marauder. Unless he stands up for those who have no voice, more lives will be lost, and an entire town will be wiped out.

John's mission takes him to his boyhood home of New York City and then into the executive mansion in Washington, DC. Crudder learns the president wants him to find the people responsible for the most devastating financial crisis the country has ever faced. John finds these enemies of the country are also personal enemies of his. And they hurt one of the people most important to him.

Little Charley Ross was abducted in front of his home in Philadelphia. It was the first kidnapping for ransom in the United States. This historical event is central to this Midnight Marauder adventure. John Crudder is once again summoned to Washington DC by the President. He is commissioned as a special agent to the president to find the kidnapped boy. The Midnight Marauder’s help is needed to solve the kidnapping and hopefully recover the boy. This historical novel closely follows the facts of that case.

An evil band of outlaws move from town to town preying on the helpless. They target elderly people and single women. They have robbed and murdered with impunity. The gang has also stolen from churches, killed a priest, and two ministers. Towns are terrified. No one wants to go up against them.

Meet John Crudder. A new kind of hero. He's not the biggest, fastest, meanest, or quickest. But he's smart and deadly. And he has a gut-level drive to see justice served. The most unlikely person to ever be called on to be the marshal of a Texas town, John Crudder finds out the town council is composed of thieves and murderers. The only way to stop them is to take to the shadows to fight them. If they find out who he is, they will hurt the people he loves. So this unassuming youngster from the East becomes the Midnight Marauder to clean up a town before the corrupt leaders destroy it.

Pittsburgh, 1900. The mysterious Vanderhorn family hires Nora Bennett as a nurse and companion to her injured, handsome, stepson Alex. Nathan Vanderhorn is drawn to Nora, even though he's betrothed to the socially elite Celeste. Though Nora vies to steer clear of the family problems, a sinister plot pulls her in deeper than she'd ever imagined. Who in this strange household could she trust?

France, 1942. The world is at war. The Nazis have stolen the infamous blue diamond, Le Coeur Bleu, intending to barter it for weapons that will destroy the Allies. Jewel thief Hunter Smith is given a choice: help the French Resistance steal back the diamond and avenge the death of his best friend, or stay locked up in an English prison. He chooses revenge. Resistance fighter Madeleine Bertrand's husband died when he was betrayed by Hunter Smith. How can she now pretend to be married to the arrogant American? How can she betray Jean Philippe's memory by her passionate response to Hunter's kisses?

Do Over Doc is the first book in the Matchmaker Series. Dr. Cody Roberts is a large animal veterinarian and bi-vocational pastor. He works exclusively for the H&F Ranch in Bandera, Texas where he is dealing with grief over the death of his wife the year before.

Until AJ Monroe left Indiana after college he had always lived in his identical twin brother's shadow. He had made a life for himself in Denver, Colorado, away from Jessie, away from Indiana. But when AJ feared for his brother's safety, he left everything behind to step back into the shadow he thought he had outgrown. Finding his brother was AJ's only concern...until he met Jessie's girl.

When tragedy strikes Lucy on a visit to Italy, she can’t bring herself to call any of the D’Angelo brothers for help. There are consequences for falling in love with your ex-boyfriend’s brother. But Lucy desperately needs Branwell’s paranormal skills and his gift of Sight. And if seeing him will negate at least three years of therapy? Well, it’s a price she's willing to pay.