1555... Calling Crow is haunted by his recurring dream of the Destroyer who will one day lay waste to his village. Then Spanish colonial slavers from the island of Hispaniola arrive on the shores of the Southeast, lands that have been home to the Muskogee people for generations. Calling Crow and another brave are taken and bound into slavery. Life in the gold pits and slave camps is humiliating and brutal, but Calling Crow refuses to let them break his spirit. Aided by a kindly priest, Calling Crow vows to learn the language and ways of an overwhelmingly powerful enemy in order to eventually...
1555... Calling Crow is haunted by his recurring dream of the Destroyer who will one day lay waste to his village. Then Spanish colonial slavers from ...
1565. Calling Crow moves southeast in search of his wife, Juana, taken by the Spanish. He is captured and badly wounded by the Coosa people. Unable to care for himself, he is saved from a slow, painful death and nursed back to health by Green Bird Woman, who he grows to love. Flight of the Crow follows the evolution of Calling Crow in his efforts to stop the invaders to his lands. Employing his dreams and his skills as a warrior, Calling Crow temporarily fends off not only the Spanish, but a new invader, the French. Then he must call upon all his skills and power in his attempt to change an...
1565. Calling Crow moves southeast in search of his wife, Juana, taken by the Spanish. He is captured and badly wounded by the Coosa people. Unable to...
1575. The native Coosa people lived on the land that would one day become the southeastern United States, until the arrival of the white man changed their lives forever. Calling Crow faces the most difficult challenge to his judgment and leadership yet, as hostile Timucua, who have allied themselves with the Spanish to get the deadly thundersticks, move north in search of slaves and conquest. Calling Crow must decide whether joining forces with another new invader to his lands, the Englishmen, can halt the Spanish onslaught without sacrificing the freedom of his people.
1575. The native Coosa people lived on the land that would one day become the southeastern United States, until the arrival of the white man changed t...
A fully-realized historical thriller in the tradition of James Clavell's Shogun and Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth. (492 pages in print) One of the most haunting mysteries in American history -- The Lost Colony of Roanoke -- comes roaring back to life in White Seed, with a compelling cast of characters, among them: Maggie Hagger, indentured Irish serving girl, a victim of rape and intimidation, Manteo, Croatoan interpreter for the English, inhabitant of two worlds, belonging to neither, John White, ineffective Governor, painter, dreamer, father and grandfather, Captain Stafford, brave...
A fully-realized historical thriller in the tradition of James Clavell's Shogun and Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth. (492 pages in print) One o...
Sent to Vietnam after being drafted, Carl makes friends with both the black and white members of his company in spite of racial tensions and learns harrowing truths about life and death when his optimism proves false. Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam was a finalist at the 2001 Frankfurt eBook Awards, along with works by Joyce Carol Oates and David McCullough.
Sent to Vietnam after being drafted, Carl makes friends with both the black and white members of his company in spite of racial tensions and learns ha...
In the future, the love of a young man's life is dying. He would do almost anything to keep her alive...except that In Dog Man, it turns out that Oscar the tomcat was just misunderstood - with deadly consequences... A love sick young man attempts to tap the power of an ancient religion to secure the affections of a girl on their class trip to Christland... The dead come briefly back to life every year when the astral dimensions align in Day, or Two, of The Dead. A cynical young 'player', adrift in the modern, amoral age meets God on a mountain top and his life is changed forever - but not in...
In the future, the love of a young man's life is dying. He would do almost anything to keep her alive...except that In Dog Man, it turns out that Osc...
On the border between the necropolis of Colma, home to over two million dead souls and 1,794 somewhat live ones -- and the gritty industrial working-class town of South City --
At 1015 Crestview, little seven-year-old Reynaldo cowers under the escalating abuse hurled by an adoptive mother who now sees him as a burden.
Allen, a workaholic Silicon Valley techie, seeks relief from domestic conflict by slipping away to sample the sweet brews at McCoy's, a mysterious pub and Hell's Angels hangout.
Up the street, young adults Rad and Tawny drift between the worlds of...
On the border between the necropolis of Colma, home to over two million dead souls and 1,794 somewhat live ones -- and the gritty industrial wor...
One of the most haunting mysteries in American history - The Lost Colony of Roanoke - comes roaring back to life in White Seed, with a compelling cast of characters, among them: Maggie Hagger, indentured Irish serving girl, a victim of rape and intimidation, Manteo, Croatoan interpreter for the English, inhabitant of two worlds, belonging to neither, John White, ineffective Governor, painter, dreamer, father and grandfather, Captain Stafford, brave and disciplined, but cruel soldier, and Powhatan, shrewd Tidewater warlord who wages a stealthy war against the colonists.
One of the most haunting mysteries in American history - The Lost Colony of Roanoke - comes roaring back to life in White Seed, with a compelling cast...