Jim Miller arrived at Herlong when he was twelve years old. Jim, his brother Davey, mother and new stepfather moved to the high desert town in northern California in the early summer of 1946. It was hot and dry and a place that Jim hated from the moment they arrived in their very old and tired 1934 Ford sedan. Unlike San Francisco, Dayton, Ohio, and other cities Jim had known, Herlong was a small town filled mostly with people who came from all over the United States to work there during and after World War Two. Herlong Elementary with its eight grades soon became the focus of Jim's early...

Peter Dawes continues the search for Jack Rhodes by taking stagecoach and steamboat to San Francisco where Rhodes was shanghaied. Even before Dawes returns to San Francisco, Rhodes experiences a shipwreck and rescue by a very literate and murderous captain who commands the Arkadia, bound for San Francisco with a cargo of opium for Oyster Mike, known as an oyster pirate but in reality the man who controls the vice payoffs in the Barbary Coast. One danger that Dawes is unaware of is that the brother of the half-breed he killed in Susanville has returned to the frontier town. When Tug finds out...

An original Merry Widow doll, an illegal enterprise, a policewoman and two murders.

Fred Ball, the American Secretary of State, is kidnapped in Belize. American Special Forces attempt a rescue. The small but elite group of highly trained soldiers must overcome the difficulties of terrain, politics, mercenaries, and a nefarious plot hatched by various individuals in the governments of Mexico and Guatemala. A very powerful drug lord complicates the rescue by enlisting the services of a Belizean bandit, who, in turn, is set upon by both Mexican and Guatemalan soldiers. Washington and its politics are drawn into the maelstrom that Latin America becomes as a result of the...

Is Goonie's Ghost a study in psychology? A look into anti-war activity? A love story? Yes to all three questions. The time is 1967 and Carl Steadman has returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam. Carl accompanies Rick Chappie, Pam Baker and Angie Boatwright to an antiwar rally in San Francisco. In San Francisco, Morton and Molly provide food and salacious shelter to the group. The next day the group participates in one of the largest anti-war rallies ever. Angie's daylong biting remarks disappear after a few drinks. She and Carl make love in one of the unused after march party bedrooms. Later...

Action, adventure, mystery are all part of Peter Monocot and the Sea Devils. The action comes from building and flying model airplanes. The adventure comes from building the biggest model airplanes Peter has ever built. The mystery comes from the nefarious plan of a band of terrorists. Peter Monocot is a 12-year-old whose military pilot father taught him how to build model airplanes. His father's death in an Air Force jet crash left Peter's Uncle Jim as the "man of the family," although Peter's mother, Estelle, wields the real power in the household. Peter and his uncle find themselves...

Jack Rhodes leads his payroll detail back from Reno, Nevada to the small town of Susanville, California. The time is 1864. The Civil War in the East is as bloody as ever. The detail is nearly wiped out as they near the town of Janesville. Jack Rhodes is the only one left and the killers take him and the gold leaving the bodies of the fallen where they lay. Five years later Jack Rhodes' mother Belle Jean Rhodes hires Peter Dawes to find out what happened to her son and clear her name in the process.

Sweet Drop in Africa: Hope takes Emily Hobhouse from England to America, Mexico and back to England. She reforms the town of Virginia, Minnesota falling in love with Mayor John Jackson. Jackson convinces Emily that ranching in Mexico will make their fortune. Waiting in Mexico for John Jackson to arrive and propose marriage Emily finds out that she built her hopes on the same sinking ground that Mexico City sits on. When he does arrive Jackson has eyes for the Mexican ladies, which destroys any thought of marriage. Emily returns to England to find that the Empire she loves has become cruel in...

Sweet Drop in Africa: Charity shows Emily Hobhouse's determination to ameliorate some of the cruelty the army has perpetrated in South Africa. She uses her writing skills to motivate relatives and friends to support the relief effort for the women and children who experience the horrendous living conditions in the concentration camps. The letters she receives from South Africa show the conditions in the camps are deteriorating faster than Emily had imagined. Emily decides to go to the camps. She travels to Cape Town and finds that getting to the camps is extremely difficult. Emily finally...

Sweet Drop in Africa: Faith gives Emily Hobhouse a chance to tell English audiences exactly what the Boer women and children are experiencing in the concentration camps. She writes letter after letter to the London Times refuting the official view of the camps. Emily attempts to visit South Africa again but is kept from going ashore. She is deported by order of Lord Kitchener. Emily continues speaking out against the war. With the peace treaty Emily returns to South Africa to see what has become of the Harschoon family.