Dr. Vera Chaney is a widow. Her husband, Elton, was one of the last soldiers killed in Iraq. She is left to manage the family farm in Yazoo County, Mississippi. As a young, black doctor in a rural county, her life is demanding and stressful. And now she is alone. Her two children, Ann, 7, and Roscoe, 5, react differently to their father's death. Ann shows strength. Roscoe retreats into a world Vera can not penetrate. In desperation, she asks for help from an unlikely source. Her father, Robert Lee Whitfield, has recently been released from Parchman Prison. He served over twenty-eight years...

In Book One of the Arizona Cowboy series, Lim Couch comes to the Circle S Ranch in 1990 when he is five years old. He is immediately drawn to the land and fascinated by the local horse culture and the cowboy life. A red tail hawk soaring in the sky, an old long horned bull named Henry, and red and white Hereford calves in the pasture help tie him to the Circle S and the surrounding ranch country located in one of the last surviving short grass prairies in the world. The challenge of maintaining a harmonious balance between the cattle industry and this fragile ecosystem is taken seriously by...

"I found myself sitting in my seat as the train pulled out of the Central Station in Stockholm. It was early morning. As expected, the coach to Lund was clean and efficient, right on time with the flow. I would be glad if I never came back. The city skyline disappeared. I was off to another Sagittarius adventure. I looked at two blonde beauties that sat across from me. They, like the countryside passing by were typical Scandinavian blue eyed blondes. Everything seemed totally surreal, like a character in E.L. Doctorow's novel "Loon Lake." This country was too damn beautiful, too pure. It was...