A boy from a small West Texas town grows up dreaming of finding the father he has never seen. In 1888, at age twenty, Jesse McCann begins a search that brings him to the bustling East Texas sawmill town of Morgans Bluff. Despite reports of his father's death, he finds him living as a minister, under an assumed identity, in an effort to hide dark secrets. On Jesse's quest for truth and justice, a legendary lone wolf, a one legged ex lumberjack, and a girl of Caddo-Irish descent become his only allies in a town filled with danger and deceit.

"A Mist in the Pines" is the second novella in a trilogy that begins with "Jesse McCann." The story continues into 1913, in the rugged East Texas saw mill town of Morgans Bluff where nothing is ever as it appears. Jesse's wife, Annie, owner of Morgans Mills and mother to their twenty year old daughter Katie, is expecting their second child. Life is at last peaceful and prosperous. Suddenly everything changes. An old adversary and mill violence brings conflict and danger into their serene life. Just as all seems lost, a surprising secret spirit returns to protect against evil forces...

Emma St. Claire is haunted by a long ago tragedy: the death of her high school sweetheart. It had been she who had found his body, floating face down, just off the banks of mysterious Moon Lake.The trauma of that dark September day left her unable to recall all that had happened. Emma becomes compelled to return home, years later, to seek the truth and put the past to rest. Back in her hometown, she unlocks a world of dark intrigue in her struggle to remember and understand and, at last, to allow herself to love again.

Before the Civil War, Cyrus McCann built a thriving and peaceful cotton plantation. Everything changes after Cyrus is branded a Confederate deserter and lynched in 1864...or so it seems. His body was never found. The past will not stay hidden, and so begins the search for Cyrus' remains, in an effort, by Jesse and the McCann family, to restore peace to the House on Diablo Road, where strange events occur. This, the final novella in a trilogy of the McCann family, moves forward to the 1920s. A new era has come to the sawmill town of Morgans Bluff, where, as the old lumberjack Buck says, "Ain't...