The time is September of 2008. The place is Ojinaga, Mexico. Observing the peaceful beauty and outward normalcy of the pueblo, you could not tell that bad things are happening. Capitan Benito Escalante is called home from a weekend visit in Texas because of two unusually brutal murders. One perpetrator, a gringo covered in his victim's blood, is behind bars. The other is, for now, still in the wind. As the capitan says, "Crime doesn't stop because the police captain is busy." Who is the woman claiming to be the gringo prisoner's friend? What do a box containing a fifty-year-old mystery, a man...

Born into poverty by parents who once ruled over Kilmore, Kathleen McGillpatrick never longed for an affluent life just a peaceful one. Death and destruction follow her as her older brother, Bailey, leads Irish rebels to depose Earl Isaac Turner and reclaim his birthright as heir of Kilmore. Kathleen's chance encounter with Earl Turner gives Bailey an idea. Since the English Earl is so smitten by Kathleen, she should seduce him and reclaim the estate through marriage. There's only one problem. Kathleen loves Isaac and despises Bailey. Torn between her love for the English noble and her family...

3rd Edition, Author's Preferred Text , With Glossary. It is October, 1944. The American Army struggles to capture Aachen, Germany. Sergeant Grant is struggling to keep his men alive. Every moment brings another confrontation with the horrors of the war. Grant's men credit the 'souvenirs' they collect from dead and captured German soldiers with power to buy daily survival; but the time is not bought it is borrowed. The Germans are insistent; their time is up. As their sanity is stretched to the breaking point, Grant and his men begin to feel their sense of protection erode. Praise for...