Diligent Barker has pushed the past aside in an effort to find his future. He's a hardworking wrangler who likes to whittle and adores kids. The buried memories he holds for a lost daughter, brutally murdered, are rekindled by a young girl who shows up in his new life. Love and loss help this hardened cowboy accept strange and wonderful things, even the possibility that his own little girl might be channeling back to him through another precocious child. A child looking for her own parents' killers. But evil runs deep in Diligent's town. He's not the only one with something to hide. What the...

Klaus, Defender of Children is an action adventure full of alternate and true world realities, where tragedies lead to acts of treachery and heroism. Drama, romance, crime investigation, murder and swashbuckling acts of heroism blend together in a saga that will blow the reader away with its alternative view on an ageless story. Klaus moves through life-changing experiences on his way to becoming a defender of children, using sword, magic, strength and honor, love and friends to defeat evil and a common enemy. This is a read-in-one-sitting novel sure to engage the reader and capture the...