by PRS-wordpress | Mar 13, 2011 | Adventures, Books, Historical
It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures – gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen –are now victims of their own success....
by PRS-wordpress | Mar 13, 2011 | Adventures, Books
Drifter John Walker has no friends, but he’s so engaging that Maxie invites him over for dinner. The next day he moves on-and is later found dead in his motel room. What looks like a simple suicide quickly grows more complicated when police discover that Walker...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Adventures, Books
‘We need London’s mythical wolf almost as much as we need the wildernesses of the world, for without such ghost-animals from the depths of the human subconscious we are alone with ourselves’ – from the introduction. This volume of the best of...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Adventures, Books
Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta, after a long, hard journey from Boston, sixteen-year-old Katherine Mary O’Fallon never imagined that she could lose her heart so easily – or so completely. Standing over six feet tall, with “eyes so blue you could swim in...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Adventures, Books
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold...