Skip Chase: A Noah Crawford Adventure
Who would turn away life-altering millions? All Noah Crawford has to do is sell his land and drift off to an early retirement without a worry in the world. But he won’t do it. Instead, Noah takes on the often-dangerous jobs of bounty hunting, process serving, reproposing vehicles, and photographing insurance scammers and adulterers: all to keep the bank at bay and to hold onto his small, Montana ranch that’s been in his family for over a hundred years.
Noah has the added burden of dealing with those who seek revenge for his past role in sending them to prison, including one sociopathic killer now on the loose. With a laid-back style, quick wit, and a need to avoid pain, Noah does his best to out-plan and outwit those with whom he must deal in this humor-infused, modern-western thriller.
A Sign of Witchery: A Noah Crawford Adventure
May you live in interesting times. Noah Crawford would rather not, but he has no choice if he is to keep his ranch. He continues to use his wits finding bale jumpers, collecting fugitives, and filming cheating husbands and insurance scammers. But the universe has more in store for him: a bank robbery, incarceration, a kidnapping, a running gun battle, a wild, spitting and kicking banshee, and a stolen lottery ticket worth millions. He also acquires a new partner, a one-hundred-and-twenty-pound Rottweiler with uncanny intelligence, and faces off with another fugitive recovery agent matching his own skills. A Sign of Witchery is humorous, modern-western thriller continuing the saga with the same array of colorful characters established in Skip Chase.
Praying to Fence Posts
Why does the universe keep throwing monkey wrenches into Will Henry Firethorn’s plan? All he wants to do is unify quantum mechanics and general relatively to explain the universe in a single set of equations, and he has the genius to do it. Is humanity not ready or does the universe want to hold onto the mystery? Whatever the reason, Will Henry’s life careens off in one strange direction after another.There is a fence post with the face of Jesus on it, the strange and exotic girl next door, a life-altering encyclopedia salesman who shows up unexpectedly, a crazed woman bent on ending his life, and a war in the jungles of Vietnam.
His survival through all this, and more, depends on Max, a female, shape-shifting alien who wants only to keep Will Henry—the “smartest person on the planet”—safe from the enemy, safe from the woman who still wants to kill him, and safe from the hands of a competing race of aliens.
Nine-mile Road
How does one survive, let alone thrive, growing up in a double-wide trailer in rural Montana with six siblings and parents who haven’t shed their hippy ways? The challenges abound for sixteen-year-old Ranger Lazarous Parkes. He deals with the hatred of an older brother, struggles with young love, comes to realize the potential of his canon-like arm on the baseball diamond, and rides the familial roller coaster of his father’s get-rich-quick schemes, each more spectacular in failure than the last.
Ranger navigates his way through some of life’s tougher moments with self-deprecating humor, familial loyalty, and the help of his powerful, take-no-prisoners mother who saves his life twice and never allows Ranger to take himself or life too seriously. Nine-mile Road in this character-driven, coming-of-age family story filled with humor, colorful characters, and one life-changing, life-and-death moment.
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