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Abby Gail is going fishing.
At least, that is what the Hoomans keep saying.

To Abby Gail, this adventure begins with far too much equipment, a giant boat, strange floating things, life jackets, fish that refuse to come when called, ducks that can walk, swim, AND fly, and one deeply troubling discovery:

Hoomans touch worms.

With their hands.

On...

Abby Gail Speaks HOOMAN
The Three Yorkieteers Series Book #1*
A Children’s Adventure

Abby Gail is three years old, weighs only two pounds, and has one very important job: teaching her Hoomans to understand Yorkie.

She has been working on them since she turned two.

Progress has been... slow.

Abby Gail lives with her Daddy, Harley D., her Mommy, Lilly...

The Switchbacks
DEAD END: A Clearwater Valley Thriller Series Book #12
The road ends at the mountain. The investigation ends with Joseph Silver. And not everyone will survive the climb.

For years, Sheriff Buck Chamberlain and the Clearwater County Sheriff’s Office have followed the evidence left behind on forgotten roads, beneath collapsed...

The Old Ferry Crossing
DEAD END: A Clearwater Valley Thriller Series Book #11

THE RIVER IS RISING. THE ROAD IS DISAPPEARING. AND FIFTY YEARS OF BURIED SECRETS ARE ABOUT TO SURFACE.

Riverbed Road ends at the abandoned Old Ferry Crossing, a forgotten piece of Clearwater Valley history where rising floodwater should be the only danger. But when Deputy...

The Last House
DEAD END: A Clearwater Valley Thriller Series Book #10
At the end of Blind Man’s Lane stands one last house. By sunrise, some of the people trapped inside it will be dead.

Rural broadband technician Louis Charlo expects nothing more dangerous than faulty equipment when a massive communications blackout sends him down an isolated...

THE BURN SCAR
DEAD END: A Clearwater Valley Thriller Series — Book Eight

A wildfire destroyed the forest. The rain uncovered what someone thought would stay buried forever.

Two years after wildfire blackened Clearwater Valley, heavy rain sends a mountainside crashing across Charred Timber Road. County heavy-equipment operator Hemene Samuel is...

The River Bend
DEAD END: A Clearwater Valley Thriller Series Book Seven

A drift boat is found floating down Idaho’s Clearwater River. Its motor is still idling. Its fishing gear remains neatly arranged. Not a single person is aboard.

What first appears to be another tragic accident on the river quickly becomes one of the largest homicide...

The wilderness remembers every footprint. The Silver Syndicate logs them into a ledger of blood.

Deep within the unmapped marrow of the Idaho backcountry lies Lost Man’s Hollow—a federal wilderness area that has silently been transformed into an open-air slaughterhouse. For decades, hikers, ranchers, and out-of-state travelers have vanished into...

The winter ice has broken. The floodwaters are rising. And a hidden vault of corporate secrets is about to wash away.

In The One-Lane Bridge, when the high mountain freeze finally breaks in Clearwater County, the massive alpine runoff transforms the peaceful river channels into a roaring, mud-slick torrent of black water. But as the ice sheets...

A frozen mountain road. A locked gate. A vault of secrets that someone will kill to keep buried.

When an unseasonably brutal alpine freeze slams into Clearwater County, young and impulsive Deputy Billy Breckon ignores the storm warnings to chase a suspicious vehicle up the treacherous, unplowed switchbacks of Freezing Creek Road. He finds the...

THE ROCKSLIDE
Book Three in the DEAD END: A Clearwater Valley Thriller Series

A dead-end road.

A catastrophic rockslide.

A killer hiding among the survivors.

When Beatrice Stwyer accidentally turns onto the isolated Canyon Wall Grade during a driving rainstorm, she witnesses something she was never meant to see: local mechanic Corbett Greene...

THE LOGGING ROAD
A DEAD END: A Clearwater Valley Thriller Series Novel

“Some roads are abandoned for a reason. Others were never meant to be found again.”

When an aging logger stumbles upon a rusted gate hidden deep inside Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest, he unknowingly uncovers the first clue to a decades-old mystery everyone believed had...

THE PAVEMENT ENDS. THE SERVICE DIES. THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS.
The DEAD END universe comes a heart-pounding, claustrophobic rural thriller that will make you look twice at every empty road.

If you plunge into the timber of Rimrock Ridge, you might never come back.

Deep in the rugged backcountry of Clearwater County, Idaho, Rimrock Ridge Road is fifteen...

What happens when five determined families hitch up their wagons, point the oxen west, and discover that absolutely nothing goes according to plan?

Inspired by true events, Beyond the Prairie Winds is a heartwarming, laugh-out-loud historical novel that brings the Oregon Trail to life through unforgettable characters, unforgettable mishaps, and...

The Man Between Two Names
“What if the hardest battle of your life wasn’t changing your name... but discovering who you were meant to become?”

Cody was only a little boy when adults made a decision that changed the course of his life forever. Caught between two fathers, pressured into an adoption he barely understood, and forced to surrender the...

Critter Chaos At Brindle Creek
Book 13 of The Golden Years Gone Wrong Series
“Every Gate Was Open. That Was The First Mistake.”

Brindle Creek has spent months preparing for the First Annual Heritage Livestock Festival, the biggest celebration Alder County has ever attempted. Hundreds of volunteers arrive early. Ranchers bring their finest...

NOBODY EXPECTED THE BANJO FIGHT
Things got competitive shortly after the third chorus.

The Brindle Creek Community Music Jam was supposed to be a relaxing evening of bluegrass music, storytelling, local talent, and small-town fun.

That plan lasted approximately twenty minutes.

Before the first set is finished, Charlotte Bell’s carefully organized...

THE POTATO CANNON ALARMED SEVERAL COUNTIES
Somewhere between “science” and “felony,” things escalated.

The residents of Brindle Creek have survived runaway goats, overcrowded festivals, public competitions, internet fame, and enough community disasters to fill several filing cabinets at the Sheriff’s Department. Unfortunately, none of those...

Nobody Planned For That Many Tourists
The Golden Years Gone Wrong - Book 10

Brindle Creek finally decides to do something sensible. That was the first mistake.

The town launches its very first Tourism Festival expecting a pleasant weekend of family entertainment, local attractions, and modest crowds. What arrives instead are busloads of visitors,...