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For two decades, the mountains of Afghanistan echoed with gunfire, prayers, and promises that rarely lasted longer than the soldiers who made them. For Hayden, drawn once again into the storm of history, it becomes the longest march of his life — a war fought not only in dust and fire, but in the fragile spaces of memory.

When the Twin Towers...

“Steel rain fell on the desert, and history called it a quick war — but for those who fought, it lasted a lifetime.”

When Saddam Hussein’s tanks rolled into Kuwait in August 1990, the world watched in shock. In Washington, leaders vowed the aggression would not stand. In the sands of Saudi Arabia, a vast coalition began to assemble. And in the...

In the Cold War’s forgotten battles, every shadow hides a story—and Hayden was there to see them all.

History often remembers the mushroom clouds, the missile silos, and the superpower standoffs. But for those who served, the Cold War was not only fought in boardrooms or at summits. It was waged in the dust of foreign streets, the claustrophobic...

The jungle does not forgive.
The rivers hide their secrets.
And for Hayden Carter, the Vietnam War is no longer history on a page — it is the fire he must walk through.

From the moment American “advisors” land in South Vietnam, Hayden finds himself among them, watching whispers turn into firefights. In the sweltering heat of the Mekong Delta, he...

Witness to War: Hayden in the Korean War (1950–1953)
Book Nine of the Witness to War Series

In the frozen valleys, blazing skies, and shattered cities of the Korean War, survival was more than courage—it was endurance.

June 25, 1950. North Korea storms across the 38th parallel, and Hayden finds himself thrust into a conflict history would nearly...

From the steaming jungles of Guadalcanal to the black sands of Iwo Jima, Hayden marches into the Pacific War — where nature itself can kill as surely as enemy fire.

Drawn into the heart of the struggle against Imperial Japan, Hayden witnesses the Marines’ desperate stand on bloody beaches, the harrowing island-hopping campaigns, and the quiet...

On the bloodstained beaches of Normandy, a boy becomes a witness to history.

Hayden Carter never meant to become a hero. Swept from his ordinary life and thrown into the heart of World War II, Hayden finds himself on the front lines of the world’s greatest conflict—from the chaos of D-Day and the frozen forests of the Battle of the Bulge, to the...

The war to end all wars was only the beginning.

Europe is burning. Trenches stretch for miles across the scarred fields of France, where machine guns mow down entire generations and poison gas drifts like a silent predator. Tanks rumble forward, biplanes duel in the skies, and the ground itself shakes under the thunder of artillery. It is 1916,...

Hayden and the Age of Empire (1898–1916)

“Power abroad comes at a price at home.”

The year is 1898, and America stands on the edge of a new destiny. When the USS Maine explodes in Havana Harbor, a restless nation rushes to war with Spain. Young men volunteer, newspapers shout “Remember the Maine!”, and suddenly the United States — once a...

The Civil War is over, but America’s battles are not. The Pull drags Hayden Carter westward, into a nation hungry for land and willing to break any promise to get it.

The frontier is no empty wilderness. It is home to , Cherokee, Lakota, Cheyenne, Apache, Navajo, Comanche, Arapaho, Nez Perce, and many others who have lived on the land for...

A boy pulled through time. A nation torn apart. A war that would decide the meaning of freedom.

Hayden Carter never chooses when history claims him. The Pull drags him without warning, thrusting him into America’s most defining moments. This time, it seizes him in 1861 — just as cannons thunder at Fort Sumter and the Civil War begins.

One moment,...

The drums of war are beating, and the nation Hayden once watched being born now begins to tear itself apart.

When the mysterious pull returns, Hayden is thrust into a new century, where the United States no longer faces a distant king, but an enemy within its own borders. Brother fights brother, neighbor turns against neighbor, and the promises...

Hayden at the Revolution (1775–1783)

The American Revolution did not begin with a declaration or a grand speech. It began with confusion, musket fire, and farmers who never imagined they would become soldiers. Into this chaos steps Hayden Carter, a young time traveler from our own century, thrust into the moment when thirteen colonies decided...

Welcome back to Soreass Creek, the only town where gossip travels faster than the mail truck, goats crash more parades than floats, and dogs outnumber the humans two to one.

After eleven books of chaos, casseroles, and confessions, the story roars into its grand finale with more puppies, more sequins, and more secrets than ever before.

Jo McGraw...

A DNA test, a goat in a veil, and a town that never keeps quiet… welcome back to Soreass Creek.

In Soreass Creek, secrets don’t stay sealed. They leak faster than a pie cooling on Mabel’s windowsill.

The latest scandal? A DNA test that delivers more than ancestry results. Turns out the local mailman wasn’t just sorting letters—he was sorting...

When ranch hand Buck Carson gets caught at the Mercantile with a stack of expired coupons, he doesn’t just save a few pennies—he sets off the loudest small-town scandal Soreass Creek has ever seen.

By the time the cashier calls him out, half the town is lined up behind him. Whispers spread faster than wildfire, and by sundown, Buck has been...

Bingo night is supposed to be friendly.
But in Soreass Creek, “friendly” always ends in a fight.

It starts with a single unlucky ball—B-13.

One person swears it was called. Another swears it wasn’t.
Five seconds later, a knitting needle is in somebody’s arm, and the VFW is shut down.

The prize meat tray? Gone. Vanished. Not even a pork chop left...

In Soreass Creek, even the library isn’t safe from scandal.

Miss Fern has always been the quiet one. Straight-backed. Soft-voiced. Never the type to start trouble. But when a string of anonymous letters begins exposing the town’s dirtiest secrets, the whispers rise louder than the church choir after Peach Bellamy spikes the punch.

Each letter is...

In Soreass Creek, Idaho, the county fair pickle contest isn’t just a competition.
It’s war.

Every jar holds a legacy.
Every bite carries a grudge.
And every woman who’s ever lifted a canning lid knows—this isn’t about cucumbers. It’s about pride.

But when someone sabotages the reigning champ’s prize batch with ghost pepper vodka, the judging table...