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Hayden and the War on Terror – ISIS & Beyond: BOOK FIFTEEN (2014-2021) (Witness to War – The Hayden Carter Chronicles 15)

Witness to War: Book Fifteen – Hayden and the War on Terror: ISIS & Beyond (2014–2021)

“Terror thrives where hope is absent.”

From the fall of Mosul to the fall of Kabul, Hayden walked through the final decade of America’s War on Terror. By 2014, he was no longer a young soldier chasing glory but a seasoned veteran carrying scars of decades...

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Witness of War: Hayden in the Modern Wars: BOOK SIXTEEN (2020-2025) (Witness to War – The Hayden Carter Chronicles 16)

Witness to War: Book Sixteen – Hayden in the Modern Wars (2020–Present)
“War changes its mask, but never its cost.”

From the chaos at
Kabul Airport to the frozen trenches of Ukraine, from drones circling Yemen to naval standoffs in the Taiwan Strait, Hayden Carter stands at the heart of the conflicts shaping our own world.

At twenty-one, Hayden has...

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Welcome to Soreass Creek: BOOK ONE

From the series: SoreAss Creek

Some folks find themselves. Others get dumped there by a busted truck, a dead uncle, and a Golden Retriever with trust issues.

Jolene “Jo” McGraw didn’t plan to inherit a falling-down ranch, a fridge full of expired moonshine, or a front porch that doubles as a confession booth for half the town. But when her late uncle’s will names her the sole...

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The Fireman’s Ex-Wife’s Goat: BOOK TWO (Soreass Creek 2)

From the series: SoreAss Creek

The goat is gone. The flowers are dead. The ex-wife is furious.

Flame—the most ill-tempered goat in Idaho—has vanished.

Last seen destroying Linda Boone’s prize-winning flowerbed, he’s now the center of a town-wide scandal. Linda, the fire chief’s ex-wife, is demanding justice, an arrest, or at least the goat’s head on a platter. Preferably before...

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Bar Fight Baptisms & Bad Decisions: BOOK THREE (Soreass Creek 3)

From the series: SoreAss Creek

When the new pastor rolled into Soreass Creek, Idaho, he thought his mission was simple—save souls, mend hearts, and maybe repaint the church sign.

He didn’t count on the Tipsy Cow.


The Tipsy Cow is more than a bar. It’s a community center with whiskey. A courthouse with a pool table. And now—thanks to one very unfortunate outdoor baptism—a crime...

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Mabel Ain’t Dead Yet: BOOK FOUR (Soreass Creek 4)

From the series: SoreAss Creek

In Soreass Creek, Idaho, news travels faster than a church gossip chain, and Mabel’s “passing” has already set the whole town buzzing. Who’s getting her land? Who’s inheriting her china? And which cousin will throw the first punch at the will reading?

But while half the town is mourning and the other half is fighting over her stuff, Mabel is in...

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Rodeo Queen of Regret County: BOOK FIVE (Soreass Creek 5)

From the series: SoreAss Creek

Jessie June LaBelle didn’t just lose the Rodeo Queen crown.
She lost her dignity, her boyfriend, and—depending on who you ask—her sense of balance when her flag routine ended in actual flames.


One minute she was waving to the crowd.
The next, her borrowed pony was choking on firework smoke and the grandstand was screaming like the circus had come...

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Blizzard, Boots, and Bad Luck: BOOK SIX (Soreass Creek 6)

From the series: SoreAss Creek

It wasn’t the cold that got them. It was the company.

When a freak blizzard slams into Soreass Creek, seven very unlucky townsfolk find themselves snowed in at a remote hunting cabin with no heat, no liquor, and exactly one sleeping bag too few. That’s when the real storm begins.

Inside the cabin:
Jo McGraw — ranch boss, sarcasm expert, and...

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A Pickle of A Situation: BOOK SEVEN (Soreass Creek 7)

From the series: SoreAss Creek

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...

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Let’s Blame the Librarian: BOOK EIGHT (Soreass Creek 8)

From the series: SoreAss Creek

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...

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Bingo Night Massacre: BOOK NINE (Soreass Creek 9)

From the series: SoreAss Creek

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...

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Cowboy’s Don’t Use Coupons: BOOK TEN (Soreass Creek 10)

From the series: SoreAss Creek

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...

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The Mailman’s Second Family: BOOK ELEVEN (Soreass Creek 11)

From the series: SoreAss Creek

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...

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Sunset on the Soreass Line: BOOK TWELVE (Soreass Creek 12)

From the series: SoreAss Creek

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...

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Blood Ties: Book One (Deadman’s Daughter 1)

From the series: Deadman's Daughter

She’s the daughter of a killer. But what if the darkness runs deeper than blood?

Eve Harper has spent years trying to disappear—new towns, new names, no attachments. It’s the only way to survive when your father is The Glass Killer, a charismatic psychopath who turned murder into an art form by displaying his victims in storefront windows. Eve...

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The Body Kept Score: BOOK TWO (Deadman’s Daughter 2)

From the series: Deadman's Daughter

The Body Kept Score
A Deadman’s Daughters Novel

By Trudy Myrland

Some scars you can see.
Others you inherit.

Lark Welles has spent a lifetime running from the flames. Daughter of a cult leader who orchestrated one of the most horrific mass self-immolations in American history, she’s built a quiet life under a new name, buried her past in concrete,...

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Mercy in the Blood: Book Three (Deadman’s Daughter 3)

From the series: Deadman's Daughter

Jessa Monroe was the good girl. The quiet one. The girl who kept her head down while her father—“The Carpenter”—was quietly tried and buried in local legend as the most brutal killer the county had ever known.

But even monsters need apprentices.

Years later, Jessa is living off the grid in a forgotten stretch of Oregon when a documentary crew...

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Little Black Lies: BOOK FOUR (Deadman’s Daughter 4)

From the series: Deadman's Daughter

Noel Sterling has lived in a world of shadows and whispers, her blindness a shield as much as a sentence. Raised in silence after her father—infamously dubbed the “Angelmaker”—was convicted of a string of ritualistic murders, Noel has learned to navigate life with caution and grace. But just as she begins to trust the quiet, something starts to...

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The Daughter He Chose: BOOK FIVE (Deadman’s Daughter 5)

From the series: Deadman's Daughter

She thought the worst was behind her. Until the truth came calling—in her mother’s voice.

Dani Rivers was adopted at eight years old, pulled from the wreckage of a life no child should have survived. Her new family gave her everything: safety, love, and a fresh name that carried no stain of the past. She was never supposed to find out who she...

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Stay Dead, Darling: BOOK SIX (Deadman’s Daughter 6)

From the series: Deadman's Daughter

They called her father the Drowned Bride Killer.
They never asked what Harper saw that night.

At sixteen, Harper Wynn stopped speaking. Not out loud, not to anyone. Her sister Lily was gone—drowned in Starling Lake wearing their mother’s wedding dress—and by morning, their father was in handcuffs. The police said the case was closed. The town said...

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