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Rocket is back.
For Rocket and Dot, life at Broken Ride Acres rolls along-hammering out iron, adopting horses others would put down, and enjoying arguments in the martial arts ring.
Breakfast on the front porch had become a simple ritual with Mike walking over from his new house being built.
Rocket is learning to be her calm and caring Jolie self again-sometimes. Putting aside the time in prison, marrying deputy Punchy is on the back burner…...
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A young girl running from an abusive foster home kidnaps an older biker with a mystery for a past he has no memory of.Leaving the mining town in Colorado and crossing state lines, anything can happen.What neither is looking for or expecting is friendship.But in the cold of the desert night, life lessons can go both ways-even if they are not about a million dollars in gold.
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Unlike the hundreds of how-to books, Mr. Charlton leads us down a winding path leading to being a writer. Irreverent at times and solemn at others, he lays out his pratfalls of growing up but never mocks. His explanations are clear and concise. His short stories entertain but are there to draw from.
This unique meandering through a writer's mind answers one of the essential questions writers answer in interviews: "How do you come up with __?"Charlton...
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It wasn't Hooker's first recovery wreck from water. At least this was in the sunny summer instead of winter in freezing water and rain. Everything was routine until the officer pulled a skull out of the water.
Someone is killing the street walkers of downtown San Jose. As Hooker investigates, it becomes personal, and dangerous.
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Tink, a young dragon on the verge of adulthood, who struggles with being different. His life is simple and unambitious. That is until he is called on a great adventure. He will only survive with the help of family and friends. Embarking on a hero's journey, he comes to the realization that being himself is the best way to be. The Very Littlest Dragon is a story that delicately describes the acceptance of being one's self and is a parable compatible...
6) Shrinkage
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The junior agent, Nash Running Bear, needs to be taught a lesson of reprimand, and more time in the field.She is paired with the oldest worn-out agent and is sent to the backwaters of Columbus, Ohio. The older agent is only weeks from retirement and would rather sleep than participate; leaving Nash to figure things out on her own.The bank is leaking large sums of money; seemingly by magic from the locked vault overnight.The whole is a conundrum, but...
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FBI, Special Agent Nash Running Bear, returns to her hometown after a skeleton turns up in the local creek on reservation land.
Old racial slights and hatred for outsiders don't make looking for more bones any easier...
nor does the appearance of an old high school fling.
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Set in current time, about one thousand immortals known as Ever Kind live among us mortals. They identify and locate the others through senses, except for a singular anomaly, whom they call the Black Hole or the Black Sheep. Their immortality derives from their ability to flow into another living host when the original host dies. This ability allows them to have a renewed body or escape detection as they take over a host of a different species. Over...
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Tribal police discover a body spread on the Four Corners monument.When the head rolls away from the investigator's touch, they call the FBI.San Francisco Medical Examiner's laboratory gets the body, and Muna calls Washington D.C. Even though Nash is already involved in a case, they assign the unusual body case to her and Powder.The more she investigates the unusual nature of the body, the more personal it becomes.Until a bomb explodes...
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Just released from prison, Jolie "Rocket" Richards struggles to get her life back after being incarcerated for seven years. As a former rodeo superstar, best horse trainer on the California central coast, the town drunk, and occasional slut, Rocket just wants her life back… and to find the person who framed her for the murder of her mother.
Romance, a new friend, or a new dog were never on her agenda.
Until a rifle bullet tears her life apart....
11) Boomtown
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"Milpitas was a thug town.
Felix hadn't always been a thug, and he hadn't grown up in Milpitas. He had found Milpitas because of its reputation, and he had worked hard to fit into the reputation."
Trouble continues to find Hooker and the Squirt. Through the slow drizzle of spring, business is just enough to prevent much needed maintenance on Mae West. Hooker and the Squirt both know in their guts-her cables are stretched and worn. They should have...
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California's Orange County is famous for television shows of the rich and famous, the rich and disturbed, and neither. Big surf to flat surf, Orange County isn't what you see on TV.A headless body turns up on a beach.Former sheriff's detective Frank Pounds is dragged from medical retirement because he may know the identity of the body.Dressed in an irreverent t-shirt, a pair of board shorts, and rainbow-painted huaraches showing off his pink toenails,...
13) Cinco d' Mojave
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Fort Mojave, CA-Ft. Mojave citizens woke horrified this morning to learn that they discovered nineteen bodies in a nearby compound. The alleged victims are possibly members of a religious cult known for mass suicides. Investigations are ongoing.FBI Agent Nash Running Bear has more important things to focus on than the daily media frenzy. That is, until her work takes her to Fort Mojave, and an anonymous caller on a talk radio, claims that what appears...
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Thorny Wallace returns to her hometown for the peace and quiet. WWII is distant thunder in the small rural town, but Los Angeles is always a clear and present threat. As she begins to look into an old death, she finds that there is always more going on in the small quiet town. When she thinks she has the players figured out the FBI shows up.
15) Light to Light
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"Diamonds are a girls best friends…
…unless they're covered in blood."
Thorny Wallace is being pressured by old ghosts, both mountain ranges, and the women of the town who are looking for answers. An expected refuge isn't what it seems, and the rest of the world is holding its breath as the two motorcycle companies go head-to-head with "The Race of the Century." And it's right through her jurisdiction.
Bodies turn up-without a mark on...
16) Angel Flights
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As Los Angeles comes of age in 1966, two undercover cops struggle to keep up while maintaining a balance in the growing drug trade. Boundaries are broken and borders are crossed in an effort to do good-while doing bad.
Gabe learns from the masters: "Normal", is a meaningless word civilian society makes up, and the books (on being a cop) don't know squat. Only the irreverent and unconventional approach gets results.
A phone call in the night brings...
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Gunnery Sargent Perceval Stone, a third-generation Marine, is suddenly medically retired. After all of the collective damage of many wars and actions, an IED leaves him with TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).
Stone is a walking mental time-bomb like so many others who have lost their compass. If he can't find his center and path, he may never get back.
Walking away confused. from the only home and family he has...
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As the salt begins to win the battle over pepper, Marsha finds herself, once again, sitting in a hospital with her father. This time is the last.
The walls are the same white, but now they begin to reflect on her life.
Always the dutiful daughter, and then the supportive wife, she was there.
Mother, wife, daughter-but now she is facing a crisis of identity. As the daughterhood is closing, the wife was thrown aside long ago, and motherhood…
Marsha...