Leonard Sanders Books in Order

An ambitious water project divides the council of a growing Texas city. As members pursue competing civic and personal interests, city manager David Hartwell and reporter Tom Kencaide face the effects of political responsibility on their private lives.

Historical photographs and accompanying text trace Fort Worth's development from 1849 to 1920. The book follows its transformation from a frontier outpost into a cattle, railroad, meatpacking, and oil center through significant events and stories of the Old West.

Veteran fighter Clay Loomis works for a foreign dictator despite his hostile history with the CIA. When terrorists move a nuclear device toward a Caribbean country in civil war, the agency recruits him to find the bomb before catastrophe.

After sabotaging computer networks, the Hamlet Group threatens the American government with nuclear destruction unless it surrenders. Ex-agent Clay Loomis assembles an unconventional team to stop the terrorists, even if the mission puts him against the president's wishes.

During World War II, former U-boat captain Walther Von Beck is sent to destroy the liner Normandie in New York. Working with a Jewish spy coerced by threats to her family, he faces divided loyalties and FBI pursuit.

The Moretti family's winery becomes the center of a struggle for control that sets brothers against one another. A corporate outsider's attempt to take the business adds another challenge, forcing the divided family to defend its ownership.

War orphan Travis Scurlock arrives in a young Texas settlement and rises to become a lawyer and senator. Following later generations of his family, the novel connects their ambition, betrayals, and changing fortunes with Fort Worth's growth.

Raised in nineteenth-century Canada, Isabel Crawford journeys alone to Oklahoma Territory. Her mission to help the defeated Kiowa survive under white domination places her amid the hardships and cultural upheaval of life on the prairie.

Brod Spurlock's heart attack creates an opening for his illegitimate half-brother and cousin to seize the family company. When another brother resists, the struggle turns murderous, exposing the violence beneath the oil-rich family's wealth and unresolved history.

Despite mutual hostility and past attempts on his life, Clay Loomis is called back by the CIA. Terrorists from Japan have shaken the American government, and Loomis must stop their campaign before the crisis escalates into war.

A Tibetan lama guards religious documents capable of unsettling faiths around the world. When extremists backed by the Chinese government move against his monastery, Clay Loomis becomes involved in a dangerous effort to protect the threatened collection.

Thaddeus Logan and his new wife arrive in San Antonio determined to establish a dynasty built on land and cattle. Over three turbulent decades, ambition and courage sustain their enterprise while events test their love and shared resolve.

This true crime account examines the murder of Esther Steele, killed after returning from her parish in Granite, Oklahoma. The first homicide in the town's history becomes the focus of an investigation into violence and its impact on a rural community.

A New York editor brings retired detective Booker Reeves back to work when her daughter, a child movie star, disappears in Oklahoma. With a serial killer targeting young girls nearby, Reeves faces an urgent search for the missing child.