Rick DeStefanis Books in Order

Tennessee native Duff Coleridge joins the Army seeking a better life and becomes a reconnaissance soldier in Vietnam. Recruited into covert operations, he encounters a rogue CIA handler and a mysterious woman whose loyalties may determine his survival.

Nineteen-year-old paratrooper Billy Coker survives his final month in Vietnam only to find homecoming another kind of struggle. Haunted by combat and uncertain about his future, he travels in search of old friends, lost love, and a life with meaning.

Young paratrooper Buck Marino serves with the 101st Airborne after the Tet Offensive, learning from a squad leader committed to keeping his men alive. Combat, troubled leadership, and an attachment to an Army nurse reshape his hopes for the future.

Orphaned by the Civil War, teenage Confederate soldier Virgil Rawlins heads west carrying anger and a hunger for revenge. A meeting with Sarah McCaskey and work guiding a wagon train challenge his assumptions about loyalty, violence, and the man he wants to become.

Virgil Rawlins and Sarah travel west seeking a life beyond the violence of the Civil War. Establishing a ranch in Montana's Paradise Valley offers hope, but sudden threats force them to defend the family and future they are building.

Jack Hartman abandons his family's business and a failed romance for Mississippi's Delta, hoping to begin again. His effort to save Tallahatchie's struggling furniture factory binds him to its workers and a community caught between hope and decline.

Seventy-three-year-old Vietnam veteran Sam Walker recounts his wartime experiences to journalism student Claire Cunningham. As her questions suggest motives beyond an academic thesis, their conversations reveal shared struggles with loss, loneliness, and unresolved questions about the past.

Brady Nash enlists to investigate his foster brother's suspicious death in Vietnam, risking his relationship with the woman he loves. His skill as a sniper draws him into covert operations, where his search exposes drug trafficking, assassination, and betrayal.

Vietnam veteran Buddy Rider reluctantly agrees to fly a humanitarian worker into war-torn El Salvador in 1981. Their mission to rescue trapped missionaries and orphans tests his aging aircraft, their uneasy partnership, and his own unresolved wartime losses.

Virgil and Sarah Rawlins take their children east to visit family and settle old grief. River pirates, train robbers, and Virgil's growing reputation turn the journey into a struggle to protect his loved ones without crossing the law.

Before deploying to Vietnam, Lieutenant Martin Shadows hears unsettling predictions from his Lakota grandfather. He dismisses the visions as improbable, but events during his tour begin to echo them, forcing him to reconsider the warnings and his own understanding.

Virgil Rawlins hopes to step back from ranch work, but his daughter Katie's rebellion draws the family into danger. Joined by his son-in-law, he confronts powerful businessmen trafficking women through the Montana Territory's saloons and bordellos.

Returning to Vietnam in 1970, Martin Shadows hopes to help the Montagnard people but encounters a corrupt colonel's plans against them. A rescue mission becomes a struggle against betrayal when a rogue CIA operative turns American firepower on his team.