Ron Rozelle Books in Order

As the great hurricane approaches Galveston in 1900, residents face an unfamiliar threat to their city. A young girl and a nun at St. Mary's Orphanage confront fears that test their hopes, relationships, and faith.

Reclusive Sam has spent years avoiding his father, son, and failed ambitions in modern Ohio. The prospect of job loss and approaching middle age now forces him to face responsibilities he has carefully kept at a distance.

This fiction-writing guide explains how description and setting shape plot, character, and atmosphere. Exercises and examples address creating a convincing time and place, adapting description to different genres, and balancing direct explanation with dramatized detail.

Will watches the unpredictable weather of East Texas while reflecting on memories and choices that changed his life. Childhood experiences with his grandfather connect him to the family ranch and deepen his yearning for a lost sense of home.

Former prison warden Jim Willett recounts three decades working in the Texas prison system. Written with Ron Rozelle, the memoir covers guarding prisoners, investigating misconduct, confronting a hostage crisis, and accompanying condemned men to the execution chamber.

Collected from his weekly newspaper column, these essays follow Rozelle's reflections on ordinary life and unexpected subjects. Holidays, loss, cats, films, food, and the pleasures of observation provide occasions to consider what matters in daily experience.

Arch Aplin Jr. recounts a life shaped by entrepreneurship, beginning with childhood around his father's cotton gin and general store. Written with Ron Rozelle, the memoir connects remembered small-town experiences with a growing interest in commerce.

Rozelle reconstructs the 1937 explosion at a school in New London, Texas, using eyewitness testimony and historical records. The account follows the disaster, the investigation into leaking natural gas, and the lasting grief and guilt of survivors.

This biography concentrates on Sam Houston's final years after his refusal to support Confederate secession cost him the Texas governorship. Rozelle explores his political contradictions, isolation in East Texas, and concerns about the destruction of his life's work.

Retired military operative Rafferty seeks peace on Galveston Island while questioning whether his past killings were service or murder. When his former mentor requests another assassination, retirement gives way to a final mission and deeper moral conflict.