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After learning that the father he never knew has been murdered, Ab Catton gathers his estranged siblings to claim a hidden gold legacy. Family grudges and a vicious uncle make the chase as dangerous as the prize.

In 1874, Theo Belk rides a savage frontier with one goal, kill the man who murdered his parents. The trail is long and bloody, and vengeance may cost him whatever is left of his soul.

A powerful human regime rediscovers World, a lost colony shaped by tribal warfare and the god Spider. First contact sparks a struggle over freedom, identity, and who gets to control the future of human space.

World's warriors are no longer only fighting for survival. As revolt, outside pressure, and cultural change spread, Iron Eyes and his allies must decide what Spider's people can become without losing themselves.

A failed rebellion has swollen into a fanatical holy war, and the warriors of Spider face their hardest test. Old technologies, desperate alliances, and a ruthless enemy push human space toward all-out ruin.

Little Dancer's dreams may reshape the future of a drought-stricken people fighting to survive. Around him, love, power, and jealousy turn a harsh landscape into a battleground.

At the end of the Ice Age, a small band follows a dream west across frozen wilderness into a new continent. It is a survival story on the scale of legend, driven by vision, love, and endurance.

When alien conquerors force a mixed team of human soldiers onto a distant campaign, old national rivalries suddenly matter less than survival. The deeper they go into the mission, the clearer it becomes they are being used.

A diplomatic mission heads toward Star's Rest to inspect a discovery that could transform human civilization. If the crew reaches the alien Artifact alive, they may still have led humanity straight into extinction.

Humanity is trapped inside a mysterious barrier while rival empires edge toward catastrophic war. Mercenary legend Staffa Kar Therma and rising commander Sinklar Fist are pulled into a struggle that could finish civilization.

White Ash, stolen from her own people as a child, grows into a woman haunted by prophetic dreams. After massacre and betrayal, she begins a dangerous quest that could change many lives.

In Cahokia, crops are failing and the gods have gone silent. Chiefs, seers, and warriors search for answers, while hope may rest with a young girl learning to dream power.

The Regan emperor is dead, old enemies are maneuvering for the kill, and human space is sliding toward final war. Staffa Kar Therma, Sinklar Fist, and the hidden Seddi may be the only hope left.

Ancient conspiracies, imperial ambition, and the mystery of the Forbidden Borders all converge at once. To save humankind, Staffa and his allies must outfight both enemy fleets and the lies that built their world.

As glaciers melt and giant animals vanish, coastal people struggle to understand a world changing under their feet. A lost seer and a rival drawn to dark power make the danger even worse.

Star Shell sets out to destroy a corrupting sacred mask before it ruins her people. Joined by trader Otter and other uneasy allies, she races across the Great Lakes with enemies close behind.

In ancient Florida, the pale and feared Pondwader is burdened with a prophecy of destruction. Traded into marriage and thrust into danger, he must prove he is more than an omen.

Hidden lineage and imperial paranoia collide in a crumbling Anasazi world. Cornsilk and Poor Singer flee assassins, searching for the truth before a killer destroys everyone around them.

In 1825, Harvard student Richard Hamilton is swept from St. Louis into the brutal fur-trade frontier. His path crosses that of Heals Like a Willow, a captured Shoshoni medicine woman, and both lives are changed.

Lost in a Wyoming winter, Richard Hamilton stumbles toward disaster while Willow battles pressure from her own people and whispers of witchcraft. Love, survival, and one final hard choice drive the saga to its close.

The murder of Red Knot, on the eve of a politically vital marriage, threatens to tear the Algonquin world apart. Only the feared sorcerer called Panther may be able to uncover the truth in time.

A prophesied child called False Face Child is growing into a power others want to control. When warriors burn his home and kill his mother, his fate becomes the center of a brutal struggle.

Archaeologist Dusty Stewart uncovers a massacre site that seems to echo an eight-hundred-year-old crime. When Dr. Maureen Cole arrives to help, science and legend begin to blur in unsettling ways.

Dusty and Maureen excavate a burned ceremonial chamber filled with the bones of murdered children. Their investigation is mirrored by a thirteenth-century hunt for the killer who first left the dead behind.

A murder in Chaco Canyon ties Dusty Stewart and Maureen Cole to crimes buried for seven centuries. The deeper they dig, the more the case pulls in old betrayals, grief, and something close to legend.

A breakthrough tied to human genetics opens the door to buried secrets no one is ready to control. Science, ambition, and fear quickly turn discovery into a deadly struggle.

The fallout from radical genetic research centers on a child whose existence raises huge ethical and human questions. Protecting him means facing the people who see him as property, proof, or power.

In seventeenth-century Dawnland, Native families face loss, revenge, and the rising pressure of European contact. The result is a tense historical novel about children, memory, and a world being forced to change.

After his brother's death, young Salamander is forced into leadership far sooner than he wants. What follows is a tense story of clan politics, grief, and power in one of ancient America's earliest cities.

On the Pacific Northwest coast, Rain Bear shelters an escaped slave who brings danger with her. Protecting her could doom his people, but sending her back may be even worse.

In the high age of Chaco power, priests and warriors rule from great houses tied to moon and star. But arrogance, rebellion, and sacred timing are pushing the empire toward collapse.

Celebrity DNA thefts, bizarre assaults, and a ruthless genetics firm pull bodyguard Lymon Bridges and former FBI agent Christal Anaya into a dark conspiracy. Hollywood vanity turns deadly when biotech decides beauty can be owned.

A boy named Silvertip sees disaster coming when the old ice begins to fail. To save his people, he must convince them to abandon the only world they have ever known.

This provocative historical novel reimagines the life of Yeshua as a human story shaped by politics, betrayal, and fear. It treats ancient religion as contested history, not settled myth.

Called home by terrifying visions, the wanderer Old White returns to a land sliding toward bloodshed. On the way he meets Two Petals and Trader, and the secret he carries may topple a mighty city.

As armies gather in the Southeast, the Sky Hand capital stands on the edge of triumph or ruin. Old White, Trader, and Two Petals walk straight into a storm of espionage, war, and divided loyalties.

As Hernando de Soto's expedition moves into the Southeast, Native communities face enslavement, terror, and impossible choices. The invasion is seen from the ground, where every decision carries a cost.

Odion and his sister Tutelo are taken after their village is destroyed, and their parents set out after them. The hunt leads into a brutal world of slavery, war, and an old evil named Gannajero.

The de Soto invasion grows more brutal, and the people resisting it are pushed closer to ruin. Alliances shift, loyalties crack, and survival demands courage from those with the least room to fail.

Wrass and other captive children are still trapped in Gannajero's camp, and rescue may come too late. As warriors and healers close in, the children themselves must risk everything to survive.

The final clash with de Soto's expedition leaves the Southeast reeling under violence, disease, and betrayal. It is a hard, sweeping end to a series about conquest seen through Native eyes.

Dekanawida and Hiawento have built a growing League around the Great Law of Peace, but war is not finished with them. If the last holdouts refuse peace, their whole world may fall.

A mad sorcerer is driving the Iroquoian world toward disaster. Sky Messenger, Hiyawento, and Jigonsaseh must do the almost impossible, unite warring nations before everything burns.

Young Flint Knife travels with his father to Cahokia seeking military help against raiders. The dazzling city promises power and safety, but the truth waiting there could change his life forever.

Cahokia is under attack from within when a brilliant assassin begins hunting its rulers and the living god Morning Star. Politics, prophecy, and old powers collide in a city already stretched to the breaking point.

Five hundred years before Columbus, Norse settlers and Native peoples meet on North American shores. What begins as exploration becomes a tense story of collision, survival, and the fragile possibility of peace.

In this short prequel to People of the Songtrail, a shaman crosses enemy ground in the dead of winter to free a trapped ghost. What he finds is stranger, sadder, and more dangerous than he expected.

This short nonfiction work looks at the archaeology and possibilities behind Norse exploration and settlement in the New World. It is a brisk companion to the historical ideas behind People of the Songtrail.

An old enemy returns to Cahokia with emissaries from a rival power, and the city senses war coming. Morning Star's silence leaves others to confront murder, magic, and a threat to the empire's soul.

After Morning Star is poisoned, Cahokia reels toward chaos. To save him, Night Shadow Star and Fire Cat must descend into the Underworld and face the dark powers waiting below.

Resources are failing and Donovan is closing in on everyone. While Kalico's southern settlement comes under attack, Talina Perez tries to save Dya Simonov before human violence and alien danger destroy them all.

Supervisor Kalico Aguila reaches Donovan to find a broken colony, feral survivors, and corporate chaos. With Talina Perez fighting for control on the ground, a ghost ship and a killer make a lethal world even worse.

In 1812, fugitive John Tylor joins Manuel Lisa's Missouri River expedition hoping to disappear into the fur-trade West. Rival companies, frontier politics, and killer Fenway McKeever turn the journey into a fight for survival.

A family shattered by the Civil War tries to rebuild in the American West, carrying grief, memory, and stubborn hope with them. Gear turns the journey into a sweeping frontier novel about survival and starting over.

A corporate assassin and a scientific survey ship arrive at Donovan expecting a simple mission. Instead they find an ecological nightmare, Talina Perez in the wilds, and a fight for Port Authority that could burn the colony down.

Blue Heron and master thief Seven Skull Shield leave Cahokia on a dangerous mission east. Rivers, hostile settlements, and a hidden enemy turn the journey into a struggle over the future of a rising civilization.

Heading west across the northern Plains, John Tylor rescues a wounded hawk that seems bound to prophecy. Arapaho raiders, a vengeful enemy, and desperate Shoshoni allies turn the trip into a hard race for safety.

In a war-torn Southwest of red cliffs and old magic, a tyrant hunts a witch's pot said to hold immense power. Healer Tocho, bitter hunter Maicoh, and young Tsilu are all pulled toward the fire.

Dr. Timothy Ryan meets a baffling prisoner known only as Alpha just as assassins close in. An impossible Egyptian tomb, a vanished woman, and a hidden war pull him into a science fiction mystery with time at its core.

A transport ship finally reaches Donovan after ten years in space, carrying survivors who have become a cannibal cult. While Kalico tries to contain them, Talina races through the forest toward an even older terror.

A marine science team settles on Donovan's seas hoping for discovery and a fresh start. Then an alien intelligence begins using their children as weapons, and paradise turns into a nightmare no parent can outthink.

Anthropology student Sam Delgado is deep in the Wyoming backcountry when a cyberattack collapses America's banking system. Stranded with his field school, he must rely on hard ranch-country people to survive the slide into chaos.

A scientific crisis sparks fear, conflict, and a race to understand what is really happening before the damage spreads. It is a modern thriller built on big ideas and mounting pressure.

When Brenda is pulled into the secrets of Simond International Holdings, she uncovers a shadowy organization with frightening reach. Money, technology, and hidden power are steering events, and learning too much could get her killed.

As the national collapse deepens, young banker Lauren Davis flees Colorado Springs for Wyoming. Border outposts, refugees, and growing violence turn her escape into a brutal test of what survival will demand.

After barely surviving Alpha once, the Psi Team is dragged into a deeper war raging across timelines. With Ryan kidnapped and enemies closing in, Alpha returns more dangerous than ever and hungry for blood.

Cahokia is close to civil war as murder, factional politics, and old rivalries explode across the great city. Spotted Wrist, Night Shadow Star, and their enemies race toward a reckoning that could remake the whole empire.

Three years after Ashanti left, the Corporation returns to Donovan with elite family rivals in tow. Their power games collide with Talina, Kalico, and Kylee's old vendettas, and Port Authority braces for a final reckoning.

Horse theft, river warfare, and a bloody attack leave Richard and Willow struggling to survive apart and together. As the wilderness closes in, each must face losses that may be too deep to mend.

With Wyoming still reeling from collapse, Governor Agar sends a convoy south to recover scientists who can make lifesaving insulin. Lauren, Sam, and Breeze ride into gangs, roadblocks, and a desperate race against time.

Richard Hamilton and Heals Like a Willow travel the Missouri in a world of scheming boatmen, anxious chiefs, and raw frontier danger. As both fight for freedom, one decision changes the course of their lives.

At the peak of Hollywood fame, Sheela Marks is attacked just as a wave of strange celebrity assaults begins. Bodyguard Lymon Bridges and ex-FBI agent Christal Anaya uncover a sinister plot called Genesis Athena.

Sheela Marks infiltrates Genesis Athena to rescue Christal and finally face the conspiracy hunting them all. Inside a floating genetics laboratory, every choice carries a brutal price for Sheela, Lymon, and the truth.

A string of bad decisions and worse consequences drives this modern thriller into dangerous territory fast. As the pressure mounts, survival depends on figuring out which mistake will prove fatal.

Famine, war, and witchcraft are tearing the Iroquois nations apart while Atotarho reaches for absolute power. Sky Messenger's only hope is to bring divided leaders together before the world breaks.

Atotarho's war is grinding the land to pieces, and Dekanawida sees darkness ahead. The final fight for peace will demand everything from the people still willing to stand against chaos.

As Genesis Athena closes in, Christal Anaya digs deeper into the theft of celebrity DNA and vanishes into greater danger. To save her and expose the truth, Sheela Marks must perform the role of her life.

With winter closing in, Koracoo and Gonda race after the child trader Gannajero to save their children. Inside the camp, the captives know rescue may not come soon enough.

Some children have escaped Gannajero, but many are still trapped and Wrass has been left behind as bait. Koracoo and Gonda press on through a brutal landscape where every rescue comes at a cost.

When a conservation lawyer is murdered, Agent Jillian Masterson is pulled into a lethal fight over Yellowstone bison. Wyoming rancher John Cody looks guilty, but the truth is far messier and more dangerous.

A buried discovery pulls ancient faith, archaeology, and dangerous secrets back into open conflict. As old evidence comes to light, the people chasing it risk more than their reputations.