Morgan's Pasture
Child psychologist Will Border retreats to the summer of his thirteenth year after a traumatic event forces him to reexamine events and the choices he made in becoming a man. A period piece set in 1950s rural America, Morgan’s Pasture guides young adult readers in examining their own roles in life as they develop into loners, followers, or even reluctant leaders like Will. It is also a wonderful journey into the past for older readers, bringing back memories long forgotten.  With one eye on child psychology and the other on plain common sense, Morgan’s Pasture offers a unique perspective on the growth of a boy and the longing of a man for a mythic peaceful pasture, not as a place to live, but as a reason to.
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In Book III, Buell
Buell goes to the gold fields of Idaho Territory. He meets a man who seems to understand his quirky ways and a woman with whom he falls in love. Both have a tremendous impact on him as he battles emotional conflicts that have developed all his life. Violence, so common in Buell’s life, is the catalyst that finally releases him from the demon that has plagued his soul.

Book IV, Slate Creek
follows Simon to an isolated canyon several days ride from the nearest settlement. There, with only his dog and an occasional visit by a packer who supplies prospecting camps in the area, he tries to make sense of his life, from the crushing defeat of his girl rejecting him to the loss of his best friend. Nature and his own stubborn adherence to the values his parents instilled nearly cost him life on several occasions.

Pine Marten
is a yet to be published tale of two lost souls. One, a man, has chosen to live the rest of his life in the isolation of the Missouri woods of 1855. Beleaguered by a demon, his days are spent on guard, his nights in fitful sleep as he recalls a terrible sin in his dreams. Nearby and unknown to the man is a boy, lost, bewildered and struggling for two things, to remember who he is and why he’s where he is, and to simply stay alive in the hostile forest. A third man happens on the scene, a hunter who is used to seeing things others might miss. He is instrumental is solving the riddle of the two people lost in the wilderness; lost in different ways.

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Maelstrom
is yet to be published. A top secret government project has been hijacked by selfish interests and four people have caught a glimpse of it. A famous but stalled writer and his equally famous wife, a painter, see something they can't believe as they travel along the boundary of an isolated federal research site in the high desert of Idaho. A world-weary ex-Marine and his summer hire cowhand see the same thing and both parties speed across the prairie to converge on a one-man roadhouse. There, two others have stopped for an afternoon break and soon all six, plus the cafe owner, find themselves held hostage by a group of heavily armed and uniformed men. When one man is killed, the war-wise Marine knows a bad ending for the rest is imminent. Using skills he thought he'd never need again, he manages to get the party out of the café and into the mountains where he’s in his element. It’s then a race for refuge with armed men in close pursuit below them and the strange phenomena they'd seen in the desert threatening them from above.

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The Barber's Chair
is yet to be published. There are many who have fond memories of the town barber shop; a cozy place with one or two of the big, specialized chairs stationed in front of a low counter with a hair-washing sink or two and an over-mirror. Aligned side by side along one wall might be five or six naugahyde seats supposedly reserved for waiting customers, but just as likely occupied by men just wanting to visit. And presiding over it all was the barber; affable, knowledgeable, nosey and hopefully discrete. Into this bastion of maleness came a steady stream of stories; some sad, some hilarious, some truthful, other slightly shaded, and some downright bull-pucky. This is the story of such a shop, only one of the chairs in this little establishment offered a special twist. It was a fact known to only three people, but anyone seated on that chair shared every thought they had with the barber. He'd long ago decided to do nothing with any information he gathered, a matter of honoring his grandfather who had given him the chair and so admonished him But what if he learns something that will destroy his beloved town and harm his friends?

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The Attick Downstairs
is yet to be published. Stan Marshall sells furniture in the slow back-water town of Hastings in Eastern Montana——and hates it. Suffering along with Stan is his wife of eight years, Carrie. They have two children, Jenny and Angie, and Angie is chronically ill. The little girl’s malady causes considerable stress because Carrie’s father, a rich rancher, is always ready to use his money to show Stan as a loser. Carrie sees the practical side while Stan is blinded to it by his male ego. The Marshall home should be a happy one, but the tension of being constantly short of cash constantly works to shake their commitment to each other.
Stan’s boss, Greg Wellcombe, is overbearing, oversexed and overweight but Stan can’t quit his job because this is 1985 and jobs are impossible to find. Working at the store with Stan is Julie Meadows and they share two things in common, their hatred for Hastings and their disdain for Greg. Julie hatches a scheme to make enough money to fund her escape from Hastings and asks Stan, who is honest and loyal by nature, to ignore a few things he’s about to witness at the store. Julie plays to Stan’s compassionate side, and wins, and uses her sexuality on Greg to get what she needs from him; namely, access to the store’s line of credit. Stan sees evidence that Julie’s scheme involves the illegal importation of South American antiquities, clay dolls.
Stan has befriended a truly odd character who had suddenly appeared in Hastings eight years previous. Ermil Kersanian is a 96-year-old Armenian with a past he talks very little about, but who is amazingly well read, and traveled. When Stan tells Ermil of the South American artifacts, the old man expresses great interest and Stan discovers Ermil was a refugee of the Armenian genocide of the early 20th century and had lived in Venezuela for over 40 years. His business there was dealing in the very items Julie means to smuggle into the USA.
As the story unfolds, Ermil points out Stan’s weaknesses and failures and helps him rectify them. The mud dolls that Julie and Greg are dealing with turn out to be something quite different. Soon they find themselves tangled up with Federal law enforcement and Greg manages to get the store impounded putting Stan out of work. Stan allows Carrie’s father to help get Angie to the expensive specialists she needs and the little girl’s life is saved.
Ermil’s past is finally made known and deep seated grievances are made right. Julie and Greg both get what they deserve and Stan and Carrie find each other.

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Calliope's Call

It’s 2018 and the larger population centers of the USA are inexorably descending into anarchy.  An inept and self-serving congress is enabling the decline.  A small, determined, but loosely organized movement called “Take Back America” has decided to go it alone in the mountains and backwoods of the country.  Moving into sparsely populated areas, they mean to use their isolation and weapons to protect what they've brought with them for survival.  Poorly prepared for the rigors of self-sufficiency, they soon turn to imposing themselves on small towns and villages for food and medical care.  One such town, Calliope Springs is home to Bea Gentillion, hard-nosed, hard-rode and hard-to-stop owner of a popular bar, and arch enemy of the local lawman Mardel Fawcett.  Their virulent history goes back over thirty years.  Several of the “Backers” are offered a way to sustain themselves.  The enterprise demands absolute privacy, and Chief Fawcett and his deputies will guarantee that.  In exchange he gets a cut of any money generated by the business, plus he’ll allow the Backers to take over the town.  Bea hears and sees what’s going on and decides she has to stop him, but she can’t do it alone.  A close friend, Matt Halford, was the object of the Chief’s wrath thirty years previous and left town to escape almost certain death at the Chief’s hand.  Bea asks Matt to come home and join her fight.  As a Marine with twenty-five years experience on “blackside” missions he’s ready and able;  the Chief's threat plus Matt's long held belief that he abandoned Bea thirty two years before also makes him very willing.  In this battle there will be no rules of engagement.