"First Light," a collection of short fiction, has something for every reader. There is comedy, mystery, high adventure, family drama, and plenty of Edgar Allan Poe style creepiness. There's even a Christmas story. A number of our authors have been published before; for others, this is their first (but not last) time in print. Titles include: "Voices" and "The Coldest Day" by Alan Amrhine; "And to Think We Used to Hop on Trains" by Amy Bock; "Flesh and Blood," by Sharon Broomall; "Howl," by T.L. Emery; "The Seven Gates of Hell," by Charles Godfrey; "The Briefcase," by Keith Hoskins; "The House," by Bob Knapp; "The Siren," by Joe Long; "The Doomed Life of Billy Cavanaugh," by Paul Sekulich; "Somebody's Gotta Do It," by Mark Lee Taylor; "The Bride" and "Parker Wiley and the Amazons" by Chris Vaughan; and "The Miracle," by Robert Broomall. We think “First Light” will appeal to even the most discriminating short-story fan.

First Light: Short Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Broomall, Robert

Godfrey, Charles

Knapp, Bob

Amrhine, Alan

Bock, Amy

Broomall, Sharon

Emery, T. L.

Long, Joe

Hoskins, Keith

Short Stories & Anthologies

BlueStone Media

In 1875, Detective Lysander Hughes is hired by Colonel George Custer to investigate the murder of an officer in the Seventh Cavalry. Lysander goes undercover as an enlisted man to find the killer, who is believed to have been one of the officer’s men. He discovers that the vaunted Seventh Cavalry is not the elite regiment that the papers make it out to be, and that a large number of its officers and enlisted man despise their famous commander. Lysander reluctantly teams up with a pioneering female newspaper reporter named Verity Winslow. Lysander and Verity mix like oil and water, but Verity has information that’s important to the case and she won’t share it unless Lysander agrees to let her help. As the two of them dig deeper, they start to believe that Custer may not want them to find the real killer . . .

Murder in the Seventh Cavalry

Genre Fiction

1927Charles Lindbergh attempts to become the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean. Just as it looks like he won't make it, he gets help from a mysterious source . . . "Lindbergh's Ghosts" is based on Charles Lindbergh's own words -- part of his story that he kept secret until a quarter-century after his famous flight. It is sure to fascinate young readers -- and older ones, as well.

Lindbergh's Ghosts

Children's Books

Barnd, Jeff

Biographies

Death’s Head illuminates a little-known but significant moment in history, one whose outcome resonates through the years to the present day. It is a story of war and love and the faith that enables ordinary men to perform extraordinary deeds. 1190 – Saladin’s armies have overrun most of the Holy Land, prompting a great crusade from the West, led by Richard the Lionheart, King Philip of France, and the German emperor, Frederick Barbarossa. Unjustly accused of murder, an idealistic young monk named Roger flees his abbey and joins the vast tide of men headed for the East. In the Holy Land, Roger finds not glory, but death and misery as he takes part in the greatest military debacle of the Middle Ages – the siege of Acre. Roger makes a name for himself in the company known as the Death’s Heads, and he falls in love under the most improbable circumstances. But as the months pass, and he watches the mightiest fighting force in the history of Christendom being destroyed by battle and disease and starvation, he suffers a soul-shattering crisis of faith, wondering how God could permit His children to indulge in such madness.

Death's Head: A Soldier With Richard the Lionheart (Roger of Huntley)

Historical novel about the Third Crusade and the battle of Jaffa

Death and Glory: A Soldier with Richard the Lionheart, Part III (Roger of Huntley)

"Gold Gold in California " In 1849, these words launch the greatest stampede that history has ever witnessed - the California Gold Rush. Men and women flock to California from the four corners of the earth in pursuit of the shiny metal. Wade Rawson is a former college student who falls victim to the deadliest disease of them all, Gold Fever. Kathy Beddoes is a miner's widow forced to make her way in a man's world. Jack Marlow is a poor boy from New York who will stop at nothing to become rich. Juan Soto is a Chilean whose life is destroyed by Yanqui discrimination, and who dedicates his life to achieving vengeance. From the jungles of Panama, to the nightmare conditions of life in the gold fields, to San Francisco, the most famous boom town of all time, these characters, and many others, struggle for wealth and survival, all united in their quest for gold. Gold in California.

California Kingdoms: A Story of the Gold Rush

England, 1106 A.D. Norman rule lies heavily on the land. When a Norman earl is killed while hunting, the dead earl’s son invokes the dreaded murdrum law. This law presumes that the killer is English. It requires the judicial district in which the crime took place to produce the guilty man or be hit with a massive fine. The job of finding the killer falls upon Miles Edwulfson, an English ploughman of noble descent. Miles has two problems. First, he doesn’t believe the killer was English, but a member of the earl’s hunting party. Second, the arrow used in the crime belongs to Miles’s son, Aelred.Facing opposition from the Norman nobility, his fellow Englishmen, and even his own family, Miles must save Aelred’s life and bring the real killer to justice.

A Case of Murdrum: In Which the Ploughman Miles Must Find a Killer (Miles Edwulfson in the 12th Century)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

The Castle (Miles Edwulfson in the 12th Century)

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