Tim Champlin: 12 books

In 1849 three routes existed to the California gold fields: wagon train; around Cape Horn; and across the Gulf of Mexico, overland through Panama and up the west coast. Three parties take one route each—two men fleeing a murder charge, another man pursuing them, and a Melungian family from East Tennessee. How their lives touch each other is the focus of this gold rush adventure.

In the ruins of a Scottish dungeon, an archeology professor finds the journal of a long-dead knight revealing the location of a vanished treasure. An 1898 shadow organization is also after the treasure and Professor McGinnis' life. Marcus Flood, former monk, becomes the professor’s bodyguard. With the professor’s niece, they go after the treasure deep in the American southwest.

A gang of counterfeiters plans to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln from its Springfield tomb on election night, 1876, then demand ransom from the Illinois governor. Sterling Packard, undercover Secret Service agent, infiltrates the gang and tries to thwart the plot. When the train bearing Lincoln’s...

Marcel Dupre, condemned to the penal colony at French Guiana, writes an expose of life in the Foreign Legion and in the penal colony. He finally escapes by sea and reaches the U.S. where he hopes to have his book published. Agents of the shaky French government will do anything to destroy him and his expose. A Wells Fargo messenger is dispatched to find and assist him.

An undeclared rail war has commenced. How many men will lose their lives making sure the little road will survive? Matt Tierney has been warned not to get caught in the middle but he's prepared to ignore this advice and face the consequences.

Three bandits made off with $30,000 in gold and buried it in secret. When the gang leader is released from prison, ex-railroad detective Marc Charvein follows his prey to the hidden treasure—in a ghost town called Lodestar.

12-year-old Matt Lively is obsessed with trying to somehow stretch time to make summer last indefinitely. Convinced he is living the ideal time of life--in Missouri, 1950, between the 7th and 8th grades--he longs to experience extraordinary adventures before he is forced to confront high school, and...

Searching for something to make their game of “Find the Treasure” more exciting, Bradley takes an 1854 gold coin from his father's lockbox. In the thick woods of nearby Chicamauga National Battlefield, his cousin, Glen, slides down into a limestone cave to hide the gold piece for Brad to...

When Confederate officer Brady Brandau returns home at the end of the war, he finds his family estate devastated and his relatives dead or missing. Deciding to continue the war in his own way he heads west, accompanied by a beautiful Confederate spy. The phantom legion that they gather in Arizona...

Former policeman Jay McGraw’s job as a messenger for Wells Fargo takes him east on the San Francisco to Chicago run of the Central Pacific. While often routine and boring, guarding the famous Wells Fargo treasure box is a steady job. Rarely does he envy his close friends who still walk a beat in...

This is a "What if…?" novel. What if Mark Twain actually dictated secrets on the recordings he made toward the end of his life? What if he had hidden them for a future generation to find, then laid a trail of clues for their discovery? Following graduation from Middle Tennessee...

This is a "What if…?" novel. What if Mark Twain actually dictated secrets on the recordings he made toward the end of his life? What if he had hidden them for a future generation to find, then laid a trail of clues for their discovery? Following graduation from Middle Tennessee...