Spearfish Lake Tales: 27 books

A snake crawls out of a bathroom drain, and a woman kills it with her hair dryer . . . That's all it takes to set townspeople, media, crooked environmentalists, a country music singer, the federal government and a bunch of dogsledders to getting at each other's throats. Of course, nothing's quite normal in Spearfish Lake!

In 1970, a Spearfish Lake kid walked into a patch of jungle in Vietnam, and was never seen again. In an era when many people were tired of the war or just didn't care, most were ready to forget about him -- except for his friends, some of whom he'd never met, but who kept the faith anyway. They kept...

Handcuffs! Brenda Hodunk couldn't believe the sight before her eyes as she jogged down Lakefront Drive -- the blonde jogger coming her way was wearing handcuffs! Her new job had already taught her that Spearfish Lake was a little different, but this was a little more different than she had expected....

In the middle of the worst snowstorm of the decade, the whole town was burning down. The only hope lay on two rusty steel rails . . . Nonstop action and adventure – no sex or violence as railroad workers and firemen struggle against fire, storm, and failing equipment to relieve an isolated...

When John and Candice Archer's jobs go bad and their kids are sent to lousy schools, they decide it's time to get out of the city and head back to John's home in Spearfish Lake. It takes a little getting used to because their lives are different there, and they can't help but change to face new circumstances...

A short prequel to the Dawnwalker Cycle:  Erica, the swimming coach of Northern Michigan University is short one swimmer for a meet starting in two hours against their archrival school. Crystal is an all-around sportswoman on campus, and can swim, but hates competitive sports. She'd rather do...

At Scott Tyler's tenth class reunion, he and his wife Sonja didn't expect the class of the small rural high school to be very surprising. Anticipating that they would be one of the more exotic couples there, they found the Bradford Class of 1988 had produced a millionaire prostitute with a PhD piloting...

Jon Chladek and Tanisha Blythe have a lot in common despite the fact that he's white and she's black. As exceptional engineering students at Georgia Tech, they see a lot of things the same way, but their dysfunctional families have their own ideas about what the two should be doing, and would go...

Jon is white and Tanisha is black. They’ve lived together for five years, hiding from a wrathful father and a vindictive brother. Despite some trepidations, they love their new lives, jobs, and friends. When their best friend is involved in a nationally publicized incident, discovery seems likely....

Randy’s friends get to go places and have adventures, while he has to stay home and work. His heart is set on having some fun and adventure while he’s still young, but the job is important to his family and to him. It’s eating up his life to the point where it’s not even worth trying to plan...

Racially exotic Sonja Lambert holds dual citizenship, American and Israeli. Her mother Zivah, an Israeli Army officer, expects Sonja to do her duty in the Israeli army. When Sonja's mother shows up with the intention of browbeating her daughter into doing her duty as an Israeli, Sonja, an American...

This collection contains the novellas Dodging Mom, Peeking Over the Fence and With a Little Help all for one low price. Dodging Mom: Racially exotic Sonja Lambert holds dual citizenship, American and Israeli. Her mother Zivah, an Israeli Army officer, expects Sonja to do her duty in the Israeli...

Mel Austin didn't want to be just a farmhand for his brother, so after the Army and World War II, he attended college on the GI Bill. But after graduating, he couldn't stand the thought of teaching in a big-city slum high school, either. A wartime friend asks him to join his ragtag midget auto racing...

Pat McDonald didn't have the happiest time as a student in the Bradford High School Class of 1988, but he's found a home in the army. He's headed for the Gulf War in late 1990 when he meets a classmate, Cindy Yeager, who has broken up with her former boyfriend, Russ Bradstreet. Cindy thinks Pat ought...