Velda Brotherton: 25 books

A short story - All Jacob wants is to get back home to his beloved wife Mary and their children. But battles rage on in this Civil War, and all he can do is pray for their safety in a country gone mad with killing. What lies in wait back home, he cannot possibly imagine, and how he will react he could never believe.

Short Story - World War II rages and those living in the Ozarks are still deep in the throes of the Great Depression. One woman has to accept what she can't change while living a fantasy life. Ina yearned to run wild with her beloved tiger until she learned the price of freedom.

Great Aunt Gert and the Outlaw A morning horseback ride puts Gert in the center of the notorious Times Brothers fleeing from a bank robbery and ditching a stolen car. Glass Coffins Things couldn’t get worse for Laura after she loses her husband and children. Or could they? Now her half-crazed mother wants to dig up the girls and put them on display in the parlor.

After fleeing a ruined marriage, Susan isn't prepared to face the man who betrayed her so long ago. How can she concentrate on mending her broken heart while he regards her with that knowing grin and gentle eyes? The bonus story, Hide and Seek, is the tale of a restless ghost and a woman who fears...

Velda Brotherton returns to the scene of the crime with her second thrilling Twist of Poe mystery… THE TELL-TALE STONE. A long-dead body unearthed from a shallow grave sets idyllic Grace County, Arkansas on edge, but nobody seems to be able to explain exactly why. When small town reporter...

Velda Brotherton takes it to the limit in her newest thrilling Twist of Poe Mystery… THE FALL OF HERMITAGE HOUSE. In their most baffling tale of suspense and intrigue to date, Deputy Sheriff Dallas Starr and reporter Jessie West once again team up to bring justice to Grace County. The...

Velda Brotherton uncovers the cancer of one town’s deepest secrets in the Twist of Poe Mystery that started it all… THE PURLOINED SKULL. Buried skeletons don't often turn up in sleepy little Cedarton, Arkansas—especially not the headless kind. Reporter Jessie West is assigned the story,...

Velda Brotherton returns to Grace County with her darkest Twist of Poe mystery yet… THE PIT AND THE PENANCE. A ghost from her past threatens small town reporter Jessie West and those closest to her as she works to uncover a sinister secret found in the burned-out shed of Grace County’s...

Velda Brotherton digs deep into the darkest side of human depravity in the latest chilling Twist of Poe Mystery... MASQUE OF THE RISING MOON. Small town reporter Jessie West has a lot on her mind. A cult operating in the area is using children to steal supplies from grocery stores, and the...

It’s a terrifying thing to go to war when you’re just seventeen... and even harder if you’re a girl and your job is to take photographs of men shooting and killing one another. Allie sets off to the bloody fields of the Civil War, and soon learns that it's often hard to tell the difference between friends and enemies.

When Olivia takes up the cause of wolf preservation in Wyoming, she becomes a target of the wolf killer. The Cheyenne who appears in the basement of the museum where she works claims he came to help her. She has her doubts about his intentions when she glimpses a pair of wolf eyes in the darkness...

An epic adventure of love and revenge as vast and wild as the untamed land… After the death of her mother in childbirth, Tressie Majors is left alone in a soddy on the vast great plains. Struck by gold fever, her father has abandoned his family and set out for the gold strike near Virginia...

The trail of redemption leads to the greatest treasure of all… Driven by a need to redeem himself, Reed Bannon bids Tressie and the baby Caleb a reluctant goodbye. He must clear his name before he can build a new life with the woman he’s come to love. Left alone with little money...

In the West in the 1800s, men own their women—and treat them any way they want. Rand’s way was to knock his around. Marly’s taken it for years, but now, six-gun in hand, she’ll take no more. Sooner or later, her “loving” husband will come home from drinking himself stupid, and find out just what it means to hit his wife once too often.