Wrightbridge Press: 42 books

     Filming a real war isn’t at all like making a Hollywood movie. The danger, the blood, the humor, friendships, the heroism, and the tragedies are very real.  A newly minted 2nd Lt., a butter bar, relives his tour of duty in those turbulent days --- days some have never --- nor can ever...

Russell Craven isn’t the professional photographer specializing in creating the covers for science fiction  novels he seems.  He’s a former Soviet agent in the Federal Witness Protection Program.  His former KGV mentor, Grigori Dorsky died a few years ago.  Then one day Russell hears a TV...

Divorced rancher Truitt Higdon brings his bratty daughter Bess, thirteen, with him from Texas to pick up a a few very special horses he has purchased from a widow in the Altain Mountains of Russia.  Kolka, a thirteen-year-old boy loves these unique breed of small orange coated horses with black spots,...

Based on real events, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was an even a bigger silent movie star than Charlie Chaplin.  In fact, Chaplin’s “Little Tramp” was costumed partially with a pair of Fatty’s trousers. In 1921 at the height of his popularity, Fatty is entangled in the scandlous death of a...

Gunfighter Clay Maxwell wants nothing more than to be left alone to live his life in Del Rio, Texas.  He is tired of doing other men’s dirty work and killing every young gun slinger looking to make a name for himself.  Nothing, Maxwell claims, can get him to go back to doing what he does best. But...

A happily divorced young couple, Dalt and Ceiana Glass, are not more than a week into their new lives when Ceiana becomes the chief suspect in the bizarre murder at the couple’s South Padre Island condo building.  Ceiana, who owns a high end lingerie boutique, begs with Dalt to look into the matter...

“A love for sex and poetry were the only things my daughter got out of college,” an elderly lady says. “Now, she runs an escort service. One of her girls was murdered last year. Did my daughter have anything to do with it?” Scott Kaven, a former Houston homicide detective turned private...

Following the Civil War, a former CSA officer brings his new bride to Texas where they plan to build a farm and a family.  While he is away buying seed, his young wife is viciously raped by a rogue Texas Ranger.  When the husband returns he must join forces with a hostile squaw man/rancher to track...

The last days of the Old West were about done “down below.”  The states and territories were starting to see electric lights and automobiles.  But up in Alaska, “the Great Alone,” there was gold and very little law and order.  Up there men either walked or rode horses and most of them carried...

            Did gambler “Fair Deal” Doak Logan empty “Quicksilver” Riggs DeGraf’s brain pan with a .44 shot to the head along the frozen Yukon River?  A miner’s court is convened in the Golden Mecca saloon on the Alaskan/Canadian frontier during the Klondike gold rush of the...

This novel begins only moments after the ending of The Reluctant President. A widowed Texas surgeon, Porter Randall, serving his second term in Congress has become the President of the United States, reluctantly at the sudden death of his predecessor. Giving a speech in support of his first State...

What if in the dark, small hours of a morning you discovered Secret Service agents at your front door telling you that you were now the President of the United States? That’s the way it happened to Porter Randall, a Texas Panhandle surgeon turned novelist who had been persuaded by friends to run...

Robyn has come to a decision and goes to the office of her Hollywood screenwriter husband, Thane, to tell him.  She discovers him in the arms of another woman.  But this doesn’t end like you might think.  Robyn apologizes because she and Thane have an open marriage and she’s not supposed to...

When a playwright is murdered in a university theatre, the students decide to pull an all-nighter to ready the new play in spite of a ghost that supposedly haunts the theatre.  This “slasher movie” story chronicles the bizarre killings of several students as they work on the production. From...