What's New! Committed to Quality Welcome to our new titles page. Many of these are first books by exciting new authors and you can order these titles directly from here or from the bookshelf where they are listed. "I cannot live without books." Thomas Jefferson The Christmas Star A Western Romance By Avery Adair. Natalie Merriman's world has fallen apart. Leaving her family's ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills, she travels to Omaha to pursue her education. Her goal is to return home as a country school teacher but she is miserable. She has little in common with the other students, who consider her a country bumpkin. So do some of the faculty, even though Natilie is far better educated than most of the others. When Natalie meets Ezra Caldwell, a second year student, she finds a kindred soul. Ezra is quite different from the cattlemen she grew up among, more gentle and refined. He is kind to Natalie, and he treats her as an equal, something she has never experienced. When Ezra asks for her hand, she accepts. Even so, Natalie's father strongly objects. When she invites Ezra to her family home over Christmas vacation, Ike Merriman dislikes him from the start. Ike wants his daughter to marry a neighboring rancher and kicks Ezra out of the house. When Ezra leaves, Natalie goes with him. Not having any place to go, they marry and finish the school year. Then Ezra is offered a job in Colorado and the couple decide to visit Natalie's family on the way. Yet a late blizzard stops the train and Ezra becomes ill. Not long after they arrive in O'Neill, he dies and soon after, Natalie discovers she is pregnant. With her dreams shattered and sick with grief, Natilie returns to her family. Trouble soon follows. Ike has not given up the idea of her marriage to his neighbor. The pressure becomes so great that Natalie is forced to leave her family again, this time on Christmas Eve. With her baby due at any moment, she rides off into the night and is caught in a ground blizzard. Trying to reach shelter, she is rescued by an unlikely pair of angels who carry her to to the safety of a dilapidated line shack. There her child is born on Christmas Day. Yet Natalie's odyssey is far from done. For her angels turn out to be US Marshals and Natalie finds herself the middle of a manhunt. $14.95 Jazz in the Golden Light A Jazz Phillips Mystery By Joel B. Reed. When Jazz Phillips heads for North Padre, the last thing on his mind is murder. All he wants is a sunny day, a cloudless sky, and a chance to skinny-dip in the Gulf with the love of his life. Yet on the beach he finds a young woman washed up on shore and it is quickly apparent she's been viciously murdered. Jazz is glad it's not his case and he is happy to hand it over to the FBI and get back to his vacation. Even so, the case is not done with Jazz. The FBI identifies the victim as a young woman from West Memphis, Arkansas, and asks his help. As head of the Arkansas CID he can scarcely refuse and when the man he assigns to the case doesn't work out, Jazz becomes directly involved himself. When he does, he finds himself up to his neck in the strangest case of his police career. For what looks like a savage murder is only the tip of the iceberg. A savage killer is at work, leaving bodies strewn from South Texas to Florida. Yet the real challenge for Jazz is not running down the killer. He's done this many times before. The problem is that Jazz is burnt out and with no warning he finds himself in the midst of a devastating crisis. Nor is there much he can do about it. Everything Jazz believes comes into question, things from his past come back to haunt him, and the case becomes very personal. When it does, it threatens to destroy Jazz and everything he holds dear. $14.95 Paul Radford's Alaskan Exile An American Tragedy By Joel B. Reed Paul Radford does not belong in Alaska. He is fluent in Spanish, Portugese, and Quecha, the native language of Peru, and he knows the Andes. He has friends there and a wife and child, and he knows the native people well. Then war breaks out and the US Navy calls Paul to active duty. He is assigned to a clandestine operation and when he is forced to flee the country, he must leave his family behind. Nor is he allowed to tell them where he is or even that he is alive. Doing so would put them in danger. Not knowing what else to do with him, the Navy assigns Paul to the Construction Corps working out of Kodiak, Alaska. There he does well and when the Japanese attack Dutch Harbor, he earns a Purple Heart and a Navy Cross. Then the war claims the life of Paul's best friend and soon after he learns it has taken his wife and child, too. Not caring whether he lives or dies, he accepts assignment to a tough combat intelligence unit known as the Alaksa Scouts. Quickly earning the respect of the men in the platoon, Paul is chosen to lead the reconnaissance of Attu, a worthless mix of ice, volcanic rock and the worst storms in the world. Yet Attu is American soil and the Japanese captured it early in the war. Now the Republic wants it back at any cost, and for Paul Radford, Attu becomes the foundry that forges his rage into a weapon and tempers his soul to use it. Use it he does, and becomes one of the most deadly weapons in the Navy's arsenal. The question is whether he is fit for anything else. $14.95