Unable to keep away when his sheriff friend is nearly killed by a sniper, historian-turned-deputy David Mapstone discovers a cryptic note written by his friend that forces him to confront his own personal history.

Former history professor David Mapstone returns to his Pheonix, Arizona, boyhood home and is unhappy with the changes he finds--a feeling that is exacerbated by his new line of work as a detective.

Deputy sheriff David Mapstone's background as a history professor serves him well when he stumblesq̮uite literally-onto a very cold case. One night, after leaving a pro hockey game in Phoenix, Mapstone; his girlfriend, Lindsey Adams; and his boss, Mike Peralta, interrupt a carjacking. They pursue the perp into an abandoned warehouse, where Mapstone falls down an elevator shaft. At the bottom are the bodies of two small children, who turn out to be...

In Paducah, Kentucky, seventeen-year-old Thomas feels as reined in as the mighty Ohio, a river confined by high floodwalls protecting his small Southern hometown. But all boundaries vanish when Thomas experiences first love with Alice, his new history teacher, a woman eight years his senior-and when he meets Shiloh, a misfit vagabond and anarchist who becomes his new role model. Fleeing to rural Vermont, this unlikely trio boldly pursues freedom,...

Teddy Pappas is an eleven-year-old boy forced into maturity before his time. He lives with his younger brother and their eccentric Civil War historian father, a man more comfortable with discussing Confederate footwear than what kind of day his sons had. Their lives have been quiet for a year since the real lifeblood of their household, Teddy's mother, died in a tragic car accident. On the one-year anniversary of her death, Teddy's stoic father plays...

History professor Kevin Hastings, hoping to secure his future, buys and tries to resell a piece of property in downtown Chicago only to get caught in a quagmire along with an architectural preservationist, protestors, unscrupulous lawyers, and the Mob--and forcing him to take refuge in a mission where he finds the help he needs.

"For close to 3,000 years, the imposing, impossibly handsome Santo Notte has fought in armies across the world and battled his own more personal enemies. Of all the places he might expect to encounter his life mate, a quiet corner of upstate New York doesn't seem likely. But as soon as he makes contact with history Professor Petronella Stone while hunting down a suspected rogue immortal, he knows she will be the greatest adventure of his eternal life....

Mystery: Midy Canaday,finds herself in the middle of her late uncle's treasure,sets out to find the killer of her aunt.