"First Light," a collection of short fiction, has something for every reader. There is comedy, mystery, high adventure, family drama, and plenty of Edgar Allan Poe style creepiness. There's even a Christmas story. A number of our authors have been published before; for others, this is their first (but not last) time in print. Titles include: "Voices" and "The Coldest Day" by Alan Amrhine; "And to Think We Used to Hop on Trains" by Amy Bock; "Flesh and Blood," by Sharon Broomall; "Howl," by T.L. Emery; "The Seven Gates of Hell," by Charles Godfrey; "The Briefcase," by Keith Hoskins; "The House," by Bob Knapp; "The Siren," by Joe Long; "The Doomed Life of Billy Cavanaugh," by Paul Sekulich; "Somebody's Gotta Do It," by Mark Lee Taylor; "The Bride" and "Parker Wiley and the Amazons" by Chris Vaughan; and "The Miracle," by Robert Broomall. We think “First Light” will appeal to even the most discriminating short-story fan.

First Light: Short Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Broomall, Robert

Godfrey, Charles

Knapp, Bob

Amrhine, Alan

Bock, Amy

Broomall, Sharon

Emery, T. L.

Long, Joe

Hoskins, Keith

Short Stories & Anthologies

BlueStone Media

In 1875, Detective Lysander Hughes is hired by Colonel George Custer to investigate the murder of an officer in the Seventh Cavalry. Lysander goes undercover as an enlisted man to find the killer, who is believed to have been one of the officer’s men. He discovers that the vaunted Seventh Cavalry is not the elite regiment that the papers make it out to be, and that a large number of its officers and enlisted man despise their famous commander. Lysander reluctantly teams up with a pioneering female newspaper reporter named Verity Winslow. Lysander and Verity mix like oil and water, but Verity has information that’s important to the case and she won’t share it unless Lysander agrees to let her help. As the two of them dig deeper, they start to believe that Custer may not want them to find the real killer . . .

Murder in the Seventh Cavalry

Genre Fiction

Death’s Head illuminates a little-known but significant moment in history, one whose outcome resonates through the years to the present day. It is a story of war and love and the faith that enables ordinary men to perform extraordinary deeds. 1190 – Saladin’s armies have overrun most of the Holy Land, prompting a great crusade from the West, led by Richard the Lionheart, King Philip of France, and the German emperor, Frederick Barbarossa. Unjustly accused of murder, an idealistic young monk named Roger flees his abbey and joins the vast tide of men headed for the East. In the Holy Land, Roger finds not glory, but death and misery as he takes part in the greatest military debacle of the Middle Ages – the siege of Acre. Roger makes a name for himself in the company known as the Death’s Heads, and he falls in love under the most improbable circumstances. But as the months pass, and he watches the mightiest fighting force in the history of Christendom being destroyed by battle and disease and starvation, he suffers a soul-shattering crisis of faith, wondering how God could permit His children to indulge in such madness.

Death's Head: A Soldier With Richard the Lionheart (Roger of Huntley)

A cavalry platoon is assigned to protect a stage station in western Kansas. The station is in a quiet sector, and the company commander thinks this will be a good spot for Lt. Tom Conroy to exercise his first independent command. Tom is worried, though. He wonders if his men, especially the hard cases like Link Hayward, will obey him. Then Indians attack the station, and Tom’s worries get a whole lot worse.

Conroy's First Command

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Orphaned at age 5, Cole Taggart was raised by Apaches. Now he seeks revenge on the men who murdered his Apache family, a band of scalp hunters led by the notorious Colonel Thomas Ballantine.

Scalp Hunters (Cole Taggart)

Cole Taggart is back! "Paradise Mountain" finds the White Apache searching for a killer in a snowed-in mining town. And as always when Cole is around, bullets start flying and the bodies start piling up!

Paradise Mountain (Cole Taggart)

1854 -- the Gold Rush is still going strong. Who better to guide a wagon train from San Antonio to California than Jake Moran, the Hero of Chapultapec in the Mexican War? Trouble is, Jake's not really a hero, though he's the only one who knows it. Fifteen hundred miles of forbidding desert make Jake want to turn down the position, but the emigrants of the California Company are depending on him, and he can't let them down. The company faces thirst, cholera, and Comanche raids. In addition, Jake confronts the enmity of Tyler Hampton, wealthy promoter of the California Company, the man whose leadership position has been taken away and given to Jake. Jake may not be a hero when the company pulls out, but he better become one if they're going to survive.

Dead Man's Crossing (Jake Moran)

With the long siege of Acre ended, Roger and the Death’s Heads join King Richard in the march on Jerusalem. Richard defeats Saladin at the battle of Arsuf, but is reluctant to move on the Holy City because he fears a trap. Richard tries to hold his fractious army together and lure Saladin to destruction, but he faces a challenge to his leadership from Conrad of Montferrat. Meanwhile, Fauston gets rich selling relics, and Roger attempts to rescue Ailith, who is being held as a slave by the emir Qaymaz.

The Red King: A Soldier With Richard the Lionheart, Part II (Roger of Huntley)

Blue Stone Media

The Bank Robber

Dead Man's Canyon (Jake Moran)

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