The Guns of Port Hudson, Volume One: The River Campaign (February - May 1863)

History

Edmonds, David C.

Americas

Acadiana Press

Guns of Port Hudson

World

Father Antonio wasn't the first priest to take up with a beautiful Indian girl on a secluded island near Granada, Nicaragua. He wasn't the first priest to have a library of banned books either. But it's too much for the Church when he tries to protect an Indian holy site from zealots who want to destroy it.
He escapes on the day he is to be burned for heresy and is chased across the Spanish Main by agents of the Inquisition, English pirates, and bounty hunters. He's determined to return to Nicaragua and destroy the evil men who murdered his Indian wife and children, and nothing is going to stop him--not his pursuers, not hurricanes or sea battles or a Gypsy ghost. Not natives with flaming arrows either, or a villainous pirate named Vampire Jack. 
Things get complicated when he saves an Irish beauty named Molly from the pirates. Molly has secrets, like the Englishman who loves her and a chest of stolen gold. The pirates want her back, but Father Antonio isn't about to give her up. He's in love..., and the chase continues.

The Heretic of Granada

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Southern Yellow Pine (SYP) Publishing LLC

I’ve left him. It’s over. If you still want what we’ve been talking about, I’m ready. When university professor Markus Thorsen reads these words from the love of his life, Marisa, he abandons his work and flies to war-torn Peru, where government forces are battling a brutal insurgent organization known as the Shining Path. Once there, Markus hopes to whisk Marisa to safety—far away from her Peruvian husband. His plans fall apart as soon as he arrives, however, when a Peruvian general shows up at his hotel room with a host of accusations. Markus has to face the truth: Marisa has connections to the Shining Path. But is her involvement by choice or coercion? Desperate to learn the truth and get her out of the country, Markus sets off on a dangerous journey with Marisa that takes them from Lima to the Andes and on into the eastern jungle. Along the way, they are pursued by counter-insurgency agents, elite soldiers, hostile natives, Marisa’s husband, and even a man with a large jungle cat. Markus planned on his Peruvian reunion resulting in happily ever after, but now he simply hopes he and Marisa make it out of the country alive.

Lily of Peru

United States

Peace Corps Writers

"NICARAGUA, 1994-ADRIANAS romantic evening with MATT, the handsome gringo she met at a US Embassy soiree, is ruined by a bizarre assassination. Shes a well-known American journalist. The victims blood is on her hands and clothes, and shes been in Nicaragua long enough to know witnesses to murder do not always live to tell their story. The alarm goes out, and agents of the dreaded Sandinista State Security confront her, interrogate her, confiscate her passport, and order her to remain in Nicaragua during the investigation. She cannot. Even if the killers dont get her, the investigation will uncover her darkest secret-the wartime murder of her family and her involuntary conscription into the Sandinista army at age 15. She had deserted, and wartime desertion is a capital crime. To escape, she accepts an assignment to cover a story about "magic" mushrooms on a remote island on Lake Nicaragua. Adriana doesnt care about mushrooms or their BLUE MAGIC derivative. She plans to get to the island with Matt and escape by boat-never mind that a hurricane is in the Caribbean. Mushroom Island is a creepy place inhabited by escaped criminals and runaways from mental institutions. They dye themselves blue. They are hostile. Worse, a notorious tomb looter is also searching for the mushrooms. He murders a separate team of mushroom hunters, has a bloody confrontation with the blue inhabitants, and captures YARITZA, the only person who knows the location of the mushroom cave and the formula for Blue Magic. Adriana and Matt get caught up in the intrigue. Then the hurricane strikes. They shelter in an ancient room beneath pre-Columbian ruins. The next day they deviate from their escape plan and find the mushroom cave, save Yaritza, and help her dispatch the tomb looter with a spear. Yaritza mysteriously disappears, but not before rewarding Adriana with a bag of Blue Magic. Matt and Adriana flee by boat and make their way to Colombia. From there, they fly to Orlando, resolve their love conflicts, and settle in St. Augustine, Florida"--

Blue Magic on Mushroom Island

Action & Adventure

The US Peace corps

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