Ghost Mountain

Grand Cayman Island. AJ Bailey wishes she could forget her friend’s tragic death. Yet, the crystal-blue Caribbean offers none of its usual comfort. Especially when an expedition brings her across the floating, naked body of a drowned teenager. Haunted by the memories of her lost friend, AJ involves the local police service before moving on with her business.

Life is about to change for Brian Henderson, now that he knows the secrets of Beach Drive. Unbeknownst to Brian and the others, they have brought something else home with them after their misadventure in the forest. The spirit of a mountain man has followed them to Frederickport with a secret of his own.

From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad, the migrants spent years dynamiting tunnels through the snow-packed cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laying tracks across the burning Utah desert. Their sweat and blood fueled the ascent of an interlinked, industrial United States. But those of them who survived this perilous effort would be pushed to the margins of American life and then to the fringes of public memory.

New Guinea became the site of one of the World War II's most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's Ghost Mountain Boys were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign: to march 130 miles over rugged mountains and to protect the right flank of the Australian army as they fought to push the Japanese back to the village of Buna.

The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the 20th century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly independent countries and sparked the devastating war in Chechnya.

James Belmont, better known as Ghost, could never pass up a dare, and that tenacity made him lose the only woman he’d ever loved. He and his high school sweetheart waited until she finished med school to finally get married, but when his bachelor party leads to a drunken night and a horrible misunderstanding, she calls it all off. Ghost has no idea what really happened that night. The only thing he’s sure of is that nothing would ever make him cheat on Allison. And he’s determined to make her believe him. Allison was heartbroken when she found Ghost in bed with another woman, and it ...

Matt Lee, the sole survivor of a bloody battle with a band of Indians, stepped into insanity. For two years, Matt Lee, in his madness, would become the Ute Indians’ greatest enemy; they started calling him - Ghost. Matt Lee stepped back over into the land of the rational the day he rescued a Ute princess from a mountain lion attack. Forever grateful, she would become his wife, Walk with Ghost. Follow this Kurt James western adventure of redemption and revenge of a man the Indians called “Ghost” as he battles Indians, racial hatred, mountain lions, avalanches, bounty hunters, and ...

Appalachian Mountain Handbook reveals the life and culture of people born and raised in the mountains of Appalachia. This includes their Language. Superstitions. Ghost Stories. Remedies.Cures. Potions. Sayings. Euphremisms. Growing Food. Fields and Streams. Games they Play. Favorite Food Recipes. Drinks they Make.

As a graduation present for her daughter, Tammy, Samantha Moon and the gang head down to South America for the vacation of all vacations. Next stop: El Dorado—The Lost City of Gold It all begins shortly after Sam and company arrive in Colombia, when a disembodied head awakens them in the middle of the night. Turns out, the head belongs to the famous explorer, Sir Walter Raleigh, who lost it to an executioner’s ax 400 years earlier. The very essence of determination, the intrepid explorer isn’t about to let a little thing like death stop his search for the legendary City of Gold. And ...

Fifteen years have passed with only the exchange of letters among three families connected by love and misfortune. Now remnants of these families reunite when May Rose follows her reckless stepdaughter, Wanda, to a West Virginia ghost town. The town has not been kind to either woman, but Wanda is determined to go back and capture the heart of a man who rejected her. Barlow Townsend has come into May Rose's life again, yet, like her, he is constrained by guilt.

The adventures of Pete Johnson returns in this brand new book, that is packed with more amazing and mysterious tales! In each of these stories, Pete Johnson encounters things that are beyond a normal explanation. Things that are just plain weird. You are sure to be entertained by stories such as: The Old Staton House, The Johnson Family Cemetery, Peyton's Ghost and many others! Turn on the lights, sit back, and get ready to take a frightening journey with Pete, his friends, and family.

Here's what people have to say about the Tales from The Wasatch and Beyond... Zoe Sharp, (England) author of the highly acclaimed Charlie Fox crime thriller series: “Reading this collection has been a treat. The scale and imagination of the stories stretches from the Moby Dick of grizzly bears, campfire tales of giant wolves, a ghost train in the desert and the perils of staying just a little too long at the late-night antique store, via the lure of the stars—either above a midnight lake or spread across a movie theatre ceiling—making friends with new (and old) neighbors, and how far ...

Slade Heston has been around horses his whole life. But growing up as a “rich” boy in Kentucky Bluegrass country is nothing like spending the summer as a hired hand at a Montana dude ranch with his mother, Darby, and the grandfather he never knew. A Western saddle, complete with saddlebags, doesn’t make him a genuine cowboy. Unlike his twin sister, with her perfectly planned life, Slade’s still trying to figure it all out. What he never expected was his attraction to a pretty visiting writer.

Kelsey Heston is more than just a pretty face. There’s a whip-smart brain behind those model-beautiful looks. She’s been running the family’s Kentucky horse farm, but now plans to use those brains to improve the tourist trade at her grandfather’s Montana dude ranch. But tangled accounting books aren’t the only complication Kelsey has to deal with. What is her old college sweetheart, Max Lee, doing here? The man who’d broken her heart when he’d put family duty before her. Had Kelsey made a mistake coming to Ghost Mountain Ranch?

Thirty years ago, torn by shock and guilt over the death of her mother, Darby York fled the dude ranch where she’d grown up in Montana. In her new life in the bluegrass of Kentucky, she’d become a horse groom, an artist, married a wealthy Thoroughbred owner, raised twins, and been widowed. But now, with word her father is growing feeble, Darby has to finally face the truth: no matter how far you run, the past has a way of catching up. Her father hadn’t been the only man Darby had left behind. Would the boyfriend she’d abandoned still be there?

There’s never a dull day in Windy Ridge. When I’m not trying to play mama to a restless and spirited teenager, I’m out in the woods trying to round up monsters. And let’s not even bring up my love life—something that’s been nonexistent for years. That is until an old flame from high school decides to step back into my life. And my heart. The only thing is… Sheriff Dean Hawke (the above-mentioned old flame) seems to be hiding his own secrets. Whenever I try to bring up his past, he deflects or ignores the subject altogether. And that’s definitely one of those things that ...

Mountain men honor a debt...it will probably cost them their lives Claude and his two friends have wintered with their adoptive Crow clan. They can't forget their companions massacred by the marauding Piegan Blackfeet. The thought of their remains scattered where they fell haunts them. They vow to return and bury the bodies and to avenge their murders. What they find, what they experience, will drive them to the edge of madness.

To be honest, it just wasn’t my lucky day. It started with the plane crash. And then I got shot in my leg. Guess what? It gets even worse. I’ve crash-landed on a magical mountain, and there’s no way off. The mountain man who shot me isn’t even human. He’s a polar bear shifter, and he hates my kind. He’d have let me die…if I hadn’t begged him to save me. Now I’m stuck in his cabin until Valentine’s Day—I mean, until my injury heals. I hate him with everything I’ve got, But this sizzling shifter’s not the lonely hermit I made him out to be. He’s got a son…and ...

As a graduation present for her daughter, Tammy, Samantha Moon and the gang head down to South America for the vacation of all vacations. Next stop: Xibalba—the Mayan Underworld Fresh from a harrowing trip into a very different underworld, Sam is about to discover Xibalba is just as harrowing—only this time, she has Allison, Tammy, and Paxton with her to worry about. It all begins when Sam and the gang arrive on a sightseeing tour in Guatemala. Immediately, Sam senses something is off. In particular, that someone needs help. Sure enough, a young mother runs up to Sam, desperate for help...

I didn’t choose my career, and two decades in the media has been far too much. Fleeing LA, I thought things would calm down. When my plane crashed, I did not expect to be plunged into fiction. But that’s what happened when I came face to face with a dragon. When the dragon disappeared, a gorgeous man started berating me. It would have been laughable if I weren’t at death’s door. Then I learned the plane crash wasn’t an accident, And people still want me dead. But who? And how did they know I survived? I don’t have time for those questions. Because the gorgeous man clearly thinks...