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A woman with many friends, but few would ever know her heart! Two husbands, a large house, many friends, that was predicted for Margaret Becker Vining. That she would be a widow, left to raise her four sons in a tiny frontier town was not mentioned in the old conjure, woman's prophecy. Austin, the makeshift capitol city of the Republic of Texas, was threatened and besieged from all sides. Peace did not come with Sam Houston's victory over the Mexican...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,456 ... with the impending birth of a baby to Joe and Jess Abernathy-Vaughn. Things are nearly back to normal for fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall. The Luna City Café & Coffee is doing well, he has moved up from tending a single potted plant to a pet, and a flirtatious relationship with Kate Heisel, star reporter for the local newspaper. But his past may be about to catch...
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The time, 1842. The place, the Republic of Texas, a place threatened and besieged on all frontiers! Jim Reade, a volunteer Texas Ranger, is the sole survivor of an ambush in the contested Nueces Strip. Rescued by Indian scout, Toby Shaw, the two young men join forces in pursuit of a mysterious wagon carrying a treasure in silver and gold, a treasure with a curse upon it!
Sworn blood-brothers, Jim and Toby meet with other challenges and mysteries,...
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Where lies escape? How far would you go, just to get away? If you were desperate, would you marry a stranger? Follow him to Texas? Isobel Lindsay-Groves has everything a well-born young Englishwoman of 1876 should have-wealth, a title, a noble heritage, and every luxury that her position in society permits, save one; a decent proposal of marriage, after a disastrous debut. Her domineering mother is furious with her daughter's failure to marry well,...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas … Population 2,454. This does not count the strangers come to town, searching for the fabulous Mills treasure-hoard, the seldom-seen Agua Dulce ghost-horsemen, and the mysterious lights spotted floating over the highway on one dark and moonless night.Ex-celebrity chef, Richard Astor-Hall (formerly Rich Hall, the Bad Boy Chef) has his hands full managing the Luna Café and Coffee … plus some outside catering...
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From the Old World to the NewThe frontier would challenge them.
Brutal war would test them, in a crucible of fire. But they would endure and build. They would prosper and in the end ...They would become Americans.
The Adelsverein Trilogy is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile frontier. They come from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" — the society...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,456, give or take ... Business at the Luna Café & Coffee is looking up for fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall. The owners — elderly schoolteacher Miss Letty, and the irascible Doc Wyler have approved hiring another cook and expanding hours at the Café. Joe Vaughn, chief of the tiny Luna City Police Department, is coping with the demands of parenthood ... and both he and...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas … Population 2,456, give or take! Fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall has become a valued member of the community, expanding service at the Café, keeping company with local ace reporter Kate Heisel, and training his new assistant cook, Luc Massie, part-time drummer for the punk rock band OPM. Trouble is brewing when Luc falls in love with the daughter of Sook Walcott, the most ferocious tiger-mother...
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A three-book collection of the Luna City series, originally published separately: 4-6. Life in the small town of Luna City, Texas, the most beautiful small town in Karnes County, where a former celebrity chef manages the cafe, the owners of the Age of Aquarius Campground and Goat Farm lose their home to fire, and Mills Farm is under new management.
10) The Harvesting
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From the Old World to the New!
The frontier would challenge them. Brutal war would test them, in a crucible of fire. But they would endure and build. They would prosper and in the end...They would become Americans.
The Adelsverein Trilogy is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile frontier. They come from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" -the society...
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Explore some interesting and often little-remembered events and characters: the connection between Elsie the Cow and the Alamo, the McCulloch brothers and the Twin Sisters, William Cowper Brann, the crusading journalist, the great Galveston Hurricane, Fred Harvy, the restaurant and hospitality entrepeneur, Ed Beale the explorer, and more.
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On a mild spring morning in 1884, the ordered and respectable life of Sophia Brewer fell apart, without any warning. The orphaned daughter of a well-established old Boston family fallen on difficult times, she thought she was loved for herself by the fiancée who abruptly broke their engagement. But worse was yet to come. Within the space of weeks, Sophia, threatened by unwilling confinement to the insane asylum, had only one chance at escape and...
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From the Old World to the New. The frontier would challenge them. Brutal war would test them, in a crucible of fire. But, they would endure and build. They would prosper and in the end...They would become Americans.
The Adelsverein Trilogy is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile frontier. They come from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" -the society...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,453, not counting a fugitive former celebrity chef...Where the high school football team is called the Mighty Fighting Moths ... and their yearly Homecoming game is under some strange and irregular curse.
Which was once meant to be a stop on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad, but which was derailed by True Love ...Where half the townsfolk has the surname of Gonzalez or Gonzales,...
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A woman's life in Texas - before the great cattle drives. Before the Alamo. Before the legends were born. She was there. And she saw it all.
On the day that she was twelve years old, Margaret Becker came to Texas with her parents and her younger brothers. The witch-woman looked at her hands, and foretold her future; two husbands, a large house, many friends, joy, sorrow and love.
The witch woman would not say what she saw for Margaret's younger...
17) The Golden Road
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Sixteen year old Fredi Steinmetz longed for adventure and riches. What better way to find both than to follow the Gold Rush from Texas to California, But he didn't reckon on bandits, and robbers, gold in the riverbanks, murder in the streets of San Francisco and the saloons of Moke Hill, a rich cache of under a half-dead pine tree on the North Fork, of Mormons and gold-miners, fugitive Fenians, and the Lotta Crabtree, the Faery Star dancing under...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... population 2,456, give or take. Fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall is beset with new travails in his attempt to build a new life in tiny Luna City: an old girlfriend turns up as the bride at a lavish society wedding, the original family of his pet cat and cooking partner, Captain Kitten in the Kitchen, turn up and demand that the cat be returned to them ... and his junior staff want to...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,454. Joe Vaughn, the stalwart chief of the Luna City Police Department, wants to keep that figure at that — if he has anything to say ...But fugitive former celebrity chef, Richard Astor-Hall (formerly Rich Hall, the Bad Boy Chef) now contentedly managing the Luna Café and Coffee — has had a significant person from his past catch up to him.
The seven-year-old son of Richard's assistant...
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The greatest frontier adventure never told ... until now!
In the year of 1844, a party of fifty men, women and children set out for California. They walked two thousand miles, across trackless plain and desert, fording rivers and climbing mountains. They found a new trail through the wilderness, hoisted their wagons up a sheer cliff, were caught by the winter snows and faced starvation, with nothing to rely on but their own courage and trust in each...