Ancient Israel
Pre-
American Civil War Era
American Civil War Era Post- American Civil War Era
"Majesty, Lion of Judah" Collection by A.R.
Koheen The
Greatest Love Story ever told out of context . From the hill where Bethlehem sits to the
road where Damacus waits, an epic exploration of Messianic expecation in Ancient Israel told in the ocntext of the Greco-Roman and Jewish
world Jesus of Nazareth chose to present Himself to man. ~
Majesty,
Lion of Judah “ ~ Vol I .
A humble family of shepherds keeping watch over their lambing ewes in the hills of Bethlehem witness the awesome
spender of the angelic Annunciation in the night skies. The youngest of seven sons, thirteen-year-old Hilkiah pledges his
life in service to the newborn King of Israel until he takes his rightful throne in the City of David, though it means leaving
his elderly father and family behind. As he grows with Joesph's family in Nazareth, taking a wife and starting a family of
his own, he keeps his word as Jesus leaves his father's house to travel the length and breath of ancient Israel proclaiming
the Kingdom of Heaven at hand. Like the sword foretold to be laid against the virgin mother's heart as she brought her firstborn
son to the temple to become an heir of Abraham in keeping with the ancient laws, the thirty year old man divides His listeners
and discerns their innermost thoughts. Cleansing the Temple, Jesus chose to make a new home for himself in Northern Israel,
in the city of Capurnaum on the Sea of Galilee, reaching out throughout the countryside between annual travels to Jerusalem
for the Passover where His presence in the Temple keeps the controversy between expectation and status quo alive. Jesus'
widowed mother and her younger younger daughter by Joesph are traveling with Him until the year of 'bethroathal' her older
brother James arboreally made to furtherer her brother'sworldly careers as master carpenters has quietly passed by
without humiliating anyone or forcing her into a loveless marriage. When Volume I ended, Machba`nel ben Abishalom, the
roman-born Jewish Centurion finally confronted his feelings toward Jesus and His teachings by again slicing his life into
two halves. That he will honorably complete his twenty-five year tenure of service as a Roman soldier, then turn to build
the army he assumes King Jesus will need to lead Israel as a nation under GOD in the midst of carnal nations, as with David
and Solomon. Majesty, Lion of Judah “ Vol. II The Story Thus Far: The Annunciation, birth, and presentation
of Jesus of Nazareth. At about thirty years of age He presented himself to the temple, and cleansed it the first time. Remaining
in the countryside, towns and major cities of ancient Israel, He healed and preached far and wide, the arrival of the Kingdom
of GOD at its appointed time and place. He is now preparing to enter Jerusalem for the third Passover, at which time he will
be accepted by the people as the long awaited Messiah, but will be confronted by the angry priests and rich merchants who
have craved a place for themselves in a Jerusalem dominated by the power of Rome. He prepares Himself for the inevitable and
climatic clash between mammon and destiny. " Majesty, Lion
of Judah " ~ Vol. III The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem,
the Passion of the Christ, his Resurrection, and the tear years of the Jewish Church in Jerusalem. Pausing its narrative
at the road where Isaac helps blinded Saul of Tarsus to his feet, an enemy no longer.
 " A Man called Isaac " . A Soldier's View of
the Passion of the Christ. Growing up I was always amazed that there were twoRoman soldiers so familiar with the
Jewish concept of "The Son of GOD" since they had many gods and so few of my friends took such a keen interest in
what I felt was a vital aspect of my Jewish identity, The Messiah. But as I wrote the unfolding story from the viewpoint of
a young Jewish girl whose older brother's claims to be that long awaited Deliverer I saw that I needed a more worldly character
to question, to waver, and finally to find a cause worthy of committing his life and his death too, and thus Machba`nel ben
Abishalom, the adopted Jewish son of the Roman Centurion who approached Jesus in Capernaum to heal his Gentile servant arose
and I found an entirely new and welcomes opportunity to examine the question at length. or 'The Christ.'.
" Ahava " ~ A Girl
named Beloved . When
I was still a lisping, little girl my Dad Big Ed told me tremulously that he believed the Holy Spirit had chose to spoken
to him, promising that a book I would write late in life recounting the dream that kept persisting with me, of seeing Jesus
of Nazareth through the eyes of an innocent young girl, would one day become a world wide phenomenon. In the early 1950's
we had only the vaguest idea of a world wide communication service dominated by the military, but the first part of the promise
has come true. Though I was dying, I found the strength to begin ' Chapter One" and over the next eight years as the
story strength, so did I. By use of the personal computer and my access to the World Wide Web, I have already watched "Majesty",
the final version of "Ahava" and the other related books go out into the world and be downloaded by hundreds of
other people. When I 'am gone' as I was told, I have no doubt it will develop a life of its own without my interference, and
yet, it is such a satisfaction to see my book be so well received and to feel I;'ve kept the promise to Big Ed that I made
that day, even though it was almost too grand for me to even attempt! Sometimes GOD just has to use stern measures to get
your attention. Eh?
Growing up Jewish with the
LORD as a Loving Older Brother
http://gaines-highlander.org/ahava
“ Promise
of My Father “ . Using the continuing characters of the Majesty collection, I wished to illustrate the early Jewish
Church in Jerusalem and how the message spread out into the know world as the LORD asked. The conclusion of the Majesty
Collection as Isaac, the former Roman Centurion helps the blinded Saul of Tarsus to his feet, having been struck down by the
power of the risen Christ. A compelling closing of one chapter as we are allowed to see where the familiar story we know had
its roots. . Pre-American Civil War
“
Stands Alone, the Story of Winterhawk Larkin “ . In a tribe decimated by sickness,
the Old Ways take on an additional weight as they struggle to survive against desperate odds. But when their
best young hunter is tricked into leaving his family for good on a non-existent quest by a vengeful Medicine Man, it is the
beginning of a strange, life-long journey for the boy known as Kills With a Knife as he encounters Spanish settlers and a
dying gun-hawk bent on revenge against a man of his long-missing father's tribe before death cheats him of his final revenge,
and together, they form an unlikely alliance that does good beyond their lifetimes! .
The American Civil War Era
" The Lookingglass Heart " ~ A Novella about the American Civil War A Quaker Family in Florida is caught
in the middle during the Civil War between the Blood Feud of the Blue and the Grey as they struggle to raise their daughters
and keep their dreams for a better future alive for the mixed nationality of lives living under their gentle care as
they follow their religious beliefs, whatever the personal cost.
“ Antietam To a National Anthem “ . As a young man newly
returned from War Woodrow Harkness marries an older widow with a young son and they move into the wilderness of Missouri to
build a new life for themselves far from the devestation of war.And
the house he builds for himself and the gnerations to follow on his first trip West. - http://gaines-highlander.org/antietam The
Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series ~ A Federal Marshall takes his
family with him on his travels in the years following the American Civil War, loaning his strength to small ranchers and farmers
unable to defend themselves against the men who would use the rawness of the now-States and Territories to their own advantage.
These earthy, down home books are about Justice on behalf of the ordinary citizen rather than taking down the bad guys by
force. Based on Big Ed Simpson, the half-Indian chief of police who raised me as his own
daughter; breathing air into my lungs when I was stillborn and giving me life. Paul Lee is a sixty-four year old lawman surfeit
with violence and its terrible cost, living a life based on resolve, respect, results, resolution, restoration, and
self-reliance as the Old West settles and the Nation bitterly divided against itself attempts to pull the raged edges
of war together to allow the wound to mend. Born in a past deeply rooted in the American War for Independence, raised with
an upper class, classical education of Ole Virginia aristocracy, Paul Lee McWhorter is accompanied by a continuing cast of
characters with varying life styles reflecting the hegemony of a growing Nation of emigrants. Luke Cole, the brash, twenty-something
free spirit who served him as a lawman before and after the War, twelve-year old Becka’ Fosse, the orphaned daughter
of his best friend and Mentor after Rolfe Fosse` was killed by a deranged rancher after the passion of Othello, and a young
Mexican orphan of indeterminate age who stumbled into their camp one night, more dead than alive after witnessing his parent’s
murder at the hand of other Comancheros. Under the guidance of a U.S. Circuit chief Justice in Carson City, Judge Willard
Orville, Paul McWhorter goes where the trouble is and helps to support, defend, and protect those who are unable to defend
themselves against the determination and greed of unscrupulous men out to use the very rawness of the developing Territories
for their own ends. The views and prejudices of the day are shown without reservation to help us better appreciate the diversity
and cultural heritage which grew out of those turbulent times but the deepest intent of these richly textured vignettes is
a respect for all peoples, tribes and tongues who formed us into the America we stand today. I’m not a politician, I’m
a writer, but the dream I learned at Big Ed’s side in the Nineteen Fifties has become the reality I strive for now.
Please join your voice to mine as we move through their future into our children’s.
After eleven months
in a Union death camp for Southern prisoners, sixty-six year old Lawman Paul Lee McWhorter returns to take up his interrupted
life as a Federal Marshall under Judge Willard Orville, but simply returning to civilian life is a challenge for the men who
survived the War and it’s a heart rending struggle for a man haunted by his recent past as he struggles to make peace
with peace in his own and time. ♣ The unspoken
belief that a man's actions now weigh more than anything he might be escaping from his past is severely tested as Paul McWhorter
and his group keep an earlier promise, returning to guide the greenhorn physician Drew Wilder and his companion, the retiring
mission's senior Padre across the Sierra Nevadas to San Francisco. But a strange, haunted figure steps out of the early snows
and the greenhorn's past; demanding the life of the mild manner doctor as the price of their continued safe pasage to the
Coast! ♣ Paul McWhorter, Luke Cole and Manuel Gonzales were a part of Becka Fosse’s life for as long as she could remember. When
she was ten years old and her Texas Ranger father was killed by a deranged rancher who’s shot and killed his wife and
best friend in the delusion they were having an affair behind his back, Paul put her up on the bedroll tied at the back of
his patient dun’s saddle, told her to duck as he swung his leg over the top of the broad backed mustang to mount up
and ride away, and she’d been with him and Luke Cole ever since. Manolito was the orphan of an outlaw, apparently a
couple of years younger than herself, who’d simply wandered into their camp one night, dazed, bloodied, unable to speak
about the tragedy, but he could cook better tortillas and range-tough beef than either of the two grown men; when no one claimed
him, he was simply given his own horse at the next town and they’d became inseparable.
As elder statesman of their little group, Paul McWhorter had always made it clear that on the day after her eighteenth birthday, if
he was still alive at seventy, a scant three weeks after that, he would retire from enforcing the Law, but on that day
she was to catch the nearest stage and ride Back East to claim her late father’s inheritance. Like Luke Cole’s
constant lament that one day he
would find a good woman with a small spread and bust cows instead of heads, it always seemed dreamlike, and never near enough
to happen in reality-until the day Luke met his match in the Widow Perry and he shook hands with Paul and Manolito but oddly
ignored her gamely struck forth hand to pull her into a disgusting ‘womanly’ embrace that turned her world upside down as she rode out behind the
leather tough Lawman and the oddly grinning black haired imp who knew how to cipher better than she did as she approached
her three hundred and sixty-fourth day until her 18th birthday. ♣ His belief in a Divine if remote
Presence who ultimately settles life's scores for mankind, is severely tested when Paul McWhorter is unexpectedly thrust
into the new conflict as a federal Marshal when he lands in the midst of a man he knows to be a ruthless killer - now praying on unsuspecting people but is revenge his to exact before a terrible injustice is committed? ♣ It is Becka Fosse's eighteenth birthday, Paul McWhorter's
seventieth birthday, the day at which he has promised himself to give up his job as a lawman and return to live in his Virginia
home until such time as Becka is married and no longer needs him. He looks forward to a life no more demanding than the necessities
of rising daily and finding a way to keep his grandchildren entertained with his stories of life on the Old West, but leaving
his past is easier than making his past leave him alone! ♣ Life in the America East of the Muddy
Mississip is a world unto itself where the rules of the West don't apply! ◊ With Becka Fosse, now happy as Mrs. Tad Huntington Quade, the legendary
lawman Paul Lee McWhorter settles down on what remains of his family's plantation on the James River, seeking the active life
of a country gentleman while clinging to his love for the past in his interest in a good racing stallion that proudly carries
the McWhorter family honor. But where pursuit of money and pride collide, there are far too many shadows where evil can hide,
seizing on the most unexpected of people to cause the same kind of conflicts in jodhpurs and silks as found in buckskins and
sweat stained Levi's! And the same call to justice and right, badge or no badge...you can take the wash the dust out of the
clothes he brought East of the Big Muddy but the West won't run easily from the blood of the man it nurtured and raised in
self reliance! Life in the America East of the Muddy Mississip is a world unto itself where the rules of the West
don't apply! ◊ With
Becka Fosse, now happy as Mrs. Tad Huntington Quade, the legendary lawman Paul Lee McWhorter settles down on what remains
of his family's plantation on the James River, seeking the active life of a country gentleman while clinging to his love for
the past in his interest in a good racing stallion that proudly carries the McWhorter family honor. But where pursuit of money
and pride collide, there are far too many shadows where evil can hide, seizing on the most unexpected of people to cause the
same kind of conflicts in jodhpurs and silks as found in buckskins and sweat stained Levi's! And the same call to justice
and right, badge or no badge...you can take the wash the dust out of the clothes he brought East of the Big Muddy but the
West won't run easily from the blood of the man it nurtured and raised in self reliance!
With Becka happily married and busy running a business
of her own, seventy-four year old Paul McWhorter naturally assumes he can return to his father's house on the James River
with nothing more ahead of him than bouncing her babies on his knee and telling them sanitized stories of his life as lawman
- until a hunted figure steps out of his past with the five year old daughter of Speckled Bird, asking Paul's help in raising
her in a world where her dark eyes, her straight black hair and keen wit will always mark her as an outsider! Told through the eyes of Manolito's unguessed son, seven-year-old Sumner
Hidalgo. We see Spring Rayne in buckskins and braids, the intimate people of Paul's past and catch a glimpse of the rich life
Becka's orphaned daughter will share once she is sent to live with the aging lawman in the house by Lake Lahontan, and his
peaceful end, surrounded by family and friends. ♣
" Majesty, Lion of Judah " VOLUMES I - III "
A Man Called Issac " " Ahava" " Promise of My Father " " Stands Alone ~ The Story of Winterhawk Larkin " " The Paul Lee McWhorter
Western Life Series "
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It's
only history if you weren't old enough to read about it in the newspaper!
Turn of the Twentieth Century The Warren G. Harding Years The Hoover Years The FDR Years 1950's 1960's 1970's
The Turn of the 20th
Century "By The Edge of the Sea" The Johnny and Abigail Mystery Trilogy . Living quietly in her seaside cortege, attended only by
her Chinese houseman H`an Wu and her long haired tom cat Dinner Belle, named before his rather obvious male attributes were
noted, Miss Abigail Merrick is a lively but proper Victorian spinster who chooses not to live in the grand
but troubled Merrick Manor at the top of the cliffs, supplementing her small income by writing popular fiction detective novels
under a male pseudonym until the hidden nature of the house Captain Edwin Merrick built from his immoral and cruel slave trade
monies begins to consume the present generation! " Wrath of the gods " 1902 . Though a proper woman of her era, the easily overlooked Miss Abigail Merrick, the spinster mistress of
the Merrick fortunes and haunted estate at the top of the cliff. is as much of an enigma as the bloody and mysterious past
which spawned her. Supplementing her modest annual income and her insatiable appetite for life as the fullest available to
her as a lady, Abigail secretly writes detailed and intricate novels with spine-tinging thoroughness under the name "Red
Adar" until the day a real murderer unwisely unmasks her pseudonym and triggers an avalance of circumstance that carries
her through three separate adventures, moving from the lonely but sharp eyed woman to a loving mother and armature sleuth
at her city detective's side, while remaining, of course, every bit as much a a lady as she was born! http://gaines-highlander.org/abigail-merrick/id1.html " Voices " 1903 . The
appearance of yet another charming but questional memeber of the duPree's of New Orleans awakens the tender heart
of Miss Abigail to yet another impulsive quest for love, honor, dignity and hope for others less fortunate than
herseld whent he murder of a family servant committed half a continent away is linked to the bizarre disapparence of the local
newspaper publisher and Mrs, Jeffries, the head housekeeper at the ill fated mansion yet again! http://gaines-highlander.org/abigail-merrick/id3.html " Phoenix Rising " 1906 . As a happily married woman
raising her own family in the shame-cursed mansion sea captain Edwin Merrick built from his fortunes in the Golden Triangle,
Abby and Johnny's world is sent upside down by the earthquake in nearby San Francisco and the shocking revelation of the final
unanswered murders as the past is unshackled and shaken violently by current events. In the end, love wins, but that doesn't
lessen the degree of the struggle or the pain left in its shocking aftermath! http://gaines-highlander.org/abigail-merrick/id4.html The Hoover Years
“ Mae Rooney, An Enduring American Classic “ .
Modernization takes time to come to the deep woods of Kentuck, but love can arrive in a single night
an elderly widow discovers as she wakes to find a baby on her front porch until the mother 'can return'. As the
appeal of the modern life casts a long shadow between the generations Mae Rooney is forced to make choices that will
shape both their lives and that of her own growing family outside the shadow of the Mountain. . .
The 1950's
The Harkness family Chronicles.The Homestead built by Woodrow Harkness after the Civil
War as it is lived by the subsequent generations.
“ A Country Homecoming
“ . A one hundred year old Judge in the Black Curicut of the South comes back to spend his final days in the house where
he was raised. Sicily's oldest boy child, Emmett Vernon is recounting more than his family history for his deaf granddaughter
to record, he is a living legacy of the good and the bad of the past at Indian Wells, bringing warmth, humor and courage to
a town that doesn't quite know what to do with him! available soon
http://gaines-highlander.org/a-country-homecoming
The 1960's
The Brother John Carbasian San Francisco Mystery Series
“ The Death of Love
is Haight " Introducing
The Brother John Mystery Series set in San Francisco beginning with the Haight Ashbury as it spiraled out into popular culture
as an anonymous killer seeks to punish 'The Haight' for the drug use which destroyed his mind and body but first he must recreate
the atmosphere inherent in "The Summer of Love"1967 so he may distribute a drug that causes the young 'hippie chickies'
of either gender to smile themselves to death. In this book we meet Allem MacKendrie Hoag and his family as they close around
the tall, Lebanese Christian minister who wears the robes of Saint Francis de Assisi to punctuate his adherence to non-violence
in a world torn apart by the Viet Nam was and the struggle for racial equality. . http://gaines-highlander.org/brother-john1
" Full Circle " Brother John Mystery #2 Continuing
his full time ministry to US Vets who are homeless on the streets of San Francisco as they struggle to find their way in civilian
life, Brother John is confronted on several levels at once, leading him to his home village in Lebanon while escorting a group
of young street boys in conjunction with the Catholic Diocese journey to the Holy Land, returning in new strength only to
discover what he left behind has grown into a full blown explosion in his absence! , http://gaines-highlander.org/let-g-d-be-their-judge/id11.html . The 1970's
The Harkness family Chronicles.The
Homestead built by Woodrow Harkness after the Civil War as it is lived by the subsequent generations.
“ ‘A’ is For Amos, ‘B’ Is Something You are,
and 'C' is for Cystal Springs … “ .
. The
series concludes with with Amos and Maude Amy's grandson, after their passing. The rest of the family is hell-bent on selling
the family farm and going in different directions, even their four remaining children who grew up there. Only Hank
and his equally young wife stand fast during the first year of their twin's life in the house Woodroew Harkness built on his
first trip West. ♣ http://gaines-highlander.org/a-is-for-amos
“ America’s Child “ .
When then fourteen year olf Richard "Beau" Webb lied about his age and slipped into the Army, the War ended before
he could get overseas. But he finally has the chance to become a pilot as he's always dreamed. Bringing home his pretty little
Korean wife - wrongly thinking no one will notice! When he makes arrangements for her to return home so that he can join her
with her mother in Korea, she is gang raped and gives birth to a half-Black child! In shame, she commits suicide without
giving him the chance to show how much he loves her or their baby girl. He hjas brought "Sunny" home to America
through proper channels, and she is now married to a successful architect with a son of her own when she find she needs to
confront the four men who misused her Innocent mother and comes face to face with the man who is her biological father, able
to put the past where it belongs- in the past and dwell on the love that surrounded her then, and now! . http://gaines-highlander.org/americas-child The
Kimmy Steven's "Summer Island" Natural Science Adventure Series " Andrew's Gift: Return
to Tall Fire's Island " Book #2 of
3. The death as the patriarch of the family who
claims the disputed Island, Andrew Talbot, allows hatred for the van Dantz family to blind him to anything else;
inexplicably by-passing his natural heirs, who will then allow the opposing family to settle their claim for ownership
against him, by giving it to Dr. Jillian Steven's thirteen year old Kim, who loves the island as deeply as they
do. Though Kim, all three families find a measure of shared ownership and the unique animals remain safe with a trusted guardian
- even though he never actually meant for her to actually take possession! . http://gaines-highlander.org/andrews-gift “
Laura’s House “ . Becoming homeless when both of your parents are working hard only happens to other people. Right? . “
My Summer’s View of Santa Leoma` “ . When a set of twins married another
set of twins, they never set out to live their lives with their families as entwined as they became in the years they lived
in Chicago with their widowed, but strong willed mother, A Black Separatist from the early years of the Equal but Separate
Movement in the 1930's. But when Dr. Lionel Rodger's is offered the chance to design and help to build a sea mammal
research and rescue station, the only one of its kind for three hundred miles in either direction up or down the California
coast, it was simply too good an offer to resist. Seeing the chance for a new beginning for themselves as well, his brother
and wife move with them, breaking their roots to Chicago. Only to arrive and find the local mayor of the resort town has fled
with the funds intended to build, and a mysterious fire is clearly an arson attempt at spreading the message such a massive
influx of Blacks isn't welcomed into the isolated Community. But having given up prestigious careers to move here, now of
the four is ready to give up a dream so easily! Told from the viewpoint of Trinity Rodgers, Lionel Rodger's twelve year
old daughter. ~ Loosely based on the true story of a community in California
that refused to give up! ,
“ Mystery at Wolf Creek Canyon “ Saving the Nevada
sand Dune Mustangs ; Stephie
Rodger's and her best friend Cherish come from very different backgrounds, but they share a love for the wild mustangs living
on the reservation, managed by Stephie's parents. Her Dad's younger brother returns home from the war, wounded mentally and
physically, but as they help an injured mustang find a reason to live, he returns the favor in unexpected ways! .http://gaines-highlander.org/wolf-creek-canyon The Brother John Carbasian San Francisco Mystery Series
" Nature of the Beast " Brother John Carbasian Mysteries #3 . Intrigue and murder continue to infiltrate Brother John's life as surely as fog creeps
down the coast into Santa Cruz, California where Brother John and Al Hoag, with his family, hope to set up a permanent
retreat for battle weary souls locked in a struggle with the streets for their soul. But even as John's dying mother is returned
to him from a mysterious figure from his past, evil comes against him head-on challenging his continued commitment to non-violence
and to the ministry! http://gaines-highlander.org/let-god-be-their-judge/id24.html
" By The Edge of the Sea " " Wrath of the gods " "
Voices " " Pheonix Rising " " Mae Rooney " "
The Death of Love is Haight " " Full Circle " " 'A' is for
Amos ... " " America's Child " " Andrew's Guft : Return to Tall
Fire's Island " " Laura's House " " My Summer's View of Santa
Leoma` " " Nature of the Beast "
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1970'S Continued 1980's 1990's The New Millennium The Present The Future
 “
In Touch With An Angel “ . As youngsters, Sputnik, the Russian space satellite, the first to orbit the earth made a profound
made a profound impact on their lives. Now married, with families of their own, an other-worldly event has returned them to
their childhood rooms and the unresolved conflicts they simply fled after college. Leaving letters in the crook of the old
tree in the backyard helps to link them to their long dead mother, even though they suspect its their father whose reading
them, but old habits die hard and some lessons are more difficult than others to receive, however necessary they may be as
Life gently closes down in its natural cycles of so many spins allowed the the sun. Even Sputnik eventually fell to earth
and was consumed. . http://gaines-highlander.org/of-thee-i-sing1 The Kimmy
Steven's "Summer Island" Natural Science Adventure Series "
Mystery at Summer's Cove " Book #3 of 3 Fourteen-year-old
Kim Stevens remains alone on the Island as her newly married mother and Captain Billy, the only father she's ever
known, are away on their honeymoon when a wild bull 'enduring Acaalph' finds its way 'home' from the sea, having imprinted
on humans as dangerous, and she must convince Paul and Keith Talbot to help rescue the species, even the exact member of that
species that killed their mother and Paul's young wife in self defense! READ
“ Silver Wolf “ , Who am I? What am I? I live in trailer court even the
Anglos avoid if possible, my native language lodged with my stubborn old grandmother who won't bend to the White Eyes ways
so my mother has to 'keep her safe' in a closed residential place because she won't share our lives. "Not Indian."
But in my dreams my spirit ranges far and wide, shadowed by a silver wolf who will neither abandon nor approach me as I sense
there has to be something more ahead than the Army, a high school diploma, or my mother's beloved soap operas. But
how am I to ever know? Unless...Unless...I dare to slip into the wilderness reserves far beyond the control of the brown shirt
Rangers for a Spirit Quest? Is that dumb...or what? ...In my dreams the Wolf comes to me and says "If you do not
seek me, I will seek you out until one of us is no more! " Why? Who am I? What am I? I live in trailer court
even the Anglos avoid if possible, my native language lodged with my stubborn old grandmother who won't bend to the White
Eyes ways...unless....
http://gaines-highlander.org/a-place-of-my-own
" Thru Wolf Eyes " 12-year old Judi Gleason's world was turned upside down when her widowed Mom met and fell in love with
a wonderful Christian man they both knew from Church. They dropped her off at the dude ranch in the Monolith Mountains along
the reaches of the Umpqua River is Oregon for a two week honeymoon backpacking in the wilderness, after whicht hey would spend
the remainder of the summer getting used to their new roles as family. Unfortuantely, they were struck by a drunk driver
less than twenty miles away from Little Willow Ranch and were killed a year ago. Since her only living relative, Mike Lowry
works in the same valley as a private forest ranch for the Keptongue Wood and Old Growth Lumber Preserve, Judi continued to
live at the ranch and attended school at Monolith Junior high the way her Mom and Scotty would have wanted. It's been a difficult
year as her young uncle is self centered, with no real feelings toward her, but she's made a life for herself with the older
owners of the ranch and her Native American friends.
To every one's shock when Mike Lowry went to secretly disconnect the life support from his comatose sister, she instead woke
after a year of no brain activity, with no memory of her past, no motor, speech or practical life skills. At a time in her
daughter's life as Judi turns thirteen and is embarking on her own life within the close knit community, she is faced with
a mother who acts more like a younger sister! Worse, shortly after her return to familiar surroundings Donna Gleason's
memories return but her inability to make herself understood leave her locked in a world of immobility and shame.
If only...if only... she can make someone to understand that she's still here, locked inside the damaged
body!!!! , http://gaines-highlander.org/thru-wolf-eyes “ Tres Dias “ . [3-Novellas] Man, Woman, Infinity. The same
three days in 1968 is told in three perspectives. A rabbi, newly returned from the Viet Nam War assails heaven for an answer as to why his only son was
allowed to drown in a senseless accident merely playing with his friends when HE was doing his moral duty in immoral conflict?
But is he ready to hear it, when Heaven choose to answer him? .
" Shoshone, The Story of Grace " ~ Some people walk alone in the midst of a crowd, but when your
a teen aged girl whose been used by her mother's boyfriend nothing can be more isolating than to be shipped away school and
all your friends at the most critical and unexpected juncture in your life, forced to accompany your Mom, whose still secretly
in love with the creep and have to move to a wilderness mountain dude ranch with your father's twin's widow! It only becomes
bearable as Shoshone attempts to sort out her feelings in the world which her father and his twin rejected at her age when
an old Indian man known as Winterhawk Larkin calls her 'Granddaughter' and begins to reveal hidden strengths in the Old
Ways she never guessed could apply to her in her modern predicament. The fact that he may - or may not - be a ghost becomes
secondary to what he has to teach her in the time left to them before the baby arrives! . http://gaines-highlander.org/of-thee-I-sing1
The 1980's
“
A Call to <Loving> Arms “ A
loving family in the military is confronted with unexpected violence on the Base school as three Moms from very different
backgrounds join for a grass roots violence to protect the future and their children! . http://gaines-highlander.org/times-of-our-lives2 The 1990's
“
Cache “ A modern
family shares the same bloodline and the same love for GOD, Country and Family, they unfortunately share the same inability
to showit! Until a grieving ,single Mom brings her late son's horse tot he ranch to complete his training
as she struggles to uncover the forces that took his life by his own hand! http://gaines-highlander.org/times-of-our-lives2
" The Rice Paper Tower " Norm Leonardi is experiencing the onset of Alzheimer’s
but in the wisdom he’s garnered in seventy-six years of good living with a warm, devoted Christian wife and family and
an unquenchable belief in a loving GOD, no matter the trials and tragedy’s they’ve
endured together, there is one last gift he has to give to his troubled
adultgranddaughter Lexie, whose come to him with a problem that a smile and a kiss can’t make go away—and it will cost him more
than a quarter for an ice creamfrom the Good Humor truck when Heaven calls and he is ready to answer ‘Yes, here am I, Lord!’ The FUTURE
" Rachel's Journey " . In the midst of watching doomsday scenarios
I suddenly asked myself what it might be like to walk into a future living with the Antichrist if one had absolutely no idea
what to expect? No buzz words, no ominous signs, just simply life as reported on the evening news as the country of your birth
is incineratedfor its over consumption and the rest of the world doesn't even seem to care? I got more than I bargained for.... - http://gaines-highlander.org/rachels-journey
“ Sugar Melts in Hot Tea, And Other Mysteries of the Mundane
“ Two young collegiates,
friends since Sunday School at Shul in First Grade, anticipate Finals wee. Both have made a life long commitment ~ one
to a man and the other to her GOD! http://gaines-highlander.org/id13.hrml
♣
" Mystery at Summer's Cove " " Silver Wolf " "
Thru Wolf's Eyes " " Tres Dias " VOLUMES : "Man, Woman, and
Infinity" " Shoshone " " A Call to <Loving> Arms "
" Rachel's Journey " " Remembering Fiona " "
Sugar Melts in Hot Tea ... "
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