Böcker av R William Rogers

Duane Applegate and Alex Stapleton are life-long friends, who, during their annual elk-hunting trip into the rugged Colorado Rockies, find themselves being stalked by a misguided, deranged, local resident. After Duane is forced to take the man's life in self defense, the dead man's brother, an escaped convict with a penchant for excessive violence, vows revenge and goes after Duane and Alex.It is then that this true-to-life tale becomes one of hardship and survival that includes not only the ingenuity essential to remaining alive and ahead of the crazed stalker, but also the self demands fundamental to withstanding the rigors and adversities encountered as a result of the ever-changing weather conditions of a typical winter in the high reaches of the Rocky Mountains.With Duane and Alex both having been seriously wounded, and with their meager supplies running dangerously low, their chances of survival are seriously hampered. It is then that their will to survive is thoroughly tested while they struggle through what has now turned into a desperate trek across the snow-covered reaches of lofty Elkhorn Peak.

The Walker City Silver Sox are not even close to being a cohesive baseball team. They are in fact a collection of talented individuals, all of whom have a common goal in mind...to make it to the show.With that in mind, lace up those spikes, (if they still fit), dust off that ditty bag, (that's been hiding out in the back corner of the closet, since whenever), and get your butt out there on the field with a bunch of misfits who are sorely in need of direction and a real purpose in life.Although the things that usually take a front seat to them who aren't in the know are certainly important to those individuals, what happens out of the mainstream of the everyday routine of a Double-A farm team for the New York Yankees is, in fact, something entirely different.I'm thinking I could be letting the cat out of the bag a bit, but what the heck, when romance between a team's second base player and the team's player/manager starts to get serious, well...I guess it'd be fair to just tell you to go on ahead and let your mind wander and see what comes of it, but that might not be what really happened.Just so there's no chance of mixing things up, I'll just say the real way the story goes has to do with how Stacey Milner arrived in Walker City with two things in mind: how to make it as the team's second baseman and how to get inside the heart of the team's player/manager, Chick Wilson, who she'd first seen and admired from afar but has since decided he's destined to be the future love of her life. most cases involving the joining of two hearts, nothing comes easy. So, when the team owner and his oversexed troublemaking daughter, Lola, are kidnapped and held for ransom by a couple of syndicate thugs who work for a bookie that is owed money by the owner, a whole lot of money, in fact, everything positive that has been achieved up to that point threatens to unravel.

Life out on the windswept eastern Kansas plains in the 1850's was tenuous at best. Add to that, marauding bands of thieving Comanches, and a fella would start having notions of moving his clan the heck out of there.With the last of his cattle having been taken by the thieving redskins, Jacob Clarkson and his family load as much of whatever they can into a couple of wagons and set out on a journey in hopes of relocating their once prosperous cattle ranching endeavor to the high mountain grasslands of present day Colorado.The journey proves to be fraught with dangers, some of which are of the harsh weather and high water variety, while others are man made.The journey becomes even more difficult after the rescue of a young lady who had been taken captive by a trio of banditos. Their intent was to trade her to the Utes, who freely roamed the area, but first the Mexican outlaws will have to find and get her back.Through all of this, the Lord remains in charge and adds to the mixture, a helping of tender romance and true love between the rescued girl, Becky, and one of Jacob and Emily's twin sons, Seth.Not to be outdone by his brother, Sam manages a romance of his own after a mix-up in homestead filings helps to bring him and Liz together while their families remain steadfast in their struggle to gain a toehold in the savage land that is the previously unsettled grasslands of the South Park Basin of central Colorado.