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Ohio history comes alive with this new series by Gerald L. Guy

Young Billy Cain is eager to do the right thing at all times. Sometimes good deeds backfire, though. When Billy rescues a trapper from a winter freeze, Jeremiah Peppers promptly steals his boss’ prized thoroughbred, Blackjack. The horse thief easily is captured and justice hangs on...

In the Ohio Country of 1802, a man’s word is an irrevocable promise. Returning a favor, paying a debt, or fulfilling a pledge is as vital as life itself.
Clayton Maxwell will do anything to recover his prized thoroughbred, Blackjack, stolen twice from under his nose. He calls on Abraham Sanders, the famed “Maumee Mauler,” to join Billy Cain and...

Ohio history and adventure collide in Book #4 of Gerald L. Guy’s Ohio Frontier Adventure series, “Raising Cain.”
Abraham Sanders thought he had shed the horrors that haunted him for years after the death of his best friend at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Nichan and her Ottawa family helped him heal in the wilds of the Northwest Territory. He...

The Raising Cain adventure series explores the Northwest Territory, specifically Ohio, in a period following the American Revolution. Only trappers and explorers ventured west of the Appalachian Mountains in the eighteenth century. King Charles didn’t want his subjects migrating west because they would be too hard to control. So, early colonists...

The Kentucky Derby is a 1.25-mile race over smooth terrain and is said to be the most exciting two minutes in sports. Imagine racing two hundred miles over wilderness trails from Marietta to Chillicothe and back. It’s what made the Statehood Challenge of 1802 the most heralded event in Early American history. Young Billy Cain had to do it...

The Northwest Territory was a savage wilderness following the American Revolution. Settlers flocked to the region with the hope of beginning their lives anew. Only the brave and courageous survived.

Jamie Hawkins wasn’t sure if it was the slamming of the cabin door or the war cries of the hostiles outside that awakened him from a sound sleep. It...

Henry Walker was an everyday farmer, working his fields in the hotly-contested Kansas Territory of 1855, until he lost his family and his right arm in a vicious raid by Missouri Ruffians. The pro-slavery renegades used murder to instill fear among border inhabitants who sought statehood under an abolitionist flag.
After long days of mourning and...

A Laramie Award semifinalist, author Gerald L. Guy’s provides an emotional and action-packed tale of redemption in his latest novel, Old Ways Die Hard

When Moses Conway loses everything — his wife, three daughters and the only home he has ever known — he declares war against anything and anyone who dares to cross his path. Emotionally stripped...

La Florida was a wild and hostile place during the eighteenth century. Colonial settlers considered it uninhabitable. Under Spanish rule, however, it became a safe harbor for all sorts of disenfranchised people, including the lower Creeks, Yachis and Yamasses from Alabama and Georgia. They became known as Seminoles, the Spanish word for “outcast...

Nobody at Crater Lake Retirement Center could believe Jerome Browning was 92 years old. He looked and acted much younger. Still, he devoted his life to helping residents restart their lives. Fighting a dysfunctional director every step of the way, Jerome and a wealthy benefactor find innovative ways to bring joy into shattered lives in...

A simple “Act of Kindness” led Jerome Browning to prosperity he never imagined possible. When a root he finds along the Atlantic shoreline grows into a modern day “beanstalk,” his world is turned upside down. Browning is required to travel through strange new dimensions and into the future to save his benefactor’s aquatic world.
Accompanied by a...

Award-winning author Gerald L. Guy presents a historic and harrowing tale of one man’s battle against injustice with “Act of Recll,” book three in his Coastal Capers trilogy.
The likable stranger was welcome at Crater Lake Retirement Center. His age and circumstance made him a perfect fit for residency. The newcomer was destitute; he arrived...

When Jefferwson Prescott III is introduced to a species of wolf that can alter its genetic makeup to walk on two legs or four, he discovers a magical world and is given a second chance at life. His predestined rise to power creates chaos and unity.

While Jefferson must learn the ways of the four-legged Cossiby, his three companions -- Apoini,...

Escape from Captivity begins with the rescue of two young children from the farmlands of Wisconsin but catapults a shape-shifting clan, which is trying to blend into a traditional lifestyle, into the murderous path of a madman. Jefferson, Reeny, Sebby and Sherry must rely on cunning, ingenuity and their amazing abilities to shift from human to...

A 600-year-old shaman of the Osage Nation is wreaking havoc in Wisconsin. As the body count grows, the press thinks a werewolf might be stalking students at Marquette University. The Cossibye have no other choice but to join the investigation. Will they be able to stop the senseless murders before one of their own is harmed or killed? The New...

Have you ever looked at one of Florida’s majestic Live Oak trees and wondered what they might reveal if they could talk? Young Willie Brown found the Tree of Wonders on the banks of the Intracoastal Waterway, and it had lots of stories to share.

Learn about the native tribes that inhabited Flagler County, how sugar turned sour for early...

A sweeping holiday western filled with legend, mystery, and the unbreakable bonds of family.

Tonkawa cousins Potak and Tuc have spent their lives chasing visions and destiny, never certain what lies beyond the next bend in the trail. But when they rescue two teenage boys from the fiercest Texas winter storm in history, their path changes forever....

“SARA: A Hero’s Story” chronicles the Pacific War, as it was waged by the crew of the U.S.S. Saratoga CV-3, one of three American aircraft carriers that was not destroyed in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. While the events are historical in content, the exploits were gleaned from the memoirs of several dozen Saratoga veterans, including the author’...