It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...

"Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners...

Though the war for American independence has come to an end, Nathanael "Fox" Carter still struggles to survive the tragic loss he has suffered. When greed and selfish ambition threaten to destroy the only home he has known, Fox and his mother flee over the Misty Mountains to start a new life. But with growing hostilities between the settlers and the Cherokee, Fox soon discovers frontier life is a daily battle for survival.

Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.

A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth.

The story of the Cherokee nation from the late 1700's to 1834, describing their highly developed society with its own schools, farms, newspaper, etc. and describing how this society was destroyed by the greed of the white man.

Officer Molly Bearpaw, crime investigator for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, probes the death of a woman shaman found hanging in a library. Suspects range from the local medicine man, afraid the shaman would take away business, to the wife of a man having an affair with the shaman. By the author of Seven Black Stones.

Publisher's description: Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson--war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South--whose first major initiative as President instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail...

An annual Cherokee celebration is disrupted by a poison dart that kills a native American activist, and investigator Molly Bearpaw confronts simmering grudges and ancient warnings to discover why.

In Oklahoma's Cherokee county, police chief Bushyhead investigates the death of the director of a center for rehabilitating drug addicts. A murder mystery, as well as a look at Cherokee life and customs. By the author of Ghostland.