Three years after his triumphant return from Treasure Island, Jim Hawkins learns that Long John Silver has been captured and sentenced to hang. Jim’s fateful decisions to help Silver propel them into a search for the greatest treasure of all – The Pharaoah’s Gold.
Written in a cadence and style that is reminiscent of the original book by Robert Louis Stevenson, Return to Treasure Island hearkens back to the days when action, mystery and adventure rode hand-in-hand with storytelling and promises to entertain readers of all ages.
A Stroke of Hope
A story of hope after a stroke, with real life steps you can take to recovery.
Jesse James Secret
Two mysterious trunks. A secret society. And a quest that rewrites everything you thought you knew about America’s most notorious outlaw.
When direct descendants of Jesse James uncovered a pair of hidden trunks over two decades ago, they set historical archaeologist Ron Pastore on a relentless hunt for the truth — not just about how the outlaw died, but why he lived the way he did. This first-person narrative pulls readers directly into that pursuit, chasing every lead, every dead end, every flicker of hope alongside Pastore himself.
What starts as a search for facts becomes something far stranger: a historical conspiracy tangled in secret societies, coded clues, and a motive no one saw coming. Startling new evidence suggests — and then proves — that Jesse Woodson James was never just a common criminal. His crimes served a far larger ambition: the founding of a new nation.
And his death? A carefully staged exit designed to protect a secret society determined to stay hidden. As for the hundreds of millions of dollars in gold he stole in his lifetime? The trunks hold clues suggesting they’ve never been found. It may still be out there, waiting.
Jesse James’ Secret is an explosive, meticulously researched page-turner that reveals it all — for the first time, to the world — the same explosive research that inspired History Channel’s Jesse James: Hidden Treasure.
Lost Tomb of Alexander
A mysterious fragment of an ancient tablet surfaces and finds its way into the hands of archeologist Diandra Weiss. Diandra recognizes it as the missing half to the Alexander tablet which promises to lead to the Monarchs’ missing tomb.
The other half was presumed lost in WWII.
Happenstance and chance bring together a retired MI6 Cryptographer, a graduate student of ancient languages, who is also Diandra’s not-so-ex former Special Forces husband. In their search as The Seekers, they attempt to find the missing piece and ultimately to try and discover the tomb itself.
Along the way they face death from a sinister group within the Vatican known only as The Guardians. Obstacles nearly doom their mission and a strange benefactor is as interested as they are in the tomb’s discovery.
Their search leads them to discover that our ancestors left messages for us around the world that must be uncovered and deciphered before it is too late…
The future of our very existence may hinge upon these discoveries.
Lost Tomb of Alexander is the first in a series of action/adventure novels by award winning author John O’Melveny Woods that are engaged in the search to uncover the true history of humankind and understand how ancient artifacts and structures, referred to as Unexplained Archeology, fit into this hidden history.
The Crusaders
The 1960s were more than unique — they were without parallel. Rock and roll and the space race. Drugs and free love. Vietnam and civil rights. A generation that watched its world get rewritten in real time.
The Crusaders ignore most of that.
Instead, it follows a tight-knit group of friends growing up in a quiet bedroom community outside of Los Angeles, coming of age in the middle of it all. From the innocence of early adolescence to the reckless curiosity that follows, these interwoven stories carry readers through the decade from a teenager’s point of view – full of warmth, humor, and good-natured mischief.
But The Crusaders doesn’t just celebrate the ’60s. It also reckons with them. As they drift deeper into uncharted waters, chasing thrills they don’t yet understand, they soon realize there is a price to pay with consequences that eventually catch up.
At its heart, this is a story about friendship: the loyalty, the love, and the unbreakable bond between a group of boys who had each other’s backs no matter what the decade threw at them. – a friendship that outlasted the 60’s themselves.
California Bound
Lawmen won’t … The Cavalry can’t … 2 Civil War veterans wade the Rio Bravo to find a stolen girl!
In a Union POW camp, Jeb & Zach dreamed of California Gold, but the road West leads Jeb to his sis’s home in Texas.
Jeb & Zach are God-fearing, hard-working, honest southern boys–if you don’t count stealing Gen. Sherman’s horse.
A border war raged on the Rio Bravo near Eagle Pass TX! Cattle rustled! Ranches burnt! Innocents killed or kidnapped!
Confronting 2 Cortina men in a saloon turns ugly … Jeb is wounded … one Cortina man escapes to alert Cortina.
A young widow tends Jeb in healing after the Doc sews him. Jeb and Zach take a shine to the bold and sassy lady.
“Aww, man. After all the time we been together, are we gonna fight over a woman” … “No fight needed,” Jeb said. “She’s gonna decide, then get us think it was our idea.” … “She always does,” Zach replied.
Jeb & Zach trick Cortina to rescue Rebecca but Cortina cross the Rio Bravo to take Eagle Pass hostage!
Either Jeb & Zach surrender to him or he burns the town!
Will they ever get to California?
Juan’s Revenge
Jeb wants a family. Zach wants to find gold. Juan wants revenge!
Jeb and Zach wanted a normal life after spending 3 years in a Union POW camp.
Miguel Cortiña kidnapped Jeb’s 14-year-old niece, carrying her to Mexico.
Jeb & Zach, Civil War veterans, waded across the Rio Grande to bring her home.
They recover Becky while killing Miguel and his gang in a bloody battle to free her.
Problem is Miguel’s brother, Juan Cortiña, is a General in Mexico—with a 2,500 man Army.
Jeb and Zach rescued Becky because it was the right thing to do—she was family.
But that’s what Miguel’s older brother Juan said, “It’s an insult to my family! To my country! Those gringos cannot come into my country and kill my brother. I’ll have my revenge!”
What chance do Jeb and Zach have against a 2,500 man Army?
Who will help them when the U.S. government wants Juarez to defeat the French in Mexico?
Once again, Jeb and Zach face impossible odds, and Jeb’s out of dynamite!
Juan’s Revenge is the 3rd dramatic story in the Jeb & Zach series of gritty westerns. If you like rich descriptions, multidimensional characters, and tales bringing history to life, then you’ll love Frank & John’s Rio Grande border war novel!
