Squire wants to forgive Kelly for ignoring him a decade ago. He’d like to provide the stable life she and her son need, but with old wounds opening and a ranch on the brink of financial collapse, do they have the patience and faith to make their second chance possible?
Ava hasn’t given much thought to her hometown in years — until her gorgeous former neighbor Mateo comes knocking. Ava owes him a favor from a decade ago, and now that Mateo needs a fake fiancée, it seems like the perfect time to collect
MISERY meets CABIN IN THE WOODS and FIFTY SHADES in an erotic horror thriller that'll blow your socks off! Gerald Grimes, Failed Writer, needs a miracle to salvage his writing career and save him from becoming the next Assistant Night Manager at the local CrapMart. 'Canny Danny' Jackson is a fugitiv ...
He’s back. My small town’s hockey god and my brother's best friend. The one who took my V-card and vanished without a word. Max Decker. Cocky, self-centered, he looks every bit the man I remember—and more. His white T-shirt clings to his powerful arms. And his hands... strong, big, and thick, ...
To protect her secrets, a woman refuses to acknowledge the child she left behind fifty years ago and a half a world away. Claire travels halfway across the globe from Southern California to Ireland to find the reasons Norah, her biological mother, gave her up. Norah is equally determined to avoid re ...
The stories told around campfires say the world that existed before 'The Wandering' was a beautiful place. A place with buildings taller than trees and massive cities home to millions. The stories about that world say a person could drink water without walking to the river and eat food without hunti ...
From Book 1: Someone is stalking women and murdering them in Key West. Psychics Levi Wolfe and Trudy Tucker join forces to help identify the murderer and stop him. Levi can channel the deceased victims and Trudy can tap into the mind of the killer. As a psychic detective team, ...
Calista ‘CC’ Collins is used to being the talk of the town. With her scandalous past she’s learnt the hard way that a woman needs to be strong to get what she wants in a man’s world. And what she wants is the infamous Captain Beauford Tollier—roguish son of an earl, notorious blockade-runner and all ...
Ulrich Blackhand began his day in the Germanian village of Dolpheim like any other. An act of deceit and dishonesty from another would put his life in jeopardy and he would be forced to flee all that he has known. In his flight he discovers a threat to his people, their lives and freedom were in per ...
The inventor of augmented/virtual reality glasses used all over the world, Oreste Pax, is working on a brain-computer interface he believes will revolutionize human cognition. However, a massive computer virus attacking the Internet of Things threatens to destroy civilization first. Pax is forced in ...
Born cursed with a second, shadow soul, Quen is a misfit among her people. Animals sense her curse and avoid her, an untenable trait in her nomadic herding culture. Unfit for binding with a clan, Quen's only hope for an honorable life is to study at a magic school.
As Quen awaits an envoy ...
It's 18th century London, where an Earl loses a vast sum of money to his good friend, a Duke. To settle the debt, the Earl suggests that he marry his fourteen year old daughter to the Duke’s twenty-one year old son. The marriage takes place the next morning. She is terrified, and he is furious. Call ...
Anne Sheridan, aka reclusive artist C. A. Calloway, finds herself in the middle of a real-life game of Monopoly, with dangerous consequences. Michael Kelley, CEO of Kelley Hotels and Resorts, hadn't intended that when he'd offered to buy her property to build a new resort. That property was ideal fo ...
Johnny Books 1-3 make up The Organized Crime Trilogy. Johnny Tee is a wandering vagabond with a troubled past and an even bleaker future. His decision to go the straight and narrow goes haywire when he gets mixed up in the city's dirty underbelly. Coming out on top is going to be tougher than he thi ...
Will Deluca, a firefighter and ranch owner, hides his pain behind a rugged exterior. After the tragic loss of his wife, his days on the Rockin' D Ranch are filled with hard work, caring for his two children, and carrying the heavy burden of unfulfilled promises. In the serene hills of Texas, his ...
She's not looking for Mr. Forever - just Mr. Right Now. It all changes when she takes her city's star football player home, and he WANTS more. So much more . . . Leslie McClunis didn't give up ballet for firefighting to be told she'd get ahead if she acted more 'feminine.' As far as sh ...
The battle for the minds and hearts of humans is on…
A hundred years after her abduction to the alien planet Glieze, Laura Sinclair returns to Earth on a mission to find out what happened to her long-lost husband. But she finds the planet in turmoil under the oppressive ...
It has been said that great leaders have great emotional intelligence. But what is emotional intelligence, and how can you use it to develop your leadership? Drawing on his experience of working with literally hundreds of leaders from a broad range of industries and sectors, seasoned organizational ...
Kaitlyn Monroe, a nursing grad is driven by two desires. Find a job. find her soul mate. Not necessarily in that order. She and her three friends get hired at Mercy Hospital where they're in for unexpected patient adventures, causing her to question whether being the hands and feet of Jesus is what ...
When their boss's death leaves four friends jobless, the ambitious Alfred Lewis hatches a plan to keep their business going...by relocating to Callahan Manor, a vacant estate with a sordid past. Alfred surmounts his friend's concerns and navigates the challenges of business, until a strange encou ...
Six cozy mysteries in one boxed set including:
* Tiny House, Big Mystery* Tiny House, Big Murder* Tiny House, Big Trouble* Tiny House, Big Heartache* Tiny House, Big Cover-Up* Tiny House, Big Crime Ring
Private investigator Hannah Huntsford is about t ...
Colin has always wanted to know who his father was. He’s shocked to learn it is Lugh, the Irish god of light, and that he’s the reincarnation of Ireland’s greatest hero, CuChulainn. Colin is destined to bring back the Irish gods before an event known as the Fifth Cycle begins.
Incense and Peppermints…Who cares what games we choose? Little to win, but nothin' to lose.
Peace demonstrations, sit-ins, burning of the U.S. flag, following the escalation of the Vietnam War are leading to a catalyst known as the Sixties. A music revolution, flower power, hippies, a ...
A cursed prince. Two clashing empires. A bloody throne no one can keep. Vlad Dracul is shattered. After a lifetime of service, the aging knight is stunned to see his king deceive him. This betrayal breaks his heart and costs him the throne he's lived his whole life for.
Defying fate, Vlad ...
A runaway bride. A jilted groom. Will one night in Las Vegas lead to a second-chance romance? Flora: ‘I do’ just became ‘I don’t.’ And now I’m doing the 100-metre sprint out of the chapel, straight into the arms of the biggest, broadest, sexiest stranger Las Vegas has ever seen. But a perfect o ...
My ex is my billionaire boss, about to lose his company.Alex Whitmore and I were lovers in college. But we were constant rivals on the same career path, causing our split.Now he recruits me to advance company technology. My sarcasm is hard to stifle, but I agree with him b ...
Hope and Alex… Two wounded hearts meet in an island paradise. Can a reluctant spark become an unbreakable destiny? After her predictable and carefully ordered life is upended, Hope Collins is desperate for change. This comes when she unexpectedly wins a scuba diving resort on the Caribbean island of ...
A 500,000-mile-long asteroid belt covers the earth. Its aftermath leaves the few survivors to question an existence after the end. TJ Stocker, one of NASA's top researchers, is one of the "lucky" ones assigned to the White House's underground bunker. Communications are cut off as civilizations ar ...
Sometimes the dead come back to speak. Eleven years ago, a body was found days after a woman calling herself Charlene Browner checked into a motel. No possessions. No cause of death. No next of kin. It is almost as though she'd never existed. A strange accident on a lonely road launches Sheriff Augu ...
Paperback on sale, large-print also available Kitty, It’s Cold Outside is a romance with a serendipitous twist at the end. I’m betting you’ve never read a story like this before, past, present, or future. A lost kitten travels through time to bring deliverance to Victo ...
After recovering from the shock of her parents perishing in the basement of their home, Grace Lindroth discovers a box in their attic that contains enough suspicious items to cause her to believe that the people she had called Mom and Dad her whole life may not have been her real parents. Torment ...
When DeeDee and her boyfriend, Jake, head to Whistler, British Columbia, to see her sister, Roz, and enjoy a little down time from her new catering business, Deelish, and his job as a private investigator, the last thing they expect is to become involved in a murder. What makes it even worse is the ...
What happens when the very beautiful and sexy Maria Brooks, now Elena Johnson, a woman hiding out in Provence, France, from the California legal authorities, meets Jordan Kramer, a handsome art theft detective from Los Angeles? He's looking for stolen California paintings reportedly for sale in Prov ...
Battered, broken and looking for solitude smoke jumper Tric heads to Last Chance Beach and without warning walks into Kelly's cottage.
She knows from experience this is the best place for him to recover and she'll share her safe haven with him.
Will a bit of Irish luck and a match ...
Where Bantry Bay in Ireland meets the wild Atlantic, three lost souls stumble together united by their inability to forgive themselves. A heart-pounding and magical tapestry of romance, history, legend, and complex themes of inequality that resonated as deeply centuries ago as they do today. Perf ...
Who rescued who? In California’s Central Valley in 1953, the love of a neglected dog helps an abused girl find healing, and the caring family she never had.
Bet Carter’s stepfather is a conman wi ...
A group of Americans decides to tour Israel with their Synagogue. But unbeknownst to the other members of the Temple, one of the visitors has a secret that compels her to take this trip to her Jewish homeland in search of answers. Meanwhile, a group of radical Islamists plans to use the American v ...
Private Investigator Mylas Grey is given strict orders to take seven days off.It makes sense. After all, he’s recuperating from a gunshot wound.
There’s just one problem—Mylas doesn’t know how to take time off.
Besides that, he’s agreed ...
The meteor storm wasn't such a big deal until a comet landed in the middle of the road. Now Darien's car is wrecked, his sister is bleeding out, and the only medical aid is at the reclusive Serran Academy. Jet sees Darien for what he is: a lost teen who doesn't deserve to know about the aether gifts ...
When a young god named Bernie finally gets a job building universes, it starts a series of mishaps that spark numerous revelations. Challenged by his supervisor to prove ...
Once in a lifetime comes the chance to know someone beyond love and desire. But can a soul reach from eternity and reunite with a forbidden and cheated love?In 1887, during a full harvest moon, a baby is born, and two lovers die at the same moment. Over a hundred years after her de ...
Werewolves, Vampires and Dragons. Conspiracy, Romance and Adventure. Binge read the now completed Red Wolf Saga series in this special box set! At over 1,500 printed pages and a decade of publications, it will keep you turning pages late into the night—at a fraction of the cost of the individual ...
After a terrible car accident, Laura’s memories of the life she and Steve shared since childhood are gone. They return to their home and routine, in hopes that her memories will come back on their own. Steve is determined to do whatever it takes to win back her love and get back on schedule with the ...
Welcome to Adams Grove…where wrongs are righted with just desserts. Luck abandoned Brooke Justice during her nasty divorce. Desperate to escape her malicious ex-husband, she relocated to the small town of Adams Grove, Virginia. When someone breaks into her new house, she suspects her ex bears ...
I was just trying to warm up.The tattoo parlor where I work is freezing cold, so at closing time, I decide to hop in one of the few tanning beds in the building and warm up.But when the security alarm goes off for some reason, a hunky firefighter breaks in to save me. In the ...
It started as a one night stand, but now I’m stuck working with the man who broke my heart. James is the new hockey coach with bulging biceps and a bad boy attitude. The man I thought I would never see again after our one scorching hot night together. As the team’s manager, I now deal with his arrog ...
There’s nothing like an old-fashioned Christmas.
Young Texas attorney JD Thompson just wasn’t expecting a Biblical one.
No Texas hospital will admit his sister in premature labor. His friend Nick is homeless and jobless fr ...
She never expected to summon a demon THIS sinfully sexy… Carline swore off witchcraft for good when she arrived at the Swan River Colony. But when her home is attacked, she's forced to consult her spell book for the help of a paranormal protector to keep her safe. Only the smoking hot demon she summ ...
Clancy encounters an old friend who has more on his mind than simply a nostalgic reunion. His cryptic clue to a crime that has plagued her for too many years – the murder of her father – drives her headlong into a double murder investigation that extends from Tidewater Virginia to Detroi ...
When a heartless gold-digger steals her life, can a good dog save the human she loves? Mom lives for her puppies and her human, Jones. Doting on them fills her heart until the pups leave home. Bereft without them, Mom and Jones find strength in each other. But his callous daughter sends Jones away a ...
Someone wants Skye Hunter’s son, Tyler, and they’re willing to kill to get him. On the run for her life, Skye turns to the only person she believes can help her—a complete stranger with a shared past. David Bishop thinks Skye is crazy. But when he realizes she has the same strange phenomenon inside ...
Two years after the murder of Jill Barlow’s husband, someone guns down her father, a Texas State Representative. The authorities suspect a connection between the murders but can’t find proof. Jill longs for the peace she found when she visited Vermont after her husband’s death. With the perpetrators ...
One night away from her duties as princess...
But the Shadow awaits...
When Princess Selena, along with her brother, Simone, sneak out of the palace to celebrate Spring Equinox amongst the commoners in the capital, she expects to have a good time. ...
When Winter learns she can cast magic and only suffer a hangover, she squanders her power at her part-time gig, using it for illusions at children’s parties. She's the only one in the world with this gift, and she’s keeping it a secret. Or so she thought. She’s visited by a strange band of witches w ...
An amazing work of fiction or prediction? A satirical look at President Trump, Congress, Russia and the 2020 election. President Trump and the first family as they spend the 4th of July, 2020 weekend in the Hamptons at the castle of a Russian oligarch Dmitriy Volkov when the unspeakable happens. Bet ...
My name is Harlow, and I am the loser who got suckered into the worst job in history. I am a gargoyle huntress. Thanks to a tiny bit of vandalism, I now wrestle wayward bitey devils back to their perches at way-too-early o’clock. But lately, something has gone wrong. Gargoyles all over the country a ...
My billionaire boss has fallen hard for me. But he doesn’t even know who I am. No one does. Brad is the perfect man. Tall, dark, rich, protective, and irresistibly hot. He’s hired me as his live-in personal chef. He could have any woman he wants, but his sights are set on me. Things heat up fast and ...
Believe in witches, for sometimes you need magic to ward off the evil in darkness. It was my junior year at Hawthorne University when Mira dealt me a reversed Lovers card. That meant trouble in paradise. I thought nothing of it until Alondra introduced me to a new witch from outside our coven—Eno ...
Ghosts don't kill people. People kill people.Everyone knows the tragic history of the D'Arbanville Hotel, both past and present. But when Sergeant Robert Backwell is faced with six people who arrive at his police station late on a Friday night, bloodied and bruised, to tell him that armed i ...
Minnie Monster is a naughty little monster. She's mean, never says "please" or "thank you," and never shares. She's so rude the other monsters leave her alone. Will she learn to mind her manners to win back her friends?
Join Minnie Monster in a playful journey to learn manners in this del ...
I entertain naked people for a living. No, not THAT kind of entertainment. I own a nudist resort. I'm not a nudist, but Val Silva is. And he's a human supernova sleeping in the room next door. The man is tall, gorgeous, tattooed, and a shameless exhibitionist. As the Brazilian bad boy of ...
1866 Montana. Neglected. Mistreated. Abandoned. Mariah Nichols is stranded and alone. After a past filled with hurt, trust is not easy. Sheltered by a family in town, she begins to heal from her past. All she wants to do is start over. Zeke Brown has traveled across the country to forge a new life a ...
Only teachers know what really happens at a magic school...
Chintor Academy is celebrated as the place where the best music mages are forged. But beneath the surface, bullies rule with cruelty, teachers scheme against each other, and the student destined to save their nation is far from r ...
Lady Margot Ashbourne has given up on passion. After two disappointing marriages and years spent rebuilding her crumbling estate through sheer determination, she's convinced herself that romance is for other women—she's too practical, too damaged, too fundament ...
"I start with zero. Nobody dies today."
The strange note delivered to Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller of the Howard County, Maryland, police was just the beginning. Soon Peller is in hot pursuit of a cunning killer basing murders on the Fibonacci series, a mathematical s ...
When Al agrees to help Fergie find the missing son of one of their long-ago high school classmates, they head off to a ranch in the valley, where some wide open spaces still remain in Southeast Texas. He is okay with following Fergie’s lead in the case, for a change, and even with riding horses. But ...
Ann recounts a strange and foreboding glimpse of her future life: her beloved husband dies suddenly (and questionably); she moves to the East Coast; finds love again; joins a peculiar knitting club (full of the strangest assortment of women, none of whom actually knit, but all of whom follow cult-li ...
If you love crochet, cats, and paranormal cozies, you'll love this series! (Crochet pattern included in each book)!
In "Arsenic and Alibis," the first of 26 enchanting tales, meet Carrigan Critt—a crochet-loving, cat-obsessed woman who unexpectedly inherits the Critt Family Funeral Home a ...
An Ancient Evil Rises. "This book is exemplary"- Judge, 31st Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards (ppbk). Silver Award Readers' Favorite. Bronze Award Reader Views. Writer's Digest Honorable Mention. Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Emery Merrick ...
A mother’s death.A city without grief.And a girl who refuses to smile through the pain.In Tranquility, emotions are tracked by Alts—wrist devices that punish anyone who dares to feel sadness or rage. Ember Vinata should keep her head down, pretend she’s f ...
Elyse Gibbons is out of her depth when, as an undergrad at Columbia, she's befriended by campus superstars Aubrey Adam-Drake and Marina Hunt. While Aubrey's grandfather is a former U.S. president and Marina's dad is a notorious mob lawyer, Elyse was raised in Pennsylvania by a single mother/language ...
From the bowels of Seattle's ruins to the depths of a dark secret. Rayna knew the rules… And everybody was supposed to follow them. Would she? Within the sprawling ruins of Seattle, the Nest looms high above as a stronghold of the aristocratic Crow class, ruled with an iron fist by Lord ...
A Woman’s World Book Club pick and GDRWA Booksellers' Best Award finalist. When Jackson St. James decided that six weeks in Vermont’s Green Mountains would help him get his life together, he didn’t anticipate replacing his craving for whiskey with a craving for his alluring new landlord, Gabby. Now, ...
Sam is an eight-grade girl living a regular life, enjoying her family, school and traveling. She doesn't feel different but sometimes others treat her differently because she has Down syndrome. Sam's private journal chronicles what begins as a summer vacation...and turns into a brand new adventure, ...
A ragged band of vampires are cutting a bloody path of destruction from Alaska to Washington State! As frost turns the leaves gold and paints the high mountain treetops silver, hundreds of hunters arrive in Swan Valley for their annual deer hunt. What they don’t know is an outcast band of vampires h ...
Bedding one hot hockey player is enough for most girls, but two...What I know about hockey fits on the back of a stamp. My latest patient, Raven Starr, may be one of the NHL’s hottest defensive players, but I’m not exactly blown away by his stardom. Add in the fact that he&rs ...
In a world where the steam engine is about to be invented, our fairy tales and rhymes are their real world events and people. Meet the secret societies the Tub, lead by a butcher, baker and candle-stick maker, and the Fare, lead by the Piemans. Book 1 - Along Came a Wolf Nikolas Klaus, brilliant inv ...
MASSAUA: UNA AVENTURA EN EL MAR ROJO Una historia de angustias, engaño, ambición, traición; pero también de amor, romance, amistad, solidaridad, honestidad, voluntad inquebrantable de gente capaz de sobreponerse a las peores circunstancias, en tiempos de dictaduras, nacionalismos, guerras y entregu ...
Long ago, a curse was set in stone...no human may touch a faery for if they do, the immortal must serve the human's every whim.... When three courageous women take on the challenge to find true love with three daring heroes, their reckless passion sets off consequences that threatens to destroy both ...
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." -Oscar WildeCollege journalist Adele Plank has been granted a rare interview with one-time bestselling author, Decklan Stone. He is a man largely withdrawn from the world f ...
You think you know the world of magical boarding schools? Not from a teacher's perspective at a school for at risk youth. Like any twenty-two-year-old who grew up obsessed with fantasy novels, Clarissa Lawrence expects all her Harry Potter fantasies to come true when she is invited to teach at a sch ...
Perronius. He is the greatest knight in Round Table history, a blind hero with preternatural abilities to rival the gods themselves. And now, he faces the greatest threat in his country’s history. A tyrant named Songre-Khan has plans of invading his country. His secret weapon is the monk Gaeden-Kai, ...
Fate and idiocy has brought Johnny to Maui. In the final book of the first Johnny Trilogy, Johnny in Maui, working for an international crime organization against his will. Johnny is finally valuable because of his natural born ability to drive. He will have to drive anything and everything in order ...
I can't believe my first crush is the new sheriff in town... and lives next door. My life is on track taking care of my little boy, working at my dream job, and avoiding all men. But when a false alarm goes off, guess who crashes in my front door? Max Madison! My first love and the guy who ...
It seemed like an eternity since I was left at the altar by my lover. Now, he’s my new billionaire boss and my baby’s daddy. Five years later, I set out for a new beginning in New York City. On the first night at my new job, the grumpy owner was set to make his appearance. I couldn’t believe ...
A handsome chocoholic comes to Death by Chocolate, eats three of Lindsay’s desserts and rescues her from her ex, Rickhead. The mysterious man is her new best friend. She sends him on his way with a complimentary box ...
Mama Gets Trashed is the fifth book in Deborah Sharp's funny, Southern-fried Mace Bauer Mystery series. Set in the fictional town of Himmarshee, Fla., TRASHED continues the adventures of the much-married Mama, and the three grown daughters she drives crazy. When a tipsy Mama tosses out her latest we ...
It has only been a few months since humanity found out about the various shifters that live among them. This brave new world is not without its challenges; neither for the humans or the shifters. Alpha Squad is formed to help law enforcement agencies deal with shifter related matters, and not a mome ...
Abraham Schuster only wants one thing for Christmas: to fall in love. Unfortunately, he's just gone through an awful breakup and is still trying to pick up the pieces of his life. Is he willing to put himself out there again? Will he be able to find a woman in time to have a merry Christmas? Or is h ...
2015 Rainbow Awards Finalist. When Carly Rosen is jilted on the eve of her wedding, she embarks on a startling journey of self-discovery. This gender-bending, risque retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in sizzling West Hollywood, echoes the ancient story of the lovers in the Un ...
What drove the inconspicuous sociopath to become a ruthless killer?
During his nearly fifteen-year reign of terror, Ronald Lloyd Bailey’s depraved obsession with sexual sadism held communities across southeast Michigan in a shroud of fear. From the early 1970’s to the mid-1980’s, the form ...
Old enemies, Spring Festival, an angry ex, and a baker with skills outside the kitchen! Maddie returned home to help her ailing Gran, but instead she opened the bakery of her dreams. Dreams which become a nightmare when she stumbles upon a body at Spring Festival. The sheriff, who happens to be h ...
Alice Bloom has shut herself away from the world for years. But all that changes when three men come into her life. Firstly there's the rather disgusting Karl, who has the key to her problems but turns her stomach. Then there's smooth and sexy Ethan, whom Alice falls head over heels for, but she jus ...
Rose Malloy has loved and lost, or has she? With her marital status a mystery, Rose slips into quiet solitude. William Woodsom is determined to coax back the lighthearted beauty who had previously dazzled Boston’s elite. He captures her fragile heart until the past resurfaces, bringing intrigue and ...
Embark on a journey through eleven heartwarming tales: You will meet a young boy who transforms his community with a mystical and meaningful Christmas, a woman who uncovers a mysterious pink gift card brimming with unexpected wonders, and a troubled young man who discovers the enchanting sound of sn ...
Moving on from her divorce and finding love again was the best thing that happened to Payton in a long time. After all, who could resist the charm of the handsome and well-respected Cole Miller? Unfortunately, all it takes is one bad apple to spoil everything… In book two of the Pelican Beach ...
Breaking the rules with his best friend’s sister has never felt so right! Ever since a horrifying experience in her childhood, Renée Swank has had to endure her family’s overprotection, which forced her to move to the UK eight years ago. Now she’s back in California to open her lingerie boutique. ...
Jump into a world where small-town secrets, heart-stopping suspense, and unexpected romance collide! The Windsor Series Box Set 1 packs a punch with four stories that'll keep you guessing. Imagine stumbling upon a serial killer who's eerily interested in you, or finding a dead body while house-sitti ...
It was just supposed to be a one-night stand. I couldn’t guess that she would be my best friend’s daughter. And my new stubborn client. Our brief and mind-blowing encounter was supposed to be a goodbye. Being a single parent was challenging enough. I didn’t need to be distracted by someone 20 years ...
He's chasing his dreams. She's hiding from her past. Can a hometown fundraiser heal their broken hearts? Jace Scholte is determined to rise above his poverty-stricken childhood. Years after a real estate developer took him under his wing, Jace has a mission: return to his hometown of Sweet Creek and ...
