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With a Culinary Arts degree as proof that a cosmopolitan lifestyle awaits her, Mia buys a ticket to New York, only to get an urgent call to come home to the Texas Hill Country.

Completely unprepared for the town and the people she has outgrown, she turns to cooking—it is all that separates her from her hometown roots—but with NYC on hold, she needs a job, but “dishwasher” at a bar and grill is all that’s available.

When Mia reconnects with her old high school sweetheart and heir to a Texas Century Ranch, she realizes she may still have a taste for Texas after all.

After his mother’s death and his father’s disappearance, ten-year-old Samuel is sent to live with his grandfather whom he barely knows. Upon his arrival, he finds that his new home is a dilapidated ranch with no one except Chiricahua Apaches as neighbors, but his adventures have just begun! An Apache talisman—the last gift given to Samuel by his father—reminds him of his dad’s promise: It will give you strength and guide you. It is only after the mysterious black lightning strikes that Samuel realizes how desperately its guidance is needed.

The 1849 Gold Rush is no place for a refined young woman on her own, but Quinn plans to become a businesswoman, independent, and capable of earning her own way. First, though, she must escape her wealthy but abusive father with her inherited dowry intact.

With her hopes and dreams buried deep by secrets, she flees to California’s gold country, a rugged man’s land where only the strong survive. Battling blackmail, fraud, and deception, Quinn must face the most divisive lie of all—her own. 

It is May 1932 and life in the timbered rise and fall of Western Arkansas has just gotten harder for sixteen-year-old Sooze Williams. With debt mounting and both friends and family fleeing, Sooze is determined to “do the right thing.” She promises her heart to a well-to-do man believing true love is just another loss along the way. But when her uncle is murdered and family is accused of the crime, Sooze faces a battle worth far than money.

A fateful decision spurs a perilous journey to save a life…

It’s 1932, and America’s Great Depression is ravaging the nation through poverty, starvation, and homelessness, but frankly, more important things are happening in the small town of Coaldale, Arkansas.

Sixteen-year-old Sooze Williams and her family are barely eking out a living on their inherited family farm in Western Arkansas. Many less fortunate families have already lost their homes and farms to the banks, the drought, and the times.

When older brother Henry reveals to Sooze a secret plan, she makes a fateful decision in an effort to keep her family close. A twist of fate–and a desperate lie–sends Sooze on a perilous journey to save someone dear to her. Dangerous as the journey may be, Sooze discovers that, in the end, few things in life matter more than love, hope, and trust.

Change of Fortune is now available in eBook and paperback from Wolfpack Publishing.

For airline pilot Addy Piper, flying is her life, so when an industry-wide furlough sends her job-hunting, she heads to the Texas Hill Country for an interview. She chooses a B&B from an outdated brochure, showing up unannounced. The owner of The Bluebonnet House admits he should have closed it years ago when his wife died, but when he looks at his daughter, he sees her mother and can’t let go of the dream. Lonely and alone, the pilot and the widower are confronted by a future no one, including them, believes can exist.

A few things in Texas remain constant: livestock shows, rodeos, and cowboys, and Chef Mia Ellis rejects them all.

With a Culinary Arts degree as proof that a cosmopolitan lifestyle awaits her, she buys a ticket to New York, only to get an urgent call to return to the Hill Country.

Mia finds herself completely unprepared for the town and the people she has outgrown. Her salvation is cooking-it’s all that separates her from her hometown roots-but with NYC on hold, she needs a job. A dishwashing gig at a bar and grill is all that’s available.

When Mia reconnects with her old high school sweetheart and heir to a Texas Century Ranch, she realizes she may still have a taste for Texas after all.

Kelsey-Rose was once half of a fairytale couple in the small town of Topaz. She was the beautiful barrel racer set to inherit a ranch of Texas Longhorns, and he’d been a saddle bronc rider, but when her fiancé dies in an accident she causes, she makes a deathbed promise to never love another.

Instead of ranching, she turns to flowers, buying a floral shop and becoming an integral part of the town in celebrations of everything from love to death. It was her way to find redemption.

Colton Wilde, a wealthy newspaperman from Dallas, has just lost everything in an ethics battle. With his bank account lower than he’s ever seen it, he buys The Blue Topaz Times, but the last thing he expects is to fall in love with the girl next door—a beautiful woman bound to the memory of another man.

In a parallel twist of fate, tragedy befalls both families. Colton goes home while Kelsey-Rose returns to The Forty Flowers Ranch.

Now, everything has changed. Even her unbroken promise.