THERE WAS NO MAN BRED IN THE ROCKIES HARDER THAN... MOUNTAIN JACK PIKE. Raunchy, rough and ready... that's Mountain Jack Pike... the best of the brawling beaver trappers. A hulking bear of a man, Jack Pike has all the necessary tools to stand hard and fast in the naked wilderness that surrounds him. Big and bold as the mountains that bred him, Mountain Jack has all the ladies lined up as he and Skins McConnell spend a few days with Jim Bridger and his mountain party. Jack's one of a dying breed of mountain men, and the ladies are hell-bent on saving the strain! And Jack's hard put to ignore all those sweet-sniffing intentions. It's enough to drive a poor man up the nearest gopher hole! By the time Jack and Skins head for the hills, Jack's as hard and raw as a blister on a cow's rump during mating season. Elsewise, he wouldn't have been such easy pickings for those Crow Indians. Jack draws the line at being used as Crow bait as the Redskins try to use him to lure Bridger into a trap. Madder than a male timbercat up a tree, Jack takes it real personal. It's tough to keep a hard man down, and neither Crow nor critter can keep Jack from coming out on top with all his equipment in apple-pie order.

I am the whisperer and the words I speak echo within you. I am the whisperer and my words do not fade, they endure to the end. Everything changed when the high priest defied the dark spirit Vatu. One man split into two, now one is a ghost and the other is free. But while Utas, the high priest, is released from his shackles, Vatu still commands the world, the Sun, and the twelve priests below him. Alaba, the girl who shines like the moon, is alive and in danger. A heretic priest, follower of the Author of All Things, sends her away from the Valley of the Sun for her safety, only for her and her caretakers to be captured by bandits. They make a reluctant home among the bandits, but even in this village of outcasts, rivalries and secrets threaten their safety and their lives. While the other priests of Vatu set out on their own dark quests, famine spreads across the dark lands. Hunger turns to desperation and war looms over the struggle for what little food remains. Utas finds purpose when he finally reunites with his daughter, but how can he keep her safe when death closes in on all sides?

When a tribe of Crow Indians tries to settle an old score against hunter Jim Bridger, they capture Moutain Jack Pike to use as bait. Now, it is time to kill or be killed as Mountain Jack and his friend Skins McConnell struggle to save their lives and the lives of Jim Bridger's group of hunters!

When Josie Miller is called out to Minnie Tate's old farmhouse right before Halloween, she doesn't suspect that she'll get involved with a cold case that her father, previous Sheriff, did not solve. Strange rustlings and whisperings are coming from the pumpkin patch and Minnie's favorite scarum-crow, "Ol' Crowbait," is keeping secrets.

Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hope, healing, and unexpected friendship set amidst the wild natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Frankie O’Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old son, Aiden, who refuses to speak. At Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes nestled on the shores of June Lake, in the remote foothills of Mount Adams, it’s off-season with most houses shuttered for the fall. But Frankie, adrift, returns to the rundown caretaker’s cottage that has been in the hardworking O'Neill family for generations—a beloved place and a constant reminder of the family she has lost. And Anne, in the wake of a tragedy that has disrupted her career and silenced her music, has fled to the neighboring house, a showy summer home owned by her husband's wealthy family. When Frankie finds an injured baby crow in the forest, little does she realize that the charming bird will bring all three lost souls—Frankie, Anne, and Aiden—together on a journey toward hope, healing, and rediscovering joy. Crow Talk is an achingly beautiful story of love, grief, friendship, and the healing power of nature in the darkest of times.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.