Cliff has been an attorney in Arizona for 37 years. His formative years were spent in New Mexico where he developed a love for the southwest and its history. He was a commissioned officer in the U. S. Naval Reserve where he served briefly during the Vietnam War. His wife, Jacqueline, is an Arizona native with family members who came to Arizona when it was still a Territory. Cliff has many and varied interests. He has served as an elected member to a School Board and many community organizations. He has held a private single and multi-engine pilot's license and has flown private airplanes for many years. He is also an artist, working in pencil, charcoal, oils and acrylics. He and his wife have two married children, a daughter, Lori, married to Brent, with three children, and a son, Brian, married to Kristin, with two children. Both his son and son-in-law are ordained ministers. In 1880's Arizona, Jake Chandler is nineteen and married to Becca, a beautiful former prostitute at the Bucket, a saloon south of Fort Bowie. They are living happily in Table Top Valley, located in the Chiricahua Mountain in the Arizona Territory. But Big Kate Dawson, the former owner of the Bucket, refuses to concede that Becca is now a Christian and married to Jake. She is determined to force Becca back into prostitution and destroy Jake. Jake and Becca's faith in Christ and in each other are tested to the limit as they are subjected to the most devious and calculating efforts to destroy them both. They must struggle against overwhelming odds to hold on to their faith and restore their lives together in Table Top Valley.

Jake Chandler is a boy of 17 when he and his Ma and Pa join a small wagon train headed for the Arizona Territory. Terrible, heart-breaking circumstances force Jake to spend a long winter living alone in a cave in the Chiricahua Mountains, hiding from the Apaches. In the spring, he finds Fort Bowie and as he is leaving to return to his mountain valley, a young prostitute named Becca comes running out to him, screaming for help from men who are beating her. In the days and weeks that follow, Jake tries to explain his faith in Christ to Becca, but stumbles badly in the effort. Becca has never heard of Christ, and if she is to believe, she must struggle through an overwhelming sense of inferiority, guilt and shame, then find Jake as she runs for her life from Big Kate, who wants her dead

Kara makes a last-ditch effort to save her marriage. Kara and Jake survive their own trials and unforeseen hardships through adventure, suspense, and the mysterious battles of good, evil, pain, and sorrow, with an amazing victory for a new beginning. This book shows God’s unconditional love and His way of using circumstances to develop godly faith, love, and character.

Kara makes a last-ditch effort to save her marriage. Kara and Jake survive their own trials and unforeseen hardships through adventure, suspense, and the mysterious battles of good, evil, pain, and sorrow, with an amazing victory for a new beginning. This book shows Gods unconditional love and His way of using circumstances to develop godly faith, love, and character.

Many introductions to comics scholarship books begin with an anecdote recounting the author’s childhood experiences reading comics, thereby testifying to the power of comics to engage and impact youth, but comics and power are intertwined in a numbers of ways that go beyond concern for children’s reading habits. Comics and Power presents very different methods of studying the complex and diverse relationship between comics and power. Divided into three sections, its 14 chapters discuss how comics interact with, reproduce, and/or challenge existing power structures – from the comics medium and its institutions to discourses about art, subjectivity, identity, and communities. The contributors and their work, as such, represent a new generation of comics research that combines the study of comics as a unique art form with a focus on the ways in which comics – like any other medium – participate in shaping the societies of which they are part.