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Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.

The powerful and prescient new novel in the bestselling Covert-One series. Lt. Colonel Jon Smith, currently working as a medical researcher, is contacted by a Russian colleague with an urgent request that they meet in Venice in ten days. When they meet, however, his colleague is killed almost instantly in a hail of automatic gunfire but not before he passes on to Smith the vital intelligence -- someone is out to steal Russia's store of the smallpox...

The continuing adventures of Titus Bass, a 19th century fur trapper married to an Indian woman as he tries to survive despite over-trapping by such giants as the Hudson Bay Company. In this seventh installment Bass fights wolves.

Can the years of experience surviving untold dangers in the Mountains of the West prepare Floyd Logan for the perils he will face as he returns to his Tennessee homeplace? Torn between the love he feels for his Shoshone wife, Leotie and son Mika, and his family in Tennessee, Floyd Logan determines he must return to see his aging parents. Timing couldn't be worse. Smallpox is attacking northern tribes, and this winter promises to be the worst in...

While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.

"In 1837 a smallpox epidemic devastated the Mandan Indians of the Great Plains. This novel shows the horrifying reality not only of the epidemic but also of Sioux slavery, cultural plundering by anthropologists, and exile. The heroine is a Mandan Indian princess, whose courage and spirit recall the heroines of M.M.B. Walsh's earlier novels. We see Grass Heart through her devotion to her father, Good Plume, whom she rescues from misfortune more than...

Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her best-selling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization and wants her help on an AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him--her publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a bit later. The truth is that Alma is seriously sidetracked...