HISTORICAL NOVELS
VAGABONDS AND KINGS:
THE LEGEND OF TONY LAMONTAGNE
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In 1896, teenager, Tony LaMontagne sets out to follow his dreams of a ranch, a beautiful wife and family. With few coins in in his pocket and no prospects, he hops a boxcar in Quebec and lands in Chicago. Immediately embroiled in a fistfight, he saves the life of rich, impulsive and blind Frank Mueller and becomes Frank’s bodyguard, driver and companion. Tony lives in Old World splendor, mingles with titans of industry, and gorgeous prostitutes. From Chicago’s elegant mansions to the sporting houses in the tenderloin, Tony discovers a life unimaginable in rural French Canada. Still, Tony’s dreams haunt him, urging him to go west. Six years pass while Tony works as a cowboy, ranch cook, and hauls freight. Finally, in 1902, he heads for the Yukon goldfields determined to find his destiny. Fast paced, unpredictable, and heart-stopping, Vagabonds and Kings spans the years from the end of the century to WWI. McCann’s amazing and enthralling novel proves a determined young man can find his dream, no matter how obscure, if he never stops searching.
KATHERINE
The sequel to Vagabonds and Kings
Katherine is the sequel to Vagabonds & Kings. Launched in the fall of 2020, Katherine is the story of an accomplished woman whose dreams were high as the nose on a giraffe.
“A finely woven rendering of an extraordinary woman’s life that spans the opening decades of the 20th Century. Richly emotional, vivid and accurate historical fiction that will keep the reader glued to the pages as they fly by.”
~ Steve Shadow, author of Lou Silt and Joey Mompo.
FIST FULL OF GRIT
A COOPER HUGHES STORY
By 1880, the Indian Wars have wound down. Cooper Hughes, a twenty-year-old, scrappy tomboy has inherited one of the finest cattle ranches in the Palouse country of the beautiful Northwest. So, how bad can her life be? She’s about to find out when her entire herd is stolen. Without cattle to sell, her ranch near River Ridge in Washington Territory, faces bankruptcy. The authorities threaten to take her little brother away, and she discovers her best friend has been knifed to death.
Some would give up. Not a survivor like Cooper. She finds a well-paying job, singing in a sleazy stage revue two hours down the Snake River. It means she must live a secret double life if she is to maintain her family’s respectability back home. If anyone can manage it all, she can. That is, until a Harvard man, way too handsome for his own good, walks into her life and they discover a serial killer is murdering young women in the Palouse.