Jordan Whitler, newly returned home from the American Civil War, is excited to return to the Rocky environs of Colorado that he has spent the last 4 years being able to only dream of, and to the family that he loves more than life itself. Anticipating a time of peace, where he can reconnect with his parents and older sister, and re-engage with those in the community, he comes home only to find that there’s a new battle ahead to face, that nothing could have prepared him for, and one that would threaten the unity of his family as much as the war had threatened the unity of the country he just fought in defense of. Unlike the battle he had just been immersed in though, this was one that was ...

In June 1775, amid the Revolutionary War’s early stirrings, Irish Yankee Jeremiah O’Brien, seizes a British-armed schooner off the Maine coast to thwart the cargo of lumber she was escorting from reaching British forces in Boston. Inspired by this daring victory, Jeremiah leaves his lumber business to command privateer vessels, relentlessly pursuing British merchant ships across dangerous waters.Defying the British navy’s tightening grip on the Massachusetts coast, he risks his life and his ships to capture many prizes. Yet his greatest battle may lay onshore: winning the heart of Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, a fiercely independent woman who loves the freedom he fights for. Only a man worthy...

A new audiobook is laced with world history, original music and allegories. Over two decades, James Allan Krause, a former university professor and professional writer produced Wetion (2nd edn). The author describes the historical fiction based on fact as  “timely and worldly.”Addy is the main character and wants to understand the family’s genealogy. He asks, what influenced ancestors to migrate to the flat prairies of Saskatchewan in Canada? And before that, Scotland, England and France? Where did all those cultural peculiarities originate? Seeking answers, he conducts an experiment.DNA provides the map. Research, imagination and good old fashioned storytelling combine to explain...

Arabus Drake, Greek vampire for 500 years, shares tales of his adventures, but unlike in the first book, “Love Stories,” here all he seeks is to belong somewhere. The adventures begin in 1505, where Arabus befriends a thief in Italy in his desire to be destroyed, until he realizes that too much time has passed since Althea left him. In 1603, Arabus travels back to Greece to find what became of his family bloodline. He meets a wandering poet who becomes obsessed with this man he thinks is a god. Arabus learns how his family died after he became vampiric, and uncovers the truth of the boy’s obsession with him.Along the way you will hear from three narrators who a...