For herpetologist and lover of rattlesnakes, Charlie Goodwoman, Captain Yellowhenry’s six gun style of handling rattlers is an abomination. Yellowhenry feels the same about Goodwoman’s style of making pets of the reptiles. The two must forge a truce when Yellowhenry’s pre-teenaged son, James, becomes an on the job herpetology aspirant at the Greasewood Serpentarium. Domestic turmoil twists Trooper Joe’s marital bliss into a misery of confounding emotions and surprising outcomes.

From a shiftless Indian farrier and auxiliary tribal policeman, Yellowhenry rises to tribal sheriff to captain of the Havre office of the Montana Highway Patrol.

A simple jungle river expedition to retrieve tissue samples from a plane crash in the highlands of Colombia becomes a terror-filled quest for cartel gold and the love of a beautiful cartel prostitute.

Finding gold in the Rio Estrella was easy for Alec and Jordanne, the only survivors of a plane crash in the Columbian highlands. Getting out alive for the two city dwellers with their gold was a river journey filled with cartel-fueled terror, death, near escapes, and love.

In the rough-edged saloons and rugged backcountry of 1950s Idaho, Sheriff Howdy Hansom keeps the peace with a Colt .45, a quick wit, and a voice powerful enough to stop a bar fight cold. By daylight he enforces the law; by night he brings down the house as The Singing Sheriff, backed by a ragtag band of outlaws, hookers-turned-backup-singers, and small-town dreamers hungry for a better life.