Books with author Hank Barone

In mid 1800’s New Mexico, a dangerous world is waiting. Zach Malone and Elena de Alba, two extraordinary 15-year-olds from different cultures, are forced into one perilous adventure after another. Both having lost their families in Apache attacks, their escape takes them into a gripping and frightening tale of adventure with both Apaches and white men. Unable to find a safe haven, they discover the entrance into a parallel universe.There they find even more formidable adversaries. As they move with nonstop action from one threat to another, their honesty and kindness earn them new friendships, but the alternate world proves to be more lethal and violent than their own. They must depend on each other for their survival. Although Zach is badly wounded, with an unexpected ally’s help, they succeed in returning to their homeland.

From the moment 19-year old Lori Wagner decides to sail with her dad’s ashes to his favorite Caribbean island, her life becomes one emotion-packed adventure after another. Lori and her crazy Uncle Jack discover her dad, a black ops officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), was murdered for the damming evidence he had collected of the agency’s illegal covert operations in Saudi Arabia.After his death, proof arrives on a flash drive in the mail to Lori, putting her in mortal danger. The DIA will never stop until they recover it, creating a fast-paced battle between good and evil. Facing not only her dad’s enemies, but also drug runners, pirates, violent storms and her own fears, she must evade the teams dispatched to silence her.With one pulse-pounding encounter after another, the blistering pace never lets up. Nor does the Caribbean. There is always danger. It can be peaceful and beautiful one minute and deadly an instant later.After Lori returns to her New Mexico ranch, Ghost, enters the fray; an enormous gray wolf Lori raised after a mountain lion killed its mother. The powerful wolf saves Lori several times from deadly encounters.BETRAYED features appealing characters, as well as villains, with non-stop action that keeps pulses racing and pages turning until the last paragraph.

Just fifteen, American Jake Brandon is alone, on the run and desperate. His life becomes one hair-raising adventure after another when he breaks away from kidnappers and flees into the jungles of Chiapas, Mexico. Aided by 17-year-old Chanti Alexander, a half-Indian orphan, and Ba lam, the wild jaguar she raised from a cub, he eludes his pursuers. Set in the lush and treacherous Mexican jungle, the dauntless teens move with nonstop action from one threat to another, confronting jaguars, pumas, venomous snakes, boa constrictors, crocodiles, deadly rivers, tomb raiders and poachers. During their perilous quest to reach safety, Jake and Chanti learn to depend on one another as danger drives them further into the jungle.

From the moment 19-year old Lori Wagner decides to sail with her dad’s ashes to his favorite Caribbean island, her life becomes one emotion-packed adventure after another. Lori and her crazy Uncle Jack discover her dad, a black ops officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), was murdered for the incriminating evidence he had collected of the agency’s illegal covert operations in Saudi Arabia. After his death, proof arrives on a flash drive in the mail to Lori, putting her in mortal danger. The DIA will never stop until they recover it, creating a fast-paced battle between good and evil. Facing not only her dad’s enemies, but also drug runners, pirates, violent storms and her own fears, she must evade the teams dispatched to silence her. With one pulse-pounding encounter after another, the blistering pace never lets up. Nor does the Caribbean. There is always danger. It can be peaceful and beautiful one minute and deadly an instant later. After Lori returns to her New Mexico ranch, Ghost, enters the fray; an enormous gray wolf Lori raised after a mountain lion killed its mother. The powerful wolf saves Lori several times from deadly encounters. BETRAYED features appealing characters, as well as villains, with non-stop action that keeps pulses racing and pages turning until the last paragraph.

Just fifteen, American Jake Brandon is alone, on the run and desperate. His life becomes one hair-raising adventure after another when he breaks away from kidnappers and flees into the jungles of Chiapas, Mexico. Aided by 17-year-old Chanti Alexander, a half-Indian orphan, and Ba lam, the wild jaguar she raised from a cub, he eludes his pursuers. Set in the lush and treacherous Mexican jungle, the dauntless teens move with nonstop action from one threat to another, confronting jaguars, pumas, venomous snakes, boa constrictors, crocodiles, deadly rivers, tomb raiders and poachers. During their perilous quest to reach safety, Jake and Chanti learn to depend on one another as danger drives them further into the jungle.

In mid 1800's New Mexico, a dangerous world is waiting. Zach Malone and Elena de Alba, two extraordinary 15-year-olds from different cultures, are forced into one perilous adventure after another. Both having lost their families in Apache attacks, their escape takes them into a gripping and frightening tale of adventure with both Apaches and white men. Unable to find a safe haven, they discover the entrance into a parallel universe.There they find even more formidable adversaries. As they move with nonstop action from one threat to another, their honesty and kindness earn them new friendships, but the alternate world proves to be more lethal and violent than their own. They must depend on each other for their survival. Although Zach is badly wounded, with an unexpected ally's help, they succeed in returning to their homeland.

This eclectic collection of short stories by poet Frank Barone introduces readers to a variety of characters, and leaps from sweet reminisces at a grocery store counter to tales of the complicated life of a young woman in love. Barone’s simple prose and riveting storytelling will simultaneously take your breath away and warm your heart. Dive into these stories and spend an hour or seven roaming the California coastline and seeking adventures in the streets of Brooklyn. You won’t be sorry you did.