Books with author Patti Thompson

Bryson Miller is a sixteen-year-old high school student who has already dealt with his mother's death and his father's subsequent alcoholism. When that happened, he adapted. He became the core of the family, making sure that groceries were bought and his sisters stayed out of trouble all while maintaining perfect grades with matching ambitions. Balancing his dysfunctional family life with a shining image became routine. He doesn't view himself as special or even especially unlucky. After all, there are plenty of people in his small town who are worse off. What is supposed to be just another normal Friday night, attending his friend Gary's party and keeping Gary out of trouble, becomes a nightmare when Bryson is attacked. In the days that follow, he does what he always does and attempts to adjust... to being a vampire. However, his sire won't leave him or his family alone. What she wants isn't something Bryson is willing to give, and when her threats to his girlfriend get Bryson killed, his soul ends up in the Underworld, ruled by the creator of vampires, the God of Temptation.Now Bryson is being asked to work for the god responsible not only for ruining his life but actually ending it. Although given a choice, the consequences for his refusal are far more complicated and far reaching than they seem. When he learns he won't be the one paying the price, how can he say no?Gods Don't Sleep is the first book in a planned trilogy. It serves as an origin story for the young protagonist and sets up the action to come.

Eleven years old and bored, Archie is horrified to discover that his food-cremating father and television-obsessed mother have arranged a visit to see his Great-Uncle Frank, with his dodgy hearing aid, hideous brown clothes and incontinent cat Plop. However, after just a few minutes of polite conversation, Archie manages to escape, only to end up lost in the rain. Cold, damp and desperate, Archie takes shelter in a nearby junk shop, where he is shocked to discover an awe-inspiring collection of weird and wonderful objects. This is nothing though, compared to the surprises that he is soon to encounter.Along with the shop’s owner Old Betty, a pink-haired girl called Skye and his Great-Uncle Frank, Archie embarks on a fantastic journey into a magical world of stuffed parrots, messages in bottles, time-travelling astrolabes, ploppy cats, desert islands and pirates, in his quest to save the world.

Shorty came slowly riding into Denver, cradling a young girl in his arms. Behind the saddle sat a young boy no more than a year older than the girl. He rode straight to the doctor’s office and helped them inside. “Where did you find them Marshal? “Around twelve miles west of town. The rest of the family is dead. And two more men and women." "Did you get a name?” “Folks name was Homer an’ Rachel Gilbreath. The boy's Nate, the girl Sally Ann. Doc you watch after um. I’ve got some huntin’ to do.” “Do you have any idea who did this?” “No but I’ll dad burn shor find out. After I go back an’ bury that family that is.”

France suffered seventy years of defeat during the Hundred Years War, but warrior saint Joan of Arc arrived in time to save her kingdom. Through her spiritual purity, military leadership, and tireless determination, she won many battles against England and Burgundy. With her famous flag leading the way, she returned King Charles VII to his throne at Reims. Follow author Paul B. Thompson as he takes the reader through Joan's amazing journey from a humble peasant girl to heroics, from her horrible execution to her eternal sainthood.

Sarah Wright and her father came to Salem Village to start a new life. But a strange affliction began tormenting some young girls in the village. After the doctor could not find a cause, he determined that it could only be one thing: Witchcraft! The Devil had come to Salem. As fear and panic spread, so did the accusations. After the executions began, Sarah’s father was arrested on suspicion of witchcraft. Will Sarah be able to save her father? What is happening in Salem? Set in colonial America, follow Sarah Wright on her journey in this terrifying tale of the Salem witchcraft trials.

Six riders had come up as she and Dan walked out on the porch after eating a wonderful supper. With guns in hand one man hollered, “Yore two weeks is up Camden!”Dan had been shot dead and she lay still in a pool of her own blood. The children, Neil and baby June had saved her life. June staying by her side as Neil saddled a horse and rode four miles bringing back the doctor. Lord that seemed so long ago, but the two years since had pasted very fast.She was well and strong enough to go looking for those six men and kill every one of them and the man that sent them. Her gear was packed, she would want for nothing.