Books with author R. Cyril West

Four-star point guard. One-on-one champ. Insane skills. Everything was looking up. Until …After the death of his father in Afghanistan, a fallen basketball phenom with a violent streak struggles to stay above the fray.Escaping his troubled past―including a deadly 1-on-1 basketball league―Troy Blake confronts his inner demons by working on a commercial fishing boat in the Bering Sea. A year later, having fished the most dangerous waters in the world, he’s a changed man, and no longer resorts to violence to solve his problems.But just as he meets the right girl, and turns his life around, a gang-related murder on the hardwood back home reignites his fire.Now, with a thirst for vengeance, Troy drops everything and returns to his border town past to find the killer, embarking on a course of self-destruction that threatens his improbable comeback. With his dream to play college basketball in jeopardy, will he finally#DoTheRightThing ?__________________For readers 17+ due to mature themes, language and content.

Four-star point guard. One-on-one champ. Insane skills. Everything was looking up. Until …After the death of his father in Afghanistan, a fallen basketball phenom with a violent streak struggles to stay above the fray.Escaping his troubled past―including a deadly 1-on-1 basketball league―Troy Blake confronts his inner demons by working on a commercial fishing boat in the Bering Sea. A year later, having fished the most dangerous waters in the world, he’s a changed man, and no longer resorts to violence to solve his problems.But just as he meets the right girl, and turns his life around, a gang-related murder on the hardwood back home reignites his fire.Now, with a thirst for vengeance, Troy drops everything and returns to his border town past to find the killer, embarking on a course of self-destruction that threatens his improbable comeback. With his dream to play college basketball in jeopardy, will he finally#DoTheRightThing ?__________________For readers 17+ due to mature themes, language and content.

Garden of the Bear by C. R. West is a fictional tale of young siblings Billy and Katie, ages eleven and eight, respectively. They live in the small town of Normanville, not far from the idyllic Lake Pumpkin where Will, Aunt Lucy's fiancé, owns a farm, including the lake and the woods surrounding it. The story begins with Billy dreaming, as usual; little did he know that day he would soon learn things he never could have expected and find himself in the middle of an investigation. Much of this information would come from an old man with long white hair that would come to be known as Uncle Noble and believed to be Will's uncle, and of Cherokee ancestry. He would share with them the secrets of the wood...of creatures, both seen and unseen...and how they work together to protect the tranquility of the land. While this story is fiction, the author has woven a tapestry which depicts what can happen when unscrupulous people propose development projects...the results of which may not necessarily benefit the residents of the community.