Books published by publisher State House Press, 2007

Frontier Fun is a charming new children's activity book with games, puzzles, and coloring pages for children of all ages. The playful illustrations capture kid's imaginations, and the activities will keep them enthralled for hours.Learning about Texas living and the people that made the frontier unique will help children utilize their creativity, expand their vocabulary, and exercise their brains—all while playing and having fun. Coloring pages and matching activities are age appropriate for children who have not begun reading. Fill in the blanks and word finds will challenge children of early elementary school age, while games like mazes, phrase decoding, and crossword puzzles are suitable for older children. Many more games, puzzles, and activities are included in the book that are appropriate for all ages. The 96 page activity book is great to use at home or in the classroom. Parents will enjoy how involved their children become with the activities, and teachers will appreciate how learning about Texas History is incorporated into the book.If you are looking for a fun distraction for your children, a new way to learn information about a time long past, or simple activities for a rainy day, Frontier Fun is a great deal.

VIRGIN CAY Gus Robinson has lost his boat—sunk beneath the waves thirty fathoms down—and nearly lost his life as well. But he manages to swim to land at Spanish Cay, and that’s how he meets Clare. She offers him her bed, her body, and later offers him the one thing he needs most of all—$20,000 which he can use to buy a new boat. Robinson is lost without his ketch, stripped of his freedom to set sail whenever the mood strikes him, to live life on his own terms. All he has to do to earn enough for a new boat is to commit murder, to kill the one person who stands between Clare and the inheritance she needs to continue to live her extravagant lifestyle. But it’s not until he meets Gwen that Robinson is forced to make the roughest choice of all. A NIGHT OUT Johnny Flake is trying to outrun his past, which is how he finds himself captaining the Vixen on a run down to Cuba with Cutter and Cruze. Cutter would just as soon kill you as look at you, and Cruze is so far into the bottle he’s beginning to smell like death itself. Flake has a bad feeling about this trip, and isn’t surprised to find that instead of smuggling booze off the island, he finds they’re carrying heroin instead. But he soon discovers new problems when mutiny sends him into the waters and onto the yacht being manned by playboy Allan Chambers and his oversexed wife, Jessica. All Chambers wants to do is feel the salt air in his hair. All Jessica wants to do is feel the next man. With the storm raging, and the two ships both heading for a little island off Key West, it’s going to be a long and turbulent night.