Brick Hill Publishing | Preacher's Son & Henry Brown

Campbell Smith, hot-tempered red head, is a self-righteous man who weakens under pressure in attempting to prove himself adequate to frontier life, and adequate provider over and above his wife's wealth. March, 1812, he is standing at his assigned post, a sentry on the rebuilt walls of Fort Stone. He resents his freezing assignment. After surviving the devastation of the 1811-1812 earthquakes in southeastern Illinois Territory, what else could be so dangerous as to need a watchman? A pre-1812 War strike, that's what.

Rebecca Smith, his take-charge wife, is developing delusions of self-importance in her take-over of the women's duties during the strike upon Fort Stone. This attack by outside forces and her own disposition put Rebecca in an un-admirable postion, no only with her husband, but the entire female population of the compound. This includes her best friend. Rebecca's personality is offset by an incident of comic relief for the task-driven women when she slips and falls.

Rebecca slips into the past in her mind as she faints from overwork, reliving the events prior to March, 1812.

When the Earthquakes Spoke

When the Earthquakes Spoke is a fast moving novel of pioneers and settlers struggling to open up the southern part of the Illinois Territory in the early 1800s, when disaster struck their world in the forms of a series of earthquakes. The setting is basically in an area surrounded by the Wabash, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers.The effect of the earthquakes of 1811-1812 on the lives of freedom-seeking farmers, trappers, squatters, titled land holders, miscreants, dissatisfied taxpayers, business people, and the newly-trained American soldier, is vividly described.Although the book contains bloodshed, dark secrets, light romance, ingrained bitterness, entrepreneurship, bonding, trust and distrust, it is light and easy reading.

There Oughta Be a Law

Sheriff Art Simonds is ready to retire and turn the department reins over to the first black sheriff ever t be elected in DeWitt County, Texas. Simonds is well aware of known sex offenders living in the county who have to register every birthday, each vehicle change, each move to another location.