Chancy Flint

Chancy Flint
Author: Keith R. Ostling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1304901734

"Chancy Flint" tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy who is suddenly forced to accept adult responsibilities in Civil War era Kentucky. His mother is kidnapped by an evil Shawnee war chief. His father sets out to rescue her, leaving Chancy to care for his five-year-old brother, the family farm, and all the animals. Chancy faces many challenges at which most grown-ups would cringe. But we see him grow up straight and strong, tempered by adversity, not defeated by it.

Chancy Flint: Cowboy

Chancy Flint: Cowboy
Author: Keith R. Ostling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 131241720X

Chancy Flint: Cowboy is the second in a series of five novels following the life of a young man from age twelve into his thirties. Chancy becomes a cowboy who is good with horses, cattle, and guns. Honest, courageous, hard-working and loyal, Chancy is a man to ride the river with. Right after the Civil War Chancy and his partners ride into South Texas and round up and brand over 3,000 unbranded mavericks and 365 horses. They then drive the herd up the Shawnee Trail to the railhead at Sedalia, Missouri. Along the way, they must deal with violent weather, floods, stampedes, hostile Indians, and rustlers. Chancy faces life's challenges with courage and resourcefulness. Over the five novels we watch him grow up straight and strong, tempered by adversity, not defeated by it.

The St. Elmo Murders

The St. Elmo Murders
Author: Keith R. Ostling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1312466529

This is the third in a three-novel series featuring Dan and Etta Currie. A mysterious telegram from Matt Halliday, an old friend, led Dan Currie to travel to 1880s St. Elmo, a gold mining boom town high in the Colorado Rockies. When he arrived, his friend lay mortally wounded. Halliday died in Currie's arms. Currie vowed he would not leave St. Elmo until Halliday's murderer was captured. Dan's investigation led him to try to unravel the complex web of alliances and animosities that were the seamy underbelly of St. Elmo. With the help of a newspaper publisher and another old friend, Currie was slowly but surely sorting out the players. The murderer, apparently worried that Currie was getting too close, made several unsuccessful attempts on Currie's life. Would Currie figure it out before they killed him?

The Guns of Jericho

The Guns of Jericho
Author: Keith R. Ostling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2014-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1312439386

This book is the fourth in a five-novel series About Chancy Flint, a young man who is suddenly forced to face adult responsibilities and dangerous situations at a very young age. By age twenty Chancy had already faced more danger than many men face in a lifetime. He grew up straight and strong, tempered by adversity, not defeated by it. In this book Chancy travels to Colorado to find the woman he intends to marry. When she's not in Denver where she's supposed to be, he goes searching for her. He finds she suffers from amnesia and has been taken in by Jacob McCandless, a ruthless, dangerous man who refuses to let her leave. Chancy unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous range war culminating in an all-out gun battle involving about twenty men in the street of the fictional Kansas town of Jericho.

Trail to the Palisades

Trail to the Palisades
Author: Keith R. Ostling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2014-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1312463023

This is the second in a 3-novel series featuring Dan Currie, a gambler turned business man in an 1870s gold mining town high in the Colorado Rockies. Currie had always considered himself a lucky man. He'd won a non-producing gold mine in a poker game and soon hit one of the biggest strikes in Colorado. He and his wife, Etta, now owned several mines, a bank, a hotel, and a large ranch with thousands of cattle. But Currie's luck had suddenly turned bad. A huge explosion tore his highest producing gold mine apart. His bank was robbed. One of his young cowboys was brutally murdered when rustlers hit his ranch. Currie was shot off a cliff and nearly drowned. And now, someone had hired Sam Gash, a dangerous professional assassin to murder him. Lightening fast with a gun, Gash was also known to kill from ambush on occasion. One thing was certain. When Gash and Currie met, someone would surely die.

First Lady of Nowhere

First Lady of Nowhere
Author: Keith R. Ostling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2014-09-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1312459247

This book is the first in a three-novel series featuring Dan Currie, a smart, loyal and successful gambler. Etta Lee, a beautiful young madam brought the first women into a booming gold mining town with the unlikely name of "Nowhere." Her parlor house was wildly successful and she quickly became Nowhere's most prominent figure, known far and wide as "The First Lady of Nowhere." Unfortunately, Etta was kidnapped at gunpoint by a vicious, dangerous renegade who intended to torture and murder her. She knew that to survive she'd have to escape. But how?

The Lake County War

The Lake County War
Author: Keith R. Ostling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1312445041

Between June, 1874 and October, 1881 the residents of what is now Chaffee County, Colorado endured a prolonged period of the most extreme violence ever to occur in Colorado. In 1874, the area was part of Lake County, thus the name ""The Lake County War."" During this bloody conflict it is said more than 100 men were murdered including a judge sitting in his courtroom. Vigilantes forced many families to leave their homes and property to avoid being murdered. This book, though fictionalized somewhat to make it more readable, tells the true story of what happened. It is the fifth in a five-novel series featuring Chancy Flint, a smart, tough, highly principled young cowboy who is chained lightening with a gun. He's not a gunfighter. He's the type of man gunfighters stay away from if they're smart.

The Rocking T Rustlers

The Rocking T Rustlers
Author: Keith R. Ostling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1304901750

"The Rocking T Rustlers" is the third novel in a five-novel series featuring a character called Chancy Flint. Chancy is a young cowboy who's good with horses, cattle and guns. He figures out that someone is changing brands on Rocking T stock to the Circle Cross brand. He eventually figures out who's behind the rustling as well as a couple of murders. The local sheriff is on the rustler's payroll, so it falls to Chancy Flint to bring the rustler to justice. But the rustler is surrounded by hired gunmen. The odds are heavily against him, but he vows to do his best. He says he can do nothing more -- and he can do nothing less.

The Cluster Series

The Cluster Series
Author: Piers Anthony
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 1799
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 150405492X

“Original and fascinating . . . entertaining and beautifully written,” the complete series from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Xanth Novels (Science Fiction Review). Seamlessly blending science fiction and fantasy, New York Times–bestselling author Piers Anthony presents an epic adventure series in a completely original universe. Cluster: In a battle to control the energy of the Milky Way galaxy, two adversaries of superior Kirlian auras—green-skinned Flint of Outworld and a female Andromedan agent—are irresistibly drawn to each other. Chaining the Lady: Melody of Mintaka, a direct descendant of Flint and his Andromedan mate, must save the Milky Way from the enemy Andromedans, who have discovered the secret of involuntary hosting—possessing another individual via a stronger aura. Kirlian Quest: With his hyper-intense Kirlian aura, Herald the Healer, an aural descendant of Flint and Melody, must unravel the secrets of the Ancients to defend against the Space Amoeba, a fleet of alien ships a million strong. Thousandstar: A new Ancient Site has been discovered, and in the competition to explore it, both host Heem of Highfalls and his transferee, Jessica of Capella, harbor secrets that may cost them their lives. Viscous Circle: The bloodthirsty Solarians, desperate to possess the secrets of the Ancient Site, target the Bands, strange and beautiful pacifist beings, and only Rondl has the knowledge to save his race from extinction.