Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W Michael Gear

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W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear are best selling authors & award winning archaeologists who have published over 90 novels.

New York Times bestselling author Kathleen O’Neal Gear writes with poignancy and realism tales of the past that are both immensely entertaining and surprisingly educational. Lovely Andiora is a Huron Indian in seventeenth-century North America. A seeress with an unbreakable bond to the spirit world, she has foreseen a frightening vision of a blond man in a black robe, whose coming will bring misery, despair, and death to her people. Father Marc Dupre is a French missionary who has arrived in Quebec to bring the word of Christ. He is ill-equipped to deal with the growing love he feels for Andiora, an attraction which is mutual. But a threat…
The American Civil War tore at the very roots of our nation and destroyed most of a generation. To truly understand the madness and despair of such a horrendous conflict one needs to pick a moment. Or see that war through one family’s eyes. In rural Arkansas, such was the Hancocks. Devastated by a cruel war, they faced down their personal hells and in spite of it all survived. Their survival is a testament to the power of love…and the American spirit. This is their story. And ours. Books are available from:  
The last desperate years of the Huron, and the French Jesuits who went among them. A love story, and a portrait of the struggle between shaman and priest for the souls of a dying people. In the epic tradition of Sacajawea and Hanta Yo, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, bestselling co-author of People of the Earth, unfolds a rich and moving saga of the confrontation between the Old World and the New … and of the men and women whose passions shaped the destiny of a continent. Andiora is a lovely daughter of the Huron Indians of the seventeenth-century North America. A seeress with a strong bond to the spirit…
WOMEN OF THE WEST Thin Moon and Cold Mist is the moving portrayal of one woman's struggle to stay one step ahead of the law and to hold on to her identity in a harsh world. The privileged bride of a Virginia military man, Robin Heatherton is a spy for the Confederacy. Disguised as a young boy, she infiltrates Yankee forces during the Battle of the Wilderness, but when her cover is compromised, she is forced to crawl through mud and gore, past the dead, to reach her own lines with vital intelligence. Her husband dead at the hands of the Yankees, Robin flees into the untamed reaches…
DREAMS OF DESTINY Drawn by troubling dreams of a handsome Indian warrior, Colleen Merrill had come westward with her brutal husband to homestead in the Montana wilderness - only to fall in love with Lieutenant Matthew Douglas, a dashing U.S. Cavalry officer. Wounded Bear, a young Cheyenne warrior and medicine man, had been told in a vision by the great spirit-wolf that a golden-haired woman held the power to save his people from invasion. As the drums of war beat ever louder, Wounded Bear knew he must find this woman or the Cheyenne would be scattered - like grains of sand in the wind. Books are available from:
In 1874 the western frontier was a fierce and lawless land, home to a new breed of Americans. Men lived by their wits and their guns or died swiftly. One man learned his lessons well and trusted no one. He had only one goal in life, to find and kill the man who murdered his parents. The path he followed was long and bloody. His name was Theo Belk. Books are available from:
The murdering jasper Branton Bragg sent Web Catton off to meet his maker in the snows of the New Mexican high country, and the gunshots echoed all the way to St. Louis. There Ab Catton learned of the death of the Pa he never knew, and left a respectable job to strap on a pair of shooting irons. Riding hell for leather, Ab swore not to rest till he united his family - a half-dozen strangers scattered throughout the West. The Catton's had a blood debt that needed paying off, plus a legacy to be claimed: Web's legacy of gold! For the first time in the family's history,…