Books

Exile

An Epic Novel of Colonial America and the Wilderness Frontier
Book #1 from the series: Monuments of Grass

He was torn from everything he knew and dropped into a wilderness that wanted him dead, with nothing but his hands and his wits.

Boundless McLennan, a Scottish printer, arrives in the American colonies as an indentured convict, certain his life is over.

It hasn't even begun.

Britain and France are carving up a continent. The frontier runs on...

Read more

The Fur Post

An Epic Historical Novel of the Western Frontier and Fur Trade
Book #2 from the series: Monuments of Grass

He survives wild animals, grass fires, hostile patrols and the warring tribes caught between France and Britain. What he cannot outrun is his own obsession.

Boundless McLennan, escaped convict, is lost and alone on the vast prairies of 18th century America. The French and Indian War is raging as two empires battle for a continent, the native...

Read more

The Claim

A Civil War and Great Plains Historical Frontier Saga
Book #3 from the series: Monuments of Grass

He survived Gettysburg. Holding on to his great-grandfather's land may take more from him than the war did.

Purchase McLennan comes home from the Civil War to the one inheritance his family has never had to defend: a stone buffalo carved out of a rock monolith on the Dakota grass, raised by a great-grandfather he never knew, on land that nobody...

Read more

New France

A Novel of French-Canadian History and Forbidden Identity
Book #4 from the series: Monuments of Grass

A feverish man awakens in a strange lodge, tended by a mysterious woman speaking an unknown tongue. ‘Who am I?’ he demands. The unanswered question will haunt him to his last breath.

The year is 1900. New France, a semi-autonomous region of French-speaking Quebec, is on the cusp of profound change. The once unquestioned authority of the church is...

Read more

Voyages of Discovery

An Epic Historical Saga of Modern Reckonings and Ancestral Legacy
Book #5 from the series: Monuments of Grass

He journeyed a thousand miles to seek answers to his family legacy and found — and then lost — himself.

Finn Wheeler is a journalist in New France. Separatist passions are rising as an election looms: on one side, nostalgic habitants loyal to a romantic vision of the past; on the other, liberal reformists attached to a federal union with Quebec...

Read more