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1) Runaway
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Florida volume 1
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Florida plantation owner Jarrett McKenzie wins Tara Brent in a poker game and ends up marrying her, but that's not the end of the story. Tara is being pursued by Clive Carter, the son of the man she is accused of killing. McKenzie and Tara are often separated because of a war between the U.S. and the Seminoles in which they are involved on the Seminole side. By the author of And One Rode West.
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"The Florida Prairie, 1860, cattle country. War looms, but to the settlers living along a jungled, tropical creek, it all seems very far away. For Becky Hackensaw, there are much more pressing matters, such as providing an education for her six children, but where to find someone willing to brave an uninhabited wilderness overrun with wild animals, alligators, poisonous snakes, and bloodthirsty mosquitoes?"--Amazon.com
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"The Third novel in the "Tropical Frontier" series, The Gladesman is, in addition, the Second novel in the "Port Starboard" sub-series. From the darkest depths of the Everglades comes the Gladesman, and the tiny hamlet of Port Starboard will never be the same. The Gladesman, a swamp dweller, comes to Port Starboard - a tiny settlement on the northwest shore of 1880's Lake Worth - and everything goes downhill from there. Because of him, however, the...
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"The thirteenth novel in the "Tropical Frontier" series, The Last Caloosa is, in addition, the third and final novel in the "Indian Fighter" sub-series. The proverbial fork in the road: which path to follow? Bridges burned. No turning back. One can never know to where a single, momentary decision might lead, whether it be to a good place, or to a very, very bad place, indeed, to the gates of Hell themselves."--Amazon.com
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"A bitter old man, a resentful son who never knew his father, and a daughter-in-law who is intent on fixing everything. What could possibly go wrong? Set along the banks of a winding, jungle river, this is a story of reflection, regret, and the power of bullheadedness."--Amazon.com
9) Surrender
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"Nothing in her privileged life had prepared Yankee beauty Risa Magee for the dangers and intrigues of war ... Nothing in his years of battle could have prepared Rebel sea captain Jerome McKenzie for the desire that ignited when this lovely, reckless woman brazenly entered his home state of Florida--and his world."--Cover.
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Raised as a Seminole, Will Cypress is eager to join Osceola and his followers in the late 1830s as they battle white soldiers in the second Seminole War, fighting to remain in their Florida homelands, until a chance meeting with his white father's relatives causes Will to question his loyalties.
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In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenaged Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome changes her life and that of her family forever.
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"Scooter, Maryellen's pudgy pet dachshund, may be lazy, but he's one of the family, and Maryellen loves him dearly. And he never misses a meal! So when Scooter doesn't show up at dinnertime, she's worried. Maryellen launches a search and discovers some strange goings-on in her neighborhood. With the help of her friends and family, the search for Scooter takes Maryellen from the streets of Daytona Beach to the rocket launchpad at Cape Canaveral!"--Publisher....
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On Amelia Island in Spanish-ruled Florida in 1813, a treasure hunt causes trouble for ten-year-old Mary and her racially-mixed family, whose freedom is being threatened by Patriots from nearby Georgia despite the best efforts of Mary's mother, an African princess called Ana Jai Kingsley.
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