Reading Recommendations:

The Sea Captain's Wife

As a new wife living on the Bay of Fundy, Azuba craves a life beyond the teaand sewing circles. It takes a rumor far more potent than her timid pleas to force her husband, the accomplished sea captain Nathaniel Bradstock, to allow her to join him abroad.

In the ship's cramped and swaying cabin, Azuba and her young daughter are segregated from the gruff crew, bored by the monotony of their days and terrified by the unpredictable violence of the sea. Nathaniel puts his hip and the crew first, so his family has neither a compass nor steward to ease them into the rhythms of this strange life.

But the ports they visit are as thrilling and exotic as Azuba imagined. During their travels from the vast, endless clamor of London to the tropical coasts of South America to the site in San Francisco where the Americans are building Golden Gate Park to the elegant hotels of Antwerp, Azuba's mind blossoms. Her struggle to balance her hunger and curosity for these vividly rendered settings with the patience and introspection required to salvage her marriage and nurture her young family is captivating and she faces tests that only a woman with her tenacious spirit and boundless fortitude could conquer.

An Act of Treason

Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson and his beautiful girlfriend, CIA agent Lauren Carson, are on a mission in Pakistan when their world is turned inside out. During a dangerous urban assault in two Taliban fighters in Islamabad, Kyle finds himself captured and imprisoned, suddenly alone in the hands of the enemy. Lauren, meanwhile, is accused by the CIA of being a double agent. The only person they can trust to protect them is the man who sent them on the black operation to begin with, Jim Hall, a legendary CIA agent, Kyle's sniper mentor, and Lauren's boss and former lover.

But Hall has gone rogue. He has agreed to sell America's innermost secrets to a ruthless Pakistani Warlor, who is planning to mod al Qaeda into a legitimate political party and secure a nuclear arsenal. Jim Hall, with decades as an insider in American defense and intelligence is the linchpin in the warlord's plans. Now Hall's former protege Swanson is the final obstacle.

The U.S. government's seccess or failure to stop al-Qaeda pivots on whether Swanson can stop his old friend, the man who trained him to be a shooter. From the streets of Washington to the Bavarian Alps, the two snipers must stalk each other in a deadly hunt that has only one possible outcome.

Emily's Chance

Emily Rose may be in the tiny West Texas town of Callahan Crossing for the moment, but it's just a rung on her ladder to success. Her work at the Callahan Crossing Historical Museum will look good on her ever growing resume as she attempts to break into the prestigious world of a big city meseum curator. Little does she know that cowboy and contractor Chance Callahan has decided that he can convince her to stay, both with the town and with him. As he helps Emily restore the town's history after a devastating fire, can he help her uncover the value of love?

Sharon Gillenwater was born and raised in West Texas and loves to write about her native state.

See you at Rylander!

, a novel, Sharon Gillenwater, a sniper novel, Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlia, USMC (Ret) with Donald A. Davis, a novel, Beth Powning

Reading Recommendations:

The Sea Captain's Wife

, a novel, Beth Powning

As a new wife living on the Bay of Fundy, Azuba craves a life beyond the teaand sewing circles. It takes a rumor far more potent than her timid pleas to force her husband, the accomplished sea captain Nathaniel Bradstock, to allow her to join him abroad.

In the ship's cramped and swaying cabin, Azuba and her young daughter are segregated from the gruff crew, bored by the monotony of their days and terrified by the unpredictable violence of the sea. Nathaniel puts his hip and the crew first, so his family has neither a compass nor steward to ease them into the rhythms of this strange life.

But the ports they visit are as thrilling and exotic as Azuba imagined. During their travels from the vast, endless clamor of London to the tropical coasts of South America to the site in San Francisco where the Americans are building Golden Gate Park to the elegant hotels of Antwerp, Azuba's mind blossoms. Her struggle to balance her hunger and curosity for these vividly rendered settings with the patience and introspection required to salvage her marriage and nurture her young family is captivating and she faces tests that only a woman with her tenacious spirit and boundless fortitude could conquer.

An Act of Treason

, a sniper novel, Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlia, USMC (Ret) with Donald A. Davis

Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson and his beautiful girlfriend, CIA agent Lauren Carson, are on a mission in Pakistan when their world is turned inside out. During a dangerous urban assault in two Taliban fighters in Islamabad, Kyle finds himself captured and imprisoned, suddenly alone in the hands of the enemy. Lauren, meanwhile, is accused by the CIA of being a double agent. The only person they can trust to protect them is the man who sent them on the black operation to begin with, Jim Hall, a legendary CIA agent, Kyle's sniper mentor, and Lauren's boss and former lover.

But Hall has gone rogue. He has agreed to sell America's innermost secrets to a ruthless Pakistani Warlor, who is planning to mod al Qaeda into a legitimate political party and secure a nuclear arsenal. Jim Hall, with decades as an insider in American defense and intelligence is the linchpin in the warlord's plans. Now Hall's former protege Swanson is the final obstacle.

The U.S. government's seccess or failure to stop al-Qaeda pivots on whether Swanson can stop his old friend, the man who trained him to be a shooter. From the streets of Washington to the Bavarian Alps, the two snipers must stalk each other in a deadly hunt that has only one possible outcome.

Emily's Chance

, a novel, Sharon Gillenwater

Emily Rose may be in the tiny West Texas town of Callahan Crossing for the moment, but it's just a rung on her ladder to success. Her work at the Callahan Crossing Historical Museum will look good on her ever growing resume as she attempts to break into the prestigious world of a big city meseum curator. Little does she know that cowboy and contractor Chance Callahan has decided that he can convince her to stay, both with the town and with him. As he helps Emily restore the town's history after a devastating fire, can he help her uncover the value of love?

Sharon Gillenwater was born and raised in West Texas and loves to write about her native state.

See you at Rylander!