Brody Martin's Adventures

Family-friendly action and adventure set in 1880 The crops have failed and his family is starving, so 14-year-old Brody slips out into the early morning darkness, desperate to find food in the foothills of the Devil's Backbone. A terrible accident, a rescue by a delusional ex-slave, and a journey to find his family has Brody growing into a man...and also wanted for murder.

Book 2 in Brody's Adventures. It's 1881 and fifteen-year-old Brody Martin has taken refuge in Indian Territory from the Miller clan. The Millers are accusing him of horse-thieving and murder...and they don't care who they hurt to find him. Brody is hired on by Joseph, a Cherokee Indian, to help run his trap lines in the wilderness. Just as he starts to feel safe, he stumbles across a dying man and finds out there are worse things than being separated from his family and wanted for murder. With enemies ready to ambush him in Fort Smith and pure evil stalking through the woods, Brody has to pick his path carefully or he may end up trapped.

Indian Territory, 1881. Brody Martin, at 15, has survived a gunpowder explosion, a bear attack, a panther attack, and more than one attempt on his life. But now he is wanted in Fort Smith for a crime he did not exactly commit, and bounty hunters are on his trail. To elude them, he finds a crack in the face of a ridge and slips into a cavern known as the Devil's Den, trapped by the men who would like to redeem the price on his head dead or alive. Separated from his closest friend Ames, a former slave and Civil War veteran, and Wolf, a Cherokee tracker, and an unlikely ally, Brody is left to contemplate his options and the friends and family he may never see again.