Danny McPherson

The Elusive AncestorA vicious civil war is savaging the country, threatening to destroy the very fabric of civilization.Families are torn apart.Brother is pitted against brother, and father against son, as America is divided into two regions. North and South.Young William McPherson wants no part of, what seems to him, a futile and senseless war, so he escapes. Patricia Shannon lives with her husband in a small mountain town in southern Colorado.

"If you're interested, the agency will pay you very well for every child you bring to me, no questions asked." Mrs. Williams told her."What do you expect me to do? Pop out a baby every year?' Carol said jokingly. "I don't think so!""Of course not!" Mrs. Williams laughed for a moment, and then turned serious. "I just told you, no questions asked. I don't care where you get the child, or how.""I don't see how...surely you don't mean, kidnap or...?" Carol gasped."I didn't suggest anything like that. That was your idea, not mine." She looked at Carol without so much as a blink."Any infant will be acceptable, however the fee could be considerable if you bring me a child of the requested race, and gender, and coloring. How, and where, you get the child is your affair, none of my business."*****The investigation into a series kidnappings in Denver, leads to an unexpected, and uncomfortable, reunion between a father and daughter.The daughter, Meddie McPherson, had been raised in a string of foster homes after she was orphaned as a child. Her mother died young, and the child grew into a woman, believing that her father had abandoned her and her mother. Patricia Shannon lives with her husband in a small mountain town in southern Colorado.

Daniel McPherson is single, twenty-nine years old, and although he makes his living as a trash collector, he dreams of becoming a con man. Never mind that every scheme he has ever thought up has been doomed to failure, he is certain that this time his "can't fail idea" will succeed.When Danny finds a box of leather bound genealogy journals he thinks that he has found a way to easy riches. The journals contain detailed information about what, he believes to be, one of the wealthiest families in Colorado.The idea is to convince this large and scattered family that he is one of them, and therefore entitled to share some of the fortune; he hasn't exactly figured out how he is going to accomplish this, but is determined to try anyway. Patricia Shannon lives with her husband in a small mountain town in southern Colorado.