“I found the characters are people that we can all relate to in real life. Also it relates to the struggle that some people have in trying to find their place and where they came from in this world. Tommie did an excellent job in painting a real life situation that could have happened just after the civil war.”

 –3 Green Onions

Leaving the death and bloodshed of the War Between the States behind him, Martin searches for his lost family. When an old Ranchero, Luis Alvarado, claims him as his grandson, Martin finds himself hated by the ranch hands and faced with an aloof, but highly critical grandfather.

When he saves Filipe Terraza, the son of a rival family, Martin is beaten by Alvarado’s roundup crew and left for dead on the border between the two ranches where riders for the Terraza family find him. Out of gratitude for saving Filipe, the Terraza family takes Martin into their home and nurses him back to health. As he grows to trust them, Martin chooses to turn his back on what remains of his family.

As Martin finds peace working for the Terraza family, he learns of a secret buried in the family past that binds his loyalty to them, but when Alvarado’s men rekindle the feud and draw Martin back into the blood, violence, and fear he wanted to leave behind in the war and leaving him with the emptiness of dying without ever knowing his true family.

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After three years of searching, Shiloh finds his family living in central Montana Territory, but the joy of reunion is quickly snuffed out by the lingering rage in his older brother. Uncertain of how to share the secret of his identity with the Mercer family, Shiloh chooses to keep silent until after his brother finds peace.

Cormac Mercer left his boyhood and his twin brother dead on the battlefields of Tennessee and returned with nothing but anger left in him and an ever-present desire to die. Shiloh, a well-known gunfighter, offers an easy and respectable way to end his life and escape the never-ending nightmares.

Redemption seems within reach for both men when a gunfight ends with one family member dead by Shiloh’s hand. Knowing his family could never accept him afterward, he flees the ranch to face whatever end Fate may hand him alone.

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Coming Soon

Clay Lockhart never had an easy life growing up in Middle West, North Dakota. After witnessing a murder at the hands of bootleggers, he is sent to reform school in an effort to cover up the smuggling operation. Twelve years later, he returns as a member of the rum running syndicate tasked with solving the mystery of the local operation’s lost revenue.

Sophia Palmer was always the smartest kid in class. Daughter of the local banker, she grew up wanting for nothing but the love of her family. Her relationship with her father is completely shattered when she follows him into the woods one night and sees him kill their guest from Bismarck, a man she thought was her father’s friend. Burying the secret deep in the back of her mind and throwing herself into her studies, she becomes a doctor in an effort to stay away from Middle West as long as possible.

Unable to find a job elsewhere, she finds herself back in the town she only ever wanted to flee. Then, when Clay shows up he brings with him all the demons she managed to keep locked away for over a decade.

Frank Palmer built an empire since the dawn of Prohibition. Now, he owns the local law and possesses enough power that no one questions his character, but Clay Lockhart threatens everything he knows and relies on for his comfortable life, including his standing with the Syndicate.

Set in an upper Midwest border town, Wretched Road (working title), is a story about consequences, both good and bad.