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Winchester Harbor
Book 1 of the Full Sails series
by Wes Boyd ©2011, ©2013
Jake Lewis is at odds with his family over a girl he thought was his life partner who doesn't seem to feel that way. He doesn't know what to do except go looking for a new life somewhere else. Helping on a marina fuel dock, crewing on a Great Lakes charter fishing boat, and learning to sail help to take his mind off a cheating fiance and his family problems, but not enough. Will the new friends he's made, including some rather special girls, help him find new direction and goals? And perhaps a new love from an unexpected quarter?
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Winter Layoff
Book 3 of the New Spearfish Lake series
by Wes Boyd ©2011, ©2013
Clark Construction equipment operator Jim Wooten likes to spend his winter layoff snowmobiling, ice fishing, and getting away from his sister and his alcoholic ex-wife. He’s guilt-tripped into seeing what can be done about getting his aunt and invalid uncle back into their home, which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. It turns out that a good man with helpful friends and a backhoe can solve a lot of problems – including some of his own.
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Icewater and the Alien
Book 8 of the Dawnwalker Cycle
by Wes Boyd ©2011, ©2012
Duane and Michelle are Colorado River raft guides in the Grand Canyon in the summer and sled dog mushers in Alaska in the winter. It’s the perfect life for them – lots of fun and adventure, and nothing much of the conventional life, freedom from bosses and desk jobs, peer pressure and politics, mortgages, and marriage and kids. Little do they realize that it’s too good to last . . .
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Susan
Book 2 of the New Spearfish Lake Series
by Wes Boyd ©2010, ©2012
The horizons in Spearfish Lake seem to close in more and more on Susan McMahon after she returns from spending her junior year of high school as an exchange student in Germany. She speaks several languages fluently and has a wider view of the world than most. Now, she.s finding it hard to fit back into the town where she grew up, especially since her year away from school is causing her problems. But, it.s not a good idea to cross Susan or her family, as they don.t take stupidity lying down.
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Bullring Days Two: Bradford Speedway
by Wes Boyd ©2009, ©2012
Dirt-track race-car driver Mel Austin is badly injured in a crash and wakes up in the hospital being nursed by friend and fellow driver Arlene. They decide it’s time to grow up and live a more conventional life, so marry and settle down to teaching and nursing, jobs they both like. But, they’ve been racing cars long enough that it’s hard to stay away from the tracks and out of the cars on them . . . How can they scratch the itch without exposure to the danger?
A blast back into the past, to the fun, adventure, trials and tribulations of short-track racing back in the 1960s!
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Hannegan’s Cove
Book 1 of the New Spearfish Lake Series
by Wes Boyd ©2010, ©2012
As he approaches thirty, Randy faces new challenges and responsibilities. He’s matured since college and has come to accept that many of his desires aren’t possible. His first child is on the way, his grandfather’s health is fading fast, and his sister is having family problems. It’s clear that he will soon own Clark Construction as well as run it. Will the years of preparation for the new challenges be enough? How well will he meet those challenges when they arise?
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Bullring Days One: On the Road
by Wes Boyd ©2009, ©2012
Mel Austin didn’t want to be just a farmhand for his brother, so after the Army and World War II, he attended college on the GI Bill. But after graduating, he couldn’t stand the thought of teaching in a big-city slum high school, either. A wartime friend asks him to join his ragtag midget auto racing show, Mel figures it’s a better job than pumping gas until school starts. In love with the thrills, action, and a chance to see the country, he spends several years vagabonding with the show through the turbulent and now half-forgotten world of the early 1950s. Adventure and new friends abound, and his life winds up going to places he could never have dreamed.
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Pulling Even
Book 7 of the Dawnwalker Cycle
by Wes Boyd ©2004, ©2009, ©2011
Randy’s friends get to go places and have adventures, while he has to stay home and work. His heart is set on having some fun and adventure while he’s still young, but the job is important to his family and to him. It’s eating up his life to the point where it’s not even worth trying to plan something fun – if he does something will probably come up to interfere with it. His wife feels his anger, and so do some of his friends, but there’s not much they can do about it . . . or is there?
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Picking Up the Pieces
Book 5 of the Bradford Exiles Series
by Wes Boyd ©2005, ©2007, ©2011
"I love you, Dave!" When Dave heard his wife’s last words on his cell phone as he watched the World Trade Center tower fall from the sky, he felt that except for his two sons, his life wasn’t worth living any more. But then, some unique old friends came out of a past he thought he’d put behind him, and helped him put his life back together again in ways he never could have expected . . .
. . . and then it was his turn to help his friends when problems arose in their lives.
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Growing Together
Book 6 of the Dawnwalker Cycle
by Wes Boyd ©2008, ©2011
Jon is white and Tanisha is black. They’ve lived together for five years, hiding from a wrathful father and a vindictive brother. Despite some trepidations, they love their new lives, jobs, and friends. When their best friend is involved in a nationally publicized incident, discovery seems likely. Dealing with that requires resourceful thinking and direct action, but things are not always as they seem. As a result, their lives will change more than they can imagine.
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The Homestanders
Book 4 of the Bradford Exiles Series
by Wes Boyd ©2005, ©2011.
Sometimes you find opportunity at home. A lot of Bradford kids "take the on-ramp" when they get out of school, heading out in search of better things. But, some don’t leave, and others return when their dreams have failed. Emily is one who stayed, and now her life seems dull compared to some who left. Vicky left, but came back after a disastrous marriage. Despite everything, they learn that the home town can still be a place to thrive, grow, and realize their dreams. Adventure, fun, fulfillment, excitement, respect, and love can be right outside the familiar front door, and sometimes the obvious answer is the hardest one to reach.
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Cattail
by Wes Boyd ©2010, ©2011.
Roger Bishop found early retirement from a factory to be lonely and boring, especially since he’s a widower. With nothing better to do, he gets the idea of going south to help with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina. Down amid the rubble, he meets a lifelong free spirit, Catalina Smith, who’s there on the same mission, so being lonely is no longer a problem. What’s more, it seems that Catalina has some problems of her own, and all of a sudden he really doesn’t have to worry about being bored!
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The Girl in the Mirror
Book 3 of the Bradford Exiles Series
by Wes Boyd ©2004, ©2011.
Class Reunion! People have changed by the time of the Bradford High School Class of 1988 tenth reunion, some more than others. The star athlete has become a sportscaster; the class president is now manager of a convenience store; her best friend, a peppy cheerleader, has been through a messy divorce. The happy-go-lucky party girl has a card that reads "Wandering Medieval Minstrel." The valedictorian is a multimillionaire who flies her own Learjet – and works part-time as a prostitute. And, the kid who was universally picked on has changed more than anyone could possibly dream . . .
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River Rat
Book 5 of the Dawnwalker Cycle
by Wes Boyd ©2005, ©2010.
One phone call changed her life! Outdoor girl Scooter Whitsell has been reduced to watching a counter, instead of being out on the trails and rivers she loves so well. Then she gets a phone call from an old hiking buddy – and she.s on her way to her absolute dream job: a raft guide in the Grand Canyon! It isn.t an easy job, but Scooter was never a girl that asked for things to be easy. She has to put aside normal things to make a life in the Grand Canyon – but she wouldn.t have it any other way!
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Hat Trick
Book 2 of the Bradford Exiles Series
by Wes Boyd ©2004, ©2010; Revised 2012
One afternoon Dayna Berkshire decided to practice her guitar at the mall – then people started throwing money in her gig bag! An epiphany that changed her life struck her: "This beats hell out of work!" It takes a while to learn the tricks, but Dayna and her friend Sandy set out to explore the free-wheeling life of being street musicians, earning their money on street corners, in shows, at renaissance faires, or wherever they can, living the lives they choose to lead. But into each life some rain must fall, and it tests just how bad Dayna wants to lead the life she’s chosen.
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Square One
Book 8 of the Spearfish Lake Series
by Wes Boyd ©2004, ©2010.
After Danny Evachevski found his wife cheating on him, he had no choice but to get a divorce, go repair ties with his family and friends and start over. It wouldn’t break his heart to leave a life and a job he detested, either. It isn’t easy to go back home – things have changed in the twelve years he’s been gone. In spite of family and friends, he’s lonely and often seems at loose ends while he watches people that have made something of their lives. Then, quite unexpectedly, things change. Maybe there’s hope for him after all!
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Canyon Fires
Book 4 of the Dawnwalker Series
by Wes Boyd ©2003, ©2009; Revised 2012.
Desperate journey! Nanci spent every cent she had and burned all the gas in her tank to escape Chicago and find her mother and her sister. She finds them, only to discover that both of them are now Colorado River raft guides, and that her mother is about to get remarried – in the depths of the Grand Canyon. With no other choices, Nanci goes along on the trip – two weeks in the middle of the most awesome scenery on the planet, a place that can and does change lives.
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Magic Carpet
Book 1 of the Bradford Exiles Series - Revised 2012
by Wes Boyd ©2003, ©2009, ©2012.
Push that button, and your life will change forever! Jennlynn Swift is a college student who’s down on her luck after her parents threw her out. She sees only one hope of being able to pay for college and her flying licenses. Little could she dream that pushing the doorbell of a Nevada brothel would lead to the things it does, which include being a national hero.
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Blue Beauty
Book 3 of the Dawnwalker Series - Revised 2012
by Wes Boyd ©2003, ©2009, ©2012.
Too much woman for him? Trey Hartwell used a tour in the army and college to try to raise himself up from a life of poverty. Then he met a woman that seemed too good for him – literature professor and professional harpist Dr. Myleigh Harris. She was easily the most talented, most intelligent, most awesome, most complex woman that he’d ever had the chance to spend some time with. Too much woman for him, for sure, perhaps too much woman for anyone. If any man ever did wind up with her, he’d have his hands full. Trey didn’t think he wanted to be the one to try . . . but still, what a woman!
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Facing the Storm
Book 7 of the Spearfish Lake Series
by Wes Boyd ©2001, ©2009; Revised 2012.
When John and Candice Archer’s jobs go bad and their kids are sent to lousy schools, they decide it’s time to get out of the city and head back to John’s home in Spearfish Lake. It takes a little getting used to because their lives are different there, and they can’t help but change to face new circumstances and new opportunities as well as finding new friends and new interests. But then, their new friends are undergoing changes, too. One couple is having trouble getting used to a slow life after challenging but intensive jobs; another’s stable long-time relationship is not so stable any more, and a third couple is facing having to give up a dream of decades to face the challenges of the real world. None of it is easy, but they’re all in it together.
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Alone Together
Book 2 of the Dawnwalker Series
by Wes Boyd ©2004, ©2009; Revised 2011.
Jon Chladek and Tanisha Blythe have a lot in common. They’re very bright engineering students at Georgia Tech, they see a lot of things the same way, they each have families that have their own ideas about what they should be doing, and would go ballistic if they knew the two were seeing each other. When the chance of a lifetime comes, they’re faced with a big decision – whether to take the chance and pay the price they know they’ll have to pay, or lose their dreams by following what their families want them to do.
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Andromeda Chained
Book 6 of the Spearfish Lake Series - Revised 2011
by Wes Boyd ©2003, ©2008, ©2011.
The blonde jogger wore handcuffs! Brenda Hodunk couldn’t believe the sight before her eyes as she jogged down Lakefront Drive. Her new job had already taught her that Spearfish Lake was a little different, but this was a little more different than she had expected. Yet her natural reporter’s instinct smelled story, and she decided she needed to know more about what she’d seen – and it leads her to places and things she never would have believed.
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Dawnwalker
Book 1 of the Dawnwalker Series - Revised 2010
by Wes Boyd ©2002, ©2008, ©2010.
College and the years just afterwards are pivotal for many people, having adventures and establishing their lives. It was especially true for Randy Clark and his three girl friends. They are very different people facing very different futures. Can their special friendship survive the problems and distances of the real world?
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Absent Friend
Book 5 of the Spearfish Lake Series - Revised 2011
by Wes Boyd ©2002, ©2008, ©2011.
In 1970, a Spearfish Lake kid walked into a patch of jungle in Vietnam, and was never seen again. In an era when many people were tired of the war or just didn’t care, most were ready to forget about him – except for his friends, some of whom he’d never met, but who kept the faith anyway.
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Runner’s Moon
Book 4 of the Spearfish Lake Series
by Wes Boyd ©1996, ©2007.
Two kids, a dream, and acres of dogs . . . Josh and Tiffany want to become dogsled racers. They just have to grow up first – and learn about what they’re doing along the way. A follow-on to Busted Axle Road, focusing on Josh and Tiffany’s adventures.
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Busted Axle Road
Book 3 of the Spearfish Lake Series
by Wes Boyd ©1992; Rev. ©2001 ©2007.
A snake crawls out of a bathroom drain, and a woman kills it with her hair dryer . . . That’s all it takes to set townspeople, media, crooked environmentalists, a country music singer, the federal government and a bunch of dogsledders to getting at each other’s throats. Of course, nothing’s quite normal in Spearfish Lake!
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The Next Generation
by Wes Boyd ©1984, ©1995, ©2007, ©2012. Revised 2012.
All she ever wanted was to be normal! Her mother considered Judith a hopeless invalid to be cared for all her life – but then as she’s about to finish high school, Judith acquires a boyfriend, Ken, who helps her learn that her mother is dead wrong. Judith’s mother doesn’t like Ken because he keeps widening Judith’s understanding of what she can do, so her mother pushes another suitor at Judith, but she keeps going back to Ken. In a touching, slowly building romance, Ken and Judith both learn she can be a much stronger, more productive person than anyone had ever thought she could be. Their love for each other blossoms in college but troubling times come. Is Judith with her newfound capacity for love now strong enough to help keep Ken’s family’s farm from foreclosure? A light romance, not a bodice ripper.
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Snowplow Extra
Book 2 of the Spearfish Lake Series
by Wes Boyd ©1981; Rev. ©1995, ©2007.
In the middle of the worst snowstorm of the decade, the whole town was burning down. The only hope lay on two rusty steel rails . . . Nonstop action and adventure – no sex or violence as railroad workers and firemen struggle against fire, storm, and failing equipment to relieve an isolated northwoods town.
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Rocinante
An Aerial Adventure
Book 1 of the Spearfish Lake Series - Revised 2011
by Wes Boyd ©1993; Rev. 2001, ©2007, ©2011
Vagabonding in the seventies! The only thing that kept Mark going in Vietnam was his plan to spend some time wandering the country by air, like barnstormers did 50 years before. In the last days before leaving, he acquires a partner – a tall, morose girl named Jackie. They spend months on their aerial oddessy, falling in love along the way while having adventures that will turn into memories for a lifetime.
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