Elisabeth G. Wolfe

Cleveland, 1922: Crime-fighting Mayor Richard Leon has been missing for over a year, and under John Lackland's administration, corruption has gone from bad to worse. Now, newlyweds Robin Locksley and Marian Fitzwalter and a band of like-minded friends have established a detective agency in the suburb of Nottingham, intent on acting when the police won't. But when their first client, Eleanor Curtmantle, reveals that Leon has been kidnapped by bootleggers, the race is on to find and rescue him before Lackland and his goons can kill the mayor and the city in one blow.

Cleveland, 1922: Crime-fighting Mayor Richard Leon has been missing for over a year, and under John Lackland's administration, corruption has gone from bad to worse. Now, newlyweds Robin Locksley and Marian Fitzwalter and a band of like-minded friends have established a detective agency in the suburb of Nottingham, intent on acting when the police won't. But when their first client, Eleanor Curtmantle, reveals that Leon has been kidnapped by bootleggers, the race is on to find and rescue him before Lackland and his goons can kill the mayor and the city in one blow.

Before his disappearance from Camelot, Merlin prophesied that the Round Table would have a successor, an order that would keep Arthur's ideals alive. His exact words were lost, and through the centuries, many groups tried to claim that mantle for themselves. Some are decent. Some are kooks. Some, like Himmler's SS, are evil. They are all of them deceived. Now, with the SS wielding dark magic and the courts of Fa rie loath to intervene in mortal wars, the Round Table's true heirs must act to defend Europe's freedom in ways the Allied forces cannot. When Himmler's warlocks raise a wall of enchantments to prevent invasion from the West during Hitler's invasion of Russia, two brothers on opposite sides of the Atlantic-one a retired lawman, one an American spy-join forces with an enigmatic double agent and friends both mortal and immortal to stop the madness before the damage becomes irreparable. And everyone, even the king of T r-na-nOg, is in for a surprise. For the Order of the Silver Star is coming to make Hitler's worst nightmare come true.

Before his disappearance from Camelot, Merlin prophesied that the Round Table would have a successor, an order that would keep Arthur's ideals alive. His exact words were lost, and through the centuries, many groups tried to claim that mantle for themselves. Some are decent. Some are kooks. Some, like Himmler's SS, are evil. They are all of them deceived. Now, with the SS wielding dark magic and the courts of Fa rie loath to intervene in mortal wars, the Round Table's true heirs must act to defend Europe's freedom in ways the Allied forces cannot. When Himmler's warlocks raise a wall of enchantments to prevent invasion from the West during Hitler's invasion of Russia, two brothers on opposite sides of the Atlantic-one a retired lawman, one an American spy-join forces with an enigmatic double agent and friends both mortal and immortal to stop the madness before the damage becomes irreparable. And everyone, even the king of T r-na-nOg, is in for a surprise. For the Order of the Silver Star is coming to make Hitler's worst nightmare come true.

An unconventional enemy resorts to unconventional tactics. Determined to lure Lt. Col. Clint Donovan and his military intelligence team to their deaths, Number Seven's operatives make a deal with an Apache warrior whose cruelty is legendary even among his own people and whose involvement stirs up the torturous ghosts of Bella Donovan's past. A widowed horse rancher sends Clint timely warning, but even that can't prevent the Apaches from taking a neighbor's sons as bait for an ambush, and Clint's informant finds herself on the wrong end of Number Seven's wrath as a result of her actions. As Clint's choices set the stage for a cavalryman's finest hour and a town's hard lesson in courage, the same question arises time and again: Is there such a thing as an innocent bystander? Book 2 in the Loyal Valley series