When a baby boy is left on the doorstep of an older couple, it sets in motion a chain of events that lead to an attempt to end the life of the grown boy. The young man had tried to locate his birth mother and failed. Then in a surprise turn of events, the birth mother is exposed which creates a situation whereby the injured party is turned into a mentally disturbed woman. The young man must rely on the girl who is the love of his life to survive. Can she meet the challenge?

At the age of thirteen the husky Travis Singer strikes out to make a living. Life on the cattle ranch seems to be his calling. But it is during troubled times as the War Between the States is raging across the country. Nowhere is it more tumultuous than in the border states of Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky. Travis must choose which side he will serve, but sometimes he finds he must ride with the enemy to best serve the Confederacy. Travis also must choose between Sara and Susan.

When Ralph Kellem comes across a girl buried in the woods, he gets caught up in a tangle of a sheriff who would do whaever is necessary to solve a crime and Ralph's attempts a playing detective to help sold the crime puts him in jeperdy as he is now a suspect.

The Sheriff has his own legal problems and Ralph's sister does not help when she befrends one of the other suspects. The ways of justice are strange indeed.

"THE VALLEY" is a historical novel set near Jackson, Wyoming. Randolph Schmidt's life story begins in Omaha, Nebraska, where he meets and befriends Standing Bear, a Chief of the Ponca Indians. This relationship later allows Randolph to gain title to a valley in its virgin state. He vows to keep it in that condition. He must defend it against intrusions by road construction, an electric power company, and land developers. Along the way he meets actual historical characters from Wyoming's past Some of the historical personalities beside Standing Bear, are Lillian Heath, first woman doctor in Wyoming, Clifford Hansen and Lee Simpson, and Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Governors of Wyoming, Many of these men and women possess the same characteristics as Randolph. Jules Schmidt, Randolph's son, is an outdoor guide who also crosses paths with personalities from America's past. When Randolph dies, his grandson, Andrus inherits the valley and pledges to continue his grandfather's dream.