The Present: Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong, Cort Wesley Masters, and his teenage boys, survive a terrifying gun battle. Caitlin and Cort Wesley pursue the perpetrators only to discover that the targets were actually the boys! That sets the two off on a trail winding through the past and present. Along[...]

Five years have passed since Michael Tiranno saved the city of Las Vegas from a terrorist attack. And now a new enemy has surfaced in Eastern Europe in the form of an all-powerful organization called Black Scorpion. Once a victim of human trafficking himself, the shadowy group's crazed leader, Vladi[...]

1820: In the Gulf waters off the Texas coast, the pirate Jean Lafitte and his partner Jim Bowie launch an attack on the Mother Mary, a slave ship carrying invaluable treasure. The Present: Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong is investigating the murder of the oil-rig crew that had found the[...]

Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority, t[...]