Charley Brindley

Eleven years before Hannibal marched his army and war elephants over the Alps to attack Rome, a dying girl was thrown into a river and left to drown.Liada was captured by slave traders and, along with a wagonload of other girls and women, was being hauled across North Africa toward the slave markets at Carthage.When she falls violently ill with fever and convulsions, the slave traders fear she will infect the other captives.Their solution is simple.They throw her into the Bagradas River and once rid of her, they continue on toward the slave markets.But Liada does not drown in the turbulent river.Below a series of rapids, an enormous war elephant wades into the water and lifts her to safety w...

December, 1925.

 Fourteen-year-old Vincent “Fuse” Fusilier opens the barn door on a freezing morning—and finds a girl sleeping in the hay.

 She is thin, exhausted, defiant.

 She doesn’t understand English.

 By the time Fuse returns from his chores, she has vanished—leaving only a trail of footprints in the snow leading to the nearby woods.

 But she hasn’t gone far.

 Driven by hunger and cold, the mysterious girl risks everything to return to the farmhouse and sets in motion a chain of events that will change both their lives forever.

A combat mission over Afghanistan becomes something no soldier has ever trained for.When their aircraft is struck and a platoon of the Seventh Cavalry bails out, they don’t land in a war zone they recognize. Instead, the 13 soldiers hit the ground two thousand years in the past—in a world of empires, iron weapons, and wars fought face to face.Cut off from their own time and surrounded by forces that will kill them without hesitation, the men and women of the Seventh must choose quickly: remain outsiders and perish, or intervene in a history that was never meant to be altered.As modern weapons collide with ancient armies, courage, discipline, and ingenuity are pushed to their limits—and...

She was taken from her world… and thrown into another.Kokuma was born during the second dry season of 1784, in the central African country of Ruanda. Her village, Ngarama, on the Kaginmba River, was just two degrees south of the equator. She was strong, proud, and free.Then the raiders came.Captured and sold into slavery, she survives the horrors of the Middle Passage and finds herself on a plantation in Georgia—where survival means obedience… or death.But Kokuma refuses to be broken.When she fights back and kills the two white men who would destroy her, she becomes a fugitive—hunted across a vast and unforgiving land.Wounded, starving, and alone, she should have died.Instead, she is...

She was taken from her world… and thrown into another.Kokuma was born during the second dry season of 1784, in the central African country of Ruanda. Her village, Ngarama, on the Kaginmba River, was just two degrees south of the equator. She was strong, proud, and free.Then the raiders came.Captured and sold into slavery, she survives the horrors of the Middle Passage and finds herself on a plantation in Georgia—where survival means obedience… or death.But Kokuma refuses to be broken.When she fights back and kills the two white men who would destroy her, she becomes a fugitive—hunted across a vast and unforgiving land.Wounded, starving, and alone, she should have died.Instead, she is...