Posts by mwweaver

Pony Express Pursuit Excited by his new position as a Pony Express rider, 16-year-old Jack Bailey of Rainbow Ridge, Colorado, has no idea of a coming danger that will fall upon him and his community. Their trial comes in the summer of 1890 when Jack is tasked with receiving and delivering a very important document…

Wreckers Of The Reefs Kidnapped at birth by an evil uncle in 1879, Lucas escapes to freedom with the help of a kindly captain of a merchant ship. He soon becomes a cabin boy and the captain’s protégé. But as the ship makes its way up the Carolina coast in 1895, a terrible storm strikes.…

Saved By The Wireless Mysterious messages haunt 16-year-old Tom Barnes as he works at his new telegraph station in the New England town of Rockley Cove in 1911. Tom’s skills with the telegraph save the Morgan family fortune and lead Tom into a budding relationship with Walter Morgan’s daughter, Grace. Tom and his sidekick Ben…

Thresholds Of Courage Focus on the family’s Breakaway and Brio magazines published these four short stories between July 2000 and August 2003. “If One Falls” was an award winning story for Breakaway in the 2000 Evangelical Publishers Association’s Higher Goals category. “A Light in the Darkness” (2003) and “Ghost Pirates” (2003) also brought to life…

I Love Baseball When a ghostly Blackbeard and his crew rise from the dead and begin haunting the people of Williamsburg, Virginia, young Tom Jefferson and his closest friend Will Blair set about to unravel the mystery. Little do they realize the chain of events their bold actions will set into motion, events that will…

Ghost Pirates When a ghostly Blackbeard and his crew rise from the dead and begin haunting the people of Williamsburg, Virginia, young Tom Jefferson and his closest friend Will Blair set about to unravel the mystery. Little do they realize the chain of events their bold actions will set into motion, events that will forever…

Gold Rush MARY MUHLENBERG is an ambitious sixteen-year-old who joins the California Gold Rush in 1849. But unlike her missionary parents, she exchanges her Bible for a spade. Mary longs for a better life, despite her own conscience and her father’s warnings. Touched by gold fever, Mary makes an ill-advised alliance with conniving entrepreneurs from…