Pineapple Press Alligator Gold (Cracker Western)

Cracker Westerns are rip-roarin, action-packed, can't-put-'em-down tales set in the frontier days of Florida. They are full of adventure, real heroes, and vivid, authentic details that bring Florida's history to life. With enough shoot-outs and stampedes for any good Western story, Alligator Gold adds its unique Florida twist with an alligator in a deep blue spring. The Civil War is over and Caleb Hawkins is finally on his way home from a Northern prisoner-of-war camp. Hawk's been trying to get his mind off giving the rotten Snake Barber part of the secret to finding his family's hidden cache of gold when he was delirious with malaria at the camp. Now he's focused on getting back to the D-Wing, his Florida cattle ranch, and Travis, his only son. But his code of honor intervenes when he encounters a very pregnant Madelaine Wilkes along the trail. Hawk is duty-bound to help her, which comes to include taking her home with him. What he learns about the father of her baby tarnishes his clear attraction to her. Maddy Wilkes has her own code of honor, which gets in the way of her strong attraction to Hawk. And Snake Barber's singular lack of moral code gets in the way of any normal life on the D-Wing. About the Author The Daughter of a Colonel, Janet Post, a self-described wild child, lived the military life until she got out of high school at which time she married and moved to Canada where she lived up in the Sechelt Inlet,. This set the scene for her YA novel, Spellcast Waters. Janet lived in a log cabin 15 miles by boat from the nearest town. She’s lived in 40 different locations, including Hawaii where he worked as a polo groom for fifteen years. Upon moving to Florida she worked as a reporter covering children in middle school and teenagers in high school which further ignited her interest in writing YA novels. She loves kids and horses. She now lives in Hastings, the swampland of Florida with too many dogs and her fifteen year-old granddaughter. Together with her son Gabe she wrote the YA novels Voodoo Science and My BFF is an Alien. Her book Vagrant was named a finalist in the International Book Awards contest and was a Green Apple Special Selection winner.