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The rebel

Nate Walker has never shied away from the hard road. Even when it meant leaving behind his family's wealth...and the fiancée who only wanted a rich man. Nothing was going to stop him from opening his own five-star restaurant. And he was on his way--until his car broke down on a dark road in the Adirondacks, leading him right to White Caps Inn...and Frankie Moorehouse. Suddenly Nate has a job he doesn't really need--and an affair that has to end when summer does. Except Frankie has a way about her. She gets under his skin.

Towards Polaris: a novel of the Adirondack foothills [1st pub Florida]

Robert Sochia, a young man just acquitted of murder, returns to face the hostility of his home town not far from the Canadian border. Julia, a recently arrived music student, befriends him and helps him start a new life. When a suspicious fire burns his house to the ground, the outlaw suddenly abducts Julia. This small, provincial community gathers a search party to rescue her, with comical and disastrous results. -- cover.

The highest mountain: death and life in the Adirondacks

All that State Police Sr. Investigator Dennis Girard wants to do is solve a smuggling case and then retire from a career that has recently been lackluster. Instead, he is killed by his quarry, and enters the world of near-death experiences. Eventually returned to duty, he must cope with visions, voices and spiritual experiences. Suddenly, the end of his career in 2008 is filled with a desperate attempt to catch devious strangers who, it appears, want to kill former President George H.W. Bush. Two explosive endings to a tale that spans Quebec and the northeastern U.S.

Keene's law: a novel

Traversing the peaks and valleys of Alpine landscapes and human passions, KEENE'S LAW is the story of two families, through three generations, working to shape and preserve the wilderness of the Adirondacks. Author George Patte uses exquisite imagery to explore the North Country of 1894, and the boundaries of the human heart at the intersection of passion and principle. Attorney Keene Durant, having made a judgment call on behalf of his deceased client, William Longfellow, sets in motion a complex legal knot for the next generation, Jack Durant and Kora Longfellow, to untangle.