THE TRUE FATHER

By Steven Anderson Law

Goldminds Publishing, September 2008

ON THE DAY TREVOR HODGE graduates from college his life is about to take a sudden turn, and it's not toward the big accounting job that he'd lined up. Surprised by a visitor at his college commencement, Trevor learns that his father, who he never knew, has died in an accident. Trevor is drawn by a subconscious and relentless yearning to go to Oklahoma to the funeral. He ultimately decides to stay the summer with his father's family and travel the rodeo circuit, where his father was a local hero. He falls in love with his lost family, with the rural atmosphere of Oklahoma, as well as a pretty half Choctaw barrel racer. But most of all, Trevor faces an awakening he never expected, and one that leaves his family, and the town of Spiro, on the edge of their seats.

"This novel reads like a work crafted by a master."—Mike Blakely, Spur Award winning author of Summer of Pearls
 

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RODEO SUMMER: TREVOR, BELLA AND THE NEW LIFE

By Steven Law

Amazon Shorts, 2007

EL PASO WAY - SIX PART SERIES

By Steven Anderson Law

Amazon Shorts, 2007

Having grown up in the green and humid Midwest, the earth tones and dry desert of the Southwest was a place of fantasy. It wasn't just the land, but also the strange plants and animals, and the indigenous people that inhabited there. In EL PASO WAY, I introduce a hero that is native to the Sonora, of mixed Spanish and Papágo blood, who faces a great tragedy during his childhood. He is raised by an independent priest who has taken over an abandoned mission in southern Arizona. These two characters introduce you to a culture that was real in that time and place, and to the harshness that often occurred in a brutal, lawless land.

THE TRICKSTER: A NAVAJO JOE MYSTERY

By Steven Anderson Law

Amazon Shorts, 2007

Many readers who enjoyed my short story Arizona's Promise commented on how they liked the character Navajo Joe. I wasn't quite sure how to use him in a story, until one day I was reading a book on Native American myths and it hit me: a Navajo Joe mystery.

ARIZONA'S PROMISE

By Steven Anderson Law

Amazon Shorts, 2006

This story came to me during my research on modern day rodeo for writing my novel, Rodeo Summer. One thing I learned was that a modern cowboy's dream (just like anyone's dream, really) often comes with a level of poverty and personal sacrifice. These things are never easy to endure, and often divide a family. Arizona's Promise is a story of a young mother's conflict with her own selfish desires and personal sacrifice.

EL MORO

By Steven Anderson Law

Amazon Shorts, 2006

This story developed after reading a few passages in J. Frank Dobie's The Longhorns, about the discovery of Old Blue, a longhorn steer on John Chisum's ranch in New Mexico Territory. I was so fascinated with this story that it eventually became an entire novel, the Legend of Old Blue. EL Moro concentrates simply on how Old Blue was discovered, and is a great prologue to the novel.

THE JEWEL MILE

By Steven Anderson Law

Amazon Shorts, 2006

While serving as a reporter for a community newspaper in the Ozarks, it was often comical to see how a town would divide when a casino tried to locate in their city. One half of the townsfolk welcomed the new commerce it would bring, while the other half feared the immorality often associated with it. This gave me an idea for a story, only I decided to go back in time to post Civil War Missourione of my favorite time periods, and places, to write about.