Celia Hayes: 13 books

Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... population 2,456, give or take. Fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall is beset with new travails in his attempt to build a new life in tiny Luna City: an old girlfriend turns up as the bride at a lavish society wedding, the original family...

Sixteen year old Fredi Steinmetz longed for adventure and riches. What better way to find both than to follow the Gold Rush from Texas to California, But he didn't reckon on bandits, and robbers, gold in the riverbanks, murder in the streets of San Francisco and the saloons of Moke Hill, a rich...

Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas … Population 2,455, counting a new arrival from Alaska. Change is in the wind, what with plans for an expansion of the neighboring Mills Farm spa and resort by the corporation which owns it. Meanwhile, a catastrophic fire has forever altered the appearance...

Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas … Population 2,454. This does not count the strangers come to town, searching for the fabulous Mills treasure-hoard, the seldom-seen Agua Dulce ghost-horsemen, and the mysterious lights spotted floating over the highway on one dark and moonless night. Ex-celebrity...

Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas … Population 2,453, not counting a fugitive former celebrity chef… Where the high school football team is called the Mighty Fighting Moths … and their yearly Homecoming game is under some strange and irregular curse. Which was once meant...

Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas … Population 2,454.  Joe Vaughn, the stalwart chief of the Luna City Police Department, wants to keep that figure at that – if he has anything to say … But fugitive former celebrity chef, Richard Astor-Hall (formerly Rich Hall, the Bad Boy Chef)...

Time and place? The Republic of Texas, at mid-19th century Who and what? Texas Ranger Jim Reade, and his Delaware blood brother, Toby Shaw – tasked with solving puzzles, finding the missing, guiding the clueless, and protecting the innocent! “So,” Toby observed, an hour and a half...

In the year of 1844, a party of fifty men, women and children set out for California. They walked two thousand miles, across trackless plain and desert, fording rivers and climbing mountains. They were known as the Stephens-Townsend Party - the first to bring their wagons over the Sierra Nevada.They...

Explore some interesting and often little-remembered events and characters: the connection between Elsie the Cow and the Alamo, the McCulloch brothers and the Twin Sisters, William Cowper Brann, the crusading journalist, the great Galveston Hurricane, Fred Harvy, the restaurant and hospitality entrepeneur, Ed Beale the explorer, and more.

On a mild spring morning in 1884, the ordered and respectable life of Sophia Brewer fell apart, without any warning. The orphaned daughter of a well-established old Boston family fallen on difficult times, she thought she was loved for herself by the fiancée who abruptly broke their engagement. But...

Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas … Population 2,456, give or take! Fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall has become a valued member of the community, expanding service at the Café, keeping company with local ace reporter Kate Heisel, and training his new assistant cook, Luc...

From the Old World to the New The frontier would challenge them. Brutal war would test them, in a crucible of fire. But they would endure and build. They would prosper and in the end … They wouldbecome Americans. The Adelsverein Trilogy is a saga of family and community loyalties,...

From the Old World to the New! The frontier would challenge them. Brutal war would test them, in a crucible of fire. But they would endure and build. They would prosper and in the end … They wouldbecome Americans. The Adelsverein Trilogy is a saga of family and community loyalties,...