Heartbreak, Survival and Resilience After the Guadalupe River Raged
Deluge Before Dawn is Thomas R. Fox’s firsthand account of the flood that tore through Kerr County, Texas, on July 4, 2025, when the Guadalupe River rose in the dark. Fox, a Kerrville resident, gathered testimony from survivors, families, and responders — the overnight evacuation at Camp Mystic, the searches that followed, and the rebuilding.
Evil rides the borderlands—and it knows your name.
Haunted by a witch only he can see, a traumatized Comanche-Mexican border agent joins an elderly rancher who shelters trafficked girls to stop ritual murders tied to Palo Mayombe, facing cartel brutality, generational trauma, and spiritual warfare in the violent, unforgiving borderlands of West Texas.
How to Rebuild America's Economic Advantage
As mass deportations and escalating “border security” budgets dominate the headlines, Reconstructing Immigration: How to Rebuild America’s Economic Advantage, shows why America cannot remain a global economic leader without a modern, lawful way to attract, legalize, and retain the workers it clearly needs. It connects the dots between immigration reform, productivity, entrepreneurship, and regional development, giving readers a coherent plan for how the United States can turn a chronic political crisis into a durable competitive advantage.
A Hard Left is a science fiction techno-thriller by Paul McGrath, Book Three of the Terran Incognita series. A Russian troll farm and a Texas tech billionaire are about to loose a “data vacuum” on the world’s banks. The only ones positioned to stop it are two Xylodonian Guardians living quietly as a Mississippi couple.
Walls and Secrets
Dispatches from Berlin is a historical thriller by Carol J. Williams, the second novel in the Iron Curtain Chronicles. On the night the Berlin Wall opens in November 1989, veteran foreign correspondent Natalie Chester expects the story of a lifetime. Instead her editor sidelines her and pairs her with a photographer who wants nothing to do with her — and a name in an East German guidebook turns the assignment personal.
Leading the Shale Revolution and My Fight for Energy Independence
From Tehran to the Permian is Scott Sheffield’s memoir on leading the Permian Basin shale revolution that made America the world’s top oil producer as founder and CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources — and on the FTC’s 2024 collusion accusations that barred him from ExxonMobil’s board after its $59.5 billion acquisition.
Where cotton and conscience collide, one good man bets his soul on the people the world tries to forget.
In 1951 West Texas, aging cotton grower William Allen Littlejohn faces mechanization, memory, and moral reckoning as migrant lagunero families arrive for their final season on his Pima cotton farm, testing whether one good man’s quiet defiance of racism and exploitation can redeem a legacy rooted in slavery and empire.
A Caregiver's Journey
Caregiving for someone in the grip of mental illness can feel like “showing up to a brawl with a butter knife.” In Moodshine: A Caregiver’s Journey, Liz Colvin tells the raw, hopeful story of what happens when a mother refuses to stop fighting for her daughter.
From ADHD and trauma through bipolar disorder, addiction, psychosis, and repeated hospitalizations, Liz walks readers through the real work of caregiving: battling stigma, navigating a broken system, setting boundaries, and starting over after each relapse. Along the way she offers practical tools, spiritual insight, and a rare kind of honesty that makes you feel seen instead of judged.
A Sequel to The Art of Farming
An aging artist-farmer in North Texas tends his thirty-acre sanctuary while development closes in, balancing painting, teaching, and family life. This quiet, wry novel celebrates stewardship, community, and creativity as acts of resistance, where gardens, animals, and night skies shape a deeply rooted sense of home.
A poetry collection by Donald Mace Williams about memory, Texas, grief, war, and the search for meaning, Of Granddaughters and Mars is written in traditional forms, monologues, riddles, translations, and adaptations. The poems combine lyric warmth with political urgency and formal craft.
Play Like He Would is a true story by Heath Hamrick about the Bremond Tigers, a Texas high school football team that lost sixteen-year-old Jason Yancy to an undiagnosed heart condition during a game in October 1999. Hamrick, the coach’s son, was in the stadium that night, and built the book from interviews conducted in the weeks afterward. After Yancy’s death, his teammates faced an impossible question: How do you continue after losing your heart? This true story follows the Bremond Tigers as they honor their fallen friend’s memory with a simple motto: “Play Like He Would.”
A Former Prosecutor's Guide to Healing and Justice After Sexual Violence
A groundbreaking exploration of trauma, healing, and empowerment from a seasoned courtroom lawyer. Blending raw honesty with legal insight, JoDee Neil steps beyond her professional role to share her journey as a survivor of sexual assault. She shows how disclosure itself can become a transformative tool for healing—not only for survivors, but for the justice system and society.
How America’s Oldest Ballpark Forged Baseball’s Legends
An immersive tribute to America’s oldest ballpark and the cradle of countless diamond dreams and dramatic showdowns. Rickwood is a deeply personal chronicle of fathers and sons, community pride, and the cultural tides that shaped the South and the sport. Rediscover Rickwood Field—a place where legends are made, memories endure, and baseball becomes forever.
In Dark Texas, a gripping and hauntingly plausible near-future thriller, a historic winter storm plunges Texas into chaos as critical energy infrastructure fails, and the electric grid teeters on the edge of collapse. Told through the eyes of everyday Texans—Mac, a self-reliant old-timer; Laurie, a wise yoga teacher; Jake, a grieving father; and Chas, a young energy analyst—this novel explores human resilience, the fragility of modern civilization, and the moral choices people face when the lights go out. Inspired by real events, Dark Texas is a chilling yet hopeful portrait of community, survival, and the power of preparedness in a world that thought it couldn’t fail.
A young woman on the run. A life built in the shadows. A story that refuses to be forgotten. At fifteen, Frankie ran from an abusive home with nothing but her wits and a gambler’s promise of escape. What she found was a world of speakeasies, bootlegging, and survival on the edge of the law. Now, decades later, her story is ready to be told—one of grit, defiance, and a woman who refused to be broken.
Voices of Camptown is more than a local history—it is a celebration of community, resilience, and the enduring power of remembrance. It reveals the overlooked story of the “Birthplace of Texas Independence”— where half the population received their independence only following the Civil War.
2026 Spur Award-Winning Finalist for Best Western Contemporary novel.
Everyone knows who killed Maggie Schneider. But why? Inspired by true events, novelist Cynthia Leal Massey weaves an intricate tale that spans the decades from the Great Depression to the crippling drought of the fifties. This is not a whodunnit. The mystery here is more profound: Why did he do it?
Hard Truths About the Clean Energy Transition
All the rhetoric and politics around climate change obscures a troubling truth: Clean energy technologies alone cannot solve the problem of human-induced climate change.
Why We Struggle to Go Green offers a clear-eyed assessment of our efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change from a mechanical engineer who’s spent 30 years looking for solutions.
Stories of Perseverance and Personal Growth from the Cockpit
Aviation Therapy chronicles Dale’s remarkable transformation through flight—from B-52 nuclear alert missions during the Cold War to wartime refueling in Desert Storm and Bosnia, then flying General Tommy Franks after 9/11. This inspiring memoir reveals how aviation shaped one man’s journey from quiet navigator to commanding an elite squadron.
A child’s desperate mental health struggles. A mother’s battles with addiction. A system that failed them both. And a woman determined to help other families avoid the tragedy that befell her own. No Saints Here tells the story of one family’s crisis and how others can avoid the same pitfalls.
Published by Hill Country Press - An imprint of Stoney Creek Publishing
Homesteader Jacob Harker seeks vengeance after Comanches murder his family. Comanche leader White Knife mourns his wife, killed by white soldiers. As their paths converge on the Texas Panhandle, both men confront the cost of revenge and possibility of redemption. Max L. Knight’s Llano Estacado explores justice, forgiveness, and healing.
A 150th Anniversary Reader
Rainer Maria Rilke wrote many short lyric poems of remarkable beauty and intensity. Donald Mace Williams has selected some of the best and brought these works of one of the 20th century’s most influential poet to English-speaking audiences.
A compelling historical biography that offers an in-depth look at one of Texas’ most influential and controversial figures during the tumultuous mid-19th century. The Old Alcalde offers a balanced and nuanced portrayal of a controversial figure.
Step into the rich tapestry of early 19th-century America in this masterfully woven tale that stretches from the rugged frontier to the bustling political corridors of Washington City, where legends are born, alliances are forged, and reputations teeter on the edge of ruin.
Moscow, 1986: American correspondent Natalie Chester falls for Soviet diplomat Anatoly Kuznetsov as they navigate Chernobyl’s aftermath, KGB surveillance, and the collapsing Cold War. Based on the author’s experiences, this sweeping romance captures forbidden love against perestroika’s historic upheaval—where idealism faces deadly consequences.
What if the mission was never just about the planet? A pair of alien operatives from the planet Xylodon, now fugitives on two worlds, find themselves drawn into the orbit of nationalist militias and human trafficking. This second genre-blending installment in the Terran Icognita series fuses satire, sci-fi, and social commentary into a wildly original tale of identity, rebellion, and connection. What happens when your mission changes, but your heart won’t follow orders?
Passion, Power, and the Price of Change. Discover the sweeping saga of ambition, family, and the American spirit in this richly layered novel set against the dramatic backdrop of wartime and postwar Texas. Follow the unforgettable journeys of Brooks and Ray Oakley, two brothers whose divergent paths take them across military frozen landscapes, bustling Austin cafes, cutthroat oil fields, and the booming postwar restaurant scene.
A Family's Journey Through World History
History’s greatest debates, served at the dinner table. What if you could witness history’s most pivotal controversies as they unfolded, not from a textbook, but from the heated discussions of those who lived them? Whether you’re a student of history or simply someone who loves a good argument, you’ll discover that the best way to understand the past is through the controversies that defined it.
Edward Peregrine returns in this sequel to Someday Belongs to Us that ponders the timeless reach of love.
The Dock Bookshop
Fort Worth author and artist T.D. Motley will be at The Dock Bookshop in Fort Worth for his new novel, Planting and Painting the Landscape: The Sequel to The Art of Farming. Planting and Painting the Landscape is a warm, reflective novel about an aging artist-farmer, Sam Bartlett, who tends thirty acres of North Texas land while wrestling with memory, creativity, and change. A stand-alone sequel to The Art of Farming, it blends richly observed scenes of daily farm work—gardening, livestock, and Saturday farmers markets—with the inner life of a painter whose nights belong to the Muse and the stars. As Sam and his wife Annie navigate suburban sprawl, family transitions, and the encroaching language of “branding” and “development,” the farm becomes a fiercely protected sanctuary where stewardship, community, and craft still matter. Texas painter and academic, T.D. Motley is Professor Emeritus of Art and Art History at Dallas College. His drawings and paintings have been selected for national exhibits and are included in public and private U.S. collections. Motley has lectured about and published articles on organic, no-till farming and gardening, heirloom herbs and produce, and soil sustainability. He has written agrarian essays for EatGreenDFW and Edible Dallas & Fort Worth. His first novel is The Art of Farming.
Brazos Bookstore
Meet Thomas R. Fox, Kerrville resident and author of Deluge Before Dawn: Heartbreak, Survival and Resilience After the Guadalupe River Raged, at Brazos Bookstore in Houston on September 1 at 6:30 pm. When the Guadalupe River in central Texas rose in the dark hours of July 4, 2025, it did more than sweep away cabins, cars, and familiar landmarks. It shattered the sense of safety in Kerr County and a sense of loss that no one who lived through it will ever forget. In Deluge Before Dawn: Heartbreak, Survival and Resilience After the Guadalupe River Raged, Kerrville resident Tom Fox tells the story of that night and its aftermath through the voices of those who were there—campers and counselors, first responders and local journalists, families who lost loved ones, and neighbors who refused to leave one another alone in the flood’s wake. Drawing on dozens of intimate interviews, on-the-ground reporting, and careful reconstruction of the storm and response, Fox traces the catastrophe from the first raindrops to the frantic overnight evacuations at Camp Mystic and along the river, through the searches, vigils, funerals, and long work of rebuilding that followed. He shows how a community shaped over generations by ranchers, river families, churches, schools, and civic volunteers found within itself the endurance, faith, and mutual help needed to stand up in the face of unthinkable loss.
Interbang Books
Meet Thomas R. Fox, Kerrville resident and author of Deluge Before Dawn: Heartbreak, Survival and Resilience After the Guadalupe River Raged, at Interabang Books in Dallas on September 2 at 6:00 pm. When the Guadalupe River in central Texas rose in the dark hours of July 4, 2025, it did more than sweep away cabins, cars, and familiar landmarks. It shattered the sense of safety in Kerr County and a sense of loss that no one who lived through it will ever forget. In Deluge Before Dawn: Heartbreak, Survival and Resilience After the Guadalupe River Raged, Kerrville resident Tom Fox tells the story of that night and its aftermath through the voices of those who were there—campers and counselors, first responders and local journalists, families who lost loved ones, and neighbors who refused to leave one another alone in the flood’s wake. Drawing on dozens of intimate interviews, on-the-ground reporting, and careful reconstruction of the storm and response, Fox traces the catastrophe from the first raindrops to the frantic overnight evacuations at Camp Mystic and along the river, through the searches, vigils, funerals, and long work of rebuilding that followed. He shows how a community shaped over generations by ranchers, river families, churches, schools, and civic volunteers found within itself the endurance, faith, and mutual help needed to stand up in the face of unthinkable loss.
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