SCOTT A. FERGUSON, SR.
Biography
Scott A. Ferguson, Sr., was born in Shakopee, Minnesota. His father was in commercial radio so the family moved around Southern Minnesota and Iowa until he got a job with the Voice of America in Washington, D.C. They moved to Virginia where Scott graduated from high school and began working for the U.S. Secret Service in 1976. It was there that he met his future wife and they were married in 1983. They have been married for over 36 years and raised two wonderful boys in Southern Maryland. Scott’s hobbies include grilling out, bonfires, fishing and target shooting. He retired from the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division, at the rank of Lieutenant, in 2016. While working for the Secret Service, he was privileged to meet every president from Gerald R. Ford to then candidate Donald J. Trump.
Kindness of a Stranger
Mike Hatfield was 39 when he lost his job, his family and his home and found himself living in a cheap motel contemplating suicide. Beside his bed were a bottle of sleeping pills and a bottle of whiskey. He took all of the sleeping pills and washed them down with the whiskey. His last thought was, “God, forgive me.” That’s when Mike found out he still had work to do. Kitty Madison was sixteen when she ran away from home. She found herself wandering around the city when she met Mike. While they had breakfast together Kitty made up tale of how she got there and gave Mike an alias; Kitty Benson. As Kitty was leaving, Mike gave her a piece of paper with his name and number on it. Would Mike ever see her again? In the middle of the night, the police came knocking on Mike’s motel room door. They took him to see Kitty in the intensive care unit of the community hospital. Would she survive? Could the two friends be able to help each other heal? And, what about their families?
Murder at Moonlight Cove
George Barrett is a detective in the Sioux Bend Police Department. Now, after six years, George and his family are going on vacation to the most exclusive resort in the west; Moonlight Cove Resort, in Wild River, Wyoming. The first morning there, George and his daughter, Karen, go for a run. Near the end of the trail, Karen hears music coming from the trees. When she follows it, she discovers two young people, with arrows in their stomachs, tied to pine trees. One victim was the son of the Lakota County sheriff and the other was the daughter of the executive director of Moonlight Cove. Since the sheriff’s office didn’t have any active detectives, George finds his vacation cancelled and himself tasked with solving the murders. While executing a search warrant, George and his partner discover a room full of pictures of Tristan Collins, the resort director’s daughter and the other victim. It doesn’t take long to they discover the apartment’s occupant, Dennis Gibson, wasn’t the one who took the pictures but he wouldn’t tell them who did. Who took those pictures and plastered them all over the walls? If it wasn’t Gibson, who was he protecting? Can George find out who killed the young couple?
Murder at Gull Cove
Jack Lewis had been in prison for fifteen years, but today was the day he got out on parole. The bus dropped him off and he was met by his best friend Charlie Walker; now a deputy sheriff. He offered Jack a ride and when he asked, “Where to?” Jack’s reply stunned him. “Gull Cove.” Opening the door Jack discovered a girl named Tamika asleep on the couch. The next day he discovered was his sister Debbie’s daughter. While the two siblings got reacquainted, Tamika played pool; but the balls kept getting stuck. Jack stuck his hand down the ball return and discovered a bloody glove. Detective Delores Parker arrived they soon began trying to identify the real killer and clear Jack’s name. Somebody in Gull Cove didn’t want the truth to come out. Threatening phone calls began. Next, threats were written on his cars and the front of his house. Then the attacks began; starting with a bolder and continuing through exploding cars and even Jack’s boathouse. On a cold and rainy night Jack came home to discover someone waiting for him…with a baseball bat. He woke up tied to a chair in his basement watching the real killer pour kerosene around the room. Can Jack survive? Will help arrive in time?
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DETECTIVE MARCUS COOPER
Directly from the pages of “Kindness of a Stranger” comes Detective Marcus Cooper. Join him as he teams up with Michelle D’Angelo in a case of murder and sex that reaches the highest levels of city government.
Detective Cooper arrives at the scene of the murder of a family of five. As he examines the crime scene he discovers a note to the daughter, threatening to kill her and her entire family if she doesn’t stay away from someone named “Casey.” But is that a real name?
He also discovers a note in the youngest son’s pencil case threatening to kill the family too. Cooper has to figure out which is real, or are neither one real?
The case hits a wall until a student tells Michelle D’Angelo who, or what, Casey is. That’s when a simple murder case explodes into a high school sex scandal. Can Cooper and D’Angelo discover how many students are involved?
Once a popular teacher is arrested, they discover his father is a high ranking government official. Can city politics destroy their case? Can it destroy their careers? Could it cost them their lives?
As they try to unravel the many layers of the case, their main witness is attacked and threatens to withdraw her complaint. Can Marcus persuade her not to withdraw?
Time is running out for the two detectives as they close in on the truth. Will they unravel the mysteries or will they fall short?
Coming Spring 2025 From Histria Books
ESCAPE!
Abigail Henderson was a slave in the Empire of Truth and Light; a fascist country that was as bad as Nazi Germany but followed Moses’ instructions to the Israelites. After surviving a truly horrific processing, she was sold to Dr. Kurt Van Heflin, to be a companion to his blind granddaughter Inga Van de Clerk. It wasn’t long before she became more than just a slave; she became part of the family.
Not too long after beginning school, Abigail encountered a bully who pushed her down some stairs, breaking her arm. Because her arm was bothering her one night she learned the family’s secret; Dr. Van Heflin was helping the resistance fighters!
Four years later, Abigail was helping the doctor when she met a young airman who had a secret that could change the course of the war. Within a few days of his arrival; Inspector Eric Hoffmann of the State Security Service, took an interest too. He was so interested that he visited Abigail and her family numerous times. The first time, he only scared the family but during his next few visits, he taught Inga what Abigail had endured in the slave processing center. Could they survive continued visits from Hoffmann? Could they escape? Would they get caught?
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Becky Dixon: What I Did on my Summer Vacation
This is a YA time travel fantasy consisting of 23 chapters and an epilogue and approximately 80,714 words.
Agritania was a small kingdom of mostly farmers and merchants but, as the Lord Chancellor Fengold knew, was sitting on vast deposits of silver and gold. But the king was a fool and wouldn’t allow Fengold to develop these resources even though the wealth could be used to improve the lives of all the citizens…but especially Fengold himself. When the royal family was about to enjoy a picnic, the king and queen were killed but Prince Stephen survived by running away. After falling down a cliff, an old man named Barnabas found the prince and carried him off to his cottage in a hidden valley. Becky Dixon’s parents were getting divorced and they were moving to her mother’s parent’s ranch. But, her mother had promised her best friend Emily Washburn could spend a month with them. The two girls were exploring the ranch when they found a cave and decided to investigate. While they were crawling through a narrow passage the floor gave out and they tumbled into another world. They soon find themselves in the middle of a desperate war to restore Prince Stephen to his throne. Do they succeed? Do they all survive? And if they do, do the girls ever get home?
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BLOODSTONE, ARIZONA
This book is 33 chapters and an epilogue; 295 pages; and 81,180 words.
Joe Harris steps out of the gates of prison a changed man, leaving the cell and prison life to become a man of the cloth. His first assignment as a parson is in a small town church in Bloodstone, Arizona, where he meets the former parson's widow, Anna Chase. They form a friendship, which leads to even more, but after they spend a night of sinful passion in another town, can he regain her trust and love? Will his unconventional bible studies in the town saloon’s backroom, his friendship with the Indians, and the gossip about him and the Widow Chase, lead him to success or failure?
While Joe is out of town six men ride into Bloodstone. At first no one pays them any attention, but by the next day, they’re all anyone is talking about. When Joe gets home, he finds his past has come to haunt him. What will the people of Bloodstone think when they learn of Joe’s unsavory past?
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Sarah Comes Home
This book consists of 383 pages, 43 chapters and an epilogue, and 94,100 words.
Devastated and in mourning after losing her family and her home in Bloodstone, Arizona, Sarah Pruitt is forced to move to Baltimore, Maryland, where she must live with her aunt, uncle, and cousins. But it would not be easy for Sarah to learn to live in a new city. Not long after becoming a sailor, the family is forced to come to grips with her cousin being diagnosed with consumption. In an effort to help him, Sarah persuaded the family to allow her to use her money to build a new house on her ranch and move there so her cousin would have a dryer climate for his illness in Arizona. Through Indian raids, romantic rivalries, and renewed friendships will Sarah triumph over the death of her family, or will more deaths and devastation await her in Bloodstone? Will the move from Maryland lead to happiness for Sarah or just more loss?
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The Goddess
Book One
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The Goddess
Book One - The War Years
This book is 24 chapters, 213 pages, and approximately 64,000 words.
Maria Russo was not your ordinary girl. In fact, she was as far from ordinary as you could possibly be. When she was just seven-years-old, she was selected to become the Goddess Sophia XIII, goddess and empress of the Holy Empire of the Great Goddess Sophia. Sophia had all the trials and tribulations of a normal fourteen-year-old to cope with when the country to the north of Sophia suddenly invaded and took Sophia’s brother, Salvatore, prisoner. Not only did she have to learn how to manage a war she had to figure out how she was going to tell her parents. The war was going badly when Princess Jacqueline, Sophia’s best friend, came to the rescue by talking her father, the king of Argonne, in to helping. He agreed to send artillery, ammunition, horses, and mules. But, more importantly, he sent his army to help train the Sophian recruits. As a thank you, Sophia invites the commanding general and his aide to dinner. That’s when she discovered the aide was Princess Jacqueline’s little brother Edouard. As time passed, Sophia and Edouard found themselves falling in love. But their families kept getting in the way. Worrying about her reputation, Sophia’s mother tried to keep them apart. Then Edouard’s father pounded a steak into the heart of their romance by arranging Edouard’s marriage to another woman. What happened when Sophia finds out?
Book Two - A New Beginning
This book is 21 chapters, 206 pages, and approximately 58,000 words.
Sophia was devastated when she learned about Edouard’s betrothal. She tried to continue as if nothing was wrong but, she failed miserably. Not long after the treaty signing, it was Jacqueline’s turn to be forced to be betrothed to a prince she refused to marry. After running away to Sophia, she wrote her father a letter explaining this and Sophia asked Salvatore to deliver it. He refused until Jacqueline tried to use her feminine charms to persuade him. But, she was in for a surprise when he asked her to marry him. After a few moments contemplation, she said yes and he was off to Argonne to deliver the letter and ask for the king’s blessing. Begrudgingly, he gave it. It was at Jacqueline and Salvatore’s wedding forced Sophia and Edouard to meet. Their first conversation was a disaster but, after liberal amounts of champagne at the reception, they become friends again. The goddess wanted them to marry but Sophia said she needed time to work out her feelings. The goddess agreed but said she wouldn’t wait for very long. Sophia went on a tour of the new provinces of Brunelli and Milano. While in Brunelli she met an old couple praying in the temple. As she spoke to them she discovered their son was dying. Sophia decided to try to help by healing him. When she found him already dead, Sophia used all her powers to bring him back. But it cost her days in a coma being forced to see how much the people loved her. After she recovered, they traveled on to Jacqueline’s and Salvatore’s home. The next morning they discovered Jacqueline was pregnant and Edouard was tasked with going to Argonne and telling the king and queen. He wrote to Sophia and told her that his older brother had abdicated the thrown and he was now the crown prince. He also told her his parents wanted to visit Jacqueline and Salvatore and stay until the baby was born. After a few days with their daughter the king and queen, Jacqueline and Salvatore, traveled to the city of Sophia. But, as they neared the capital, Jacqueline went into labor and began hemorrhaging. The baby was finally born, but did Jacqueline lose too much blood? Sophia used her powers to stop the bleeding but it was too little too late. She almost panicked when she felt her best friend’s heart stop. Sophia pushed harder than ever and, just as Jacqueline was revived, Sophia collapsed. She suddenly found herself facing a beast with foot-long fangs. The real Sophia introduces her to Death and she was told the reason for everything that has happened leading up to her possible/eventual marriage to Edouard…that is if she survived. Death told her that the only way she could return to the living was if someone offered their life for hers within three days. Would anyone offer to sacrifice their life for hers? Would she return to marry Edouard or would Death win the souls of thirteen goddesses?
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The Pet Shop
BOOK ONE
This book is 15 chapters, 143 pages, and approximately 35646 words.
Fawn couldn’t wait to be out flying in the sunshine; that’s where fairies belonged. But it wasn’t to be. As soon as the bell rang, the fairy kids all ran out the school door and right into the nets waiting for them. It wasn’t long before she found herself in a cage in the window of a pet shop. Ginny always wanted a fairy and, on her tenth birthday, her father bought her Fawn. Life fell into a comfortable routine but it was even better when Fawn stayed even though Ginny forgot to lock the cage door one day. Fawn was never locked in the cage again. Meanwhile, a group of fairies traveled to the human town determined to rescue the stolen fairies. But, when Ginny and Fawn refuse to be separated, Ginny begged to come to the fairy colony. The next morning, Ginny’s parents found out what the fairy parents already knew. Like the fairies, Randy went after his daughter. He began at the pet shop, which led to the fairy catcher. After being forced to show him where the fairy colony was, Craig, the fairy catcher, broke his front teeth while trying to escape. Once they were back in town, Craig decided to get even with Randy by stealing Ginny.
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BOOK TWO
This book is 11 chapters, 89 pages, and approximately 26,520 words.
While Randy, the police and even the fairies are looking for her, Ginny escapes from Craig. But, as she runs into the woods, she falls down a ravine and breaks her arm. Then she gets stuck behind a waterfall when it begins to rain and the creek floods. Fawn and her brother, Buck, helped with the search. Eventually, they were the ones who finally found out where Ginny was being held. After leading the police to Craig’s house they discover Ginny’s not there. Fawn and Buck hear something in the woods and find where Ginny is hiding but it takes the fire department to save her. Once she’s rescued, they all go to the hospital where Ginny’s arm is surgically repaired before she goes home. After a few weeks, the town council takes up laws banning fairy catching and selling and especially wing clipping. Do the laws pass? Do the fairies and the humans learn to live together?
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Morgan Sinclair and the bank robbers
This book is 28 chapters and an epilogue, 238 pages, and approximately 56,600 words.
It was a typical Thursday morning until Jimmy Smith and his notorious gang of bank robbers rode into Willow Crossing, Nebraska, to rob the bank. It should have been an easy job but, suddenly, everything goes wrong and Jimmy finds half his men dead, his horses gone and no way to escape. Then he sees the schoolhouse next door and gets an idea.
Katie Sinclair was always having to stay after school and, as far as her family was concerned, today was no different. That is until her brother went to pick her up and found the sheriff and the deputy were dead and the bank robbers were holed up in the school…with Katie and the other children.
The bank robbers took three kids hostage and leave town. Morgan Sinclair vowed to bring them back. When he and his men catch up with the Smith gang everything went sideways, and Morgan is left wondering what happened. Did he rescue all the kids or did one of them die?
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Happily ever
After-life
This book is 33 chapters, 260 pages, and approximately 56,300 words.
Seeking shelter from a ferocious storm, Sean Phillips entered a mausoleum only to discover its occupant was still there. Once he gets over his initial fright, he meets Cathy Gardner, the spirit who lives there and they begin to talk. It wasn’t long before their relationship began to grow.
Sean was babysitting his twelve-year-old sister one night when she asked about Cathy. “What does she look like.” Amy asked.
“She has long, light-brown hair and blue eyes that seem to glow. She’s got a smokin’ bod and a face that’s… that’s… well, really pretty, you know what I mean? She’s friendly and real easy to talk to. Sometimes, we just sit in her mausoleum and talk for hours. She’s amazing. I’ve never met a girl like her before.”
Amy got up and started walking to the stairs. She stopped at the bottom and said, “Thanks for telling me about Cathy, Sean. No wonder you like her, she sounds wonderful…too bad she’s dead.”
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SARAH RETURNS TO BLOODSTONE, ARIZONA
Devastated and in mourning after losing her family and her home in Bloodstone, Arizona, Sarah Pruitt is forced to move to Baltimore, Maryland, where she must live with her aunt, uncle, and cousins. But it would not be easy for Sarah to learn to live in a new city. Not long after learning that her ranch in Bloodstone had produced a lot of money, the family is forced to come to grips with her beloved cousin being diagnosed with consumption. In an effort to help him, Sarah persuades the family to build a new house on her ranch and move there so her cousin would have a dryer climate for his illness in Arizona. Through Indian raids, romantic rivalries, and renewed friendships with Pastor Joe Harris, his wife Anna, and stepdaughter Julia, will Sarah triumph over the death of her family, or will more deaths and devastation await her in Bloodstone? Will the move from Maryland lead to more happiness for Sarah or just to more loss? Only time will tell.
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The Life and Times of Maggie O'Toole
Maggie O’Toole was the pampered daughter of a well off banker in Port Royal in the 1800’s; until that fateful day she came home to find she wasn’t who she thought she was. As soon as she walked in the door, the house keeper, Mrs. Harper, told her that her father wanted to see her in the study. Once she had entered and sat down, he began to tell her about her mother. He explained that he wasn’t really her father; he was her mother’s brother, Cyrus. He explained that when Maggie’s mother arrived at his home, she had a cold and it wasn’t long before it progressed into pneumonia. She was sent to a hospital and soon went into labor and eventually gave birth to Maggie. But, between the advanced pneumonia and being in labor for over two days, her health failed and she died not long after making Cyrus swear to raise Maggie as his daughter. Cyrus told her that her real father had found out about her and been granted custody. They packed up some of Maggie’s possessions and took the two day train trip to Cedar Falls. That night at supper, when the hotel owner’s wife was serving them, Maggie learned some people would shun her because her parents weren’t married. It made her feel dirty.