Tom Sawyer Returns

The New Adventures

This swashbuckling adventure will win the hearts of Twain fans and readers of romance and adventure alike. ~Publishers Weekly Booklife Review

August 1864 -- The nation is at war, Missouri languishes under martial law, and a once-peaceful river town throngs with soldiers, spies, and sedition. Caught in the middle is Becky Thatcher, a downtrodden, yet determined young woman who is desperate to protect her father from being hanged as a traitor. Her situation can't get worse…until Tom Sawyer stumbles back into her life.

Upon awakening from a head injury, Tom cannot recall crucial facts about his secret mission, including the reason he set out for Becky's house before he was attacked. His former childhood sweetheart has every right to despise him for jilting her seven years ago. Nevertheless, he vows to help her clear her father--if she will trust him. But his search for the truth draws them deeper into a sinister conspiracy involving shadowy assassins, unwitting accomplices, and relatives whose motives and alliances are uncertain.

Winner of two Chanticleer International Book Awards in 2021 and 2022. Featured by the Mark Twain House & Museum.  

Taming Huck Finn

The New Adventures

Huck's greatest adventure is about to catch up with him.

Missouri River, 1870 – On a vast, untamable river separating civilized society from the wild frontier, steamboat pilot Huck Finn lives life on his own terms. The footloose adventurer has avoided any entanglements that might tie him down--until he is named guardian of an eight-year-old orphan.

At first, the chronic wanderer looks for a way out. But when a waspish-tongued spinster makes a questionable claim on the child, Huck’s sympathetic heart takes control of his better judgment. A snap decision alters his course and leads them all on a wild trip upriver fraught with conflict, danger, betrayal, and—to Huck's surprise—temptation.

Inspired by America's favorite storyteller, bestselling author E.E. Burke brings her vision to a new historical adventure with beloved characters borrowed from Mark Twain's classics. If you enjoy a rollicking romance between opposites, set against a breath-taking landscape in the rip-roaring era of the American frontier, don’t miss Taming Huck Finn.