D. Z. Church

Head First is the second novel in the Cooper Quartet, the story of a military family set against the tumult of the Vietnam Era. It is December 1972, President Nixon has ordered carpet bombing of Vietnam, and public opinion has turned sharply against the war. For Jolie Minotier the stakes couldn'...

On the lam, living off the grid, and hunted by Big Oil! Ex-debutante Calypso Swale has a secret capable of reversing climate change, to keep it she’s on the lam and living off the grid in the Sierra foothills where she’s made a life for herself. Though she doesn’t know it, there is only one wa...

The gripping third Cooper thriller, Pay Back, takes place over a week and a half in 1975 in the waning days of the Vietnam War. When two acquaintances from opposite worlds call in their markers, Laury Cooper dives back into Saigon to make good on promises he may or may not be able to keep. His ...

It’s been nine years since Boothe Treader summered at her family’s island. Twelve since her brother died on its rocky shore. She’s never forgiven him for abandoning her, her parents for divorcing, or the dark-eyed boy who watched him drown. The stranger, the killer, no punishment that let him liv...

LT Robin Haas has a problem. Her Leading Chief has disappeared days before his Review Board. It’s not like him to run. His neighbors aren’t much help, but CWO Dan Cisco, back from Saigon, is at her side burdened by a secret of his own. One that will change both their lives. Laury Cooper, is clean...

A torn sleeve, a bruised arm, and a lie. A friend knocks on Cora Countryman’s front door seeking help with the torn sleeve of her work dress, claiming she ripped it on a bush. As the town’s seamstress, Cora has mended many a dress. So, when she sees a ragged tear in her friend’s forearm and a...

When a body taints the dwindling water supply, can a spirited young woman save her prairie town? August 1876. Cora Countryman dreams of a life of mystery and adventure, anywhere but confining Wanee, Illinois. Even when the long drought attracts a rainmaker panhandling his own version of fantas...