Authorpreneur Dashboard – Micheal E Jimerson
Where No Man Persueth
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Young Ray Elliott comes of age in the South during segregation enforced by Jim Crow laws. The murder of a leading citizen presents him a series of fateful decisions, turning a hard scrabble farmer’s future like a kaleidoscope. He makes a fateful promise to protect a fugitive from lynching, whatever the cost.
Meanwhile, bank president Richard Watersong uses the distraction of his father-in-law’s murder to embezzle money and abscond to Cuba with a pregnant girl named Queen. His disgraced wife Eleanor raises their children and rebuilds the bank. She asks Ray Elliott—now a Texas Ranger—to find her husband, throwing herself at the lawman, but shame over his deceit drives him from her.
The failed paths of these characters’ broken lives bring them together decades later to contest ownership of two hundred acres in the heart of the Great East Texas Oilfield. Cross-examination in a climatic courtroom confrontation unveils the true murderer, but the genuine challenge is whether any of the characters can put the pieces of their lives together to achieve redemption.
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Mystery/Legal Thriller/Western ask Redemption
Where No Man Pursueth has been honored with a Will Rogers Medallion Silver Award for Inspirational Fiction. Thirty years after the murder of a great patriarch, a trial over royalties in the Great East Texas Oilfield reveals the murderer and the deceit enveloping the lives of so many, including the flawed protagonist. The manner and means of each character’s path to the elusive redemption their souls crave makes the novel. "This is an excellent meditation on making choices in life set in a changing Texas that is climbing out of the Civil War and into an equally violent modern era of oil and civil rights." -- E.L. Richards.
white gold
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
For thirty years, E.J. Kane exemplified perfection in law enforcement. But when he loses a son to the war on terror in Afghanistan, both his marriage and his career as a Texas Ranger are crushed. Incapable of acknowledging his daughter’s drug addiction, she ends up sex trafficked. His last chance job as head of security at an energy company pulls him into the romantic clutches of a ruthless businesswoman known as Widow Welchel. She allies with a sovereign citizen group stealing casinghead gas, also known as white gold.
E.J.’s ex-wife’s skill as an attorney reveals his lover, Widow Welchel, murdered those in her path to take over the giant energy company. The killer offers her dark web trafficking connections to locate E.J.’s daughter, but her help comes at great cost. She exacts a crippling promise.
E.J. may save his daughter, yet keeping his word sacrifices the personal code which has driven every part of his life. Can he hold fast to ancient notions of honor while using twenty-first century technology to end the killing and restore his family?
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Traditional Values vs. Modern Problems
E.J. Kane carved a life out of a conservative society built upon traditional values. When his son Konner dies in Afghanistan, his wife blames him, contending the desire to uphold the honor of his Texas Ranger father drove her child to his death. His daughter Sharla turned to drugs, making her susceptible to sex trafficking. Further, he has purportedly disgraced his law enforcement calling by leading a botched raid, ending in the death of two men under his command. From this Biblical Job like state, we witness E.J. uncover a massive theft ring built on murder, battle a ruthless gang of sovereign citizens, and shoot it out with his daughter’s traffickers. Meanwhile, his trial lawyer wife uncovers E.J.’s lover’s plot to steal his boss’s energy company.
