The Golden Amulet
by Mark Engebretson

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In the mid-1800s, young James Kennedy escapes the famines in Ireland, takes to the high seas, and travels to the new world. He endures a rough immigrant life on the Boston waterfront. A Boston girl takes a fancy to him, never to be forgotten.

Framed for murder, he must leave New England and seek his fortune farther west. A chance encounter with a colorful cattleman begins the journey of young Kennedy to the wild, untamed stretches of the Texas frontier, then to the muscular, majestic beauty of the Colorado mountains.

He carries the mysterious secret of a Ute American Indian relic in his wanderings across a young and vibrant America, and sets his sights on returning to Boston to settle old scores . . . always one step ahead of the law.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Mark Engebretson is an award-winning journalist, photo�grapher, and newspaper editor, who was raised in the Palo Pinto Mountain country of North Central Texas, the �Cradle of the Cattle Industry.�

His work, including both fiction and non-fiction, has been published nationally and he has been a contributing writer and photographer for the Associated Press.

He is currently the managing editor of a weekly newspaper in North Central Texas. He has also published Spirit of the Snake, another engaging western novel with a twist.