Bill Briscoe

What happens when a mistake from the past threatens to derail the future? Retired pro football player Jim Pepperman is about to lose everything to the secret he's locked down for eleven years—that he got into a bar fight with a stranger and might've left him for dead. It doesn't really matter that it was self-defense. Nightmares are stealing Jim's sanity, guilt is carving out pieces of his soul...

When Jim and Laura Pepperman find a musty German Olympic jacket and an old journal in their attic, they stumble onto a gripping pre-World War II story of a cousin Jim knows nothing about. After a career-ending injury forces Hans Pepperman to lose his spot on the 1936 Olympic boxing team, he trades his athletic aspirations for a degree in mechanical engineering and secures his dream job working...

When the love of Earl's life goes missing, he'll risk everything to find her. After Earl's bride vanishes in the Smoky Mountains on their honeymoon, the former Navy SEAL is certain she's been abducted. Worse, a storm has washed away any potential evidence. With nothing to go on, the park rangers call off the official search. Then another man loses his daughter in the same area. Can one last...

One life ended in tragedy. Another challenged by a promise. Will a teen's twenty-year journey to make his dad proud change him into the man he's meant to be? In 1966, Jim Pepperman comes home from practice to the news that his dad has died in an oil rig accident. Not only has the high school football star lost his mentor and best friend, but when his mom moves the family from Texas to New...