Billy Thomas: Forever Fearless — David Carlyle

The story of one man's quest to find his true home



Taking over the family farm -- and becoming the head of the family -- when his father dies unexpectedly, Billy Thomas becomes an adult before he is ready. But with a good heart and the drive to do better, he keeps moving forward, working the land his family holds in rural Missouri and planning to marry Susan, the beauty from just down the road.



Nearly killed in a runaway wagon accident, Billy is on the mend when he and Susan marry. Though there is a bad element at hand terrorizing Billy and his family, and even burning down his mother's home, with the help of those around them, Billy and Susan happily begin their lives together on their own farm. But the happy times would not last . . . .



Kidnapped and kept as a slave, laboring on someone else's land for three years, when Billy returns home he fi nds his world torn apart. His wife and family are gone, and no one can tell him where they are. His thirteen-year quest to recover his family -- and his life -- will take him from the land he knows to the far corners of the United States, all in the hope of reuniting with the things that make life worthwhile.



An engrossing tale set around and after the turn of the last century, Billy Thomas: Forever Fearless will lead its readers into a time long past, with lessons still relevant today.







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The tale of an ordinary boy with extraordinary problems.



Billy Thomas is an ordinary farm boy with extraordinary problems. He survives a wagon wreck, nearly drowns, marries, foils a kidnapping, deals with two criminals, and is kidnapped by a third. He escapes from the third, but can't find his wife or his mom and 3 brothers when he comes home. He eventually finds his mom and brothers in Kentucky, and his wife later in Boston. He confronts the 3 origninal criminals again, has troubles with the Ku Klux Klan, and is eventually shot by a member of that group.