Five Tribal Sovereignty Thrillers Featuring Captain Hawk & Officer Overton The 2025 Lighthorse Mysteries Collection brings together five powerful, deeply researched, and emotionally gripping novels set within the sovereign nations of southern Oklahoma. Through these stories, readers follow Captain Hawk of the Chickasaw Lighthorse Police, Officer Overton, veteran OSBI investigator Jack Holloway, and financial-crimes specialist Betty Penny as they unravel conspiracies that cross tribal borders, corporate empires, and centuries of history. Spanning financial intrigue, historical secrets, cross-border corruption, treaty-era legal traps, and the quiet dangers that hide behind modern sovereignty, this five-book collection represents the full 2025 arc of the Lighthorse series and sets the stage for its expansion westward. BOOK ONE — Oil Dome A young engineer turns up dead on Chickasaw land, carrying knowledge of an extraordinary oil discovery beneath an abandoned industrial site. Captain Hawk and Officer Overton team up with OSBI investigators to navigate the jurisdictional maze created by the McGirt ruling. As they unravel the threads of the engineer’s final days, they uncover competing interests—federal, tribal, corporate—each trying to claim control of the discovery. Their first case together introduces the bonds of trust and respect that will carry the series forward. BOOK TWO — Incident in Tishomingo A man collapses at dawn on the historic grounds of the Chickasaw Capitol. His identity documents are false. His final movements point toward the Choctaw Casino in Durant, where casino surveillance reveals troubling encounters with women transported discreetly between rooms. Hawk, Overton, Holloway, Penny, and Choctaw Lighthorse Captain Frasier pursue a trail that exposes a trafficking network operating under the cover of tribal jurisdictional complexity. And when the man’s polished façade unravels, the team races to protect victims and determine who speaks for the dead when no one claims them. BOOK THREE — The Artesian Affair What begins as a peaceful birthday trip to Sulphur erupts into a deadly mystery when retired Colonel Richard Jadsen dies in his suite at the Artesian Hotel. His wife Jin survives—only to be found later on a lonely roadside miles away. Poisoning, altered restaurant logs, and missing surveillance footage point toward a sophisticated manipulation hidden beneath the elegance of Chickasaw Country’s restored tourist district. Working across tribal, state, and federal boundaries, Hawk and his team uncover a chilling truth: someone exploited the colonel’s past and used the Artesian’s serenity as cover for murder. BOOK FOUR — The WinStar Conspiracy No murder starts this investigation—just a whisper of irregular accounting inside one of the largest casinos in the world. But financial anomalies inside WinStar lead Hawk, Overton, Penny, and Holloway to a dormant federal environmental program, a slush of shell vendors, and a cartel-backed laundering structure buried inside legitimate tribal development funds. When the conspiracy stretches into Texas, Mexico, and California, the team must defend tribal sovereignty against those who believe Indian Country can be used as legal camouflage. BOOK FIVE — Kickapoo Passage A forgotten nineteenth-century treaty passage resurfaces in an Austin law office—quietly cited in new legal filings to activate a dormant Kickapoo sovereign account. The language is authentic. The authority is real. But the people using it are not Kickapoo. As Hawk, Overton, Penny, and Holloway chase the threads of this “Kickapoo Passage,” they uncover a plot that weaponizes historical text to justify laundering schemes stretching from Oklahoma to the Pacific tribal zones. With tribal sovereignty at stake, the team must protect the meaning of the passage and prevent history from being twisted into a modern instrument of exploitation.