Tom Delaney

Children have been going missing. Police are baffled. A community quakes with fear. A hero is needed. Enter Black Cougar. Created by a toymaker, armed with a pack of crime-fighting mini-cougars and high-tech gadgets, Black Cougar springs into action to right all wrongs.

When a beloved Summer Camp director dies, the popular boys' haven will be closed by the heartless Attorney who inherits it unless a dedicated young Camp Counselor can change his mind over one last summer, with the comic help of his oddball campers in a tale of the loyal camaraderie, life-defining choices, camp hi-jinks and summer magic that can make campfire memories last a lifetime.

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.