Navigate: Windtree Press Anthology

by Paty Jager, Pamela Cowan, Diana McCollum

What do you think of when you hear the word “Navigate.” Do you think of using cell phone apps to help you drive from one place to another? Or do you think of navigating life and its ups and downs? Or perhaps you think of navigating the stars. In this collection of fourteen stories, our authors have used the theme to provide humor, compassion, wonder, scares, and questions for the reader to solve. This story collection ranges from a sweet children’s story about a little dog to adult stories that include witchy-romantasy, women’s fiction, mystery, suspense, science fiction, contemporary literature, memoir, and poetry. Enjoy!

Metro Sails the Atlantic – Susie Slanina
The Cottage on the Hill – Diana McCollum
A Country to Cross – Terri Patrick
Dark Tide – Pam Cowan
Changing Course – Paty Jager
Jamboree Jealousy – Kimila Kay
Navigating the Stars – Mary Vine
When I’m an Old Lady – Judith Ashley
Navigating the Chaos – Dari LaRoche
The Beckoning – Maggie Lynch
Delicate Creatures – Melissa Yuan-Innes
In the Interest of Transparency – Lisa de Nikolits
The Conscript – M. Jaimeson
The Journey – Ron Roman

400 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 10, 2025

About the author

Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 55+ novels, novellas, and short stories of murder mystery, western romance, and action adventure.
All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. Paty and her husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Oregon. Riding horses and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it.