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Vintage: A Vampire Romance

Reginald Cast and Charlotte Tremmington share forbidden love. He's a slave in 1860. She's a plantation owner's daughter. After one glorious night together, their world is ripped apart.
When given the choice of immortality by the mysterious Syre, along with the promise of being reunited with his lost love, Reginald takes it. ...even if it means waiting until the end of time to be together.

Water Drumming in the Soul

In this fiery love story set in equatorial Africa, Peace Corps volunteer David Fields in on mission: to build a medical dispensary in a remote village where he seldom has his bearings and must fight a cocktail of tropical maladies and cultural taboos. He throws himself into work, which he's deliciously distracted from in his pursuit of a gorgeous African lady. In her vitality, Assam rocks with the energy of a dozen women and bye and bye David becomes the hunter captured by the game. And what a rollicking game of love it is with delicious "distractions" keeping the reader spellbound.

Guile

As November approaches, two near opposites clash for the nation's highest office. It's Ven Hess, firebrand populist breaking all the old rules, known as "The Hessian" for his intimidating tactics on the pitcher's mound, versus Democrat Alec Maynard, an African American Admiral with his own flaws but who offers the nation at least some hope of normalcy. Pete Vankov, a political operative known as the "Dark Angel" because of his reputation for winning at all costs, spearheads the Hess campaign.

LOSST

After the tragic loss of her father and then her mother, Samantha is left with a monster of a man and becomes a prisoner in her own home. At the young age of thirteen, she manages to escape. With no specific destination, she hitches a ride north. She ends her journey in beautiful Sayward, BC, where she turns the page and creates a beautiful new chapter in her life. As much as she tries, though, the monster relentlessly haunts her in her dreams and nightmares. Once again cursed by tragedy, Samantha’s life takes a tailspin. This time, she loses her grip on reality.

A Cracked Egg - Book Two - "A New Son Rises"

Private Investigator, Jimmy Quinn, rescues a child from a predator, posing as a pastor of an unaccredited church. With the child being safe and with his assailant behind bars, Jimmy thinks "open and shut", but...not really. Jimmy gets to know the child's mother and takes a special interest in the child himself, a 10 year-old boy, Tommy. Others notice more than a passing resemblance between the two of them, and while getting to better know Tommy's mother, Brenda, he unfurls a tangled web of lies, scandal malicious mischief and deceit.

Trauterose: Growing Up in Postwar Munich

What was it like to be orphaned at birth in the winter of 1942 in Munich, to spend the next eleven years as a foster child in the family of a former SS-officer? What was it like, after the death of my foster mother, to live for seven years in a home for children under the aegis of Catholic Sisters? What was it like to immigrate to the United States at age eighteen without family support or knowledge of English? In telling my story, I draw portraits of people that have affected my life for good or ill.

The Bright Freight of Memory

"In the end I believe our faults define us more than our virtues. Shakespeare’s greatest plays, the tragedies, revolved around their heroes’ flaws rather than their glories." Matthew Cooney and Donal Mannion shared their time as boys in a rundown neighborhood, without fathers, without comfort, without a sense of tomorrow, then went their separate ways, one to chase the trappings of maturity, the other to the streets.

Chandelier

At the height of the Cold War, Sienna Barrett was an unremarkable and otherwise anonymous child.
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She would spend the next two years participating in the most closely guarded secret in human history. No president, prime minister, or general knew of the project’s existence until 30 years after every piece of it had been disassembled and the pieces incinerated.
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And then she was abruptly sent home and given the impossible task of resuming her life as if nothing had happened.
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The Full Catastrophe: A memoir

After a fourteen year marriage to Duncan - a bully who'd been terrorizing and controlling her for all the years they'd been together - Lee thought divorce was in the cards. But ten months after telling him she wanted that divorce, Duncan was diagnosed with cancer. Eight months later, he was gone. Lee hoped her problems were gone with Duncan's death; instead, she found that without his ranting, raving, and screaming taking up space in her life, she had her own demons to face.

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