This story begins in 1972 by introducing us to 12 year old Tristeza. Her real name is Felicida but she has been cautioned not to use that name. She witnessed her family’s murder, the massacre of her village. The face of Captain Antonio Perreira was...

Seventeen year old, Veronica (Ronnie) Miller, had her world turned upside down. Her father gave up his job of teaching music to follow his dream, to become a concert pianist. The days on the road and time spent away from home took a toll on...

Receive Me Falling weaves back and forth between present day and the past. The prologue gives a few haunting paragraphs describing the death of a slave. The woman had jumped from a cliff into the dark, turbulent, rocky waters below. Meg and Brian are engaged to...

The setting is the 1930s in Pope County, Kentucky. Olivia Harker Cross lives on a mountain in Pope County, Kentucky.  She is a hard worker with a lot of responsibility.  She is raising her grandson Will'm, and taking care of her mentally ill mother.  Her father...

Two women in love with the same man and he loved them both.   Maria and the young senator fell deeply in love.  When he discovered she was pregnant he insisted on an abortion.  Maria hid from him giving birth to their daughter, Sarah in the...

Mourning her mother’s death, Adele Martin quits her job in Brooklyn and returns to Pennsylvania, where she was raised in a small mountain cottage. Artist Jay Westvelt is the next door neighbor. Despite differing opinions they have an attraction to each other. Secrets concerning her...

Thandy Malone has it all. She’s a successful attorney. She is self made, attractive and sophisticated. Her background was rough. She left home at an early age, had a baby, and married a drug lord. After his arrest she was left homeless. As successful as...

Blue Bird Yellow Bird tells the story of a woman searching for self awareness. She feels her life out of her control. Our heroine suffers from OCD and maniac depression. Mental illness is draining on the family and friends. Blue Bird Yellow Bird is a fascinating...

Five Things I Can’t Live Without is Chick Lit at its finest. Nora is the star of Holly Shuma’s debut novel. Nora is one of those people that self sabotages her life. She spends a lot of time analyzing her own thoughts, actions and reactions. Without...

The Castaways were a group of 8 friends, 4 couples that live in Nantucket. They have mourned, cried and laughed together. Phoebe and Addison, Tess and Greg, Delilah and Jeffery, and Andrea and Ed care very much for each other. One...