Mary Vere, who lived at the Jarvis home, was a maid to Mrs. Jarvis. She was neither a slave nor was she family.  Mary’s mother, a free person, told her of her father, a fine white gentleman from the north, a traveling man. When the...

Terrorists develop a new airborne strain of anthrax.  Six of the terrorists are unknowingly infected with the anthrax and placed on separate flights to the US.  The symptoms mimic the common cold.  The terrorists’ coughs and sneezes spread the virus to those trapped in the...

As I started to read this novel, I soon come to the realization that this is not a book for someone looking for an afternoon cozy read. Although the book is fiction, you can view it as what is going on in the world today. As...

Tripp knew he was in for a time when his father planned on getting married. His problem seemed to be the daughter of the woman, a fourteen-year-old who seem bound and determined she was going to be number one. She seemed to worm her way...

The author, Michele DeMarco Wilkie, shares with the readers the most basic ideas of what pulls us all together. This book is a refreshing outlook on not just spiritual living, but on spiritful living. This is a book that crosses all barriers. Anyone, believer or...

This story begins with a group of men landing in what is now New England in North America. The year is 1399. The men are Templar Knights. At the burial of Gunn, the scene switches to present day. While visiting a library, Cameron...

The Obsidian Seed is the sequel to Tigra. In the first book, Jeena escapes a POW camp. She ends up on planet Ararat where she adopts a tigra cub, Samson. She is surprised to learn that the tigra cub is intelligent, talks,...

Elizabeth (Beth) Black is starting life anew. She is leaving Scotland , her job  in a bank, her best friend Tina, and------- Jamie, who she is  finally getting over. She is headed for England to work in the office of the  Radcliffe Boatyard, owned by the...

Once J. Franklin (don’t call him Frank) got a taste of murder, he wanted more. The mad man lived on an old isolated farmstead.  He needed privacy to put his diabolical plan in action.  The  biology teacher at the local college felt unappreciated. However, he...

Keegan Flynn is a newspaper journalist whose job is exposing the truth about con artists through his writing.  His career is put on hold when his sister Miriam's marriage falls apart, and he returns to the small town of Stone Hill Texas to help her...

Location: Aspen Colorado The First Season of the year, Spring…..Spring Morrison, widowed 4 years earlier and raising two children, cannot make her mother understand she does not need a Easter Basket this Easter. To satisfy her mother, she finally relents and tells her all she needs...

Joanne Moore lived a very sheltered childhood.  Her love of reading brought her to the library often, where she was befriended by the librarian, Ms. Crittendon.  David, Joanne’s husband was abusive.  Divorce did not stop him from tormenting her.  The divorce did not stop the...

Fourteen-year-old Eddie hated the private Christian school. He hated his four African American classmates even more, Julia, Toya, Cassie, and Terry. Eddie had a crush on pretty Cassie. When Eddie attacked Cassie, the other three girls came to her defense. Each of the...

The DuBois family was dysfunctional.  Harlan was a pompous bore and more than a bit unstable; he looked down his nose at his brother.  He tried to acquire for himself who or what his brother wanted.  Their mother was even worse.  She hated her son...

Jimmy Gleacher offers readers a unique look at the life of a bi-polar female.  Liza Davis was from an extremely dysfunctional home.  Her mother’s focus was on her professional life rather than her children.  Daughter Jamie informed her mother of her plans to go to...

Grace was bright, pretty, and successful.  She worked for a large company in D.C.; she had done well for herself, but she has distanced herself from her family and friends back home.   She hadn't been back home to Cape Cod in eighteen months- not since her brother's wedding...

Anna Matteo was a writer.  She didn't consider her work typing press releases and brochures as serious writing.  She was working on a novel, but after seven years, found herself procrastinating.  She was ordering articles for a project she was working on.  She typed in...

Autumn still mourned the loss of her former fiancé Cory Perkins.  He was in a shark cage when the cable was torn in half by the razor-sharp teeth of one of the large predators.  The crew were helpless in the shark-infested waters as they watched...

Southern Sympathies Andrea Boeshaar Alec Crobett moves to Alabama to get a fresh start after a broken engagement. His new neighbor, Lydia, is a widow who has let her father-in-law, a corrupt preacher, rule her life and her finances. When he realizes Lydia is falling for Alec,...

As a former teacher, I applaud Jack Bender for his book Disregarded.  The atmosphere in one particular school was disheartening.  It was a “me against the world attitude.”  An “I’ll get you before you get me stance.”  Of course it was not all the faculty--just...