Seventeen-year-old Arlyn Singer was standing on her porch when she made a strange “bargain.” She would marry the first man to come down the street. She also added that she would be faithful as long as he was faithful to her. John Moody was that...

Carole Whang Schutter weaves a fictional love story into the sharing of an historical event, The Mountain Meadows Massacre, "the first act of religious terrorism in the United States." Told from the point of view of a daughter reading her father's journals, September Dawn, is...

In 1925, Tennessee passed a state law against teaching “any theory that denies the story of creation of man as taught in the bible, and to teach instead that man descended from a lower order of animals.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial). John Scopes, high school science teacher, was...

Lalita Tademy left the corporate world to research her family history. In her latest book, Red River, the accomplished author shares the true story of the “Colfax Riot.” She successfully intertwines history and fiction to educate and entertain the reader. The setting is Colfax, Louisiana, 1873....

Al Qaeda terrorists targeted Universal Airlines Flight 617, flying from Chicago to Hawaii. The weapon, Ebola Marburg virus, purchased from a deniable research lab in Russia. The Central Intelligence Agency picked up information concerning the sell from an undercover operative at the lab. As other...

The Painter From Shanghai is a fictional account of the life of Pan Yuliang. She was born Xiuqing in 1895, orphaned at five, and raised by an opium-addicted uncle. At fourteen, he sold her to a brothel, The Hall of Eternal Splendor, where her name...

The setting is 1970, Fort Knox, KY, the Vietnam era. Kim, Donna, Sharon and Wendy were unlikely friends. They had little in common. They came from diverse backgrounds and had very different personalities. Yet these four women join, sharing strength and support for each other....

Miscarriage of Justice is a fictional tale based on a true story. It is the early days of the women’s suffrage movement. Walter Dotson was a counselor at a Christian Camp when he met Anna Dennis, his future wife. He was attracted to her from...

Sixteen years ago, Marnie’s mother drowned. She could not remember everything that happened that fateful night, but she knew she had lost two things that day that she dearly loved--her passion for sailing and the love of her sister. She escaped to the dessert pledging...

Linc is a househusband. The landscaper opted to stay at home, run the house, and raise his daughter while his wife, Jo, pursued a lucrative career. When she is offered a dream job in Naples, Florida, the family finds more has changed than just their...

The Lost Diary of Don Juan is the story of the title character. Douglas Carlton Abrams paints a picture of a daring man that comes from humble beginnings and achieves nobility. Abrams incorporates ancient Tantric teachings in his book. Nuns adopted Young Don Juan. His first...

Raquel Rose was diagnosis with terminal breast cancer. Suddenly life was different, better. Her children suddenly acted almost human. She began to live her artistic dreams. She became a talk show favorite. Then the doctor informed her of the mistake. She is cancer free....

Lighting The Dark Side is an apt title for this book of six short stories. Potter shines a little light on the darker side of humanity. The stories are about ordinary people.  The genre’s are a wide variety:   action, thriller, mystery/detective, suspense, and romance. My...

M. Ann Jacoby offers readers an extradinary, thought-provoking, humorous plot. Life After Genius is the story of genius, Theodore “Mead” Fegley. Only eight days before graduation, eighteen-year-old Mead drops out of college. He returns home and joins his father and uncle in selling furniture and...

The Last Queen is the fictionalization of the life of Juana, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, the “last Queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country’s throne.” Many myths have spread throughout the sands of time. Who was the woman behind the myths? Was...

The Lace Reader takes control of your life until you have read every word. I could not put this book down. This provocative novel began with narrator Towner Whitney’s statement that she is crazy and that we should never believe her. The Whitney family was eccentric;...

Paul Peterson--divorced father, advertising agent--is on a journey of self-discovery. Through a sort of meditative state, Peterson revisits past events in his life. He does this in a short period of time. However, the reader should remember time is relative. Traveling with Peterson (besides the...

Brett Peters returned to Orlando after he took a bullet intended for the small Iraqi girl. His cameraman considered him a hero, but Brett didn’t feel like one. The pain and damage to his left leg was worth it. When he returned to his home...

From the beginning of this book, I sensed that David and Chera have a special relationship, a very close relationship.  When fifteen-year-old Chera asked to climb a mountain, David was reluctantly agreeable.  Their first adventure would be to conquer Pikes Peak.  Along the trail, Chera...

Caryn Dahlstrand Ribadeneira offers readers a guide to being the spiritual person God intended us to be.  “God created us to bear His image in all of life, not just in one area.”  “Too often, those of us who wish others could see us as...