Where the Water Falls

Seeking purpose in life is like finding your way through a dark room, as Hunter Strong finds out the hard way. Although he finds comfort in his routine, he senses a missing piece and becomes determined to find out what that is! With the help from his mentor, Marge, and his new friend, James, Hunter embarks on a bigger life journey than he thought. Along the way, he’d have to face the shadows of his past to find what he seeks.

Where the Water Falls is a narrative highlighting the vagaries of life. Without a set of instructions as a guide, this becomes a life-changing experience. Not only to the people in Hunter’s life but also providing a fresh new perspective to Hunter himself. The experience is in the journey; the destination is merely a junction or transition. Life keeps flowing like a river, even at moments where the water falls.

The Timkens of San Diego

Rising from a blacksmith’s apprentice to become king of the roller bearing, Henry Timken was one of the 19^th century’s greatest inventors.

His early engineering of axles, springs, and ball bearings for horse-drawn carriages made him rich. But his 1898 patent of a tapered roller bearing revolutionized transportation and made the German immigrant and his family uber rich.

In 1887, with his greatest invention still ahead of him, Timken retired to San Diego with his wife, Fredericka, and four of their five children. All would become wealthy from his patents and lead lives that often cast them in the nation’s headlines.

The three daughters made their niche in the art world.

Amelia founded the San Diego Museum of Art and resuscitated the symphony. Georgia studied art in Paris and St. Louis and married her art teacher. Eight of her paintings hang in the National Gallery of Art.

Cora became an ardent painter and a major collector of art from Persia, China, and India. The Metropolitan Museum of Art lists 133 objects from her. At age 47 she married an osteopathic doctor-scientist 15 years younger who was obsessed with the idea of curing illnesses through electromagnetism.

The sons, H.H. and W.R., took turns running the Timken empire and expanding it globally. H.H. became one of the wealthiest men in America.

The Fuzzy Bumblebee

In this thoughtful Clarke Fable, your child will learn the lesson of appreciating others for who they are. The fuzzy bumblebee comes to understand that he shares a sameness and a difference from those who are around him. Don’t forget to look for the Fuzzy Little Bumblebee who appears on each page!

Martita and the Last of the Muldoon Dragons

Stephanie Rivera tells a beautiful story of pride and forgiveness. Brave seven-year-old Martita and her new diminutive friend step in to help a young dragon discover courage he didn’t know he had. Excitement and friendship abound in this heartwarming story—complete with breathtaking illustrations by Brooke Musselman—that preserves the honorable lineage of the Muldoon Dragons.

Love Bites...Sometimes Too

This is the second story, the follow-up to Love Bites…Sometimes. Bryce and his new fiancé vampire have moved to a new small town. They think of themselves as safe and getting ready to plan their dream wedding, not realizing that someone from the past is still following them. But whose past is it, and why are they stalking them?With his new awakening powers and abilities, Bryce’s fiancé is seeing and feeling a new terrifying threat looming and stalking them. This mysterious figure is using old friends as targets and puppets, as well as new mysterious attacks that threaten to expose them. Or is this mysterious new shrouded figure after something else even more sinister?With the help of new/old friends and a relative, they discover new secrets and with new powers developing, will it be enough? This dark and mysterious figure seems to have an alley as well, also from Bryce’s dark family’s past. Will finding this dark figure’s ally identity lead them to find out who is stalking them?

Reflections of My Soul

Experience life through my eyes and my perspective of the way things are or might be.

Through my poems I challenge the reader to live my reality as I see it. Step into the twists and turns of my mind. Imagine stepping into my dreams, experiences, and nightmares. The trick is to find your way out again.

The Plum Thief

As Pan American World Airways teetered on bankruptcy, could the shah of Iran provide the capital to restore it to solvency? Or would his financial bailout endanger the lives of Pan Am’s executives because a religious revolution is brewing?

The Plum Thief is the turbulent story of activists who forged a new government in the 1970s by battling Western businessmen in their efforts to topple the shah of Iran. Told from the little guy’s point of view, here’s a tale of indoctrination, as characters in The Plum Thief perform increasingly violent historic events, where heady success is achieved only through peril and risk of death. It’s the story of secret police, clerics with weapons, oil bureaucrats, and the US Congress. It poses the lingering question: Can the rules of faith serve as the rules of law?

The Plum Thief reveals author James Roman’s personal involvement with Iran’s religious revolution, also including such recognizable names as Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Ayatollah Khomeini, and more. Here is historic fact, disclosing how Iran, once America’s steadfast ally, evolved in this new world order.

UnAssigned

Stuck in prison while dreaming of the ocean is how Dr. Savannah Dawson is spending her time in Cape Town. At least that’s true on business days while she works as a physician at the overcrowded penitentiary. But her freedom also remains at risk from Casper, the invisible head of the CIA. Hoping that this assignment might be their last, Savannah and her best friend Lacey work to break free another operative stuck behind bars and caught in the web of their unfriendly ghost of a boss. In order to accomplish this problematic jailbreak, they have to enlist the help of their crew of friends: Charlee, the best lawyer they know, and Karmen, the most cunning IT guru on the planet. But the four of them soon realize this assignment isn’t exactly what it seems, and they are really being exploited for the ultimate cover-up. When the tides turn and they find themselves the ones hiding and hunted, they have to decide to run or fight.

Where the Waves Meet Fire

Beneath the golden glow of New York’s skyline and the wild Pacific horizon, two lives are about to collide in a love story as fierce as the waves that carry them.

Alfonso Rivera, a thirty-year-old surfer and Ph.D. student, lives between the crashing waves and the quiet halls of academia. When his father’s dream of building a surfing center in Malibu pulls him west, he must navigate ambition, family legacy, and the shadows of his past.

Krystal, a former beauty queen turned scholar, hides her scars beneath elegance and fire. Drawn together by an undeniable spark, Alfonso and Krystal discover a love as exhilarating—and dangerous—as the ocean itself.

But passion alone cannot protect them from betrayal, ambition, and secrets that threaten to pull them under. Between the glitter of New York and the wild horizon of California, they must decide if their hearts are strong enough to survive the storm.

Where the Waves Meet Fire is a sensual, dramatic tale of love, resilience, and destiny—crafted for readers who crave romance that burns with intensity and lingers long after the last page.

Father Tom’s Penance

Tag along with Father Thomas Flannery on his circuit ride as he wends his way through western Kentucky and Tennessee in 1948. Listen to his deeply meaningful and moving sermons. Eavesdrop on the sanctity of the confessional as he listens carefully to the penitent. He pronounces absolution and assigns very appropriate penance to each contrite sinner.

Meet some of his old friends along the way and the new friends he makes on the journey in his old Model A Ford.

Father Tom struggles with his personal weaknesses and his past and learns much about the forgiveness Christ offers us. He also learns about true maturity and how one can find it.

He wrestles with great mysteries as a good theologian would and even questions Church doctrine. His compassion, faith, sense of humor, and work ethic help make him a great priest.

Explore with Father Tom the magic of memories, dreams, and fantasies. Enjoy this nostalgic trip back to yesteryear, when life seemed to be more simple—but it really wasn’t!

Full Moon Speaks

Experience a timeless adventure under a brilliant full moon traversing the night sky in Full Moon Speaks! When the sun sets and the world quiets down, creatures near and far share their dreams and secrets with their shimmering friend—the moon.

Filled with enchanting illustrations and heartwarming conversations, this delightful story reminds us of the magic that happens when we dare to dream and share our thoughts with the universe. Perfect for bedtime reading, Full Moon Speaks will inspire little and big hearts alike to believe in their own beauty as reflected in the creatures that are revealed by the light of the moon.

The Frog Song

Rubabbum, ruuummm, ruummmm. Did you know that not all frogs make the sound “ribbit”? Over 6000 species of frogs exist in the world, each with a unique voice.

The Frog Song brings these sounds to life in an engaging, heartwarming tale about a bullfrog who travels the globe on a magic lily pad to bring frogs from across the world together in song.

This whimsical story will have children laughing as they croak along with these distinctive frog sounds. Bullfrog is sure to be a family favorite as he gathers these frog friends together for a celebration of sound.