Life Is More Than Lollipops and Sour Grapes

This is a story about love, strength, and the importance of family. Emily, the wife, travels solo on a pilgrimage to Israel, fulfilling one of her lifetime dreams. Due to health reasons, her husband, Peter, could not join her. Along her journey, Emily shares her trip with her husband. A few days before her Israel tour comes to an end, Emily’s husband dies, leaving his widow in a foreign country alone and shaken.

Through her travels, Emily learns she is never alone. God steps in providing comfort, support, protection, and companionship in Peter’s absence. Although the uncharted waters of widowhood are unpredictable, the reader is given insight from a fellow widow on overcoming grief and finding renewed purpose, confirming God has a plan for your life.

When an unexpected event such as death descends, the horizon grows intensely dark. But through time and chance, the dust settles, the horizon clears, the air purifies, and we learn we have what it takes to survive and succeed.

The book is an easy read and should provide needed comfort, especially to members of a very large and ever-growing group; fellow widow and widowers and many others facing life alone.

Last Exit to Fate

Just then, a cloud passed over the peak and enveloped them in mist. The light from the bright sun was muted and the cowbells in the distance added a surreal dimension to the overall experience. It was beautiful and eerie, and as he put his ear against her body, he could hear and feel her heart beating. 

“It’s like staring into eternity,” said Emmy. “You can’t see it, but you know it is there, just like the cowbells in the distance. It is beautiful to know that I am destined to spend it with you.” 

Drew Phillips is a broken man, and after a failed marriage to another woman, he realizes that Emmy Lee was his only chance at real happiness. As a result, he vows to find her again 24 years later. However, finding her again is not exactly what he or anyone else would have expected.

Last Exit to Fate is a grand adventure set in the late eighties and into the recent past and includes stops in some of the most gorgeous places in Western Europe along the way. Most of all, it is a story of hope. In this hope may lie the means to recapture the most precious thing in the universe. This, of course, is true love.

Joy Boy

Mississippi native Alex Ashby is a drop-dead gorgeous 22-year-old male prostitute. He has been a victim all his life, having suffered both physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his father and uncle. Now, he sits in Chicago's Cook County Jail accused of killing two very important people and a pizza delivery boy and is believed only by a black newspaper reporter and Alex's friend, a cocky blond hustler named Tom Pappas. The reporter and Tom scour Chicago's seedy Uptown neighborhood, where many white Southerners have settled, to find "The Night Crawler"--whom they believe to be the real killer--and a 12-year-old hustler believed to be the only survivor of the massacre, who can exonerate Alex. Their odyssey takes the reporter on a harrowing ride through Blood Alley--Chicago's deadliest and most dreaded street--where even angels fear to tread.

Journey Back to the Sun

On this journey, Rachel White needs to remember her past, but every memory takes her on a roller-coaster of emotions that could change her present and destroy her future.

She must face the truth in her memories and as she is facing the truth, she encounters a battle that could break her mind and her heart. She is divided as her past is catching up to her and her present is starting to crumble.

Can she handle the pain as she digs into her past and discovers the truth about herself? Can she complete her journey and still be sure of what she feels? Will she survive the pain that this journey is going to bring her?

Iowa to Lisbon, a Love Story

Two people who fell in love unexpectedly and living worlds apart. Both grew up facing different, but similar challenges with their families. A chance meeting at popular fitness facility would lead to more meetings. Friends at first, and neither wanting to let the other know they had stronger feelings than friendship.

Distance would eventually separate them, but the love they had would bring them together. Time and distance would take a toll on them, but their love never wavered.

House Ravenin - The Folded Path

The world is always changing, each step uncertain as the old ways and the new collide in a struggle for supremacy. Yet even the most well-paced paths sometimes turn in odd directions, the rumble of discontent along the western border leading to bloody clashes against the advancing world slowly encroaching upon the once open wilds.

As Crissone lies in flames and the tenuous peace between elven and human people threatens to collapse, the slaves taken in from the attack and sold to the estates are not what they seem to be.

It is here beneath the roof of House Ravenin that the lives of all hang in the balance, the arcing destinies of singular lives quietly merging together to decide the fate of an unsuspecting people. Each has their own part to play out, the Folded Path watchful upon all who grace its stones.

As poisonous secrets are revealed and true natures rise to the surface, careful hands begin to unravel a deadly mystery in hopes of staving off a greater, more sinister threat.

Her Name Is Blue

Florencia-Blue is an introverted dreamer, a believer in the power of love yet skeptically guarded against its reality. She’s crafted a life comfortably hidden beneath the veil of her beloved books and manuscripts, convinced that true happiness dwells only within their pages. Enter James Murray: sweet, albeit grumpily so, with a heart encased in metaphorical stone, having long forsaken the notion of love. Until, that is, a shy New Yorker with a captivating dimpled chin gently unravels his defenses, weaving the concept of love into a tangible tapestry they both begin to cherish. Their bond forms from the roots of friendship, slowly unfurling into something profound, stirring emotions neither was prepared to confront. Yet, as time marches on, they find themselves inevitably drawn into the embrace of something they once dared not acknowledge. She is Jamie’s Sassenach, and he, Florencia’s long-anticipated Ginger lad, a testament to the unexpected paths love carves, leading them towards a shared destiny they never anticipated but ultimately cannot deny.

Harry and Lucy

Why do some people fall in love? I mean, really in love. Forever. For always. For better or worse. Until death do they part…

Harry and Lucy first met in a candy store in an old Polish neighborhood nestled in the heart of Detroit, Michigan, a long time ago.

This is their love story… an account of a woman who found her hero and a man who embraced his angel.

From the Depression and WWII, until today and all tomorrows, Harry and Lucy face tragedy and loss, all the while embracing hopes and dreams. More than all else, they share a love not limited to this lifetime…

This is their eternal love story.

Happenstance

Happenstance follows the ins and outs of young adults who make decisions that determine the fates of their hearts, at that moment in time.  
Lori returns home after one year of college, certain that age no longer presents an obstacle to pursuing Branson, the older gentleman she met the previous summer. Unexpected circumstances and moral roadblocks taint the possibilities and expose Lori's own immaturity, both spiritually and emotionally. Unable to find her definition of the perfect man, Lori moves her focus from guys to her career before entering into another relationship, complicated by its own set of challenges.
All seems lost until a chance encounter introduces her to the girl that holds the key to her happiness.

Hannah's Visions: The Apocalypse

Hannah’s Visions: The Apocalypse is a riveting thriller about Hannah, a soldier and a psychic who gets immersed in suspense, danger, and romance.

Hannah is a soldier in the IDF, has psychic visions of impending dangers to her family and the state of Israel. She has fallen head over heels in love with Amital, her commanding officer, but they each face challenges about their future.

Hannah’s visions provide law-enforcement locations about KGB’s plan to harm Israelis. When she describes her visions to law-enforcement chiefs, she finds herself intrigued by a career of being a military officer, although a full art college scholarship awaits her when she completes her Israeli Defense Force (IDF) requirements.

Will Hannah accept Amital’s proposal to get engaged? Hannah predicts violence towards Israel’s population. What happens next?

Hannah's Visions

Hannah is a seventeen-year-old high school senior with everything going for her. She is charming, pretty, popular with peers, a loving daughter, an acclaimed artist, and has a crush on the boy of her dreams, Yigal. She is also a psychic.

Lately, her visions disturb her greatly, especially when she sees grizzly crimes committed, including the rape and murder of a young lady, a near-fatal stabbing of another female, a police headquarters bombing, and being stalked by Leonid, whose goal is to extinguish her life. Hannah predicts her father, Yoni, a lead detective, will be assigned to investigate this case and apprehend Leonid.

A murder is committed, a young lady is nearly fatally stabbed to death, and the attacker is after Hannah.

So Hannah takes matters into her own hands.

Give Up Your Vows

It’s an old question: Can a man and a woman just be colleagues, or friends, without taking it to the next level? It always starts innocently, an attraction that grows as they spend more time together. The couple enjoy each other’s company, and the connection builds and feelings develop. The anticipation grows, even if they are married. Decisions are made. What if the line is crossed? The excitement of being together is palatable. Sometimes temptation wins. Will couples stray and give up their promises to be with someone else? The big question is will it last, and was it worth the consequences? Are all the good ones taken? Do vows have an expiration date? Find out.