Always My Forever

In her captivating second novel, Always My Forever, acclaimed author Lorie O’Brien masterfully tells the poignant story of Kristin and Britt, childhood sweethearts whose love was once unbreakable. However, as they embarked on separate paths after their post-college breakup, their hearts were left shattered and their souls yearning for what they had lost. Two long and arduous years passed, filled with countless questions and restless nights.

Fate, with its mysterious ways, intervenes when a chance encounter unexpectedly reunites them. As they cautiously re-enter each other’s lives, they must confront the lingering shadows of their past and the unresolved emotions that still tie them together. Will their newfound connection be enough to reignite the flames of their once-unbreakable bond, or are they destined to remain forever apart?

Amaka

Greed, envy, and nepotism obstructed the realization of Nigeria’s first automobile. Uche partners with Professor Mobi to achieve this dream, but they are both kidnapped and become victims in the plane crash of 1983.

Amaka, driven by fate, finds herself beloved by one lover after another and one husband after another, experiencing both riches and poverty. Eloka delves into her life, determined to uncover the reason behind a blackmail plot against her.

Will he discover the truth? Can he solve the profound issues plaguing a person, a family, and a nation?

American Dysfunction

Alex Walker just wants to find peace. Growing up in a dysfunctional blue-collar family, he learns to navigate life, carrying heavy emotional baggage from years of abuse and neglect.

Trouble follows Alex through the hills of suburban Philadelphia to a rural trade school, where he travels down a dark path.

While on probation, Alex joins a ragtag 90s cover band which teaches him that life doesn’t have to be so dramatic.

American Dysfunction: The Adventures of Scott

Scott Miller is a former professional wrestler who can’t seem to catch a break. After yet another layoff from the Union, Scott is at a loss for what to do next. Then, out of the blue, he gets a call from his old promoter at Mid-Atlantic Wrestling, asking him to put on the face paint for one last title shot.

Just as Scott begins to taste the glory he’s always chased, his dreams are shattered when he discovers his promoter’s deep gambling debt to a dangerous biker gang. Realizing the peril they’re all in, Scott rallies his fellow wrestlers to save their friend. Desperate and determined, they’ll stop at nothing to pay off the debt – even if it means robbing a bank.

American Odyssey

In American Odyssey, Uriel Sullinger is thrust into a high-stakes card game with the prince of darkness, taking readers on a salacious romp through the darkened halls and back alleys of the human mind. When an old college mate lures him into a labyrinth of deception and illusion, Uriel’s fate hangs in the balance as he faces the devil’s hand. As he navigates between heaven and hell, Uriel discovers that the game of lies and illusion holds the key to his personal truth. With the powers of the universe battling for his soul, only Uriel’s childhood ghosts can save him from himself and help him understand his past to secure his future.

An Extraordinary Man

In 1962, a naive young Londoner named Dick Starling embarks on what he believes will be a simple three-year stint in the British colonial police force of Warania, a peaceful yet fictitious country in central Africa. However, his adventure quickly takes a wild turn, filled with unexpected twists, romance, and thrilling escapades.

Amidst the escalating tensions of nationalization and demands for independence, Dick witnesses firsthand Warania’s descent into chaos. As terrorism surges and lawlessness spreads, his once manageable rural police station becomes a battleground against escalating crime and unrest.

From abductions to political intrigue, Dick’s journey through a transforming Africa is a rollercoaster of humor, heart, and gripping drama. As his three-year term reaches its dramatic conclusion, Dick faces a climactic finale that will leave him forever changed.

An Irishman's Story of Survival

Every life is a tapestry of challenges, with resilience as its weft and weave. Amidst the torrent of trials that threaten to engulf one’s spirit, there stand the unyielding souls who, with a spark of defiance in their eyes, dare to face the tempest and emerge on the other side. They are the survivors, the dauntless hearts who tread the rocky path with an unwavering resolve.

Kevin O’Donnell is a beacon of such indomitable spirit, grappling with life’s relentless waves that seek to subdue him. In the turbulent era of mid-20th century, the world could be a harsh, unforgiving place for a young Irish lad. Yet, within Kevin lies a burning desire to carve out his niche, to transcend the barriers that life hurls his way and grasp the reins of a fulfilling existence.

Can his resolute will and earnest endeavor outshine the adversities that loom? Can he navigate the maelstrom and anchor himself to the shores of a prosperous life? Traverse the chapters of his journey within these pages, and unveil the saga of a young man’s undying spirit amidst the trials of time. Through Kevin’s eyes, explore a testament to the enduring human spirit that resonates with every beating heart that refuses to yield to life’s storms.

An Ordinary Man

While German bombs were falling on London people didn’t worry too much when hearing Hitler’s doodlebugs, the dreaded V1 flying bomb. But when the noise stopped then they were worried because they knew that the rocket was about to drop – on them!

David, hanging in a basket inside an air raid shelter, was oblivious to all of this for he was just a baby.

Growing up in West London he spoke with a cockney accent even though he wasn’t a true cockney. He went to a good school and later to an art college but not being impressed with the lifestyle of an artist or of an interior designer he left and got an ordinary job, His sporting interests included rowing with a club on the nearby River Thames and gaining instruction in the sport of judo but at the age of 18 he was looking for something more, an adventure.

He joined up for a three-year stint in a colonial police force in Southern Rhodesia and never looked back. He lost his cockney accent, learned a lot about police work and the native Rhodesians, both black and white, and his three-year stint turned into over ten.

Then using his police experience he started two successful private security companies, one in Rhodesia, the other in South Africa, and later emigrated to British Columbia in Canada where he started a third.

In 1984 he began working for the Canadian government, firstly in a security capacity and later in their commercial sector before taking early retirement on December 31st, 1999, and moving to the United States at the beginning of the new millennium.

Now in his fifth country of residence, he resurrected his artistic talents and began selling his art at various shows in the south-eastern United States. He also joined a local rowing club and within a few months was their manager and coach.

He has enjoyed many years of travel to over forty countries, has lived in five on three different continents and continues to live a healthy lifestyle which includes kayaking, cycling and plenty of walking.

An Owl's Tales

Life is a trail of crossing paths, some barely noticed, others with profound impacts. Did Santa bring that special football or the right Barbie doll? Did you pass that tough high school teacher’s course? Remember your first love? Was the pound puppy with sad but hopeful eyes ever chosen? Was the homeless beggar on the corner worth helping? The paths of Santa and teachers and loves and others who need help influence the course of our path, some for good, others not so much. But all of your paths make you, you.

Is it better to know or to feel what we should do? Maybe it doesn’t matter as long as the trail is guided by the heart. One man’s journey through a lifetime of crossed paths is portrayed in An Owl’s Tales. Some paths will sound familiar; some will challenge; some will motivate, while others will touch your heart. The wise old owl who sleeps with one eye open observes everything, reacts to little, but remembers. When your race is run, what will have been your important paths?

Angela's Letter

They say one never forgets his or her first love. So, what does a man do when he receives a letter from his first love – over 40 years after they last spent any time together – suggesting they reunite now that both are single and in their 60s?

Angela’s Letter is about two people and the challenges and joys they face trying to see if they can rekindle the love they shared many years earlier. Jack is a successful, retired widower just beginning to think about restarting his life 15 months after his wife’s death. Angela is his high school sweetheart, recently widowed, and an independently wealthy businesswoman. Angela has decided to live her remaining years to the fullest, and part of her plans include the letter she sends to Jack to see if he might be interested in renewing their relationship.

While genuinely intrigued by Angela’s proposal, Jack’s interest is tempered by his adult daughter’s attitude. Seemingly not yet over her mother’s death, her overbearing ways are poisoning everyone around her. Unbeknownst to Jack however, she is actually haunted by a foolish act from years before. Now Jack must do all he can to avoid having his daughter destroy her own life, as well as his opportunity for a new life with Angela.

Anger Management

Have you ever felt disconnected, unsure of your place in the world? Have you ever felt that society glorified the imbecilic and that most civilized problems could be cured with common sense? Have you ever wanted to make your own justice for it and punish the corrupt and perverted that destroy our trust? What if you found a way to do it?

Follow an unnamed narrator, through his daily life of work drugs and violence, finding ways he can exploit the loop holes to his needs, his outlets, how a simple fender bender can change everything. Is he a hero for doing what should be done for the better of society or the villain causing it?

Are You Free?

The Morettis are a Sarasota family of Cafeteria Catholics, (rejecting some Vatican doctrines—mainly pelvic issue ones). Widower Dante goes to his first Confession in decades. He confesses gossip: telling his two daughters of his brother Nick’s fling with the caterer for his wedding vow renewal with Nick’s then-wife Rosemary. An unusual Penance surprises Dante. Tantrums of Nick’s ex-wife Rosemary impact events. Dante wants another good woman to love, but dating yields only stories that amuse his girls.

Dante’s gossip is repeated, changing with each teller. Floridians talk about freedom (yet yearn to mate). An undreamt-of source for finding love and fulfilling Dante’s Penance offers challenge and hope. Her name is Abigail.

Soon they’re doing everything in a pandemic. How could anything go right?

Are You Free? offers a witty rumination on family, religion, and the search for love in many forms – grief, longing, regret, surprise.