Why did he have to leave at the age of twelve? He was orphaned, along with his sister (10) and younger brother (4), when they lost their father through suicide and their mother during a blizzard. The father, Will Engel, was a farmer; the mother was Erica. The sister was placed with her mother’s sister, the young boy with another relative, and Sven was sent to an Orphanage, called Amazing Grace, north of Winnipeg.
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The Lifestyle Trilogy:
Book 2
Beth Anderson, a recently widowed mother of two, finds solace in her swinger lifestyle. When friends invite her on a swingers’ cruise her intention is to relax and enjoy the Caribbean sun. Unexpectedly, fellow swinger Don, a wealthy business owner becomes the man of her dreams. As their relationship quickly intensifies, Beth ignores her friends’ complaints that their relationship is moving too quickly at the expense of her sons. Tom, a dear friend and lover from the past, wants her to himself and sets out to discredit Beth’s new love interest by exposing his flaws
The Lifestyle Trilogy Series
Book 1
Richard and Beth Anderson, upper, middle-class parents in their late thirties, warily accept a friend’s invitation to visit a swingers’ club. Several visits later, they realize they enjoy the lifestyle and become members of Club Climax. The Club provides them a venue for the hottest sex of their lives with each other, with their friends and with strangers. Unfortunately, what goes on at the Club is not all good, clean fun as Richard discovers. Becoming friends with an unsavory couple and the poor choices that result, brings turmoil to many aspects of his life including his marriage, work as an architect and his very existence.
You would think Cecilia LaRoque has it all: a loving father, wealth, beauty, social position and a devoted suitor. She doesn’t. Crushed by a cold and critical mother who soon absconds to live with a dissolute lover, ‘Cissy’ struggles to prove herself worthy of love and respect. She could not have foreseen in her teenage years that the genteel and privileged life she had led would come to a crashing halt with the outbreak of Civil War, a bitter struggle that would tear her world apart. Despite the hardships and inherent danger, she seizes the opportunity to forge an unorthodox role for herself as a spy.
Cocaine floods the streets of New York City. Drug cartels are in control. The mob wants their share. The FBI and NYPD have a drug war to fight. But, who are they fighting?
LOOSE ENDS KILL is a fast paced mystery/thriller that takes place in the historic city of San Antonio, Texas, and throws Jim West into the middle of a police investigation of the murder of an old friend’s wife. The police already believe they have the killer in custody – West’s friend.
A terrorist team has just set off four explosive devices in an international airport close to New York City. The leader of the terrorists, Ahmad Khalin, survives the attack and plans to attack a second U.S. airport within the month.
Doerr does it again. This time the vineyards and rustic beauty of Texas Hill Country mask the sleazy underbelly of sexual trafficking. The kidnapping/murder of a young woman thrusts Jim West into the heart of an investigation that could very easily claim his own life. – David Harry, author of Padre Puzzle and other thrillers set on South Padre Island
A MouseGate Adventure
When two troubled teenagers meet on an airplane traveling to Disney World, they soon discover they’ll experience some unique and frightening adventures that will change them forever.
Over the past several decades, the medical profession has lost much of its once-proud nobility, and the practice of medicine has lost much of its fun. These losses profoundly disappoint and sadden me, but writing about them comforts me. In that light, I refer you to the roll of toilet paper that appears opposite the title page of this book. It was a gift to me from 2 senior students at Baylor College of Medicine in 1978. The inscription on that roll reflects my philosophy to a T: think for yourself and organize your thoughts carefully,
then convey them clearly, succinctly, emphatically, and honestly. When you do that, you do more than separate the shit from the shinola. You become a leader, and you
rise above the norm of mediocrity.?