Love and War

Allana goes in pursuit of a crown, and Javik is trapped into an unwanted marriage before the fates conspire to free him from all obligations except finding the woman he loves.

Mauhad

Javik lives in a country surrounded by mountains and covered in old growth forest.  His ambition is to become a warrior like his father, Tolda, but he must pass Mauhad before he can realize that ambition.  When is father is killed saving the others in his raiding party, Javik despairs of ever reaching that goal without his father’s training.  Goldar, who led the raid when Tolda was killed, convinces the King to allow Javik to train with Tao Shan, the finest mentor in the kingdom.  Javik finds himself among the sons of the wealthy and must adjust to the situation quickly.  While in training he encounters a girl in the forest.  She is Allana an escaped slave, but Javik falls in love with her.  He convinces her to come out of hiding, and she teaches the sling to Tao Shan’s students.

Emerson’s Home

People say that losing a child is the worst tragedy anyone can suffer. Emerson LaMonica would not agree. After her father’s death, 8-year-old Emerson cannot imagine anything hurting more.  She begins to isolate herself from everyone in her life, not letting anyone get too close, shutting people out to avoid getting so hurt again; the only coping skill her young psyche can do to heal.  However, it will not mend her. The isolation only causes her more harm.

Thunder Canyon

A MouseGate Adventure

The trio of cousins, who first appeared in Worthy of Trust and Confidence, travel back in time to 1900 and are actively involved in a Secret Service counterfeit gold coin case in Cripple Creek, Colorado during its gold boom days.

EMERALD

People said that nobody escaped alive from Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge, yet one of his wives, Prudence Lutrelle manages a daring escapes and survives. She leaves the ship bearing a beautiful Emerald necklace. Many years later the necklace gives her descendant, Anna O’Neill, a hint at recovering the treasure of Blackbeard. Anna, accompanied by her life time love Casey, travel to a remote island in North Carolina to search for the treasure with which she will ransom her daughter, kidnapped by her husband in a daring insurance fraud plot. Anna’s husband, in desperate financial straits, has engineered a scheme to follows them to the island, intent on killing his wife, Casey, and their seventeen year old daughter and making away with the treasure.

Where Have All the Go-Go’s Gone?

A ridiculed intellectual dreamer opens a 1960’s retro disco.  He surrounds himself with an array of characters that have a distorted view of reality and who put fun into dysfunctional in this murder mystery farce that is more farce than mystery.

Almost A Mensch Part 2 The Pathway to Menschhood

On July 6, 1946 the SS Josiah Wedgwood was thirty miles from the Port of Haifa.  I was an eighteen-year-old crewman on that vessel, which was carrying 1,257 ​Holocaust survivors from camps in Italy to Palestine. Passengers and crew alike were on high alert, watching for two things: British vessels and Haifa.  The British had set up a blockade of Haifa and ships caught running it were forced to return their Holocaust survivors to the same countries that had refused them entry.

 

Dreams Fulfilled

Dreams Fulfilled
Dreams Fulfilled is the  story of two men who envision their ideal marine businesses but don’t wholly fulfill those dreams until they see the success of their children.

Thoughts of a Fried Chicken Watermelon Woman

Thoughts of a Fried Chicken Watermelon Woman
This book is one Black woman’s thoughts on issues of the day.  Black men in academia like Dr. Cornel West or activists like Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr. are often asked about the Black community and how the Black community views issues like the Stand Your Ground laws.  None of those gentlemen speaks for me or others I know in my community.  So I wrote this book to offer a more realistic view on issues like Stand Your Ground laws, the prison industrial complex and others.