I Live for Two
Love and self-awareness are the driving themes in this tale, and they aren’t always where a person thinks they will find them. Light-hearted at times, I Live for Two explores love in its many facets. Set in the USSR during the Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev era, a village orphan boy does his best to avoid being sent to the gulag for a past offense. In his desire to find redemption, he is haunted by a tragic accident with his twin brother. His only saving thought is of a diva ballerina from a chance encounter on the Siberian Express. This story explores life on the Intercontinental Express and the culture of the people who work, travel, and live near it. For this boy, a porter’s life is far from mundane. Along with a host of characters who work the railroad, there are close encounters with the KGB, Russian mafia, and nomadic tribesmen as he tries to be true to himself.
Chronicles of The Spanish Fly, Dawn of a New Life
Self-discovery is a quest that takes a lifetime. The journey twists and turns throughout every day, our past, our dreams, and our future. For those who embrace the adventure, must also accept the consequences and live its burdens or treasures of newfound knowledge. Our present is only a sum of events that others have lived; love, hate, war, peace, envy, death, theft, and murder are all elements that await those who look for their identity. Join Dawn on her quest to solve a crime that has plagued her mind for 15 years. Like a fly that flirts too close to the spider’s web and then is consumed by it, her flight is impacted by the events lived by others before she was born. If your recipe for reading contains self-discovery, murder, cult rituals, and espionage with a dash of alien abduction? The Chronicles of The Spanish Fly is the book for you. This is not the garden-variety script that holds your hand as you light from one impactful point to another. The reader is challenged to remember important facts and scenarios to assimilate the details that have been the crux of Dawn’s life. Laced with facts and fiction of New Mexico (USA), the author has used GPS indicators throughout the story to allow the reader the added value of taking the imagination into reality. Use the indicators to follow the characters, learn new cultures, and enjoy the ride.
The Italian Bride
Fear, running, fighting, and screaming are all part of a dangerous rescue in any period, but even more so in the colonial days of New England. As a new nation was born in 1776, the unbridled frontier was the 13 original states and New York was on the edge of the unknown. Pioneers cut through the dense forests of these states to create farmland to grow their crops, livestock, and families. Native Americans roamed the land as they did for thousands of years, while fearful foreigners changed the face of the native’s ancestral home. Some natives attempted to adjust and co-exist with the new strangers, while others rebelled against the forced change by fighting for what was truly theirs. Remote towns blossomed as Eastern commerce grew and the ancient cultural practice of adopting one’s enemies or being “carried off,” by the natives, only increased fear of the new white foe. This fictitious story gives a glimpse of such an abduction of an Italian Bride.
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