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| The Peninsula Series |
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Heddi escapes and takes refuge in the vast forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She forages and steals to survive, finds companionship with a coyote pup, a laughing bird, and an ornery old man who is difficult to understand and harder to abide. Mister James, unable to run from the memories of his former self, walks into the woods trying to find the tenacity to end his life. But first, he wants to fish for coasters, the tiny, resolute trout which live in the Salmon Trout River flowing through Yellow Dog Plains. Not to eat. He would never kill them. They are treasures. When his dream is met, he thinks, maybe he’ll find the strength to let the river current take him. Red Jacket Angels is about an unlikely relationship formed from the ashes of disaster and revealed from two distinct perspectives. |
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When diphtheria hits Pere Cheney, Jesse and her mother treat the sick using medicinal herbs cultivated from the forest surrounding their log home. But in 1893, people knew little about epidemic illnesses and believed a witch’s spell, an Indian curse, or a woman’s sin could cause their afflictions. Meet Bert the lumberjack, Esther the storekeeper, Ed with angry ancestors, and papa Milos. With their help, Jesse confronts a deadly disease and struggles to save a dying town - and herself. |
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The Harley rider paid no attention to the posted signs and drove down her driveway, so Sophie grabbed her shotgun. She knew how to use it and was ready to protect her goats and fowl, her babies. But why hadn’t the peacocks screeched a warning? John Wayne, fresh from Iraq, finds serenity on Sophie’s land, but it’s clouded by mysteries she clarifies in her own good time through stories told while watching flames in a campfire. Tales of her life from the 1960’s to the 21st century explain how lies are born from the fertile womb of wishes. |
| The Idlewild Series |
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Abby and her Irish father run a hotel in Idlewild, Michigan, a small-town resort for middle-class Negros. Through fire, KKK crosses, rapes, beatings and marriage to a local man, Abby learns the destructive power of oppression in all its forms and the value of honor. The resort began in 1915 and was an Eden for African-Americans until 1964 when the Civil Rights Act made the resort unnecessary. Della Reese, Sammy Davis Jr., B.B. King and other famous black entertainers played there and made it the most notable resort in the nation. This account imagines what happens when honor confronts bias. |
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Idlewild is a nature lover’s dream. In the twenties, it planted seeds of integration, and Black families found peace in this small-town nest of tranquility surrounded to the north and south by horrific, discriminatory activities. Irish Abby tries to unite the community and shoves headlong into trouble trying to do the right thing. Unfortunately, she isn’t sure what right is, only what it should be or could be. |
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Abby, a small-town woman, and her father run two hotels in Idlewild, a growing resort in Michigan’s north west. They host church services, funerals, meetings and baptisms. It is the “roaring twenties” when jazz, women’s liberation, wild dancing and Jim Crow laws surface and shock the nation. Abby continues to fight the bigotry she despises. An old man and a baby create heartache and joyful triumph in the 1920s Michigan resort town. When Pastor Jenkins yells “Get the log out!” everyone understands what he’s talking about, and they pluck the offending timber from their eyes. |
| The Family Saga Series |
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Kate also loves her family, a philosophical hobo, a cussing, moonshine drinking woman, a red dog with an attitude, and Mel, her faithful friend. Elephant in the Room is about character, family, life and love. |
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With Harley, the scruffy, philosophical hobo's wisdom, Bug's eye rolling antics, hellishly handsome Jack's protection and Mel's deep, abiding love, she finds contentment and learns to say thank you. Angels in the Corner is about changing relationships . . . among friends, loved ones and between the unique yet parallel generations. |
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Spanish flu attacks Hersey, ravaging the village, and Kate fears for her family. She struggles to keep them safe as one daughter leaves home, one gets pregnant and one is kidnapped. Strong women of three generations define their relationships with one another, and with those they love, as America enters WWI and young boys leave to fight. Light in the Forest is about frailties,strengths, and what we mean to others. It's about a spark of light in a dark place. |
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Published June 2016 - Book #4 A stranger comes to Hersey, bringing bigotry, selling lies, and sowing distrust, causing some to flee and some to fight: Kat and John for their clinic, Kate and Mel for Sammy, Becca for love, and others for survival. Heart strings and funny bones are tangled with the eighty-five year old Baxter twins, who say what others only think; with Harley and Verna, who find love on the banks of the Mississippi; and two fear-provoking, eye-rolling wolves. Place in the Circle is about love, family, and friendship . . . a shelter in the howling winds of change. |
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