Suspense

Young Maggie Mae Stanton’s world is turned upside down when a truck accident brings a young girl to live with them. Accustomed to being an only child, Maggie has a hard time adjusting, much less sharing her home with a stranger. And the young girl who was thrown into their lives had worries of her own and it made for a tumultuous beginning for both girls.

Follow their story as the horses they both love bring life changes for each of them.

A storm is gathering over Molly Mae Farm. Sissy Garrett is lucky to be alive and she knows it. She abandons the farm and moves to Chicago to recover from leaving the Sisters of all Charity. She lives close to the newlyweds, Shirley Temple and Abel, who have adopted a little girl.

Sissy and David Eastwood, who is in love with her, part, as neither can accept their differences. Sissy becomes acquainted with a woman who is establishing a shelter for abused women. Later, Sissy returns home to the farm, in order to hide a battered woman. After Sissy becomes embroiled in a murder, her life is threatened and only with the love of David does she recover from a brutal kidnapping, to become more embroiled with the evil surrounding her.

Beth Ann’s career as a movie star takes off. Will she keep her secret?

This is the fourth novel in the Sugar Time series and is a compelling story of the Garretts as the darkness of abuse confronts them and the gathering shadows threaten their lives. Will the courage of Sissy Garrett sweep it away?

THE FUGITIVE LAWYER is a fictional story about Ryan who is in an unhappy marriage while working in a New York City law and investment firm with his father-in-law.

Suspecting unscrupulous dealings with their clients, Ryan wants out of the firm. So, falsifying his own death after an unexpected car accident, he escapes from New York City. The story continues as Ryan travels to several states trying to elude the FBI who is looking for him. During his travels he meets many interesting people and tries to establish a normal lifestyle for himself.

As the Securities and Exchange Commission becomes suspicious of the firm’s dealings with their clients, Ryan’s father-in-law, A.J., flees to Cuba. Meanwhile, the story follows the adventures of A.J. as he becomes involved with drug smuggling.

A.J. is eventually apprehended and brought to trial by the DEA due to his alleged dealings with a Columbia drug cartel.

Ryan was finally located and arrested but offered immunity if he would testify against his father-in-law for the investment frauds the firm committed against their clients.

Revenge is the dish that’s best served cold. Karen was living the outward appearance of a life most people would envy. Only she knew it was an abusive marriage and she had no intention of allowing it to continue.

When her husband, Nathan, landed a new position as the Operations Manager for Duvall Beverage and Distribution, he bought her a new house, a new car and promised things would be different.

Nathan took the job left vacant by Eric Kirkland. His death had been under mysterious circumstances and his sister, Laurel, refused to believe foul play wasn’t involved and felt the need to make sure Nathan knew what might lie ahead.

When his well planned career started to crumble at his feet, Karen happily watched from the sidelines as all Nathan’s efforts to hurt her were turned towards trying to save himself....

He knew that any moment he might die from an enemy’s bullet but he never knew just how close he came to dying in her arms.

Ben Harris, a reluctant American soldier, survives the horrible Omaha Beach landing and endures over a year of battles across Europe during WWII while at the same time fighting an inner battle against guilt for his participation. It takes the profound words from an old gentleman who shares his wine with Ben in a Belgian cafe to finally make him understand that his actions are just. So he continues to do what he was trained to do, kill the enemy. But one such event cast Ben into the life of a beautiful German widow and drives him to the cliff where death awaits below.

We met Amy Mary Theresa O’Brien Garret in SUGAR TIME. Her husband, Wally, left to join the Seabees, a branch of the Navy. He expected Amy to manage their small farm along with their daughters, Sissy and Beth Ann and her foster daughter, Shirley Temple.

Amy survives the attack by Mrs. Warwick, a German spy. When Amy learns Wally, her husband, is AWOL from the Navy she is determined to find him. She plans to buy his share of the farm. Amy is in love with Captain Rob Weeks and she needs Wally’s signature on an application to the catholic bishop to get her marriage annulled.

BEYOND SUGAR TIME continues the life of Amy Mary Theresa O’Brien Garret and her family. “I should have known,” Rob murmured as he kissed me. I heard the train come hissing into the station. I tore myself away from Rob and ran to the train. My journey begins.”

TWENTY EXHILARATING NEW STORIES is a collection of imaginative stories that provide many hours of entertaining reading pleasure. This phenomenal book will keep you eagerly turning the pages from the beginning until the end.

Zo hu vant tu bi a szpy, vell ye kum tu de rayt plaz. Phirzt vhat iz yhor indendshyns? Ir yei luken tu zav de vorld? Haw ur ye luken tu deeztriy de vorld? Myk ap ur mynt! Hu spek Totanese nouw. Hu de egint ve byn luking vur. Riid dis buqq tu xpant ur mynt.

This book is about a county prison farm known as the Honey Farm. Newly convicted rapists are induced to select the Honey Farm in lieu of other incarceration. The rapists are interviewed at the Honey Farm to isolate the intentional rapists from others caught by circumstances leading to the charge and conviction. The interview also unmasks the individual who is most likely to rape again as well as the individual who almost certainly will not.

The book reveals the emotional battle within an individual whose morals are seared by the duty that he must perform. It also reveals compassion, poor attitudes, love relationships, strength of character in the face of tragedy, and two charming twin girls who crave for a father that they never had.

To be given a second chance to fall back in love with the one that got away. He was and still is every bit of the word gentleman. Jordin couldn’t put the blame on her boyfriend Quentin; it was entirely her fault for their breakup while they were in college.

No longer under her parent’s rules, Jordin was free to do as she pleased. Her life began to spiral out of control once she started hanging out with her roommate Robyn. Although she was aware there was no pressure on her to do anything; Robyn knew how to manipulate her. Being around her brought out entirely another side of Jordin that she wanted to keep a secret. A double life she lived. Straight laced around her boyfriend Quentin and his friends, but when it comes to Robyn and her friends, she got totally turned up. It didn’t end just in college.

There it lay on the kitchen table in the same place where Jordin left it a week ago. She noticed it many times, never thinking to throw it away. One of these days she planned on putting it to use; it was given to her by a friendly face. Someone who she didn’t even know, saying take this, it will solve all your problems.

Even though they tried their best not to navigate into each other’s lanes uninvited when it came to their personal affairs; once Jordin’s friends Kiani, Chris, and Jasmine found out her secret they had her back from day one. This day and age, it’s hard to find good friends. They are few and far between.

Ashley, a colleague at Foster and Emerson, is a thorn in her side. She had been nipping at her heels before and after she got promoted. To top things off, she was always in someone’s business.