Young Adult

“Afterwards”...begins with the end of Jed and Jessica Oaks’ life journey. Jed’s final act, as his sister lies dying, is to write an important letter in email form, to both his and his sister’s individual family groups. In it he explains that he and Jessica have started a very worthwhile project but time, unfortunately, has run out for them. Unless something is done, their old, bucolic farm home and animal sanctuary will cease to exist. Important decisions have been made. Seven spunky, orphaned children have been selected to come and find safe haven at Twin Oaks. Each is twelve years of age, the exact age of Jed and Jessica when they were left on their own long ago. Excellent leaders have been hired to provide for their care and support. Competent lawyers have arranged all legalities. Money is not a problem. Still, Jed recognizes even all these preparations may not be enough. His email is a request for additional help from all of them. The question is – was Jed and Jessica’s dream too much to hope for? Is there any chance of success?

The Invisible Boy combines the Paranormal with the Coming of Age category. The story is a stand-alone thrill ride to keep the readers satisfyingly on edge. Danger and romance appear on almost every page. The time period is early summer of 1976 in a town on the outskirts of Philadelphia.

Walking home after school Johnny observes the class bullies playing football in the local cemetery. The lead bully Leo kicks a plant off a grave demolishing it. Johnny sympathizes with the interned person and replaces the destroyed plant with a new one. The spirit of the interned soul is Agnes Starr. She manifests after witnessing Johnny’s act of kindness. She grants Johnny a gift she overheard him wish for. Johnny wished to become invisible to pay back those ruffians.

Johnny comes to the aid of friends, store owners and even the police. He’s a hero but sadly nobody will ever know it. The Invisible Boy is a fun read for those interested in the paranormal and teenage love stories.

The Improbable Heroes conveys the heartwarming story of four adolescents coming together to help friends and neighbors. Be ready to laugh at their ingenuity. Each member has a special gift of extraordinary power. The Fearless Four confront and challenge evildoers. Susan the front-runner coordinates and plans the improbable heroes benevolent assignments.

Susan’s Grandfather is a member of a paranormal group. His deceased wife was a psychic medium and together they participated with this mystical ensemble. Grandpa becomes Susan’s tutor for he realizes she will inherit her Grandmother’s gift of conversing with the dead. Grandpa takes Susan on a demonic haunting and exposes her to the most frightening events of her life. Father Cassidy comes to Susan’s rescue when she is constrained by an atrocious demon.

I am sure that at some time in your life, you became so fascinated about something that it became a mystery to you. It was a fascination that almost consumed most of your time.

In this short story, Lisa becomes fascinated with seahorses. Her research on them was very extensive. She fed them all kinds of nutrients, some kinds that had adverse warnings on them; however, she didn’t take heed at that time, she just wanted them healthy and growing.

However, Lisa had no idea what the outcome of her experiment would develop to at the end.

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.

Halloween Party is the third book in the Turner Family Series. All of Rhonda’s classmates want to attend her Second Annual Halloween Party. She is faced with the challenge of selecting only nine guests. Rhonda, her parents, and Grandma Sylvia all work together to make Rhonda’s Halloween party a blast. The guests have the time of their lives. It is a night filled with games, treats, and dancing.

This, the third book in the Twin Oaks trilogy is action-packed. It begins with a proposal of marriage, follows with the unwanted return of Jed and Jessica’s mother, Angela, and concerns the abduction of Jed’s fiancé Ginny Miller. Terrified of the danger Ginny is in, Jed calls on the help of his old friends Thorpe Norville, Clint Kelly and Hans Weber. Each in his own voice relates his part in the combined effort to save Jed’s beloved. All they have to go on is that the kidnapper is under the influence of his brother, a paid assassin for American crime bosses. Secondary plots are developed in this story of drama and suspense. Jessica and Hans, now a married man with a young son, are reunited once more and Angela Oaks finds her true love in a simple farmer. The surprise ending is something that neither the reader nor the main characters could have ever imagined.

Previously in Book 4 Titanimus made Jenny a Genie.

In Book 5 Jenny and King Farook are on their way back to Aurion for her Coronation but little did they know, Evil Apepi has plans to steal her new powers.

Suddenly, Jenny awakes stuck to a wall and cocooned in a strange eerie cobweb while King Farook lays motionless on the cave floor below. She tries to escape by using her new Genie powers but they’re not strong enough, after all, she’s only half Genie.

Then remembering that the Great Titanimus promised that he would always protect her, she called out to him for help.

Once Jenny and King Farook were freed, she returned home to even more adventures, but not in Space-Time, this time it was in the Australian Outback.

Jenny goes on a research trip with her Dad in the Northern Territory and they stay at the hotel she had always dreamed of, the world famous Mercure Kakadu Crocodile Hotel.

On the Outback tours they experience an authentic Aboriginal Corroboree and the crazy world of jumping crocodiles! When a jumping croc accidently lands on the boat and attacks her Dad, Andre and Jenny leap into action.

Finally, Jenny’s BGFF (Best Genie Friend Forever) Futuna shows up but they inadvertently end up in “Time Travel Trouble” and then the thrills really start; especially when the two beautiful Demigoddesses of Dimensions, Bhavishi and Niyati, arrive. But can they save the day?

In the second book of the Twin Oaks Trilogy, Jessica and Jed return to their beloved farm home. At twelve years old, in On Our Own, they moved with their parents to Toronto. After only a short time, they were left to fend for themselves. Using the ‘work skills’ their grandparents had taught them as youngsters, they find a way to make their living. To achieve this, they establish a landscaping business – Yard-Boys – using their classmates as workers. With the help of their lawyer friend Thorpe Norville, the business grows and flourishes.

In Return to Twin Oaks they are sixteen and have established a reputation of being young entrepreneurs. Now old enough to return to their farm home in Birchwood, they move back to the farm house and the small town of Birchwood. At first, being alone in their grandparents’ big old home seems very strange and lonely. On their first trip into town to buy supplies, they are involved in rescuing two pups tossed out on the road by a cruel, uncaring owner. In doing so, they establish their first friendships with the Birchwood veterinarian and his assistant, Ginny. Then, while Jed is at work establishing the Birchwood branch of Yard-Boys, Jessica discovers that someone has been living in the farm house while they’ve been away and has established a way of getting into the house again. Jessica hides in the attic with the two pups, afraid that the interloper may return. A violent storm occurs while Jessica keeps watch. To her shock and surprise, a dramatic meeting takes place between Jessica and her grandmother’s ghost. Pointing the way, Grandmother Oaks sends Jessica out into the storm on a mission that will change her life forever.

Summer Camp is the second book in the Turner Family Series. Rhonda has mixed emotions about going to summer camp. After arriving and checking in, she soon meets her roommates. Rhonda quickly develops a special bond with one of her roommates. They choose the activities that they wish to participate in. Rhonda, along with the other young ladies, are having a wonderful time at summer camp. When it’s time to return home, she again has mixed emotions. After returning home, Rhonda can’t wait to tell everyone about all the fun she had at summer camp.