Fiction - Sagas

When Lorne Malcolm runs away on her wedding day, her sister Rosa's life is turned upside down. 1910. It's the morning of beautiful eighteen-year-old Lorne Malcolm's wedding to handsome Daniel MacNeil, but when her older sister Rosa returns from a trip to the flower...

THE FLEETING YEARS is the story of Peter and Zina Marchand, joining them when they have been married some ten years and he is at the height of his career, a film star who is a household name both sides of the Atlantic. At...

L.J Diva's Porn Star Brothers Series continues in DeLuca...Stephano DeLuca worked hard to become a world-famous bullfighter in his homeland of Spain. But after marrying Constance, and having their only child, Antonio, he also finds love in a surprising place, keeping it from his...

What is the fate of America and each of us as individuals? As a literary fiction, The Father addresses these vital questions as it traces four generations of the Whitaker family through the evolution of modernity. Amongst modesty of private lives in 1926 rural...

Eight-year old Samantha is a beautiful, biracial girl who has an adoring father, Grayson, a baby brother, Tavis, who worships her, wonderful grandparents and aunt, Carol. What is missing is the affection and love from her mother, Tanya, who struggles to love anyone even...

Here is a tale of compulsion bordering on obsession. Mona doesn't want to give up any of her possessions. These include her estranged husband Neil and her grown up son Sam. A family saga about a daughter growing up in a family craving for...

'.a sensitive study about an unorthodox thinker who offers arresting observations about prison life in France. A. Sean's sense of style infuses his story with realistic characters and dialogue. The powerful plot and stark narrative spin together a dramatically intricate story." -Teri Boccuzzi, managing...

In 1900, Franca Raimondi lived a privileged life in Sicily. Franca puts aside her intellectual ambition and marries Edoardo Privitera, an American exporter. They marry and are blessed with a daughter, Giulia. In 1908, an earthquake buries their beloved child beneath the rubble. Miraculously,...

While running along the seawall that borders Nipe Bay in the sugar mill town of Preston, Cuba, three Cuban children, Lina, Emilio, and Angela find a waterlogged suitcase. They soon learn the bag is debris from a tragic plane crash a failed hijacking. Two...

In all the Ages of Man, there have been decent and honorable men. Jarl Brand Ketilsson is one such man. He is a leader who does not seek or covet wealth, but wishes only to maintain peace in his realm. Unfortunately, Ketilsson is forced...

Elizabeth's Legacy, book two of the Clearharbour Trilogy, continues the family saga as Tony Selby and Geneva Sterling marry and make their home in England, with daughters Emelye and Elizabeth. With the opening of Tony's West End theatre and a growing family, Tony and...

It's a typical muggy Carolina morning in 1932. Eight-year-old George Campbell is waiting on the front porch. Ahead, he sees the ambulance approach. He runs in the house to his father, yelling, 'it's here, it's here!" In the bedroom lies his mother, the most...

The United States is invaded by thousands of immigrants each year, who arrive by air, boat and by individuals crossing our very porous borders. Most are illegal.Author: Robert William BruceISBN-10: 0595655653ISBN-13: 9780595655656Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2003Pages: 168Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.38h x 6.50w x 0.65d

In mid-1970's, Jon escapes from Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania and settles in New York City. Faced with an extremely dynamic and pragmatic environment, and enjoying liberties he had not known before, Jon decides he must earn an American university degree to both enhance his...

The Way Forward A sequel to The Way Back Jody Mitchell, with her brother Don and friend Elliot Treggor, have moved to a heavily-wooded area in the northeastern corner of Minnesota. Together they have ventured into purchasing and running the Pinewood Motel. As each...

The 1849 gold rush in California inspired Thomas Carter to mine gold. He discovered a circular informing him of a large gold mining company in New York. He was currently employed by the Princeton Mine at Mariposa, California. The Oriental Consolidated Mine Company was...

On the surface, Miranda, Jody, Kim, Theresa, and Natalie have nothing in common. They come from different backgrounds, different perspectives, different lives. When they connect at a dream conference, they decide to meet regularly to share their nighttime visions, the meaning of their inner...

This writing illustrates the experiences of people in life as a result of their thoughts and actions, as well as the thoughts and actions of others towards them. Happenings based on hearsay along with distorted facts are presented for the sole purpose to engage...

Ella Boyce doesn't know it, but she is one, hot cosmetologist at the top of her game. Wait, she does know it. In fact, that's all she knows until she lowers herself to wash and style an undesirable client: her neighbor that is three...

Enjoy adventure blended with conflicted ethos and ethnos by reading the six stories of the Bach Family Saga: Lady Gemini, books 1 & 2; Kid Scorpion, books 1, 2, & 3; and the Aquarian Son (public. pend.). The three points of view will magnetize...

'I have written this book in the sincere hope that young African-Americans will read of Landsman Wilson Brown's heroics and one day be inspired to write about some other little known African-American United States Naval hero, so that our impressive history as a people...

Living the rough nomadic life of the Tasmanian fruit pickers, his young mother careless in her role, Will has survived almost by accident. What sustains him is an intuitive inner resource that nurtures him when there is no other. His deep affinity with animals...

Peril. Josiah Young has fled. Yet, the tolling of the past never fades. This is an emotional rendition of the healing from the results of loss and devastation Young has withstood on his road to freedom. He must encounter truth, the condemnation of his...

When tragedy struck Penny found herself in a situation she had never been in before with responsibilities and decisions to handle alone. How could she go on since all her dreams for her life had been crushed? Her family and friends tried to help...

Book 1 of the Kid Scorpion Trilogy told the story of Gus Bach taken from N.Y. at age three to Panama in 1907. His mother died when he was ten; he fared poorly in school; tried to runaway when 15; and dropped out of...

"There are many ways to fight, Jeff, and even though our country is now caught up in petty fights, innuendos, greed and gutless talk and actions, when the times comes, I feel that everyone, with a few exceptions, will take on this new kind...

This project was begun in 1996, one year after Josiah Young escaped with his life from New Jersey. Experts will say that he should have died. He attributes his life-story to the workings of Jesus Christ in his life. Although here, it is very...

An old farmhouse overlooks the scenic Spoon River in western Illinois. It has stood there for over a hundred years, sheltering Bobby and Neoma Hanks and their children through the early years of the twentieth century until 1927, when they leave the farm. Their...

The story begins with a winter storm sweeping across a summer resort town in New Jersey. Maggie, a recent widow, is alone with her grief in a rented cottage on the shore. As the wind howls and blusters around her little red house, she...

From the cotton fields of antebellum Arkansas to the heart of California's Gold Rush, this lush, historical saga follows the bittersweet journey of a plantation owner's daughter in her quest for personal freedom. Without her mother, separated from her twin brother, and oppressed by...

In the summer of 1891, Orrin Leslie Elliott brings his wife and young son to Senator Stanford's Palo Alto Farm in Northern California to work for David Starr Jordan, president of the new university being established there. The Elliotts find their new surroundings to...

From an unknown face in the hood to a "Ghetto Celebrity!" Joe-Money grinds his way from having nothing to "Baller" status. During his journey he experiences parts of the game rarely seen by peers. Still he refuses to let the game turn him into...

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Jack Davidson, a general surgeon at Midsouth Regional Medical Center in Evansville, N.C. accidentally stumbles upon a plot involving sham surgery being performed at his institution. Being Chief of Surgery at Midsouth, and driven by a high sense of responsibility to the Hippocratic Oath,...

After graduating from college, author Matthew A. Ohlson returns to his hometown to be a fourth-grade teacher. Ignoring offers to work in the private sector or to teach in safer, more prestigious suburban schools, he returns to his old neighborhood to teach in one...

Auburn Jackson was alone, ignorant, and pregnant, but not unBibled. She had sinned and was punished with a brain-damaged child to raise in the impoverished wilds of West Virginia. But she had spunk and the guile of the street-smart, and she believed in the...

Meet Gillis Huckabee, the shy, awkward protagonist of Sean Conway's new novel. When Gillis's mother dies unexpectedly in the opening chapter, his world suddenly turns topsy-turvy. Just weeks away from high school graduation, he finds himself desperately fighting to hold the rest of his...

Rock musician Philo Mae has run to Philadelphia from his home on the Jersey shore to escape the haunting suicide of his bandmate John Kind. Looking to start life anew, Philo falls for a beautiful woman who wastes no time in breaking his heart....

For eighteen years, it had been just Tommy Murphy and his mother. His father was out of the picture. When his mother died, she left two letters; one telling him the name of his father and another explaining the son to his father. The...

The darkness comes: 'In an eruption of fury it arose from the sea. Dark and glistening it churned the water with its huge claws. Like a tidal wave it surged towards the shore." The hero dawns: 'Facing the charge, on the farthest rock out...

The setting is the Midwest of the United States during World War II and deals with the problems and joys of basically four rural families. A heart wrenching story of four families and the devastation they face as their boys are killed or wounded...

In the small southern town of Stockdale, Alabama, where blacks live on one side of the tracks and whites on the other, Cassie Taylor wants nothing more than to get out. Taught early that she's not free to love whomever she pleases in Stockdale...

Bea Chance is an exceptional woman, inventor and entrepreneur, with a thriving business, successful marriage and four grown children: Dick, her right-hand man; Bruce, a Vietnam veteran; Corey, her only daughter, and John, a disc jockey. A musician and pioneer in technology, she combined...

Beyond the Sangres is a family saga that tells of the life long struggle of Zan and Liette to reconcile their heritage with the forces that run rough shod over their lives in the later half of the twentieth century. Beyond the Sangres reveals...

Legacy of the Wayfarers: Second Advent travels into the future as humankind colonizes the stars in order to escape its own depleted world. Inevitably, alien civilizations are discovered, some friendly, some not. One such encounter involves a motley group of humans who set down...

Rolled, silver white hair created a halo about the woman's head. The lamplight cast oblique shadows on her delicate, high cheekbones. Above the cheekbones, her eyes were ice blue and steady, belying the eighty years of this statuesque woman. Her demeanor exhibited and commanded...

Dodge Ball in the Dark is volume five in the Lynch's Corner series of short stories. This book moves away from the Lynch family and focuses on members of the Carr family, in particular Mike Carr. The stories cover a period of twenty-five years,...

Domestic terrorists are attacking people in uniform, in the Four Corners area of southern Colorado. The group of misfits target anyone not elected by the people, but that is just an excuse to commit murder and make a name for themselves. Robert Begay, concerned...

Come into Ohio while it is still nearly all wilderness with Herman and Sarah Fossberg and their boys Claus and Richard. Grow with them through work, play, danger, war, love, romance into a dynasty, from the 1800s to the twentieth century surrounded with mystery:...

Back Cover Marketing Copy Two generations of a Southern family leave their mark on Florida, their adopted home. Ellen Adair is a vivacious beauty who weds Joseph White. Marrying about the time Florida is ceded to the United States, Ellen leaves Kentucky to trek...