When beautiful Audra Campbell returned to the town she had lived in with her aunt, after having been gone for several years, the first bit of gossip she heard was that Martin Satterfield was recently widowed, following the untimely, and suspicious death of his late wife.

Audra had never cared for the hostile, dark, brooding man, and liked his late wife even less. In spite of her Aunt Celeste's staunch loyalty to him, Audra can't help but question whether the volatile, intimidating master of Hawthorn Manor had anything to do with Darlene Satterfield's sudden demise.

A relentless, but inadequate detective is bent on proving that Martin Satterfield is guilty, but finds himself in the crosshairs of a man who prefers being the predator, rather than the prey.

The lone descendant, and heir to the Satterfield fortune now roams the many hallways of the impressive, but silent, isolated Hawthorn Manor, surrounded by miles of fields, and meadows, and the graves of all those who had loved him, but left him.

Martin's secret dread is living out his remaining years by himself, and dying alone, yet he remains disturbingly forbidding and aloof, and Audra wonders if the master of Hawthorn Manor deserves his fate.

The Master Of Hawthorn Manor is available in both print and digital formats.

When Barrett Webb was asked if he would consider buying the Anderson farm, he assumed it was because Webb Enterprises was recognized as one of the largest purchasers of neglected ranches and farms around, with a commitment to restoring them back to full productivity, either reselling them, or expanding their cattle business and adding to their holdings.

He thought it was business as usual, although the banker had advised him that the woman being forced to sell was recently widowed and that her late husband had been hiding the bills from her and drinking up any money he could get his hands on, forcing her to have to lose the farm and her home in order to settle their overwhelming indebtedness.

It wasn't a story he'd never heard of happening before, but when he drove out to view the farm, and concluded that the girl in the chicken pen was more than likely the daughter of Mrs. Anderson, he was stunned to learn, as she washed herself off with the garden hose, then stepped out to approach him, that she was a woman, not a girl, and that even with wet, muddy jeans and streaks of grease on her face, Mrs. Anderson was absolutely the most beautiful creature he had ever seen.

Barrett has been told that when the farm is sold, the woman with no family or close friends will become homeless, but he is prepared to offer her a solution.

Buying The Farm is available in both print and digital formats.

If anyone should be able to forgive, it should be a minister. Week after week, the young, handsome Pastor Grant Sellars stands in the pulpit preaching the gospel and its message of forgiveness to his congregation, while he nurses a past wound that has never healed. He has been devoted to his anger, stoking its heat and telling himself that he deserves to feel the way he does, and that no one is going to take that away from him. Over the years, he has chosen to cope by filling his time with working out at the gym, running endless miles around the park and hanging out with his buddy, Fred.

Fred is soon to be married, and Pastor Sellars will be forced to officiate at the wedding, even though the very thought of a wedding reminds him that his anger is still there, just waiting to be unleashed. It is a humiliating and painful thing to be left at the altar and to become the object of pity as everyone sits staring at the groom when the undeniable truth is revealed that no bride is coming down the aisle to meet him. Now, the last thing the minister wants to do is to join two people in matrimony, and his brand of premarital counseling is distorted, at best.

Grant's profession often requires him to serve in this capacity, as well as dedicate babies, visit the sick, and preach funerals. It is while preaching a funeral as a favor for an incapacitated minister that the dam that has been holding back years of bitterness and wrath finally breaks, and leaves the hurting, young pastor leaning against the windows of the local gym, staring out at the parking lot with hot tears running down his face, whispering, "I'm not okay, God. I'm not okay."

A beautiful actress has arrived in this small Mississippi town and stands in need of forgiveness, but she knows that the local pastor is the last one willing to offer it to her.

Once Upon An Altar is available in both print and digital formats.

All that classical musician Cora Hartmann wanted, when she was the top bidder on an online auction and bought the decrepit old house and its beautiful acres of hardwood forest, was to be able to turn it into a sanctuary where she could be alone to compose her music. Every morning, she dutifully drove out to the property and made her way through the trees to the house, to continue dragging out ugly carpet, and doing what she could in order to make the place habitable.

Alone in the woods, she was unprepared to be confronted by a scowling, intimidating man who blocked her path and demanded to know where his sister was, who Cora was, and what she was doing at his sister's house.

When Cora claimed no knowledge of his missing sister and informed him that the house belonged to her, he stepped closer and looked down at her, narrowing his dark, unreadable eyes and clenching his jaw in anger. Although he hadn't touched her, she had the sensation that he had just grabbed her and shaken her.

Morgan Roberts was frustrated that he hadn't found a man on his sister's property so that he could beat him to a pulp until he confessed what he knew about Jane. Instead, he had to encounter this beautiful, vexing creature who was either a proficient liar, or really hadn't been given any details about who the house belonged to.

Where was the beautiful Jane Roberts? Was she dead? Her brother, a wealthy timber baron, had arrived in this small town from halfway across the country to find out, and no one was going to stop him. Would Cora be determined to challenge him, or would she become his lifeline?

The Art Of Letting Go is available in both print and digital formats.

Long ago, Piers Brooks had a farm that was referred to by all the locals as Eden, favorably compared to that biblical utopia. Like Paradise Lost, the once idyllic homestead is no more. A little, dark-eyed girl stared out the back windshield of the family car, watching it slowly disappear behind them, too young to realize that grown-ups who mourn the fact that one can never go home again, do so for a reason.

The little dark-eyed girl is now a beautiful, dark-eyed woman, who finds herself alone in the world, and dreams of returning to a lush, flourishing marker in time, of what was once a cherished life. One of the last things Piers Brooks told his daughter was that it would be better if she let it live on as a lovely memory, and not try to revisit a place that could surely not be expected to still exist as the fertile, pleasant parcel of earth they drove away from, leaving it vulnerable, unprotected, and at the mercy of what was to come.

Now, she covers her mouth with her hands, and stares all around in shock, and grief, with a keen sense of having been violated, too late to realize that her father had desperately wanted to spare his child the kind of disappointment that casts doubts on the validity of what were once carefully treasured memories.

Eden has died. Evil has come and blood has been spilled. All that remains is the debris, the desecration, the willful defilement, and carnage at the hands of careless, lawless strangers, who have swarmed and landed, as vultures gathering to peck at the carcass, and who now turn their malevolent focus to the daughter of Piers Brooks.

Another has stepped forward from the shadows of the past, who loved Eden from afar and paid the price for its ransom. There can be no resurrection, but he is determined to free it from its captors and longs to let it rest in peace and dignity. To the child he knew and to the woman she has become, his kindness is an act of respect, a tribute... a funeral song. An elegy for Eden.