Fiction

Because It's There, was a finalist in the mystery/suspense/thriller category of the National Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards: 1953, in a snow-swept death zone near Mount Everest, English mountaineer Allan Singleton clings to life as he strives for a first summit of Mount Chomoranga. Like George Mallory before him, he vanishes near the summit, leaving his wife to raise their three young children alone in England. The remote Himalayan peak…Read More

Genevieve Bell, a spirited eighteen year old student at Puget Sound College in 1914, is determined to be a voice for the women's rights movement. Despite ridicule by her professors and classmates, her courage is undaunted.Genevieve is sustained by the memory of her ancestors who journeyed west in a wagon train. She learned of their trials through colorful tales told by her grandmother, whose outlook has been shaped by the…Read More

At a remote Mesoamerican site, a carving of the fabled deity Quetzalcoatl awakens from the stones of a pyramid. There is one person present to witness this, Martha, who has come in search of ancient wisdom for a new age. Her studies with a jaguar shaman have not prepared her for what to do, and as her fellow students at the Ancient Wisdom School wait for her return, they are…Read More

BOOTLEGGING, BARNSTORMING and a Hard-Rock BOONDOOGLE. Los Angeles, 1934: Based on a true chapter of California history, Houdini Pie explores the depths to which a family, and a city, will sink when hard luck comes knocking and there's nothing left to lose. Young Hal Gates is a celebrated pitcher for an upstart rural ball club, and the son of a notorious booze smuggler who vanished at the end of Prohibition.…Read More

This award-winning novel begins when Martha, the central character, steps through a portal. She feels it's an accident, but soon learns it isn't. The adventure accelerates with her decision to attend an Ancient Wisdom School in Mexico. There she discovers a world that she didn't know existed. Along with the other students, she learns to develop her intuition and call back her power. The Dance of the Jaguar, done alone…Read More

Neither marriage nor murder are on Magnus Torval's agenda when he and his fiance, Mariela, travel to a Cascade mountain town in Washington. But the recently retired police officer soon finds himself swept up in the rip tides of both. Mariela's spontaneous wedding plans and his own discovery of a fresh corpse make for an unholy combination that threatens to drown their happiness and jail a beloved pastor whose fellow-believers…Read More