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The average person lives with an experience of the world that is rooted in fear, worry, and anxiety. The most common way this manifests is in a persistent sense of discontentment. Something just doesn’t feel quite right. That something is usually hard to put a finger on. It’s often just a feeling that haunts us in the background, one that leads to endless soul-searching and goal-striving. You may be surprised to learn that life doesn’t have to be this way.

Penelope Drayton Spence made a choice years earlier, and picked marriage and family over a promising career as an investigative reporter. Now, divorced and with her children spread around the country, she is having second thoughts. A mysterious call from the Managing Editor of the Washington Post, offers her a second chance at big time journalism. He has a story so sensitive that the President of the United States personally asked the Post to leave it alone.

In her lifetime, Allison Clark has made many bad choices. Topping the list; she married the wrong man. Now, on the cusp of signing her divorce papers, she finds herself sandwiched between caring for her often difficult and dying mother and dealing with the seemingly endless drama of her rebellious teenaged twins. When she thinks life couldn’t possibly get any more complicated, Allison discovers her mother has concealed a family secret from her for her entire life.

On the day of her mother's funeral, 23-year-old Grace Maxwell discovered the man who raised her was not her biological father. Instead, he was a best-selling self-help author and a world famous "Guru to the Stars." Known as Mr. MAJIC, for the miraculous impact his books and seminars had on millions of people, he had inexplicitly vanished around the time Grace's mother became pregnant with her. For over 20 years, the mystery of Mr. MAJIC’s sudden and unexpected disappearance, and the speculation of what might have become of him, was the stuff of Urban Legend.

Small towns in the heartland are prone to storms. Not always violent ones with twisters and thunder and lightning, the storm she’s confronted with is in the form of a handsome drifter, similar in age to her, and his elderly dad. Wesley Crane has put his own life on hold to care for and fulfill his dad’s wishes to see all there is to see in America. Yet following them is an emotional storm Kate wasn’t expecting. As Wesley reveals how fragile his life is behind his rugged facade, Kate finds herself confronted by her own vulnerabilities. Some might think that the perfect place to hide is...

Bullied by classmates and abused by his stepdad, seventeen year old Orrville Fletcher plans to leave his run-down home outside Birchwood Hollow, Tennessee once he turns eighteen. But one night after fighting off his stepdad, his escape from this small remote town in Appalachia is halted by an unimaginable invasion of space aliens, leading him to revelations of an unexpected truth.

A celebratory cocktail has glasses raised at Marberry Place. Yet the bitter aftertaste of alcoholism, dementia, regret, and lies spoils the love intended for the first sip. As the happy wedding of Latoya and Max draws closer, the golden years of those who call Marberry Place home continue to be too complicated while the severity of the world-wide pandemic lessens. Wyatt does his best keep what Dorian calls his ‘unique Noah’s Ark’ afloat amidst the still troubled times. Handling fatherhood, his own romance, and his dedicated care for the residents, he is the rock they all cling to when...

From an abandoned village claimed by the arid wastelands, a false prophet and a young man condemned as a heretic set out on a perilous trek to the cloud-veiled summit of a sacred mountain. The false prophet wishes to speak to the revered god said to reign from there. The young heretic seeks only revenge. What these companions discover upon their arrival at the mountain’s summit are the beginnings of revelations and lies. With the false prophet’s decision to remain in sanctuary upon the mountain, the young man, no longer branded as a heretic, sets out for a hopeful future in the far west...

Traveling to sunny Florida for a week-long vacation, Michael is thrilled to see his grandpa. The retirement community of Gulf Shore proves the perfect place be. Its picturesque vintage boardwalk, fishing pier, and uncrowded beach are just what he needs. Surrounded by retirees having a strong zest for life, he realizes that the Sunshine State isn’t just a place. It’s a state of mind.Left broken hearted by his former girlfriend, Michael is surprised to meet Everley, the granddaughter of another resident. At first, bold in her attraction to him, when she pulls back, distancing herself from...

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Penelope Drayton Spence has been hired by two of the world’s richest men to track down and interview enlightened people who may have arrived at the Fourth Awakening. The problem, as fast she can locate a potential candidate, they have a nasty habit of mysteriously vanishing. These “Chronicles” are written in the "Serial Novel" format Charles Dickens famously used for the “Pickwick Papers” and many of his later books. It is also the format magazines such as “The Saturday Evening Post” made popular not that long ago. THIS FOUR PART SERIES OF ...

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Penelope Drayton Spence has been hired by two of the world’s richest men to track down and interview enlightened people who may have arrived at the Fourth Awakening. The problem, as fast she can locate a potential candidate, they have a nasty habit of mysteriously vanishing. These Chronicles are written in the "Serial Novel" format Charles Dickens famously used for the “Pickwick Papers” and many of his later books. It is also the format magazines such as “The Saturday Evening Post” made popular not that long ago. Chronicles IV is the fourth and ...

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Penelope Drayton Spence has been hired by two of the world’s richest men to track down and interview enlightened people who may have arrived at the Fourth Awakening. The problem, as fast she can locate a potential candidate, they have a nasty habit of mysteriously vanishing. These “Chronicles” are written in the "Serial Novel" format Charles Dickens famously used for the “Pickwick Papers” and many of his later books. It is also the format magazines such as “The Saturday Evening Post” made popular not that long ago. THIS SERIES OF NOVELLAS WILL ...

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Penelope Drayton Spence has been hired by two of the world’s richest men to track down and interview enlightened people who may have arrived at the Fourth Awakening. The problem, as fast she can locate a potential candidate, they have a nasty habit of mysteriously vanishing. These “Chronicles” are written in the "Serial Novel" format Charles Dickens famously used for the “Pickwick Papers” and many of his later books. It is also the format magazines such as “The Saturday Evening Post” made popular not that long ago. THIS FOUR PART SERIES OF ...

Is it possible for a dream to also be a nightmare? In theory, yes, if such a dream is immersed within unrequited love and a broken heart. As the early evening hours drew closer to midnight, the Sandman summoned the Lord of Death, the Lord of Nightmares, and the Mistress of Dreams to his tower lair. The three were then confronted with a most profound conundrum. Amidst this conclave the revelation that a rare nightmarish dream needed to be bestowed to a metropolitan citizen before the first light of dawn left all stunned by such a dilemma. It was further revealed that the Lord of ...

Soaring to the edge of Earth’s stratosphere, a 1912 scientific expedition traveling aboard a uniquely designed dirigible sets out for advanced observations of the moon and stars. Yet lies, hidden agendas and personal conflicts threaten the mission. Amidst all this, an unexpected love affair draws two passengers together. Daschle’s heart has been shattered by one who did not return his love for her. Irina could be his salvation as their journey takes them to the edge of Heaven and back.

Some souls were not meant to lead lives in the sun. They remain hidden within dark realms in fear of being seen and misunderstood. That is Ian’s fate after suffering at the hands of a demon blinded by rage and sorrow. Yet there exists a threat in the light, spreading lies driven by fear in warning others to be weary of the unknown prowling the depths of the forest. The unyielding belief in the justification of cruelty in seeking to end that which has been branded as profane proves all consuming. When entering the forest after twilight to pronounce final judgement for those in hiding, the ...

Blurb: Lose something? We all have. Reading glasses, keys, the television remote, socks, even plastic kitchen containers somehow disappear. We even lose our cars sometimes when we walk out of the stores, which we eventually find. But consider this. What if we didn’t really lose these things? What if they were taken from us on purpose, only to reappear later where and when we least expect them? Roan Jagger learns the secrets behind this. Being a teen runaway, he is given the chance for a new life in the place where everything disappears. Yet as he spends more time here, it becomes clear to...

Sung with haunting vocals, a spares fragile melody strummed in the dark on a guitar can be one of many disguises for the lonely. Others, either victim of circumstance or of their own devices stay hidden behind colorful masks and pretty decorations to shield their pain. Yet these masquerades hold flaws for hearts searching to heal, revealing not desolate barren souls as any more than a painted desert, but desert angels waiting to lead the lost to the light.

A second round of an unforgiving cocktail mixed with love, death, prejudice, regrets, suffering, and fear has been served to the elderly residents of San Francisco’s Marberry Place. With some former residents now gone, the new residents bring to the house the skeletons of their own pasts. As always, Death looms as a constant companion in the shadows, but has not yet been invited as an honored guest to dinner. Amidst the Autumn months of the global pandemic, Dorian insists on planning out every last detail of her funeral. With Wyatt’s help, she wishes to leave this life on her own terms ...

Emotionally suffering from what has happened to them, both Sebastian and Ben set out separately to confront their demons. Little do they realize how and when their paths will soon cross. For Sebastian, seeking closure in what happened to his dad and sister is what he most needs. For Ben, his growing rage consumes his desire for revenge.