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Mother of Pearl is populated by wonderfully rich and original characters. The paths of Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Komer, a white girl who is the daughter of the town whore, cross through Joody Two Sun, a seer, who becomes Even's lover. Both Even and Valuable are seeking the family, love, and commitment they never had, and their search ultimately takes both of them to places they never dreamed they'd go.

Set in small town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Mother of Pearl is populated by wonderfully rich and original characters with themes of identity and the true meaning of family interwoven throughout. The story revolves around 28-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Komer, a 15-year-old white girl who is the daughter of the town whore and an unknown father.

Twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade is a Black man who was orphaned as a child. 15-year-old Valuable Korner is a White girl who might as well have been orphaned. Petal, Mississippi, circa 1956, seems an unlikely spot for these two to connect, but a friendship forged across race lines is just one of many miracles waiting to happen in this small Southern town.

The world is ending...or so it seems for junior tennis champion Ele O’Neill. How can she face life in a Montana ghost town after Seattle? No tennis courts, no friends, and she’s stuck in a falling-down old theatre with a rotten little brother and parents who are acting like aliens. And something’s hiding in Ele’s room, watching her every move, but no one will listen to her. Steven Douglas is a 19-year-old cowboy with one little problem - he’s been dead for over 150 years. He’s supposed to protect the weird O’Neill family from unimaginable evil lurking in the theatre....

Dorel Everly receives a legacy from her grandfather - a beautiful and beguiling samurai sword that brings the man she's been waiting for and inescapable danger into her life. Michael Gabrielli, airline pilot and former-military special ops psychic spy, is searching for an ancient samurai sword that bestows vast power upon the owner. Dorel's sword. He wants it and her. As Michael comes under the sword's ancient spell, it could mean the death of both of them. Again.