El corazon desbocado en el pecho, dentro de su cabeza algo exploto, las manos llenas de sudor frio, -extrema palidez-. Sobre la plancha de cemento se encontraban los restos descuartizados de Mando. Quedito reia, quedito lloraba, se mesaba el cabello con las dos manos y sus piernas temblorosas se iban doblando hasta quedar arrodillada en el piso limpio banado con las lagrimas. La risita se transformo en carcajada, en un grito desgarrador, era una despedida, un adios al mundo cuerdo. Las lagrimas corren rapido por las mejillas y ella corre rapido por las calles. Gritando y maldiciendo. La gente le grita, los ninos le gritan: Rosa la loca Rosa la loca...

At the dawn of the tumultuous 1960s, Toby Masters is a girl-crazy, athletic young boy growing up too fast. Fate-or something more divine-brings him to Laura DuVall in a Southern California grade school classroom. Too young to understand the full implications of their meeting, they are unaware of how completely their lives will change.

Growing up together through adolescence and young adulthood, and living the wild crazes of the times, the nascent lovers brave years filled with longing, adventure, ecstasy, and anguish in an endless struggle to defeat the tremendous forces trying to tear them apart. Yearning for a place away from the world's judgment of their relationship, Toby and Laura discover a hidden forest haven they name Promise Point, where they exchange vows of eternal devotion.

Now in college, the two are finally on their own and heading toward a fabulous future. But their dreams are suddenly shattered by events they could never have imagined. But "Promise Point" holds the key that can save their love. Will Laura realize it in time?

A dramatic story of rags to riches. Jackson is reduced to hitchhiking as he is picked up by Jade. She changes his life, and he absorbs himself into wealth, sex, sailing, and the insatiable love of a woman. Jackson sails for pleasure, and he sails to survive. Love, prosperity, and murder surface as they explore the underworld history of Jade's mysterious father. Their story carries us from Southern Florida, to the Bahamas, Cuba, Mexico, and down the island chain to their ocean hideaway in St. Vincent. There is even a little surprise on a horse ranch in Spain.

Nineteen-year-old Sarah Lock is on a desperate run for safety. As she sits behind the wheel of a stolen truck and speeds away from Dallas, Texas, she knows the battle is not over. Emotionally devastated, Sarah watches helplessly as her dream of finding someone to love her despite her shame-despite the wounds of a humiliating stigma thrust upon her as a child-shatters before her eyes.

Sarah, in possession of many secrets, boards a bus and heads back toward Dallas, knowing that her personal safety is dictated by every decision. Knowing an abusive husband will soon be looking for her-and his truck-Sarah finds her way to her Aunt Gina's home, where she vainly begins to search for her purpose in the world. But as her past continues to haunt her, Sarah vows to never let romantic love enter her life again. Seeking solace and peace through the healing grace of nature, she dances in a lush meadow beside her hideaway, unaware that a young man is watching her, patiently waiting for the opportunity to change her perspective on everything.

In this poignant tale, a young woman takes a journey that leads her to the brink of surrender as fate deals another blow and sends her on a mission no one ever expected.

It's the early 1970's in Woodstock - four years after the famous Music and Arts Festival of 1969. Jill and Gary, a suburbanite couple, are seeking to invigorate a marriage filled with disillusionment. Enticed by a Village Voice newspaper ad that promises them an 'extraordinary' experience, they visit the Del Prado hotel in Woodstock. The hotel is known for its alternative philosophy and lifestyle, providing a supportive space for experimentation with new lifestyles and practices - in a setting that affords privacy from the outside world. This experimentation includes open sex and drugs as part of the search for self-actualization and fulfillment. As Jill and Gary begin their journey of exploration the tension in their marriage surfaces. Gary is threatened by Jill's new openness while at the same time becoming seduced himself by the sex and drugs. Now unsure of himself, he becomes involved in a shady drug deal with someone he has just met at the hotel. He heads to New York City with this virtual stranger, leaving Jill to fend for herself in this new environment.

Dakota Wilson - Fell in love with a smooth talking fine chocolate brother, who was about his money. After being with him Dakota realized that her smooth talking chocolate man was a drug addict. Dakota finds herself doing things for this man that she would not normally do. Karol Downey - Got married to her first love, first relationship, first everything, Karol loved her husband and stood by his side. They have two children a boy and a girl, they look like the picture prefect family but her husband is beating her on a daily basis and Karol has gotten to the point that she can't take it anymore. Sheka Jackson - She is an albino and very tall, all her life Sheka has had it hard. The kids would talk about her and the adults were just as bad, then Sheka met a beautiful man inside and out. He was fine a knock out and he wanted Sheka; she couldn't believe it until they started dating. Then as usual something went wrong and Sheka was left alone. Neecy Parker - Everybody calls her Kool-Aid, she is cool with everyone in the little part of Hawthorne she live in. Kool-Aid like what she like, when she likes it. Sometimes she like women and sometime she like men. Kool-Aid has a serious decision to make, she thinks she is in love with one person but then another person comes into her life. She does not know how to handle this Mind Blowin Decision.

Demarcus: His quick wit could land him an advertising position anywhere, but eluded him the moment his nostrils caught the scent of lust. Will he straighten out his life or throw it all away? Charles: A damn fool when it comes to women. His motto was every woman was B**** needing to be blessed with his presence and escorted afterwards, to the door by his pitbull Mocha. Will he meet his match? Rhonda: A beautiful woman with more passion than she knows what to do with it. Always itching to be scratched. How will she find her relief? Sonya: A woman that's better left alone. She don't mind going to war for a cause... her cause. Piss her off and you'll end up losing everything you got. Who can tame her wildness?

Eric McKade's world crashed the night he broke Stacy's heart when her sister announced she was pregnant with his child. Now, thirteen years later, he must hide his daughter from the faceless stranger who wants to trade her life in for payment of his dead ex-wife's debt. What he didn't expect was to come face to face with Stacy since the night he broke her heart. Somehow, he must learn to accept that Stacy will never forgive him for his night of betrayal, nor can he forget the passion that still remains between them every time he comes near her.

When Stacy first saw Eric, she wanted to kill him? She never forgave him for his night of betrayal nor could she ignore her niece who hated everything about her thanks to the lies told by her sister. She couldn't allow herself to forget what he had done, nor could she forget how her heart melted when he held her in his arms, and how good it felt to be kissed by him. Could she stay tough, even when she learned the truth of what really happened the night that destroyed everything Stacy ever wanted.

we all have a story to tell or a poem inside of us that is dying to come out, but for some unknown reason we keep it buried deep inside of us...whether the story or poem is fictional or non-fictional and how badly we would like to tell it to someone, we just don't...LYFE IS a poetry book that talks about what a lot of people may think, but never verbalize to anyone...it covers an array of human feelings and emotions from sin to sanctification, which we all often times struggle with...this is a poetry book where you can just let your mind run free to wander while having an enjoyable time reading it....it may even make you think about some things that has never crossed your mind or enhance a relationship with someone...it could even open up a conversation by just reading the front cover...after all, LYFE consist of many feelings which are contained in this poetry book. so, please relax and enjoy and let your imagination loose on some poems, while others could provoke deep thought and reflection...just put yourself in the place of the poet as if you wrote most or all the poems contain therein...also, you might ask yourself, are these poems based on a true story or a story that exist only in the mind...if you feel the need to laugh or cry or simply say oh my, don't suppress it...that's part of LYFE...

Love Notes is a wonderful journal of passion conveyed in texts and emails sent by two lovers crazy about each other. One, a free spirit. The other, soon to be divorced after a miserable 20-year marriage. The two, hungry for each other and the fresh yet rekindled love of their past.