In 1837 Caleb Landers flees his trading post north of Taos, New Mexico to avoid the Mexican Army. Caleb, along with his friend and scout, Thomas Lyon, take a pack train from Taos to Bents Fort on the Arkansas River-the only outpost between Santa Fe and Independence, Missouri. There they meet Lope de Saavedra (aka "Flower Watcher") who agrees to lead them across Texas to Galveston Bay. The story is about a life and death journey across Texas, northwest to southeast-Taos to Galveston Bay. For Flower Watcher it is his death march. For Caleb and his associates, it is where they will start a new life when they open their trading station near Houston, capital of the new Texas republic.

Giuseppe Fiorentino, the capo di tutti capi of the New York syndicate, convinces the godfathers of the five boroughs to invest in a new enterprise--an opulent hotel for the ultra-rich to be built at the Henderson Executive Airport. An "adult" arcade with a five-star restaurant rounds out their plans. Cash only. The five godfathers need a legitimate business in order to avoid RICO problems with the Feds and to put away tax-free money for their retirement. Giuseppe recommends his son, Salvatore ("Torre") to be the CEO of the new enterprise "Hangar #3" because Torre is clean as a whistle, has a law degree from Harvard, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and is a VP of a multi-national Wall Street firm. Torre is the perfect "straight guy" who has never been involved in Mob activities. Construction is barely underway when the Chicago mob and the Las Vegas mob start muscling in to get their piece of the action and the people that Torre cares about most get hurt. Torre learns how to dispense "justice" to the wrongdoers his own way -- smart and swift - the style of the mafia's "new generation." Hangar #3 is a mob story, a love story, a "could only happen in Vegas" story.

Chester Parks was born during the Great Depression. His father died of injuries sustained while serving in the U.S. Army in France during WWI, so Parks and his older brother were raised by a "single mom" -- a Polish immigrant. The family lived in one of the poorest neighborhoods on the near northwest side of Chicago. Parks tells what life was like for him and other poor kids and his successful adult life with his wife of 61 one years. His memoirs are dedicated to his wife, his three children, his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren..."who have all contributed a significant amount of happiness to my life."

When a Mafia don is gunned down in New York, his wife forms a gang of Mafia females to avenge his death. This story contains violence, revenge, greed, rape, lust, nudity, love, heterosexual and bisexual sex scenes, sensual love scenes, but no vulgar four-letter words. For adult readers.

Newspaper reporter Kathryn Murphy's picture-perfect existence is ceremoniously wadded up and tossed under the steamroller of life when her notorious predecessor, Fallon Foxe-former lover of the late Nelson Rockefeller-returns to work for the newspaper. As a result, Kathryn is drop-kicked into the Obituary Department-the journalism career equivalent of an elder care hospice. In an equally brutal twist of fate, Kathryn discovers the love of her life is really a closet pill-head with a rehab history that rivals Lindsay Lohan's. In an effort to save her career and her sanity, Kathryn enlists the help of the District Attorney and sets out to uncover the secrets Fallon has been keeping since the night Rockefeller died.

Wouldn't it be phenomenal if a man could travel back in time and sit within a hostile Indian encampment, directly facing the legendary Lakota Chief Crazy Horse and listen to him tell you about the plight of his people? Or, what it would be like to stand on the brink of the Kingsbury Grade overlooking the Carson Valley, while conversing with the legendary Kit Carson, the man for whom the valley was named? Or, to stand on a high bluff in the Rocky Mountains and watch a Pony Express rider on his galloping pony deliver the mail? Or to be close enough to the Wounded Knee Massacre to hear the sounds of the gunfire? If you can imagine such a man being sent back in time, Zack Gentry could have been that person. Zack was also a man who loved his women, so there are a lot of strong women characters in his story-including "Calamity Jane" Cannary. This is not a traditional Western novel, it's a capsulated history of the historical events and people during the time of America's westward expansion (with a little bit of "legend" thrown in ) It's a great read for both men and women-young adults to old-timers.

Renaissance art, past life experiences, and art terrorism lead to murder and suicide in modern-day Florence. David Rinaldo hears voices in his head that tell him to commit acts of vandalism. When he takes a hammer to Michelangelo's "David" in the Galleria dell Accademia, he tells police that the woman in Paolo Veronese's painting, "Allegory of Wisdom and Strength" told him to do it. He is no sooner out of jail when his "voices" compel him to destroy the plaque that commemorates the site of Father Girolamo Savonarola's execution (by fire) in 1498, but as he does that, he feels the flames again and hears the voices saying, "But you're not dead? I'm not dead." Each person who gazes at Veronese's painting experiences visions of their past life during the Renaissance. Dr. Lola Peligi's dissertation for her work on her patented "Peligi Syndrome" will make her famous; however, she does not realize that her subordinate, Dr. Phillipe Lazardo, has other plans for her new study patient, David Rinaldo. Those plans are thwarted when a young American, Ed Rinaldo, decides to pay a visit to his distant relative whom he's never met. Ed inadvertently becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving Dr. Lazardo, an Italian art terrorist, an Italian interpreter with her own mental issues, and an MI6 agent who uses his conspiracy blog to gather evidence. Michelangelo, Veronese, and members of the Medici family make "cameo" appearances? in this suspenseful story of Renaissance-era political intrigue and 21st century murder and insanity.

Ethan stands before the Beast, receiving his orders to once again infiltrate Daniel Bryant's family of orphans. All of the remaining "outside humans" have to be located and captured because time is short and food supplies are low. The adult males are needed to impregnate the females of child-bearing age already in captivity. The rest of the "inside humans" can be used as feeders to nourish the Beast, but he must be careful not to drain them of their life source too soon or they could die before he is able to replenish the blood supply. The Beast has only nine searchers and 537 earth days to accomplish his mission or he will perish. Will Ethan's changed appearance fool Daniel and the others long enough to return them to the Beast and avoid a painful, torturous death? The survival of both species -- man and Beast - is at stake. Run and hide, seek and destroy...who will win this life and death struggle for survival?

Gina Angelo fell in love with motorcycles the first time she rode her brother's Harley. She then became a pacesetter: first, by organizing the "Witches on Wheels" (Detroit's first women's Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Club) and then by becoming a legendary woman street fighter at a time in America when most women were housewives and stay-at-home moms. From truck stop waitress to carnival stripper, from "the Toughest Woman in Michigan" to Hollywood star, Gina lived life on her own terms. It is unlikely that America will ever witness an equal to the 1950s biker queen who became a legend in her own time.

The election of a new progressive Pope brings sweeping changes to the Catholic Church worldwide. Many are happy to see the Church modernized, while others believe there's a vampire in the Vatican, sucking the lifeblood out of their beloved Church and vow to do whatever must be done to stop him...but who are they? Enter the cloistered walls of the Vatican as the mystery is unraveled.

The night when six strange lights appear in the sky and the moon disappears, the world as they know it ceases to exsist. Most people are gone--reduced to dust and bones. Only small groups of children and a few adults remain, but their lives soon become a living hell as they are forced to run and hide, pursued by a monster and its army of creatures whose very exsistance depends on finds those that are left. Daniel Bryant, a medical doctor is touring America's heartland when all hell breaks loose. An unknown enity and its monsters have invaded the earth leaving distruction in its wake. "They are killing machines" --annihilating, or capturing humans to provide a blood supply to ensure their survival. While searching for a safe place, Daniel encounters several young children--Emma, whose family has been slaughtered and Ethan, who has been grievously wounded. While searching for shelter and food, Daniel Emma, and Ethan encounter other lost children and a young adult, Samantha Spencer. Together they form a family. Soon all of the "family" members begin experiencing nightmares. They see things that seem real, but what seemed real isn't--or is it? It seems that on tragedy after another is walking right beside them. The family finally realizes that there's a traitor among them. A traitor who who appears to be nothing more than a normal boy, but in reality he's a dead entity whose sole purpose is to locate other groups of children and supply much needed food for a monster know as "the Beast." Pretending to be innocent, the boy, Ethan plots to destroy the family, systematically eliminating those who cannot be used. Despite their difficult circumstances, Daniel and Sam fall in love and devote themselves to their makeshift family, and to keeping all of them out of the reach of the Beast. Much to Ethan's delight, Sam becomes pregnant. One of the traitor's missions has been accomplished--the "breeders" (Daniel and Samantha) have fulfiled their purpose--propagtion of the speies. Run and hide, seek and destory--who will win this life and death struggle for survival?