Before Santa Claus and Saint Nicholas, there was La Befana. The name means "giver of gifts" and is based on legendary tales of an old woman who gave sweet breads and treats to children. La Befana visits children during the Festival of the Three Kings. This is known as the twelve days of Christmas and extends from December 25 to January 6. January 6th is the Epiphany. In the country of Italy, the children leave their shoes outside their door. If they were good, La Befana will leave cakes in their shoes. In the country of Mexico, La Befana hides one last present. The children must search for their gifts. In the country of America, La Befana is unknown. There are many versions of the story of La Befana. In these stories, she follows the three kings who follow the star over Bethlehem. The story ends with her search for the three kings. But there is one additional story. It is a story of how La Befana prevented Roman soldiers from following King Herod's command to murder male children under the age of two. It is a story of bravery and trickery; it is a story of faith and compassion. La Befana used her talents of cleaning and cooking to allow families and their children to leave Bethlehem in safety.

George's Flag is a novel of political intrigue as the Democratic and the Republican Parties battle for control of the United States. Set in the past, present and the future, George's Flag is the story of the rise of a political machine to elect the first Hispanic President of the United States. The political machine is not one as used by Chicago, Illinois Mayor Richard Daily or State of Louisiana Governor Huey Long, but one of simple people, illegal Hispanic immigrants. Unlike Daily and Long, these immigrants seek power not for themselves but future generations of legal Hispanics. The power they seek is not the power to control others but the power to control their own future. Beginning in the year 2000, a Hispanic girl is born as her illegal mother works in the citrus fields in Florida. The girl is named George, after George Washington the first President of the United States. The gift of an American flag to the newborn child, George's flag, begins a forty year political strategy to elect George Pilar the first Hispanic President of the United States in the year 2040. Packed with plots and subplots, George's Flag takes the reader on an exciting political ride as the illegal and legal Hispanics struggle to take their place in America and form their own political party. What the Hispanics do not know is that the Democrats and the Republicans, to hold onto political power, have been plotting their destruction.

When does life end and death begin? Is it possible, they are the same? Is death a state of nothingness or, as theorized by Philosopher Plato in the year 360 B.C., a state of sleep whereby the person experiences the consciousness of others as dreams? Plato believed a person's conscious was based on the prior conscious of others. Consciousness was an act of nature; a plan whereby one person passed their consciousness to another. Plato's pupil, Aristotle, believed the combined conscious was passed by the male parent, at conception, and the female parent passed her combined conscious prior to birth. It is possible, that within each of us, we hold the consciousness of our relatives and at our death; we could experience the combined conscious as a series of dreams. This experience is called Plato's Dream. Gregor Mendel partially proved Plato's and Aristotle's theories, in the year 1865, with his discovery of genetic inheritance. The discovery of DNA, in the year 1953, proved Mendel's theories. No one has proved or disproved Plato's theory, yet! Based on the consciousness theories of Plato and Aristotle and the genetic research of Gregor Mendel, Plato's Dream takes the reader on an intellectually stimulating and fascinating journey. A journey where life and death mix and eternity is only a single night.

In the year 478, a Heruli warship arrives in the Greek port of Pylos. On board the Heruli's warship are many African Bantu men, women, and children. The Heruli captured the Bantu to be sold as slaves. The Bantu were powerless to defeat the fierce Heruli. The Bantu prayed to God to help them. The Bantu prayed to God to free them. God heard their prayers. The Ram of God is based on the Bantu legend of the Beberu Munga - Ram of God.

In 1864, a drought caused a small lake to recede. What lay at the bottom of the lake sent hundreds of Union soldiers to the small town of Gladeville, Tennessee.In 1861, The men of Gladeville joined the Confederate Army. Union soldiers had taken all of their food and live stock. Among the Gladeville men were two brothers, George and John Cluck. George was nineteen. John was eighteen.Only old men, women, and children remained.Victoria and Candis were betrothed to George and John. Every day, Victoria and Candis went to the Gladeville Church to wait for George and John to return. As the months passed, their hope dimmed but their love grew.Based on fact, fiction, and a local legend, Two Bullets for Sergeant Franks is the story of a Sergeant that held the men together for battle. It is the story of true events from the Confederate archives of George and John's military careers.It is the story of two women who waited for them to return. It is the story of the dead Union soldiers found in the receded lake.

The Night of the Double Moon, the ghost woman appeared by the woods near the gate. She stood waiting. She was waiting for Sarah Jane to die. She was waiting to take her spirit. Sarah Jane Singer was nine years-old in 1928. She was very ill with pneumonia. As Sarah Jane became more ill, strange things happened in Gladeville. Three boys were discovered murdered and people claim to have seen a ghost woman dancing among the stones of the Hibdon Cemetery.

In the year 338 CE, invaders sought to conquer Egypt. Their goal was simple, destroy every Christian. Destroy their temples and their monuments. Murder every man, women, and child. One man stood in their way, Tarik. Tarik and his soldiers battled the invaders with courage and cunning. Tarik had less than four hundred soldiers. The invaders are many thousands. Tarik and his soldiers could not defeat their numbers, they defeated their spirit. In a climactic battle, Tarik and his soldiers battle many thousands of the invaders. The invaders quickly and easily defeat Tarik and his soldiers. The invaders stand poised to invade Egypt. Many thousands of the invaders stand before the home of Tarik and within Tarik's home are many Christians. Within Tarik's home is Rashida. The invaders have one left to battle. Only one stands in their way to murder every man, woman, and child in Egypt. Only one defends Egypt. Only one protects the families and the homes. The one is Rashida's protector.

A Journey of Man And the great healer passed his hand over the child and a third time he held up the child for all to see. And a third time he spoke to the crowd saying, "It is the will of God that for generations to come all with know the power of God through the hands of a child. What was given to me has been given to her. This child is protected by God himself. No man, woman, child, or beast of the earth shall harm this child. This is the will of God." And the great healer handed the child to her parents and he touched them and he blessed them. And he spoke to them saying, "Your child will serve God. Return to your place and share the blessing which God has given." The Apostle Simon Peter spoke these words in the year 37 CE. With these words, a journey began. This is a journey that will take you from the gates of the city of Jerusalem to the mountains of Asia. This is a journey that will take you from the battlefields of World War II to the playhouse of three young children. This is a journey of love and compassion. This is a journey of hope and forgiveness. This is a journey, which is not complete.