A WOMAN OF TODAY IS CALLED ON TO HELP A WOMAN OF THE PAST Have you ever walked down a street and tried to picture it in an earlier, simpler time? Have you ever imagined yourself actually living in the past?Elizabeth Charles, a New York social worker specializing in child abuse, is walking to her next case on the streets of New York's Lower East Side when her eyes seem to betray her. A street sign changes its name, then back again: St. James Place. The phantom sign sticks in her head, and thus begins a journey through time and emotion that takes her back to the New York of the early 20th century where she confronts the issues of that day, which are strangely familiar to her: domestic violence, women's rights, and the stubborn gulf between wealth and poverty. She encounters a woman who survived the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in 1911 and Elizabeth is recruited to help this phantom from the past right a terrible injustice. St. James Place is a novel about the possibility of life after death, the existence of the spirit world, and how, at times, we are allowed to tap into both. A novel of suspense, romance, and history, St. James Place. appeals to readers fascinated by the mysteries of those who have gone before us.Set in old New York, present-day New York, and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, this is thriller about good versus evil in which a woman of today is called upon to help a woman from the past.

Set in 1978, this suspense-thriller examines the life of a young widowed Customs Inspector, Christine Keaton, a single mother, who is trying to balance her life and manage her career in the days of the women's movement when women were rare and sometimes unwelcome in the male dominated world of law enforcement. The crash of a flight from Bogota, Columbia on the runway of J.F.K. Airport where Christine works leads to an investigation of the smuggling of cocaine and child pornography into the United States which quickly becomes personal as a passenger who lays dying points the way to a drug cartel, begging Christine to stop the atrocities committed by the leaders of the cartel, some of which involve the abuse of children. The United States Customs Service jumps in, and Christine is at the forefront of the investigation which changes her life forever as she faces an adversary so evil and powerful that it becomes doubtful that even the full force of the U.S. government can stop him. A novel of courage, hope, action, love, and suspense, A Customs Affair gives the reader an insider's view of the U.S. Customs Service in the 1970's when women were new to law enforcement careers and before technology all but eliminated the hands on, high risk business of a Customs Inspector.

September 11, 2001, Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and an evil man change Nora Gallagher Stanis's life forever. Her happiness is shattered when her father, a firefighter with FDNY, orders her to leave the South Tower after American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th. Leaving three of her friends behind, Nora becomes riddled with guilt and sorrow over their deaths. Her father's illness from lung disease five years after the terrorist attacks from working the pile at Ground Zero prompts his deathbed confession. He tells Nora of an infidelity which resulted in the birth of a daughter named Suzanne, a daughter who is the same age as Nora. Then he makes his final, awful request to her to find Suzanne, a request she ignores for years out of fear of hurting her mother and sisters. Her mother's death only a year after her father's is another painful sorrow, and on top of that is the breakup of her marriage of four years. Nora's decision to ignore her father's wishes by keeping the secret of her father's infidelity and the birth of Suzanne, creates an unbearable burden on her. She becomes a sad and unhappy person, unrecognizable to her sisters, Kathleen and Maura, but more importantly, to her husband, Jonathan. A visit to the World Trade Center Memorial, where it all began, leads Nora to believe that it is time to face the secret and to honor her father's wishes - she would find her sister, Suzanne. In a journey that would take her to a small town near Sorrento, Italy, and back to New York City and Long Island, in the middle of Super Storm Sandy, Nora finds many more horrific secrets as she searches for her sister. This odyssey starts with the knowledge that Suzanne has been missing from her own life, under mysterious circumstances, for the twelve years since September of 2001. Despite the horrors that begin to unfold, Nora finds love and healing as she finally honors her father's last wish. A story of suspense, courage, and love which pits good against evil, Fate Chooses follows Nora and her family through agonizing challenges, which lead both to defeat and triumph.

A WOMAN OF TODAY IS CALLED ON TO HELP A WOMAN OF THE PAST Have you ever walked down a street and tried to picture it in an earlier, simpler time? Have you ever imagined yourself actually living in the past? Elizabeth Charles, a New York social worker specializing in child abuse, is walking to her next case on the streets of New York's Lower East Side when her eyes seem to betray her. A street sign changes its name, then back again: St. James Place.The phantom sign sticks in her head, and thus begins a journey through time and emotion that takes her back to the New York of the early 20th century where she confronts the issues of that day, which are strangely familiar to her: domestic violence, women's rights, and the stubborn gulf between wealth and poverty.She encounters a woman who survived the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in 1911 and Elizabeth is recruited to help this phantom from the past right a terrible injustice.St. James Place is a novel about the possibility of life after death, the existence of the spirit world, and how, at times, we are allowed to tap into both. A novel of suspense, romance, and history, St. James Place. appeals to readers fascinated by the mysteries of those who have gone before us. Set in old New York, present-day New York, and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, this is thriller about good versus evil in which a woman of today is called upon to help a woman from the past.