Much like The Evolution of Nora, Darlene takes a young girl through her trials in life. She is seduced by a teacher as a teenager and that haunts her until she seeks psychiatric help. The help she receives is a good story. Darlene becomes a lawyer in New York City and has many interesting stories of her law cases. She has some interesting friends who help develop the story.The story deals with social problems and alternative life styles. It also has a few love stories which are intertwined with Darlene's life in New York.

I think this is my best novel thus far. Of course I think this about every book I complete. No one derives more pleasure from the book than its author. This book mixes history with a fictional story of the inner actions of both Germany's and England's inner circles of leadership. It answers some of the questions of the inner workings of why World War II happened and how it progressed. I have my own ideas about this and have chronicled them in this book. It is the story of a young man, Eric Jansen, sent to England to deliver wetsuits to the British Navy. Off the coast of Iceland his ship is taken by a German U-boat. Only the wetsuit saves his life and he is the only survivor. Two months later, five women aviators are rescued by Eric in a daring rescue at sea. A month later a freighter sinks the U-boat by the ingenuity of its chief engineer. The story moves to Germany where Eric is befriended by Joseph Goebbels, the head of the propaganda ministry for the Third Reich. The story is filled with action, suspense and romance as it continues through World War II and beyond. This book like all my books is just over two hundred pages in length and will provide the reader with a unique look at the individuals behind Germany's and England's inner circles of power.

"The Tides of War" is about two men, Lenny Dawson and Frank Billups. Lenny is a teenager and Frank is his Sunday school teacher. Unusual circumstance bring them together again during WW II flying B-17 bombers. Their trials and exploits during WWII bring both to Germany after they are shot down. They pass themselves off as German citizens and are taken into the German Luftwaffe. Both hope to return to their base in England by flying away in a German plane. While in Germany both meet German women and a love story develops for both.

The Luftwaffe quickly learn that they are superb pilots and they are promoted and sent to the eastern front where they engage the Russians. Both eventually fly a plane back to England before the war ends.

Dawson is reassigned with his American unit and is shot down once more over Germany near the end of the war. He is put in a German prison that the Russians later capture. He is then sent to Siberia where he makes a daring escape nearly two years after his captured.

Billups' service with the Luftwaffe is discovered by the CIA and they want to charge him with treason. Only his commanding general is able to save him.

After the war they return to America and both apply and receive jobs flying commercial airliners for Global Air. However, over the Caribbean Ocean they crash land in the ocean and are set adrift.

They eventually land on an island that has been a secret base for German U-boats and are received warmly by the natives.

The story concludes with Dawson and Billups helping the natives develop the island as a resort.

The first colony planted in North America was on Roanoke Island in 1597. The company who planted this colony promised to return the following year with supplies and more people. However England went to war that year and the supply ships were taken by the king to help in the war effort. It was over three years before the ships returned to Roanoke Island. When they arrived not a trace of the colony was found. No one has ever been able to find out what happened to them. This book, although not about the Roanoke Island colony, takes a similar colony near that area and takes them through the trials that people in America faced in that period of time. The story starts with Milford and Doris Kipling, who are linguists, being asked by the king to go with the new colony to teach its leadership the language of the natives. After they have complete this task they were to return with the ships. The Kipling couple took their sixteen year old son, John, with them. After they complete their task John asked to stay for the rest of the year promising to return the next year with the ships. Of course the ships didn't return and John faced the perils and catastrophes that led he and his companion across North America. The trek across America is just a part of John's adventure. The reader will enjoy several other adventures and meet many interesting characters along the way.

This book takes a twelve year old girl through her life to age twenty-nine. Her name is Nora Wilson. Her next door neighbor becomes her best friend and business partner. His name is Wally Daily. Even though Wally is twelve years older than Nora they make a good team as Wally sees her intelligence and they have similar interests They write two books together before Wally is framed by two boys and is sent to prison. Wally does well in prison and is pardoned after four years when the two boys confess to framing him. During his time in prison Nora inherits a paralegal business which she turns into a large law firm. Through her ingenuity she builds a thirty-seven story business building where her law firm occupies the first floor and she occupies the penthouse of the high rise as her living quarters.

After law school she is invited to join the F. B. I. for a special mission, to take down a New York crime family. Nora must undergo plastic surgery to change her looks and study for a year to become an Italian woman, Angela Gambini, who is her age and is the daughter of a Sicilian Crime boss. The Sicilian Crime boss is the brother of the head of a New York crime family, Carlos Gambini, who Nora is to bring down.

The story has many exciting scenes with Nora at the center of them.

The Blue Ridge is of the Western genre which starts in the late eighteen hundreds in Texas and moves to Colorado. The Blue Ridge is on the northern side of the canyon carved by the Colorado River as it runs toward Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The story of the Buhler family and its feud with the Toms family runs throughout the story. After David Buhler dies his widow, Ruth, marries Dan Toms. After the first year of marriage Dan begins abusing Ruth and her two sons, Brett and Barney. The abuse reaches a point where Dan Toms beats Ruth so badly that the younger boy, Barney, puts a butcher knife into Dan killing him almost instantly. The older boy Brett buries Dan with all his belongings and no one else knows what has happened to Dan as Ruth is unconscious. Dan's disappearance festers with the Toms brothers especially the eldest, Sheriff Bob Toms, as he suspects that the Buhler boys knows what happened to Dan. Tom Mason, a retired U. S. Marshal, meets Ruth as she and the boys put their farm up for sale. The story moves at a rapid pace and has several romances laced through the story giving it spice. The five Toms brothers add excitement as does the goldmine adventures that both the Buhler/Mason and Toms family encounter.

This novel is the third and final book of the life of James Raymond. He is asked by President Woodrow Wilson to return to the Greek island of Piros to request ships from his old friend, Petra Karpus, to help supply England and her allies in World War I. James accepts his mission and is off on another trek that brings his adopted brother, Billy Ryan, to Europe to share in the adventure. Many interesting characters are introduced in Europe. James' travel then takes him back to America where a series of adventures develop. One of these adventures takes him back to Cadiz, Spain where after this first visit there (featured in the previous book, The Miracle) he is known as Saint Jaime. This novel also brings back many of the characters from Table Mountain and the Murphy ranch where most of the central characters are brought to their conclusions. The last chapter brings James Raymond back to Table Mountain to a poignant ending. In many ways I think this is the most interesting book of the trilogy as a biographer is writing James' story and brings out untold stories of many of the original characters.

The Miracle is an continuation of The Mystery of Table Mountain. James Raymond is kidnapped and sold to a despot on a Greek Island. He lives four years there and meets a variety of interesting characters and eventually is miraculously provided a way off the island. When he returns home he finds his wife has remarried, but is able to resolve this and returns to Table Mountain. During this trip he is confronted again by his old nemesis, Regus Collender. A poignant story unfolds about his friends at the Murphy Ranch and their plight. His son by Annette is brought out in the story and he adopts him and takes him back to New York where his son plays an important role to end the story. The Miracle is the second part of the trilogy. Each story stands by itself as it takes the reader through different eras of James Raymond's life. The last of these three books is A Call To duty, which will be available shortly.

Gold Fever is written in the first person as the author wanted his readers to see the story of Everett "Easy" Edwards through his eyes as he experiences his trials in life. The book starts with an action packed situation on the first page where his partner, Bill Shields and he are under siege by Apache Indians. The story moves quickly in a rapid action packed adventure. Easy travels on to the goldfields. Along the way he meets two miners that become life-long partners in this adventures. The three meet two young people, Al and Karen Harris and the six establish a lucrative gold mine. During this time Easy also meets a powerful, unscrupulous mine owner, Clay Brett, who befriends him then turns on him and hounds him throughout the book. Easy falls in love with Brett's step-daughter, Myra, and elopes with her. This only adds fuel to the fire of Brett's hatred for Easy. Easy is ambushed and is rescued by a fifteen year old orphan girl, Lara Adams, whose parents and brother were killed by Brett's men. She becomes Easy's unlikely partner and is featured in every adventure of Easy's life. The reader will love this girl as she is clever and unique. Their many adventures and narrow escapes will keep the reader on edge throughout the book.