The Whittaker Family Reunion returns readers to the Whittaker family introduced in Of Dreams and Nightmares.  The family is scattered and eager to reunite.  The reader connects with each family member as they prepare to reunite.  Abraham is a doctor living in lower Mississippi.  On...

The setting is the early 1700’s, Nassau. “The English Crown has neglected to send a governor to the Providence. Pirates claimed the area as their own. The government has offered the pirates a pardon, but many do not accept it. Henry Avery approaches captain of the...

The Last Queen is the fictionalization of the life of Juana, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, the “last Queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country’s throne.” Many myths have spread throughout the sands of time. Who was the woman behind the myths? Was...

The Lost Diary of Don Juan is the story of the title character. Douglas Carlton Abrams paints a picture of a daring man that comes from humble beginnings and achieves nobility. Abrams incorporates ancient Tantric teachings in his book. Nuns adopted Young Don Juan. His first...

Miscarriage of Justice is a fictional tale based on a true story. It is the early days of the women’s suffrage movement. Walter Dotson was a counselor at a Christian Camp when he met Anna Dennis, his future wife. He was attracted to her from...

The setting is 1970, Fort Knox, KY, the Vietnam era. Kim, Donna, Sharon and Wendy were unlikely friends. They had little in common. They came from diverse backgrounds and had very different personalities. Yet these four women join, sharing strength and support for each other....

The Painter From Shanghai is a fictional account of the life of Pan Yuliang. She was born Xiuqing in 1895, orphaned at five, and raised by an opium-addicted uncle. At fourteen, he sold her to a brothel, The Hall of Eternal Splendor, where her name...

In 1925, Tennessee passed a state law against teaching “any theory that denies the story of creation of man as taught in the bible, and to teach instead that man descended from a lower order of animals.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial). John Scopes, high school science teacher, was...

Carole Whang Schutter weaves a fictional love story into the sharing of an historical event, The Mountain Meadows Massacre, "the first act of religious terrorism in the United States." Told from the point of view of a daughter reading her father's journals, September Dawn, is...

The Indians assisted settlers, teaching them how to raise crops and even sharing their food with them. In return, the white man looked on the Indians as savages and treated them like animals. The American government, on more than one occasion, cheated the Indians. Eventually,...