The House of Expectations
Four siblings from a pioneer Methodist family come of age on a college campus during the Great Depression. After graduating, the two sisters move into their lives as teacher and librarian. Meanwhile, the two brothers return home to the Panhandle of Idaho to mining jobs and the struggle to manifest their dreams of becoming a newspaper editor and a bush pilot. Then World War II intervenes, precipitating marriages and moral shifts that fly in the face of the social and religious expectations of their parents and their matriarchal grandmother. Based loosely on the lives of my mother and three of her siblings, writing this novel has been a wonderful adventure.
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When Your Mother Doesn’t
Nearly three decades of secrets lie between Lola Ashby and the two girls she didn’t want to raise. Both girls agree reluctantly to meet in Idaho and visit their ailing mother whom they haven’t seen in those 30 years. Three lives, three stories, and a child no one wants.
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The Color of Longing
What’s a guy to do when the woman he’s loved for 15 years asks for help leaving her alcoholic husband? And what if that husband is his best friend? Artist Jake Logan makes a painful and inevitable choice that sets him adrift. Crisscrossing the country with his cat Sadie, he seeks answers to his quest from several helpful strangers, but it isn’t until he has a deep spiritual encounter with himself that he begins to find his true way home.
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When the Past Comes Calling
Six fraternity brothers meet a girl at a tavern, take her to an apartment with her consent, and each have sex with her. Three decades later, the child born of that night comes looking for his dad and justice for his mother, whom he has never met.
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Fog of Dead Souls
When Ellie McKay walks into the Maverick Bar, she plans to get drunk, not engaged. But in 30 minutes, she’s met cowboy Al Robison, he’s proposed to her, and she’s accepted. But Al doesn’t know that Ellie has been on the run from a psychopath who killed her boyfriend and raped and tortured her or that her heart belongs to the detective who’s investigating the case.
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Broken Boys
When a mysterious stranger at a small-town parade offers Maggie Morehouse a life outside the box, she disappears with him, leaving her family to pick up the pieces. Caught between anger and fear, her husband involves the police. The search for Maggie and her companion leads two Pennsylvania detectives into the VFW halls and bingo parlors of rural Virginia where broken boys are at very dangerous play.
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Ben Three Years Later
What happens to a very young man with no family and no one to guide him who’s gotten off to a bad start. Ben Three Years Later explores those possibilities. Road trips, vigilante crime. Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, snared by an older woman with her own dark agenda. Can a good cop save him? I wasn't sure what would happen until I reached the last chapter myself.
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