For centuries the world has been plagued by immortals, a supernatural race of men and women who forfeited their souls for power and conquest. There is only one person in the world able to stop them. The only problem is, she had no idea. Ali O’Conohagn is a headstrong young woman, blissfully oblivious to the supernatural dangers that have plagued Earth for centuries and the preternatural warriors who want her dead. In the blink of an eye, her world is torn out of orbit when she finds herself face to face with one such warrior, Ronan. Thrust into a world …

In a collection of short stories composed of laments, commentaries, musings and rants, Life: Such As It Is looks with unbridled elucidation at a variety of topics. It cogitates society’s newly found ‘political correctness’ which provided liars, cheaters, bad singers and untalented actors with excuses, apologies, and acceptances they would never merited had we all not lost our minds! In the words of the author: We make the life we have, and to sit around and gripe about the crappy stuff that happens to us because we’ve made bad or stupid choices is utter nonsense. We were so busy bringing …

The narrative of a man’s life is intertwined so tightly with the spirit of the times in which he lives that it is impossible to tell his story without exposing the stage upon which his life unfolds. The era in which our protagonist moves is materially quite different from our present situation. However, the one constant throughout time is the interior world of the human psyche. It is here in the realm of the person’s soul that the Zeitgeist, which tries desperately to conform our actions to proper norms of action, can on occasion and for certain events be overcome. …

Church will have you simultaneously laughing and crying as it guides you through the antics and heartbreaks of the Patterson/Clay/Ross/Morgan families. Although it is a work of fiction, the book is based upon the real life experiences of author Michael J. O’Hara, who was raised in the Baptist church during the early 1950s. There he observed close-hand the inner working of Pastors and their parishioners. For Isidore Patterson Sr., choosing to forgive rather than seeking vengeance is the struggle of her life. As she is forced to come to grips with her religious beliefs, she also learns to lean on …

Bad Water and Other Stories of the Alaskan Panhandle is a book of short stories set in southeast Alaska on an archipelago about the size of Florida. There are not many people and most of them live in a few small scattered towns. Some live in the more remote areas of the thousands of miles of coastline and hundreds of backwater bays and coves, making a living at whatever is available. Alaska is a place where geography and weather dictate human behavior, and that could mean eating the same dried beans, rice, deer meat and fish for a good part …

A mysterious ring of light appears in Kevin’s bedroom and voices urge him to come through the ring. He does so and appears in another world where he is mistaken for a god. He manages to help the people there but makes an enemy of the chief priest, Harlan. Harlan makes an attempt to seize power but is foiled and flees through the ring of light, taking all the jewel stones with him. Kevin needs the jewel stones to make the apparatus that generates the ring to work, allowing him to return to his own world. He is forced to …

There is nothing Immaculate about reincarnation. The setting for this stunning novel is pre-war Europe of the 1930s, where past lives and the future intermingle. Immaculate Connection places Maggie, a gifted medium, at the mercy of her bullying husband. Maggie’s life spirals out of control when she becomes pregnant by David Sullivan the village priest, who has arranged for Maggie to leave her native Ireland, to give birth in France, and have the child adopted. While there, Maggie is pulled into a past life that reveals her true purpose, but the knowledge terrifies her. Maggie has been communicating with the …

In the aftermath of 9/11 Americans have largely become suspicious of persons of Saudi heritage. But a fifty-something retired police officer from South Florida takes a chance in meeting a man a bit younger than her who is a Saudi National. Being a businessman who grew up in England as the son of a diplomat, he is used to western ways. Communicating through the Internet and smartphones, Madison and Saleem become friends and find they share much in common. Madison is a widow of two years whose driving passions are her horse showing and her business. She has no children …

Set in Brussels, Belgium, The Journey tells the story of ten people from all walks of life, each with their own problems. A single event unites them and forces them to think about their predicaments. Faced with the choice of maintaining the status quo or recounting their innermost thoughts for everyone to scrutinize, what will they decide to do? The characters include a Turkish snack bar owner looking for a purpose in life; a hard-up pensioner; a European Commission trainee; a factory employee suffering from health problems; a Polish immigrant who works as a cleaning lady; a Thai cook; a …

John Pond of Oaks is an inspiring novel about John Pond, an English school teacher parson, who settles in Australia during the rich historic era of 1856 to 1868. The story follows a dozen years in Pond’s life. The married father of seven, he is a teacher who becomes a deacon in the Church of England. After his posting in Australia, he survives savage racial differences, catastrophic gold rush disruptions to his flock, the ever-present bushranger dangers, the arrogance of infinite and unbridled police power, and the bush in its rawest form. Through Pond, the reader sees the chronic differences …