Stay Awhile Longer
Mt Pleasant Series Book 3
Louie Pyle, owner of Gas N Go convenience stores, is contemplating his future. Since his wife divorced him and their kids declared independence, Louie is feeling about as useful as the one necktie hanging in his closet.
As the 2020 pandemic crosses the Fallam County Line, he faces untoward provocations from an illegal cigarette cartel, his mama Betty Doris who wants to move in with him, and visits from the ghost of his mentor Henry Lee.
Things take a turn for the better when Lupita Quinn, a woman Louie admires from afar, shows an interest in helping him save his business.
Every Now & Then
Mt Pleasant Series Book 2
Every Now and Then, is a dual narrative of the events which come before and after Iris Lee, 47, discovers a valuable objet d’art in the pocket of her mother’s secondhand mink coat.
A funny story with a teary-eyed twist, the story contains the key elements for a fine Southern tale: family skeletons and redemption.
When Are You Leaving
The First Mt Pleasant Novel
When she gets a call claiming her eighty-two-year-old father is selling drugs to the locals, Iris Lee, an unemployed bank executive, is forced to abandon the real world and return to the land time and style forgot, her hometown.
In a quest to uncover the history of an odd broach she finds among her mother’s things, Iris is reacquainted with Mt Pleasant, Virginia, and its entertaining, sometimes odd, inhabitants.
The mystery of the broach, a plot to take over her father’s properties, and a hidden family secret keep Iris pining for the good old, back-stabbing days of her past corporate life.
While facing the loss of her identity, Iris struggles to repair the rocky relationship with her father and to gain his trust and love before it’s too late.
When Are You Leaving is a story about letting go of the past, accepting change and following it into the clear blue unknown.
Book club discussion questions are included at the end of the book.
Talking To Herself
It’s Christmas. The year is 2049. Amara Vivian Graves is mourning the death of her husband John Darnley. While undergoing bio-nanochip treatments for depression, Amara finds herself hurled back in time to the year 1999. There she meets others who’ve suffered the same fate and the younger version of her future husband. Over the course of living her second Christmas of 1999, Amara must decide to stay in the past or return to her reality of day-to-day living without her one true love
Parkland Tales: Stories for 3 a.m. Readings
Life in Parkland is not always, well, a walk in the park for its residents. It’s every animal for himself. Follow the adventures of a quixotic squirrel, a middle-aged deer, a nearsighted owl and others in these tales of life in an overcrowded urban park. For every adult who still likes a grand bedtime story, Parkland Tales, Stories for 3 a.m. Readings is a pleasant distraction on sleepless nights.