Visionary Fiction
Zipacna's Legacy
Zipacna's Legacy
Zipacna's Legacy
Jade French is baffled when she inherits her grandfather Zipacna’s home in Chi’país, Mexico. She’s neither seen nor heard from him in twenty-five years. If he hadn’t cared enough to keep in touch, what kind of place could it be? And why didn’t he leave it to her father?
Friend Mari urges her to at least check things out. Jade argues that a trip to Mexico is out of the question right now. She’s too busy climbing the corporate ladder. Mari persists.
No surprise: she didn’t inherit a home; it’s a rundown hotel. Big surprise: she decides to stay.
More surprises are in store:
Why will no carpenter take on the restoration project?
Who is trying to scare her away?
What is the strange energy emanating from the ginormous rock in the backyard?
How did her severely broken ankle heal overnight?
One thing does become clear, and it holds more of a mystery than the mountain of questions. The hotel is actually a school for advanced spiritual training. What! Why would Zipacna leave this to her? She has zero knowledge of the topic.
Enter eight-year-old Miguel. Through his spiritual connection to Zipacna, he helps awaken a shocking asset: Jade’s seer and healing ability, which, through Grandfather’s lofty stack of journals, she comes to realize she had all along.
A secret room imparts the knowledge she needs to embrace her spirituality and find a way to bring it to the world. She comes to terms with her legacy, repairs relationships thought long lost, and reopens the school.
Search for Power
Zipacna's Legacy
Zipacna's Legacy
Chaahk has a plethora of deep-dark secrets. So deep and dark that he escapes his hometown of Chi’país, Mexico to hide amongst Native Americans in Sedona, Arizona. For twelve years, he avoids his past, memories of his half-brother Zipacna, and the shamanic abilities that made him feel like a freak.
An energy vortex at Jade Martinez’s school in Chi’país draws students from all over the world, so many that she seeks to open a second school for advanced spiritual education. What better location than Sedona with its famed vortexes?
The Ocotillo Hotel is for sale. It has a vortex, and would make a perfect school, but it is haunted by a pair of spirits who cannot cross into the next world. Though they beg Jade and ten-year-old protégé Miguel to help, teacher and student have no idea how to accomplish this.
Miguel is well into his shamanic training. Mature for his age, he is frustrated his healing ability is slow in developing. He knows without a doubt this trip will be the cure.
Chaahk has the answers Jade and Miguel seek but he refuses to relive anything from the past. Will Universe conspire to bring them together? Or will the alarm clock of Divine Timing fail to chime?
Back to Center
Interview With A Soul
Interview With A Soul
A spear is unearthed from Inca ruins on a hillside in Peru. Although the jade spearhead originated 3,000 miles away and 1400 years in the past, carvings on the shaft unite Mexican and Peruvian images with a more recent time period. But more remarkable is the strange dialect now issuing from the resident archaeologist’s mouth.
Is it coincidence that, in Mexico, two-year-old K’iin K’aay is suddenly speaking the same language used by the archaeologist? Jade and husband Luna are buried in preparations to sponsor the world’s largest spiritual healing festival at their school. So buried they barely notice their daughter’s new vocabulary, until a desperate call comes from Luna’s archaeologist friend. Luna drops everything and flies to Peru.
Suddenly, problems arise, seemingly determined to undermine the festival. Luna phones with an urgent request for Jade to hand-deliver Grandfather Zipacna’s journals. How can she leave Mexico now when things are falling apart? How can Zipacna’s journals be related to this place so far away?
Something has conspired to unite these people in Peru. Is it Universe, some thing—or some one—else altogether?
Interview With A Soul
Interview With A Soul
Interview With A Soul
Why do we fear death?
Does reincarnation really exist?
Why were references of it removed from the bible?
Interview with a Soul is intended to answer these questions and more. In a sometimes lighthearted, sometimes serious fictional format, the author hopes to help people understand how the after-death ‘process’ works. Obsidian is funny and irreverent, and scared silly as he stands before the Council of Elders. They guide him gently through his recent life events, and help him decide which situations he could’ve improved, and which were a success.
Afterward, he chooses the where, who, and when of his next life and is excited to move forward. But somehow, once back in human form, he is sucked into the quagmire of real life situations and cannot recall why he came. In spite of that, as the lifetimes pass, his soul finally achieves the sought-after perfection. Come on the journey with him and his soul family as they maneuver each life’s emotional and physical obstacles. Written by two psychics who’ve ‘been there’, life between lives is shown in fictional format to help bring this ‘other world’ into clarity.
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A LITTLE MURDER
CHECKMATE MURDER
CHECKMATE MURDER
Book 1
In spite of her dislike of the water, Angie Deacon buys her husband a day of fishing on Lake Winnipesaukee for his fiftieth birthday. What better gift for a guy stuck in the office all the time?
That’s what she thinks right up until the owner of the tour is murdered. Who besides Nolan Little’s verbally abused wife has reason to murder him—they’re supposedly all strangers.
As an ER nurse, Angie has dedicated herself to helping people, so when Val begs her to help find Nolan’s murderer saying yes seems only natural—until she uncovers Val’s secret.
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CHECKMATE MURDER
CHECKMATE MURDER
CHECKMATE MURDER
Book 2
Angie Deacon has a new career,
co-owner of Alton Bay New Hampshire’s community theater, Prince & Pauper. Her divorce is almost final and, even though her too-clingy mother has moved in, life is good once again.
Angie’s new love interest, Detective Colby Jarvis lost a bet with his fellow officers : he has to try out for a part in Angie’s show Checkmate: Murder. He is awarded the part of a burglar. Unfortunately, during the very first performance, Jarvis shoots the star with his personal handgun that’s somehow been switched with the theater’s prop gun.
Though on suspension, he is heavy with need to find out who switched guns. Why would anyone use him to kill the leading man who, by day, is the unassuming owner of the local nursery. Add that to the fact that his long-thought-dead father is back, Jarvis has had his last good night’s sleep for a while.
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HAIR OF THE DOG
CHECKMATE MURDER
HAIR OF THE DOG
Book 3
Angie Deacon thought her vacation in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire would be relaxing. But the dog next door would not stop barking. Finally she confronts the owner, Simon York and ends up in a near knock-down drag-out. The next morning he is found dead, and she’s the main suspect.
Angie must seek out the real killer before they stuff her behind bars till her skin wrinkles. Her search for the real killer leads her to a suspicious dog breeder, and a cosmetics factory that’s putting out some very questionable products. Now, the owner of the factory—Simon’s wife—is dead...
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Dying to Teach
No Stone Unturned
HAIR OF THE DOG
Book 4
Angie Deacon thought the gene that produced maternal instinct was missing from her DNA. Till she met Kiana Smith: beautiful, personable, talented and…grieving, because her mentor, the drama teacher has been murdered.
The principal begs Angie to supervise a production scheduled for that weekend
--intended to help save the high school’s floundering drama program. Although her own theater is in the midst of its next production, Angie agrees to help out.
The trouble is, the principal has told everyone she’s there to work on the case, and Angie is quickly buried in secrets and problems. Since
her recent near-death experience in a case, she’s sworn to leave investigating to the professionals. Unfortunately she can’t convince the kids or the principal to stop bringing clues.
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REST IN PIECES
No Stone Unturned
No Stone Unturned
Book 5
When a popular eighteen-year-old girl is murdered, it devastates the tight-knit communities surrounding NH’s Lake Winnipesaukee. But when the accused man is set free, it shakes people to their very core. Detective Colby Jarvis blames himself—witnesses were ineffective; his testimony weak, the clues inadequate.
The next morning, jigsaw puzzles begin arriving in mailboxes of people related to the trial. Twelve hours later, deaths begin.
Angie tries to help Jarvis in the case, but she’s mired in her own set of problems: her partner Tyson has just been offered his lifelong dream—a part in a Broadway show. Angie must run the theater on her own. But that's not the worst of it: her demanding mother is back in town, and she’s brought a twenty-something surfer who decides he too wants to be a detective.
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No Stone Unturned
No Stone Unturned
No Stone Unturned
Book 6
Angie Deacon’s partner has gone to Broadway to follow his dream, and she’s left alone to produce Prince & Pauper’s first play of the new year.
Proudly she narrows the group of leading-man applicants to pharmaceuticals salesman Stone Powers. His six-pack abs and charisma have the female cast swooning. Stone accepts the attention with cool professionalism, even as wives begin popping up like dandelions in a field.
Stone arrives drunk at the theater two days in a row, and Angie isn’t surprised—keeping three wives from learning of each other could drive anyone to drink. When the local convenience store phones in a domestic dispute, the last thing Detective Colby Jarvis expects is to find Stone dead. Jarvis is suddenly overwhelmed with suspects of the female persuasion.
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Romantic/Suspense romantic suspense
Come in from the Cold
Come in from the Cold
Come in from the Cold
Forbidden love brings out a strength she didn’t realize she had—till it’s almost too late. Can Claudia marry a man she doesn’t like just to give her child a name? Or do the unthinkable in 1954 and raise a child on her own? She will have to spend her life denying her love for the baby's father, gadabout, irresponsible Max. Life will be safer with David.
She does her best to make the marriage work but David seems determined to undermine their life. Then one day he announces he and Max are buying a diamond mine—which means she and Max will be thrust together day after day.
Will she be able to deny her love for him? What if he sees the birthmark on his son’s arm and realizes the truth?
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Final Masquerade
Come in from the Cold
Come in from the Cold
Paige Carmichael saw her fiancé murder his business associate. And Stefano knows she saw. She has no choice but to run…but not before ensuring her future by taking a priceless coin and $750K in dirty mob money.
She has read books on how to lose yourself, and creates a new identity in each city--wigs, makeup, personality changes. Even so, Stefano locates her again and again. How can this be happening? Does he have contacts in every town in the world?
She meets an unlikely hero in Christian Charles Beauchamps who's driving a big-rig to save money to open a landscaping business. He takes pity, and helps Paige get out of California…but when she sees him whispering with a bullish man at the motel, she can't help wondering...has he fallen for her as he said, or is he on Stefano's payroll?
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Stand Alone Mystery
Running from the Past
Running from the Past
Running from the Past
The first warning is swift and to the point, but bookstore owners Glenn and Lindsay Reade don’t ‘get it’ until their lives are threatened a second time. All they’ve done is read a young girl’s diary and attempt to locate the owner. Just because the journal describes the girl’s rape and subsequent murder of the rapist is no reason for anyone to want them dead, is it? The book is obviously more than forty years old.
Who in the tiny Berkshire town of Paris, Massachusetts could still care? But someone does. And that someone is willing to kidnap and murder to protect their long-buried secret.
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Voice from the Ashes
Running from the Past
Running from the Past
In 1979, Ian Merryweather's biggest dream was to be sheriff of a small town. But a disabling wound in Vietnam sidelines him. While he's on the mend, his best friend Chief Baker is murdered, and Ian inherits the job. He feels guilty getting the cherished position this way. But who else will dedicate himself to finding the killer? Especially when the State Police have arrested Baker's son, which means the real killer is on the loose.
And what about Lucy? Ian's had a crush on her for years. But she's about to marry Eric. She deserves so much more than the sly womanizer.
When Mt St Helens roars to life, Ian's happiness and the murder investigation are put on hold while he's forced to use every instinct and talent to save his townspeople from the deluge of searing ash and lava.
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Payton's Place
Claire's Ticket Out
Claire's Ticket Out
Running from problems does not solve them. It only changes the setting, Payton Winters is quick to learn when she flees the ghosts surrounding her husband’s murder in Minneapolis. In her new hometown of Sackets Harbor, NY, Noah Anderson latches onto her right away. And not in a good way. Years ago, Claire Baines ran also, by giving her son up for adoption. She watched Noah grow into a womanizer, cheat and blackmailer. In a heartrending moment, she decides that, to keep him from hurting anyone else, he’s got to die.She bakes monkshood into his favorite chocolate cake. The next day, during the first meet of the Sackets Harbor Yacht Club, Noah pitches overboard, dead, and Claire’s sanity takes a header. How could she have done this horrific thing to her only son? One place to buy monkshood is in Payton’s new exotic plant shop. Unfortunately, she’s got a motive to want him dead and becomes the prime suspect. Soon, an attempt is made on her life. Is it Claire trying to cover her deeds? Or is someone else intent on defiling Payton’s reputation?
Claire's Ticket Out
Claire's Ticket Out
Claire's Ticket Out
One woman bent on revenge. One unsuspecting. Is one man enough to keep them apart?
Claire blames Payton for the fact that she’s been locked in an asylum for nine months. When a fellow inmate jokes that she and the bailiff look alike, she devises a plan to escape using the woman’s identity.
Though it’s been almost a year, Aden still loves Payton. He decides to find her and propose. He arrives at her parents’ home hours after she leaves for Rome, and just hours after Claire wreaks havoc on her family.
Payton’s plane goes down, and she is rescued by a fishing captain who urges her to stay with him until she’s well. While she recovers, he does everything to thwart anyone’s attempts to find her.
Claire and Aden are both focused on finding Payton. Where will their paths cross? Who will live to see the future?
Cozy Mysteries
On the Hook
Book 1
Westen Hughes is a stay-at-home mom until her husband and son die in a car crash and she finds herself in possession of a failing pet shop. With bill collectors phoning daily she jumps at the chance to earn a lot of easy money, even though the offer comes from old high school nemesis Kendra Jean 'KJ'Valentine, who stole everything from her in high school: valedictorian, head cheerleader, homecoming queen, and the star quarterback.
KJ has arranged for Picasso’s The Old Guitarist—insured for one hundred million dollars—to come to a NH museum. The painting is GOA. Since she is the underwriting agent, she is tops on the police’s suspect list. She pairs Westen with a complete stranger and total opposite, Phoebe Smith, a snake-loving, underwear hating, tuba player with more baggage than Logan Airport.
Ten percent of a hundred million is…well, it’s a lot so, Smith and Westen embark on a roller coaster search for one of the world’s most valuable paintings.
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Just Smashing
Book 2
Snake-lover Phoebe Smith and down-home Westen Hughes, the Northeast’s most mismatched investigative team, are at it again. During the unveiling of a local college’s Egyptian exhibit, a vase worth $1.75 million disappears in front of seven people.
Well, six people and the thief, because sure as shortcake has strawberries, the vase is there one minute, the gone the next. Secrets, rather than clues are causing more trouble than fifty Dennis the Menaces. Smith disappears for hours on end. Where does she go? Is there a man in her life? Westen can’t ask. She has a secret of her own.
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Two Million Reasons
Book 3
Insurance recovery team Smith & Westen are up to their ears in movers determined to demolish every stick of furniture in their new condo. It’s a relief when a job takes them to LA.
Magician Gabe Heinz is in the middle of his vanishing act when he does just that—vanish before a sellout crowd, along with $2M in securities from the bank where he’s vice president. His daughter is distraught, and a prime suspect, not just by the FBI, but by her nagging shrew mother.
Hunky bodyguard Ryan Ames is supposed to meet them at LAX. Instead, a gun-wielding lunkhead with a fondness for roughing up women escorts them to a mobster who claims they now work for him.
When they locate the securities—and they’d better—can they keep them from the mob?
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The Eighth Deadly Sin Is Pizza
Can a yellow-throat toucan, and lyrics from Jimmy Buffett’s songs help Joy solve a month-old murder?
The central Florida town of Uncertain looms as a mere distraction for Joy Wagner when the new-to-her motorcycle breaks down under a banner publicizing the annual mud festival. Why would anyone celebrate mud? Sounds disgusting, but she’s stuck here till her bike’s fixed.
In less than an hour, her luck changes. She’s offered pizza-for-life and a job at Moore’s General Store. The job comes with two perks: a yellow-throated toucan, which is odd enough, but add to that the ghost of Merrick Moore and life takes a vociferously strange turn. The fatherly man is friendly and much loved, and related to most everyone in town. Trouble is, he’s been dead a month.
Townspeople believe he died of natural causes but he insists he was murdered. Can Joy expose the killer before anyone finds out she’s been getting clues from a ghost…and a toucan? More important, can she find the killer before the killer finds her?