When Somali pirates brutally hijack an American sailboat with two couples on board, well-known New York photographer, Channey Moran, has no idea he will play a part in an imaginative, but dangerous rescue mission led by Roy Roy, a former CIA operative and linguist hiding in Belfast from the CIA, MI5 and Interpol.Then the NYPD find Channey’s name and phone number, scribbled on an old, torn letter in the pocket of a homeless woman found dead in New York’s Tompkins Square Park. Channe...

Devastated by the death of both his father and a lover, New York photographer, Channey Moran, accepts an easy assignment in Ireland. He soon becomes accidentally enmeshed in a bizarre ship hijacking by eco-mercenaries led by an eccentric ex-CIA operative who fascinates the world's news media while horrifying Big Energy. Local photographer, Glennie MacDonald, searches the high seas for Channey and finds him moments from drowning. Seeing in him a kindred soul - one she now loves - Glennie nu...

Searching for Cool, Praying for Heat is a novel of love, desire, loyalty, and honor that affects the O'Rourkes, a relocated New England textile family who face entrenched white supremacy in a small North Carolina cotton mill town in 1960. The narrative follows multiple points of view with the main character being high-school age Brian, whose near death experience leads to love's exciting fulfillment.