Time Travel to Mid-Nineteen Century OregonThis is a love story between a widower living in a log cabin and a widow from the twenty-first century. She accidently travels across centuries and meetstwo fearless mountain men, Robert Newell and Joseph Meek. They were always ready to tell humorous stories of their fur trapping days and to share lighthearted quotes from Shakespeare, even though this was a time of horrible events – the Whitman Massacre, Cayuse Wars, and the Mexican W...

HISTORICAL FICTIONSeven Names: Life in California before Statehood: 1818-1849A body appeared on the beach in Monterey Bay, in 1837, with nary a vessel in sight nor debris from a wreck. The near-drowned man was Dr. Edward Turner Bale, an Englishman. Despite a mysterious and hidden past, Dr. Bale was hired by General Mariano G. Vallejo as the Medical Examiner for the Mexican Army.General Vallejo's much-loved niece, Maria Ignacia, wished for a new and different life tha...

Ellie's father believed one should reach for their dreams and, before he mysteriously disappeared, he instilled that in his daughter. However, he also taught her about keeping secrets, and unpredictable and disastrous secrets formed to whirl throughout her life. When the lessons of her father were combined with the childhood pact Ellie made with her friend, Franny, a series of tangled mysteries occurred.As the years passed, Franny was the one to always help Ellie until one stormy n...

St. Louis, Missouri 1932Too poor to afford a funeral, firefighter Tony Scaglione and his wife Claire bury their fourteen-month-old daughter in a secluded woods. While driving around town that night, Tony stops to smoke a cigarette. Out of the darkness, a lost little girl wanders to his Packard coupe and promptly climbs inside. Overwhelmed by grief and blind to the consequences, he takes the child. Tony, Claire, and their new daughter return to the city, not knowing how this crime w...

Italy, 1846Abused by his father and tormented by his brother Regalito, seventeen-year-old Antonio Scaglione plans to sail to America with the ruby necklace he steals from his brother. He soon learns the necklace has a Gypsy's curse that will kill the wearer.USA, 1848-1912Over the years, Antonio forms a friendship with Thomas. Antonio becomes a fearless firefighter who saves many lives yet he cannot keep the ruby necklace from taking lives. In 1905, his brother Regal...

During 1955, after Brown v Board of Education had sent ripples across the United States, neighborhoods in St. Lopuis flooded with change and people's predujudices surfaced. Stories of ordinary people's strife will pull at your heart. Everyone is caught in a whirlwind of crime when holdups, and murder overtake the mom and pop businesses on Park Avenue. There was the fire at Miss Pansy's Dimestore and the quest of fourteen-year-old Becky Bartlett. Someone, maybe a friend, colleague, or one o...

Mid-Nineteenth Century OregonSome folks say that things happen and cannot be explained. Others say that most things happen because of luck or fate. And there are those who claim all occurrences are divinely planned. Yet, like the eleven-year-old runaway slave called Mattie, many of the people who came to Oregon believed that they made their own destiny. She walked into the lives of two retired fur trappers –story-telling Joe Meek and Shakespeare-quoting Robert Newell – as well as t...

Oregon, 1806-1839When four girls from the Tillamook and Clatsop People befriendedJoseph Gervais, he changed from the cantankerous French-Canadian fur trapper to become an amusing storyteller and hero. One day, he saved a Métis girl from being snatched by a stranger and earned respect from the Chinook and Clatsop Tribes, as well as, the love of a child who claimed she would become his wife. And she did.It was a time of turmoil at Fort Astoria: the British and America...

Denied recognition and acceptance by the white people in Oregon Country, Margaret Jewett Bailey, the first novelist in the Northwest, faded in to oblivion after an attempt was made to destroy all copies of her books. Although whe and her husband William J. Bailey arrived in the mid-1830s and worked beside well-known historic figures as Jason Lee and John McLoughlin, today few know of the Baileys. Why? Their story is explosive.In 1835, William arrived at the Methodist Mission with a...

Time Travel to Mid-Nineteen Century OregonRobert Newell and Joseph Meek were always ready to tell humorous stories of their fur trapping days and to share lighthearted quotes from Shakespeare, even though this was a time of horrible events – the Whitman Massacre, Cayuse Wars, and the Mexican War. These two men struggled with these problems while working to build Oregon Country into a functioning part of the union with laws, courts, and a newspaper called The Oregon Spectator. When ...

Too young to avert danger, Mattie McAlister - an eleven-year-old runaway slave and Black- walked alone to Oregon, hiding in daylight and walking in darkness. One rainy night, she bumped into Black Saul and feared he would abuse her like her half-brothers had. A moment later, her peril intensified as horse riders brandishing leather whips approached and stopped ten feet away. Overwhelmed with dread of a lashing, Mattie and Black Saul dropped to the ground to hide. But this was only the firs...

Oregon, 1806-1839 When four girls from the Tillamook and Clatsop People befriended Joseph Gervais, he changed from the cantankerous French-Canadian fur trapper to become an amusing storyteller and hero. One day, he saved a Métis girl from being snatched by a stranger and earned respect from the Chinook and Clatsop Tribes, as well as, the love of a child who claimed she would become his wife. And she would. It was a time of turmoil at Fort Astoria: the British and Americans vied for control...