Here are some brief descriptions of the four short stories included in this book: The Sanctuary is a story about a twelve year old lad who is hoping to bag a wild turkey for his family’s Thanksgiving, but deep in the woods something goes wrong and suddenly he is in a life or death situation. Top Of The Ninth, a baseball story that begins with a small boy who loves baseball and wishes he had someone to play with. The story opens on a small rural farm in North Florida, but soon the reader is...

Be forewarned, The Lark, because of the explicit sex scenes is classified in the erotica genre and was written to excite the imagination. It is a damn good love story with a sensual sexy romp woven throughout. It is fun to read. It is exhilarating. It is not for children, although there is a child’s story within. The Lark is a light and fun adult love story for men and women. In the beginning the story appears to be about Mr. Joseph E. Jones and his undying hope to once again find love. I ...

Unfortunately, No Purchase On Tomorrow is classified in the romance genre. In this writer’s opinion, romance is fleeting and love is eternal, but my opinion is only that. No Purchase On Tomorrow is a love story involving two sisters. Dr. Deborah Finch is beautiful and perfect in every way and is every man’s dream, but her younger sister, Dr. Elizabeth Calloway, who is beautiful in her own way, is physically challenged and is confined to a wheelchair. Each sister has their doctorate in thei...

There are five stories within The Lioness, And More Creepy Strange Stories. The Lioness is a story about Lenny and his wife Catherine. Lenny, as a small boy, experienced a couple of situations that had a traumatic effect on his life. Now that his wife is moving up in her career and her life is changing is Lenny capable of handling her new assertiveness and renewed self confidence or has these experiences from his past affecting his behavior? Reading The Stranger one wonders, is he a predat...

Grandpa’s Gift is a story born from a grandson’s walk through the world in search of something more. Attaining the comforts of business success, a very happy marriage & family life and general enjoyment of the world, still left Dan with a yearning for something else to find. Following the rediscovery of a book containing messages from his grandfather from more than 60 years ago, he began to realize that the elusive “something more” is the wisdom he found in its pages and stories. It’s a wi...

Meet Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth – a Black twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch having been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Back in New York, hungry for freedom and desperate for companionship, Mouth quickly finds himself haunted by his past. Through a filmic series of flashbacks, we see Mouth's time in prison, his college days and, finally, his earliest high school days. Each street corner, subway ride and run-in w...

On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien met a four-day-old baby barn owl - a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O'Brien, then a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to care for the helpless owlet and give him a permanent home. Wesley is the funny, poignant story of their dramatic two decades together.

The first mystery in the bestselling DI Wesley Peterson crime series set on the windswept Devon coast, by million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis.'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMES'Clever plotting hides a powerful story of loss, malice and deception' ANN CLEEVES'Haunting' INDEPENDENT__________________DS Wesley Peterson, newly arrived i...

A skeleton discovered. A murder to be solved . . .On a stormy night in December, a tree is blown down on an isolated Devon farm. When the fallen tree is dragged away, a rucksack is found caught amongst the roots - and next to it is a human skeleton.The discovery of the body and the rucksack revives memories for DI Wesley Peterson. A young hitchhiker who went missing twelve years ago was last seen carrying a similar backpack. Suddenly a half-forgotten cold c...

Parent. Work. Football. That’s my life summed up in three words.Sure, I used to be a pro NFL baller, but now I’m perfectly content with a quiet life in my small hometown of Peachtree Grove, Georgia.That is until Bree, a beautiful blonde dating expert, gets tackled at my Pee Wee football practice, knocking me off my game. I swore I’d never get involved again after my messy divorce left me reeling, but one date with Bree and I’m dropping all my hesitations—al...

'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMESDespite many years living in South Devon, DI Wesley Peterson has never visited the tiny island of St Rumon's. That is until erosion from a storm reveals three bodies buried outside the local churchyard.Two are ancient skeletons, but one is far more recent, and Wesley realises he has uncovered a case of murder. But whose remains are they? And who killed them?The island has only a...

'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesWhen DI Wesley Peterson is summoned to investigate a killing, he assumes that the case is a routine matter. But soon dark secrets start to emerge from the victim's past and Wesley realises that this cold-blooded murder is more complicated than he could have imagined.Archaeologist Neil Watson is meanwhile studying Sandrock, a ruined village from the First World War that ...