"May You Meet a Stranger" is the first in the Logger's Ridge series and tells Teddy's story. It was written as a stand-alone work and may still be read as one. The other volumes that follow it build on its locales and characters. It starts first but does not end until after the end of the second book in the series. A young pianist and his newfound singer girlfriend use their music to rescue a historical resort from bankruptcy and reverse the economic downturn of their small town while fall...

American Whoreson is the first of two books. This book is historical fiction placing fictional characters in the midst of actual, documented, historical events. It focuses on the life of the son of a whore. He is White, but his lack of a birthright denies him the entitlements of being White. He will find himself on the wrong side of history several times. This book takes place between 1884 and 1890, ending with the massacre at Wounded Knee.The second book, American Whoreson -The Bui...

Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book AwardsWon Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association)The iconic leader of one of America’s most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny’s monumental biography tells the life story of the ...

A renegade botanist hunted by eco-terrorists takes a brilliant high school junior to be his protégé. The boy's police officer father has been killed in the line of duty, and his mother is dying of cancer. The property that the botanist has taken over had been in the boy's family for three generations before recently being split up for development.On the hunt for new herbal medicines, the botanist moves in across the street from the boy and uses the large open property to cultivate ...

Standing in the blood of the man who tried to kill him, the boy, almost a man, froze, horrified at what he had done. The head, separated from the body, lay face down in the forest undergrowth. Blood flowed from the open neck onto the mat of decaying leaves. There had been no time. There had been no time to think. No time to plan. Only one would walk away from that confrontation in the woods. The boy had gotten the better of this man who had killed many before him.When the woman, dre...

Charlotte and Denise Dunn own a professional audio company supporting concerts and conventions. They are pulled over by the local sheriff in the middle of the night because their truck is overloaded and has worn tires. Of course, their truck is overloaded. It's always overloaded, which is why they were passing through this small town in the middle of the night to avoid the weigh station on the Interstate.At their arraignment in the morning, the sisters agree to the judge's offer to ...

The Adventures of Doogie Stone is an alternate history as America might have been if the eleventh and twelfth century Scandinavian and Irish explorers had settled as far south as Cape Cod and then abandoned their colony for two hundred years. It is the coming of age story of the youngest son of a warlord who faces the attempted invasion by the British. It follows him as he discovers his place in society and wins the heart of the woman he loves.The story reads quickly and would be su...

A geeky young owner of a small Boston electronics store has his life turned upside down when he visits a woman's apartment down the hall in search of food for a stray kitten he has just picked up. The woman's sister embroils him in a vendetta against her father's hate crime murderer and drafts him into her small task force using social networking, the Internet, legal, and "extra-legal" assistance to track and trap a serial rapist who targets single mothers with small children. Some things ...

You know it's going to be a bad day when the police chief calls in the middle of the night, barely containing his laughter, to ask you to meet him at child services. In an old man's worst nightmare, the FBI drops two little girls, products of a fifty-year-old tryst, into the custody of a retired small-town attorney while exploiting their mothers for an investigation into an international crime syndicate. While not apparent from the start, this book is about gun rights.

Female dragons have come to earth to find a safe place to lay their eggs, protected from predation by males of their own kind. They need humans to care for the eggs, keep the hatchlings from killing each other, and protect them from rival males. Unfortunately, before the dragons can leave their young in the humans' care, humans must stop killing each other. In surprise lighting-swift raids, fifty fire-breathing female dragons invisible to radar quickly disable all the world's air forces an...

A young woman survives an attempt by her father to kill her by feeding her to alligators a few days before her eighteenth birthday. The alligators turn on the father as a mysterious middle-aged woman who has taken refuge in the swamp rescues her.The story is about the relationship between the two women. It follows the younger one's return to her farm, her growth and her eventual rescue of the older woman. Returning the favor of having been rescued, the younger woman rescues the old...

Citizens of a small town in ski country have overcome significant hurdles to recover from a series of economic disasters. They have even leveraged their dark side to their advantage. Their hard work was paying off, and they saw a bright future ahead, only to have it all fall to pieces around their heads and shoulders. Finally, things have started to turn around in a post-COVID world, doing its best to look like a pre-COVID world. The town’s leadership calls on a touring concert professiona...