New book brings readers along as author drives motor home across country to new stage of her life "Coast to Coast with A Cat and A Ghost" by Judy Howard follows author's cross-country journey and her struggle with loss SUN CITY, Calif. - "Coast to Coast with A Cat and A Ghost" (ISBN 1461153786), an autobiographical account by Judy Howard, follows the author's road trip across country after the death of her loving yet at times abusive husband. When her husband of twenty-five years, Jack, passes away, Howard is faced with an overwhelming sense of loss. She takes to the road in her Winnebago on...

GOING HOME WITH A CAT AND A GHOST is a fictional novel about life's complexities for Judy Howard: Liberated enough to drive forward in her RV, yet still imprisoned by her 40 year old past when she was drugged, raped, and had an illegal abortion. Judy Howard, a typical sixteen year old growing up in the Midwest in 1965, is naive and shy, with a crush on the high school's "James Dean bad boy" named Brad. As Judy and Brad flirt with their desires for one another, life is easy, until Judy is drugged and date raped on a Saturday night in the roller rink parking lot. Her Bad Boy crush, Brad,...

Masada, a bumbling golden retriever puppy, struggles through eighteen months of training to become a lifeline for a veteran with PTSD. As part of her training, the puppy is assigned to prison life, where she matures and adapts to the cold concrete life of confinement and experiences hair-raising risks, tension, and the ache of loneliness. She forms unusual bonds, first with Roy, her inmate trainer, and in the end, the total prison population as well. When she walks point for her veteran down the graduation aisle, an awe of respect silences the crowd Will the readers also be led down the...

Masada and her Marine were both born two decades and two thousand miles apart, and both aspired to do be the best that they could be. But first, they had to meet. Masada began her journey in Illinois as a bumbling golden retriever puppy and emerged twenty months later as a proud, confident American Service Dog, ready and able to protect and preserve the life of Iraq veteran, Alex March, USMC. Alex's journey began in California as an ambitious boy who only dreamed of protecting and preserving life for the Corps, his country and his family. Twenty years later, he emerged as one of "a few good...

Sportster the cat had always envied the huge cats who lived the big life in the jungle until opportunity sends the motorhome in which he travels veering into a roadside ditch. When strangers whisk away not only his Winnebago, but also his chauffer, Judy, he is alarmed. However, once the dust settles, he purrs a happy tune as he discovers he is free I He is in the wild And he is in the Olympic Forest ACTIVATE LION MODE is just what Sportster does as he spins this yarn in his own words. Living wild and free brings on encounters he never have imagined. The life he dreamed becomes an adventure...