A novel about the lives of those intertwined with a fictional fast-food eatery.

RAPTURE REDUX is a comic adventure tale about Chelsey McKay, a newspaper reporter and part-time private eye, who chases the story behind a famous fashion model's disappearance, which the world believes is an abduction.

Lindsey Martin-Bowen's CROSSING KANSAS with Jim Morrison poetry collection takes the reader on an imaginary ride with the famous DOORS lead singer of the late 1960s. Not only do they tour Kansas--and beyond--but they seek La Loba, the legendary Wolf Woman who resurrects bones from the dead.

More than 30 Heartland poets-including two former Kansas Poet Laureates-speak out against bullying, a pervasive evil. These poems range from illustrating bullying, not only during childhood and adolescence, but illustrate bullying in the workplace, in culture, in politics, in facing the -isms (sexism, racism, ageism, able-ism, etc.), religion, marital status, military service status, animals, and, even in scientific labs for humanity's "greater good." And bullies can be diseases (such as cancer). And voices inside our heads may bully us, too. Some poems also reveal a bully's point-of-view.