Dr. Carolyn Robinson's life is in shambles. She's lost everyone and everything she's loved: Her family, her health, and her career. All that remains is her daughter, Anni. Together they leave their home to begin new lives. The terror of the past catches up with them, however, and they are caught up in a whirlwind that leads to a massacre and forces them to run and to assume new identities. This thriller is the first book of the quartet, NEW FOUND SOULS. It leads from the hills of Virginia to the mountains of New Mexico, from a Florida island to underground Atlanta and to the shores of Vera...

New Found Souls are novels of survival and renewal. They mark the turning point in the lives of individuals forced to come to terms with unseemly realities, who must redefine themselves. During years of hiding, Sharkey Robinson and her family lived full, fruitful and happy, yet anonymous, lives. Their past catches up with them, however, when they rescue a former student arrested for soliciting, and a famed television producer seeks an interview. Their queries bring disaster to a family that must now decide who is to be sacrificed for the sake of the children. Book 4 of NewFoundSouls takes...

12th-century Europe revolves around the remarkable life of Eleanor of Aquitaine - Duchess, Queen of both France and England, and mother of Richard Lionheart and John Lackland. Eleanor and her husbands, Louis VII and Henry II, set the tone for an era. Ain's Song follows Eleanor's story through the eyes of her cousin, Ain of Poitiers. The adventures moves from the taverns, courts and cities of medieval France, England and Italy, from Celtic lore, the construction of great cathedrals, crusades and pilgrimages, to the courts of love and music, poetry and plays of the troubadours and jongleurs....

Gabrielle Newton is numbered by the loss of her family, betrayed and impoverished by the perfidy of her husband. She joins the family of homeless, wandering from the exclusive Chicago north shore to the islands of the Florida Gulf coast. Despair and hope become twin ventures. Gaby's struggles to survive are noticed by young Jan Morgan and her first mate, young Billy Bateson, who offer her a sense of belonging. These new friends, their connection with the family of writer Carolyn Robinson, and the love of young Jessie and her father involve her within a storm of political mayhem that affects a...

Popular Musics is a reflection on societies through the ages. Prepared for the general reader, this study views cultures from the Ancient World to the Twentieth Century. Roman arenas, medieval troubadours, Italian madrigals, castrati singers, operettas and musical comedies, jazz and rock fill its pages. Dr. Alice A. Moerk is the author of eight novels that comprise of the NewFoundSouls and PasTimes series, and a children's book Jackie, The Sailor Boy.