Hazel Johnson Jim Goodwin A chance meeting with Quentin MacKenzie ("Mac"), a young English mathematician, brings opportunity into the drab, closed life of Hazel Johnson, a young woman, trapped in the Boston suburbs, working a mind-numbing job at home while taking care of her curmudgeonly father. Struggling against a problematic past and feelings of guilt for neglecting her father, she falls in love with Mac and begins to break out of her drudgery. Fighting against pressure from her father, Hazel prepares for a new life with Mac in Seattle. On the day of her escape, her father breaks his hip...

To mark his passage to manhood, Clyde McAllister takes his son, John-Jo, hunting for a 12-point buck. They don't get a buck, another hunter shoots Clyde first. Before setting off to get help, John-Jo promises his father that he'll track down the shooter. Help arrives too late and John-Jo struggles to keep his family together as his alcoholic mother goes in and out of rehab and his young sister has trouble at school. The mission to keep his promise to find his father's killer becomes a constant background to his days. His search finally bears fruit, but the cost is high. He loses his family,...

This story of the Braun Brothers is one of forced interdependence in spite of sibling rivalry. The ordered life of Joseph, the younger brother, falls apart after a man gets killed as the result of a barroom brawl. Joseph's older brother Harry goes to jail and Joseph starts to work with deprived teens at a non-profit. When Harry is released, Joseph has to re-invent himself again and is now forced to care for his brother who has suffered brain damage during his incarceration. Together they build a landscape maintenance business and a real estate business. Now wealthy, Harry retires and Joseph...

Walking his dog, Jody, and a daily trip to the coffee shop was not the retirement that ex-high schoolteacher, Arlen Monroe, could come to terms with. His mental acuity and critical thinking training demanded much more. Becoming an amateur detective satisfied his craving for challenging puzzles. The quite township of Elysium provides a constant source of adventures that enable him to apply his superior skills in the service of the community. Throughout, Jody supports him loyally as best she can, although he seldom seeks her opinion.

A crossover novel between Science Fiction and LabLit the story tracks two young people working in big pharma. By 2032 advances in epigenetic therapeutics have produced a healthier population, but all is not well in the healthcare industry. Two young workers discover the price that the older population are having to pay. They act as whistleblowers and pay a high price for their efforts.

Edwina is the story of how a house rabbit brings together two people trying to overcome with past tragedies. Keeping the past out of their present is a major struggle which stretches them to the limit.

By helping a client to deal with a predatory loan shark, private investigator Scott Kowalski is drawn into a web of murder and intrigue to become entangled with the world of fine art theft before he can solve the mystery.

Glad to get away from the State Capitol, Senator Jason Glimson heads for home in his Town Car. His trip is cut short as a truck full of fish T-bones him and sends him to the intensive care unit. Drifting in and out of consciousness in periods of drug induced sleep, he slowly recovers as his daughter Megan sits anxiously by his side. His dreams are vivid, and in them he visits new places that have embraced changes in social norms, each in different ways that make the towns at once familiar, but also strange and frightening. He finds that ideas that at first seem logical and benign are not...

Twisted Tales Volume 1 is a collection of short stories on subjects that range from tales of Halloween through frog racing and space flight to volatile cheffery, gentle deceptions and folk tales. All the stories are laced with humor and surprises, and the volume is an amusing companion to lighten a commute, a winter evening or a languid summer day.