NEVER LOOK BACK is the author's first book. It is a fictionalized memoir, most of which is based on actual events in her life, and which has been riddled with tragedies, abuse, and crime against her family as well as extreme crime against two of her daughters and against her mother who was murdered. Her husband dies in the end -- the crowning blow to her character, Marion Whitehead; however, Marion re-structures her life and enters the music business again as a virtuoso soloist and chamber ensemble musician, primarily after thirty years in retirement due to her latent guilt relative to her...

LOUISIANA LADY By Marilyn Parman was written at the request of her late friend, Carol Lee from Friday Harbor, Washington, who passed away a number of years ago. The story was partially based on the lives of someone whom she knew, however, it is primarily fiction and is narrated by Carolyn Pevateaux, a lady from the old Cajun culture that existed in Louisiana. The story is one of suspense and exposes some of the abuses against women and children that were not that uncommon during those early days in many places and still can be found in some places in the United States as well as many other...