Roger Stark, Marshfield's newest detective, is paired with ex-NYPD detective, Ed Jones, ..".fresh from a boring retirement...," to investigate the abduction of a volatile CEO's five-year-old daughter. Despite past entanglements with the CEO, Stark promises him that he'll find his little girl by the 42-hour deadline imposed by the kidnapper. However, Stark doesn't count on an elusive schizophrenic suspect or that the kidnapping is a ruse to divert attention from another far-reaching crime by a vengeful person playing by a different set of rules. Told from Stark's and the schizophrenic's...

After the sudden death of her father, Faith Moreno has to cope with newly revealed family secrets, navigate church politics and prejudices to keep her job as the music director for St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, and overcome religious dogma to pursue the man she loves -- the broodingly handsome Father Pat, someone she has had a crush on since high school. Is his kindness and attention to her Christian compassion or does he have an agenda of his own? When someone vandalizes the Moreno house, Detective Roger Stark is called to investigate. It starts him to wonder if something bigger and more...

This is a book of my poetry that platypi have indicated they love. Most people don't know that platypi love a good short poem, a saucy limerick, or a tight Haiku. They don't care for epics because a platypi's attention span is not that strong. Though it might seem at first glance, that this is a book of Haiku, it is not. I write what I feel, and I feel short poems most of the time that mirror the traditional Haiku style. However, there are many poems that are not in that style, because, well, that's not what I felt at the time of the writing. Enjoy the same poems as the platypi, and you too...

Bruce Neumanski's life crumbles when he wakes one morning to find his wife, Heather, dead. Immediately, Detective Mort Meeker accuses him of murder. The coroner and district attorney agree. Bruce must fight the legal system, hell-bent on convicting him, as he seeks the truth about her death. While Bruce struggles through shock, denial, anger, and acceptance, he must sort through conflicting advice from an overly comforting counselor, support a neighborhood girl who viewed Heather as a role model, and cope with an estranged sister who re-enters his life with a shocking family revelation. And...

This is my memoir of me, a senior-citizen night cashier chronicling the odd, uplifiting, and sometimes sad slices of life in a chain-based grocery store in the 'hood from July 2013 to November 2014. You might just be surprised.

When I paid off our house in January 2013, I put aside money for federal taxes but forgot about state taxes. On April 3, I realized with horror, my mistake. The next day, the pump for our 400-foot deep well died. A week later, the car demanded extensive repairs, depleting the remainder of our emergency funds. I didn't want to tap our retirement monies. I did want...