This is a romantic novel involving the love story of a US naval officer, the commander of a Navy destroyer, and a beautiful Dutch girl, the daughter of a Dutch attache in Manila. It takes place during the initial months of the Second World War in the Far East, and the final demise of the US Asiatic Fleet. It begins in the Philippines and continues in the Dutch East Indies (now, Indonesia). The story alternates between the love affair and the officer's naval duties during the Japanese invasion and conquest of the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies. Their love affair is complicated by the...

This is a romantic novel involving an American Architect who is sent to Indonesia to supervise the construction of a highrise office building in Jakarta. He comes to admire the city and then falls in love with an Indonesian girl. He travels around the country to Bali and many other places while his building is slowly being constructed. But then his life suffers from a world-wide recession, shoddy workmanship on his highrise, and the building owners blaming him for all the problems. His love's former husband, meanwhile, claims that she is still married to him. After suffering through many...

This is a historic-romantic novel about a small American pioneer town in Eastern Wisconsin. It traces several generations of mainly one Yankee family arriving from New England early in the nineteen century and continuing into the early twentieth century. The book follows the history of the town over the period as close as possible. All the characters in the book are based on real people, but their lives and loves portrayed in this novel are purely fictional.

This is a romantic novel about an American architect sent to India by an American-owned company to teach local young architects American standards of construction. While visiting some of the exotic temples and sights, he has an affair with an Indian co-worker in the office, for which he is beaten and hospitalized. Later he gets involved with a newly arrived American girl who instead is almost engaged to the boss's best friend. Nevertheless, they see many sights together including the famous Taj Mahal. Finally they secretly spend a week together in Goa, but end up getting caught by the girl's...

American travels to Near East right after World Trade Center Towers destruction, and encounters sympathy to Osama bin Laden among the locals, as well as romance with an US Embassy woman, as the war in Afghanistan begins.

An American Architect joins a group tour to Spain and France. Leaving from Chicago, he purposely sits next to an attractive girl on the plane. But she is unwittingly slipped a special package to clear through customs. As they tour from country to country, different people attempt to secure the package that she does not know that she possesses until later. As the Architect attempts to help her, he also becomes closely involved with the girl and the package. They try to get rid of the package, but it is a dangerous business that becomes more serious as they reach Paris. The affair climaxes in...

This is a romantic suspense novel about an architect being sent to the Micronesian island of Guam to replace the manager of a branch office who was murdered under mysterious circumstances. He has to escort the poor man's wife to the funeral even though it is rumored that she is the prime suspect in the murder. Besides running the office, he has to look after the welfare of the widow, including arranging for her attorney, and a detective to find the real murderer. He also has to deal with the alleged lover of his murdered predecessor. Meanwhile, he also is attracted to another woman to whom he...

This is a romantic-suspense novel about an American Architect travelling to Abu Dhabi in the Near East during the immediate "post-9/11" world, and working to repair the glass facade of a prominent highrise building. After the World Trade Center towers in New York City were destroyed, the United States begins to track the terrorists down in Afghanistan. When America initiates its "War Against Terrorism" with military action in Afghanistan, the relations between the West and Moslem countries, and between Christian and Islamic religious groups, begin to deteriorate and become dangerously tense....