With parents tormented by secrets, guilt, and shame, Jo Dibblee quickly learned to protect herself. Faced with her parents' alcoholism, drug abuse, and depression, along with the sexual assault and stalking of an "upstanding" foster parent, Jo began, early in life, to use a coping strategy she now calls frocking. With humor and hope, Jo shares the harrowing rollercoaster of her life story and gives the low-down on frocking-how she learned it and used it to survive, how she found it holding her back and what she had to do to, once and for all, Frock Off. Despite harsh truths, brushes with...

The Broke Ass Brigade is a sarcastic account of the author's employment in one of the largest retail chains in the world. Don entered the workforce as a young man barely out of high school, full of enthusiasm and idealism. He soon received a reality check about corporate America. Raised in the middle class, he believed in the value system of an honest day's work for an honest wage. That by doing what was "right" and working hard, he would succeed. The Company Store, however, had other plans for him and his coworkers-the American working class. Terrorized by crazy and vindictive bosses, Don...

Along Kentucky's Bourbon Trail lies a distillery that's a cut above the rest. For years, the Brannon family has perfected their signature whiskey. Ava Brannon, the new face of Lucky Fox Whiskey, dedicates her life to preserving that legacy. When Special Agent Cooper Lawson comes to investigate her father for his ties to the Irish Republican Army, she has no choice but to face the deadly secrets of her family's past. Only nothing is as it seems, and her burning attraction to Cooper could either be a recipe for disaster or her saving grace.

The reborn na'Zhekali tribe believed their ordeal ended when the 2,000-year-long curse was broken. But the ancient gods remained unsatisfied. After Storm proved how far she would go to protect those she loved, They relented, provided another as found to take Zhekali's place among the divine servants. But when the tribe reaches the desert territory, they discover it still suffers from the ancient war between mages and warriors. With questions that can only be answered in the holiest place deep in the heart of the unforgiving desert, a journey is begun that will either end with saving the...

Deadly treachery reaches the Palace in Asbanmor. When the Dragon Court condemns Debesh and his dragon Vandranen to death, they and Dorelle disappear without a trace. Prince Orlen is left behind to deal with the fall-out of the renewed defection of his beloved. Investigating potential treachery by the Dragon Master, he finds himself in much more danger than expected. A danger that soon includes his father, King Elsen himself. Can the Prince save them both?

A good portion of these jokes and observations have been drawn from my own original experiences. Others have been gathered over many years and from many sources with their origins being lost in the mist of time. I have cataloged around three hundred thought provoking entries some of which are thinly veiled with double entendres and are not always as they first appear to be. If anyone recognizes a joke, which they consider their own, they should be extremely proud to be included in this distinctive collection. I realize that humor is a subjective language medium and so I hope that each reader...

One night...one moment...changed her life forever... Blood is a most peculiar essence, or so the ancient mystics say. A mysterious flow-the carrier of life. Even the demons know the power it can unleash. But such things never entered into the minds of Grant and Caroline Alexander. They were the perfect couple, deeply in love and lost in Grant's music and the sweet rhapsody of their lives. He was an acclaimed piano virtuoso rocketing toward stardom. Everything seemed perfect until tragedy struck one dark, stormy night. In that instant, everything changed. Caroline struggles to come to terms...