Even In Death, a collection of ten short stories, explores the thin line between love and hate; extreme emotions even death cannot destroy. Julie wants nothing more than to receive a flower bouquet from the hometown veterinarian. However, in "A Flower Story," flowers are delivered long after a person is alive to smell them. After purchasing their dream home, Sara and David feel truly blessed. Unfortunately, the couple soon discover they've inherited a wicked curse. In fact, in "What's Really There," the former residents' spirits refuse to move on. In the title story, on the anniversary of his...

Politico-military realities explained through a tale of man versus nature... A resident of the bustling suburbs of Washington, D.C., relocates to the virgin woods of beautiful Northern Virginia to escape traffic, urban sprawl and the bombardment of national news in order to seek his peace. He finds and develops a rural property, then builds his dream house, unaware that he is, in effect, making war on another way of life - nature. From the outset it becomes clear The Assembly and its unlikely hero, Grundy, a groundhog, doesn't want him there. It covets the same hill. But his daughter loves...