Danger and romance were definitely not on the handsome Sr. Director's itinerary for his business trip to Australia. Billy Ridley worked too hard and traveled too much to have more than an occasional girlfriend back at Lancing Biotech in New Jersey. He was feeling uncomfortable about the meetings at the Paradigm Foundation in Sydney. They were responsible for over half the investment in research at his company, but were also supporting Lancing Biotech's ruthless competitor in the high flying hormone replacement field. Billy knew he somehow had to bring up the rumors of fraud, illegal chemicals...

In 1970, an American teacher moved to Sydney to her adopted country and her new Australian love, Walter Cracknell, a QANTAS employee. They married and had two daughters and Jo Anne, the brash Yankee, embarked on a program that was to change some deeply engrained attitudes in this male-dominated society. While she loved the lifestyle, the beauty of the country, the people and their unique sense of humor, there were some subtle conflicts between her free California upbringing and her newly adopted country. With the family's move to a farm on Queensland's Gold Coast a whole new lifestyle began....

In the midst of the Vietnam conflict we follow the love of a U.S. Army Special Forces Captain for his high school sweetheart, his one true love, and the challenges and dangers both face as they are continually kept apart by the extended conflict in Vietnam. The story begins in America, explores the scenic wonders and beauty of Australia's East Coast, and takes in the brutal warfare in Vietnam. Although this story is a work of fiction, many who lived through the Vietnam War will recognize the actual battles, some familiar places in Vietnam, America and Australia, and the many confidential...

"Looking Back" is a brief personal memoir written simply for the author's family to explain a love they knew nothing about. It tells of a white orchid and a first love lost and rediscovered 45 years later. Jon and Jo Anne met in their first year of high school in California's San Fernando Valley and their love story continued through college until Jon was sent to Vietnam as an "Adviser" before war was declared. As one of the first American Special Forces Captains smuggled behind enemy lines to search for secret tunnels and Viet Cong hideouts in North Vietnam he was wounded twice on covert...