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Charles Wilkerson's life is pretty set. He has a beautiful and loving wife, Dana, and a delightful toddler son, Travis. However, life can change drastically in just the twinkling of an eye. Dana's beaten and murdered body is discovered in their bedroom while he is at work. Travis witnesses the gruesome event and knows who the murderer is, but he is too young to testify in court. Besides, no one believes him anyway. Charles, as an African-American man married to a white wife, is immediately suspected by the local law enforcement authorities of the murder. Then follows a "perfect storm" of police racial bias and prosecutorial malfeasance, and the result is life imprisonment for Charles. He spends over a quarter-century in prison until he is aided by the Innocence Project. Though the wheels of justice turn agonizingly slowly and the state will fight any attempt for exoneration tooth and nail, Charles is finally pronounced innocent. The real murderer is discovered, tried and sentenced. Charles tries to begin his life again as a free man. The plot is a compilation and fictionalization of real-life situations of death-row inmates he mentored as spiritual counselor in the Florida State Prison. Charles' story is similar to that of dozens of persons who have been wrongfully sentenced and imprisoned. Some, like Charles, are fortunate enough to receive expert legal assistance and are set free.

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Reflections of a Ruby Pendant

After graduating college, Holly Ferguson embarks on a much needed vacation to Paradise Island, Bahamas. Holly meets Mateo, the young villa grounds keeper, who gifts her with a captivating ruby pendant he found on a dive. However, when Holly sleeps with the pendant, she descends into a disturbing sequence of dreams where she finds herself trapped in the body of Jamayla, a Spanish girl who has been captured by Blackbeard and is despised by his witch, Sylvia. Holly and Mateo procure the help of Mula, an old island Native who is familiar with the ways of ancient magic, to assist with solving the strange mystery of the Ruby Pendant! -- EBOOK $3.99 also available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Google Play Books, Kobo, Scribd, Bibliotheca, Tolino, OverDrive, Baker&Tayor, Vivlio, BorrowBox, Casa del Libro, and e-Sentral

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Backfired

Nick was willing to go to any lengths to be with his High School crush. Some would say he had an unhealthy obsession with Jeanie, but he had dreamt about this for his whole adult life. He didn?t think it was unhealthy...He only wished it had come sooner. Some would also say, you should be careful what you wish for.

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"Once & Forever" Complete trilogy

Dmitry Rostoff’s world was turned upside-down when he discovered that he became a father to a baby girl born in Moscow. He brings his illegitimate daughter to America, honoring her mother’s last wish. Dumping the baby on his mother, the matriarch of the Rostoff clan and President of a world-famous jewelry empire, Rostoff & Co., Dmitry washes his hands off the baby he never wanted in the first place, and dives headlong into running the family business. A strained and complicated relationship with his mother quickly deteriorates after he uncovers her attempt at sabotage. His only salvation is his eleven-year-old son Peter. Natasha Sokolov, a young Russian woman Dmitry was forced to bring to America as a nanny to smuggle his baby from Moscow, hates her new home, the infamous Zolotoe Selo (Golden Village) Rostoff manor near San Francisco. But she loves baby Katia and her older half-brother Peter and dedicates her life to raising them both. As to their father, Natasha fell in love with him at first sight in Moscow. Soon Dmitry, too, can’t imagine himself without the spunky redhead nanny his son christened the Russian Merry Poppins. But the conflict between the mother and son turns into an open war, with both children and Natasha caught in the middle. Dmitry has to choose between the woman he loves and his son’s happiness. His world falls apart for the second time when Natasha, his official fiancé, suddenly disappears. He suspects his mother blackmailed Natasha, but cannot prove anything. For eighteen years Natasha hides from the Rostoff clan, bound by the ugly family secret, but the death of the family matriarch forces her to reach out and contact Peter Rostoff, who is now an FBI Agent. Fighting real monsters in the line of duty, Peter battles his own personal demons for years. Separated from the family by his own choice, he hides his shameful feelings toward his half-sister, Kat, now a world-famous artist and sculptor. After Natasha contacts him eighteen years later, he finally decides to uncover the truth about her disappearance and bring his family together again. Once & Forever is a story about love that survives time and death, betrayal and lies, and triumphs at the end.

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Katarina's Dark Shadow

The government declared Katarina dead in war-time. Peter’s not convinced. He's checking her diaries for clues. Katarina is content in her segregated world in southern Ukraine. The World War is raging, but the Mennonite communities are largely unaffected. A sinister movement threatens to overturn the status quo. And an enemy with a black flag is roaming the steppes and terrorizing the German colonies and the wealthy landowners. Katarina's world is about to come undone. She must choose: does she give up her life in Ukraine and flee with the others, or depend on her faith to carry her through the storm?

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Walking Without Skin

Walking Without Skin is compelling reading. An authentic narrative voice reflects the arduous journey of Lois Wagner through a series of life crises emanating from her violent attack and rape at her Cape Town office one New Year’s weekend, culminating years later in her finding the courage to attend her attacker’s parole hearing to forgive him, and in so doing setting herself free. Brutally honest but poignant, there are occasional glimpses of the woman Lois was before this terrible event: active, athletic, adventurous, with a strong circle of friends. Her subsequent decline into depression, overeating and -drinking and withdrawal from all her previous business leadership roles finds her betrayed by her business partner, unemployed, and facing an enormous backlog of bills. Determined to discover meaning in the midst of the horror, Lois begins to write Walking Without Skin, and to connect with women in similar situations. She writes letters, lobbies those with influence, uses the media to focus on the rape crisis situation in the country. Walking Without Skin simply had to be written. Lois needed to tell her story –to put this trauma behind her. Her learning and growth can support others who have experienced the hurt, but have not yet found the healing and freedom that comes from forgiveness.

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Dark Rose

Private Investigator Davis Lewis has fallen on hard times. The ex-Army sergeant and former police detective has spent his last $1.50 on a cup of coffee at The Corner Diner when, by chance, he runs into Tessa, a grade school friend and a high school sweetheart. His fortunes change soon thereafter with a big case: Rescue a billionaire’s young trophy wife, Rose, from the hellhole called Underground City. Davis is successful and reaps the monetary benefits, plus a reference to another wealthy client, who hires him to find his missing sixteen-year-old daughter. Davis’ relationship with Tessa blossoms and wedding bells are in their future after one last case – helping Rose escape her sadistic husband. “Dark Rose” is an entertaining read with twists and turns as Davis, and Tessa, unravel the mystery surrounding a desperate woman named Rose.

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Déjà Death

The book explores the subject of preincarnation, in other words (for people who believe in reincarnation) who we may have been in a previous life. In Deja Death this phenomenon relates to a young church curate, a man called Richard Pope and his preincarnation character Irma Grese; she was a young woman that actually existed during World War 2 and who was convicted as a Nazi war criminal and became the youngest person to be tried and executed during the 20th century. The book is a piece of fiction but also includes some historical facts about the holocaust and the death camps. It is therefore set in two different locations and eras, one being Nazi Germany and the concentration camps of the final solution, the other being more conventional times and set in New Milton, a fictitious village of Dorset in the United Kingdom. Irma Grese is often described as the evilest woman of the 20th century…Or was she?

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The Mystery of the Lost Avenger, An Annie Tillery Mystery

The wreckage of a World War II plane is found in the mountains of Appalachia. It mysteriously crashed in 1943 on its way to a naval base. Inside the plane is a note, written by Annie Tillerys great-grandmother, Charlotte, who was in love with a fighter pilot. Young Charlotte tested the planes and flew them to naval bases; her fianc flew the planes in battle. While investigating the crash site, NCIS finds the note in the plane, which they trace to Charlotte and then to her surviving family members, Annie and her mother Carol. The mystery begins. Why did the plane crash, and what does Charlottes note mean? Annie and her mother decide to dig into Great-Grandmothers past by way of the aged family attic. There, they find love letters written by Charlotte and her Navy pilot fianc. There is a code to be broken in those letters and The Mystery of the Lost Avenger to be solved. As they explore, Annie suspects Charlottes ghost is reaching out to tell her something, but what? She enlists the help of her boyfriend, newly licensed pilot Ty Egan, but Annie feels she may be the key to her great-grandmothers top-secret life.

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Illithesium

As Oron continues his investigative excavation on earth, he starts to uncover other dealings that have caused humanity to go down the path it has been driven to. Oron then presents his findings to the one being he is reluctant to talk to the most but must face due to the role he has inhabited for the greater good of the universe. God has always loved Oron, but Oron can say that he has never fully loved God, which cause their engagements to be full of Ice and Fire.

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