Literary Fiction

A story of a dragonfly tattoo takes shape; meant as a family mark of freedom, it has become a prophetic brand of survival for the four women who wear it.

Slacker Josh McCain embarks on a grueling and often hilarious two-year regimen of self-discipline. Despite skeptics, saboteurs, and his own dubious past, Josh resolves to prove that who he was is not as important as who he can become.

When widow Michelle Richardson returns to her Oregon hometown for her 30th high school reunion in 2010, she hopes to reconnect with her past. Then she enters a haunted mansion with three classmates and is transported to 1979. Distraught and destitute, she finds a job and happiness at her old school, where she meets a widowed coach and guides her younger self and childhood friends through their senior year. But that happiness is threatened when history intervenes and she must act quickly to save those she loves from deadly fates.

MEGAN KIMSEY, born and raised in a small Colorado town on the edge of the La Plata Mountains, grows up haunted by images. Straddling cryptic glimpses of events that foretell her own future, and events remembered from a past in the highlands of Ecuador and Peru more than 400 years before she was born, she must challenge her Catholic upbringing and the stigma of a mental breakdown following a childhood tragedy, before she can strike out on a quest for meaning. Megan’s journey leads her to South America and an expedition among the remnants of the Inca Empire, and finally, to a wind-swept outcropping high atop Cotopaxi Mountain in search of the frozen child she sees in her dreams.

"A virgin birth? A virgin? Her?" God shouted at Freud while recalling his one night stand with Mary. Freud snorted another line of cocaine in celebration, believing that this story would help Nietzsche in his quest to fire God from Heaven Inc. Nietzsche, however, has other problems: the Norse gods are running amok on Earth, his board of directors are in a constant state of chaos, and syphilis pushes him into a past life that he would rather forget. How will he prevail?

A beautiful girl is missing and may not want to be found, A soldier on his last and most important mission, A vow made to a dying friend. Gerald "Hardly" McDougall is a forgotten man. He's abused, bullied, and left behind. His only escape is to join the British Army. At first, he's a reluctant soldier. Everything changes when tensions in Northern Ireland escalate and the Army need a man with a particular set of characteristics. Hardly's assignment takes him into the heart of the troubles where he lives in the same houses as the IRA soldiers he's fighting against.