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Novels
All The Living And The Dead April 2016
When six college music students form an art society, they draw in a legendary composer who hasn't written a note since the death of his wife 25 years earlier. The volatile mixture of personalities results in love and loss, hope and despair, life and death.
Maria Catalano is a beautiful teenage girl living a traditional life on the Amalfi Coast until the German occupation. When she is maimed and the Allied Forces invade, she becomes a hunted refugee with only a crazy landscape artist to trust. Adapting to her new situation, Maria embarks on the unexpected life. But where will it lead?
Short Stories
Astrid Kent has enough to absorb when she learns her husband, a member of Doctors Without Borders, has been killed. Then she learns his body is missing.
An aging playwright faces his own mortality by looking back at one fateful New Year's Eve.
A former midwife who goes to a ruined town to help an expectant mother through a difficult birth discovers a hidden piece of her own past coming to light.
Michael Cotley left the U.S. after a diastrous love affair. Forty years later, he's returning to the woman and her ghosts.