Into the Fire

(Book One)

Hope Of Glory is a love story: an all encompassing story about the love of God for man, the love of man for a horse, the love of man for a woman, and, regrettably, the love of man for evil.
The world of a racetracker is composed of a seven-day-a-week workload. It is a demanding lifestyle, and it requires a tremendous commitment. Sometimes the stresses and strains that accompany that schedule can lead to the excesses and abuses of alcohol, drugs, gambling, and indiscriminate sex. Few can escape the temptations.
Hope of Glory is about one season of horse racing where for several individuals the commitment to racing and the temptations they faced changed dramatically. Only God could cause a change like that . . . and only God did.
(Hope Of Glory, 744 pages including a Glossary of Terms; self-published)

(Book Two)

Joey Parr, reluctant celebrity but extraordinary actor, has diligently searched for genuine love to fill the void of his existence. Why, when he finally finds it and begins his dream of having a family, does that emptiness still haunt him?
(The Famous One)

(Book Three)

The world offers its version of real love, but the taste is anything but sweet, and the burden of it is binding.
Love is just a four letter word until its true revelation hits hard in the hearts of six people who have yet to fully sample what it means to experience it in its purest form. The journey these six people make to realize the origin and the reality of genuine love is both gut-wrenching and rapturous. Ultimately they find the sweet release to love freely.
(Sweet Release)

(Book Four)

Who can repair the souls damaged by the intentions of those they thought they loved?
What does the world have to offer those who’ve been wounded by the ugliness of sin? Absolutely nothing. There is no healing outside the place of God’s tender mercies but getting there can be a long and painful journey.
(Wounds . . . And Healings)

(Book Five)

An unlikely felon returns to his roots and the friendship of a fiery old widow. The last things he expects to find are true love, a ministry to youth, and the unusual burden for his new love’s ex-fiancé.
(Destination)

(Book Six)

The long affair between a photographer and his beautiful model produces three illegitimate daughters and a legacy of heartbreak. One sister bears the burden for her other two as their lives are in crisis from a warped concept of relationships.
(The Fixer, almost complete)

(Book Seven)

Prelude

She could make smoking a cigarette look elegant, seductive . . . and dangerous even. Chic. Cool. And somehow romantic. Of course, she could make anything look good. She looked taller than she was, standing flat-footed at maybe 5’ 7”. It was probably the shoes. Often those very high skinny heels lifting that lithe, narrow frame. I saw her in the summertime out there with her cigarette, and her skin was nearly bronze and didn’t look one bit unnaturally enhanced. Yet, standing out there in the rain of late winter under the generous overhang, well, leaning really, against the coarse white brick of the building, it was almost the color of ivory. So fair. I wondered without intending to why she didn’t burn in the summer sun. On the one occasion when I saw her smile in the last year, her teeth were a dazzling white—right out of a toothpaste commercial or a mailer ad from a dentist for the new Zoom 2 whitening method. No smoker’s stain on those pearly whites.
Anyway . . .
That’s basically how the whole thing began. By casually, unintentionally, watching her smoke . . .
(Breath of Life; WIP)

Heavenly Father, you are the Author of Life, the ultimate writer. I say it over and over again because I need to ask day in and day out: help me to be obedient to you, your Word, to write the words you give to me. Help me to trust in you before all, above all, and overall. Help me to be who you want me to be. In the Name of Jesus, the Name above all names.