Shannon Song is set in modern day Ireland. It is the story of an American woman in search of purpose and peace-of-mind among her Irish friends. She finds more than she has bargained for.
As she travels the byways of the ancient island, aptly known world-wide as the Emerald Isle, she relives a bit of its history and participates in solving a nagging mystery.
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THE shamrock-bedecked airliner banked and descended slowly, inviting Emma Fraser to peer across her seatmate and out the window, down onto the wetlands of the River Shannon estuary. The watery seepage of ocean meeting land seemed a fitting metaphor for her life. She, aging and apprehensive, was merging her past and her future in a fertile, or perhaps futile search for direction and viability.
Salt water meets fresh here, she remembered thinking. Both surge in opposite directions; both heal, cleanse and demand. U.S. citizen, Emma Fraser, admired the silvery reflections and was optimistic.
As deafness, illness, and demonic forces close in around him, Ludwig van Beethoven must summon his faith and genius to complete the Missa Solemnis—a sacred masterpiece he believes could bring divine light into a darkening world.
What causes America's mainstream media to fear and try to destroy a group of artists and their work? What happens when such a creative movement grows in strength and threatens media's bottom line? Why would extremists find it necessary to take acti
Soldier's Gap is a non-traditional mystery with literary elements. The high school principal is brutally murdered, but Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins's search for meaning and love is a much more significant theme.
"Murder isn't usually this fun
