Within a global network of gem dealers and black market operatives, Sapphire, a courier, must count on her generations-old Romani codes and Gypsy secrets to stay alive.
Sapphire Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mèr, a respected fortune teller in Manhattan’s diamond district, has an undercover job as a gemstone courier - delivering diamonds, emeralds and rubies to private clients around the world.
But within this global network of gem dealers and black market operatives, some of the clients are not who they appear to be.
And family rumor has it that Sapphire is being followed by a deadly curse.
Sapphire must count on her generations-old Romani codes and Gypsy secrets to stay alive.
A Gypsy on Tenth Avenue is an intimate look inside the rich culture and tragic history of a contemporary American Romani family.
The Apple Tree Blossoms in The Fall, is the life journey of Carineh - a child, a teenager, a wife, a mother, but most of all a woman of purpose. From stories of her parents held-up by bandits; the white donkey gifted by Khomeini; her father's death f
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
Pieces of Eight is an eclectic collection of eight imaginative novellas/short stories. Themes represented in the work are science fiction, paranormal, psychological drama, humor, murder/revenge and astrological fulfillment. Pieces of Eight is the com