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Love and betrayal coast-to-coast. A gay man who betrays his lover, a painter who gives up his art to serve the poor, a prostitute who hitch-hikes across the country to start a new life and a gallery owner in Seattle who comes to New York in search of her father and finds love.
Imprudent Zeal is a tightly woven epic novel covering the lifetimes of a group of very different people who impact one another in unexpected ways in different parts of the country. They are: an alcoholic Korean War veteran in New York who gives up drinking and runs a homeless shelter, the young prostitute who hitch-hikes cross country while carrying his baby, her daughter who grows up in Seattle and becomes an influential art dealer, and a gay artist and his bisexual lover who first get together in a small college down south and then reconnect as competitors many years in Seattle. | |  | | Return to Freedom
Emotional storms brewing on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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ELDER ROMANCE AND SERIAL KILLINGS AT BARNEY'S WETSIDE PUB Romance blossoms at Barney's Pub between Alex, a leftwing Democrat, and Jim, a Libertarian-leaning Republican - old friends from half a century ago. Meantime, someone is killing off all the old drag queens, and Jim may be the only person who can catch the killer ... if he doesn't become the next victim.
Reunion at the Wetside is a love story and a murder mystery. Alex, an attractive, elderly left-wing Democrat, meets Jim, a Libertarian Republican, in Barney's Pub shortly before the 2008 presidential election. They are old friends who haven't seen each other in half a century, and despite their best efforts to avoid it -- not to mention their political differences -- they fall in love.br />
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As their affair is playing out there is a string of murders in the town of Wetside, Washington. All of the old drag queens who use to perform at Barney's are being killed and Jim thinks he know | |  | | The Backside of Nowhere
Popular movie star David Lawrence has not spoken to his father in more than twenty years. When the old man has a heart attack while driving drunk and careens off the top of a parking garage, David goes home to the little bayou town of Freedom to be with his family while the old man hovers near death. While there, he falls in love with his old high school sweetheart, confronts a lifelong enemy (the local sheriff), and discovers that his beautiful adopted sister, Melissa, is not who he thinks she is.
A hurricane is heading toward Freedom and David’s obstinate old man, practically on his death bed, decides to throw a hurricane party and ride out the storm with friends. When the storm hits the Lawrence house is swept off its foundation and washed down the bayou with everyone trapped inside. It comes to rest against a pile of debris. Water fills the lower floor. David’s father and Melissa are trapped underwater, and it is David and his old enemy the sheriff who must save them, which they do -- barely. Afterwards they are all trapped in the house, and while confined together they confront each other with old hurts and long-buried secrets.
The Backside of Nowhere reveals the darker underbelly of a coastal town in Mississippi with outlandish characters including a movie star, gamblers and bootleggers and Ku KIlux Klanners all painted tongue-in-cheek.
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Gay rights activist Selena Winters is shot in the head while giving a speech at the Seattle Pride celebration. She is rushed to the hospital and a blood clot is removed from her brain. Family members gather to wait and see if she will ever regain consciousness. While Selena teeters on the edge of death, family conversations lead back to old conflicts and to memories of Marty's first wife, Maria, and his unreasonable obsession with her. The Wives of Marty Winters is a family saga covering half a century in the lives of Marty and his friends and family members.
font size="2" face="Arial">Gay rights activist Selena Winters is shot in the head while giving a speech at the Seattle Pride celebration. She is rushed to the hospital where a blood clot is removed from her brain. She slips into a coma, and family members gather to wait and see if she will ever regain consciousness. Selena's husband Marty; their transsexual housemateChloe, their daughter Marianne; their son William and his life partner, Jake./font>
font size="2" face="Arial">Family conversations lead back to old conflicts and memories of Marty's first wife, Maria in the 19 | |  | | Until the Dawn
A famous artist vanishes at the height of his career. A childhood friend searches for him and tells the story of his family going back generations. Until the Dawn is a coming of age story, a coming out story, and a story that brings together two worlds: the New York art world of the 1980s and the racial strife of the Deep South in the 1960s.
From an amazon review by Linda Delayen:
The focal point of this amazing first novel is Travis "Red" Warner, the larger-than-life artist who hailed from Tupelo, Mississippi, a town that spawned the other larger-than-life artist, Elvis Presley. Alec Clayton's narrator is Travis' childhood friend Johnny Lewis. He takes us back in time to Mississippi 1919 to introduce us to Travis' grandparents, then his parents and finally tells the story of Travis growing up in Tupelo. Clayton does a masterful job evoking the cadences of speech and the overweening racial and social s | |  | | Visual Liberties
The final book of the Freedom Trilogy, a saga of life on the storm ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast.
i>span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Visual Liberties/span>/i>span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> is the final book in the “Freedom Trilogy,” the saga of the little Bayou town of Freedom, Mississippi. It all started with i>The Backside of Nowhere/i> and was followed by i>Return to Freedom/i>./span>
p class="MsoNormal">span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Molly Ashton is now a college student majoring in art. She is trying hard to grow |
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