Netta's Journal: A Story of Love and Sacrifice -- A Most Popular Novel

The death of his nanny, Netta Player, takes author Riley Harper back home to Francisville, Kentucky, and a fateful meeting with his lost love Katie Sanborn. 

Netta raised Riley and Katie. Everyone thought they would be together forever, including Netta. Unfortunately, life and stubborn minds got in the way.

Prior to Netta's death, Riley and Katie had been estranged for seventeen years. However, a secret about Netta's life brings the one-time lovers back into each other's life and, together, they learn through the informative and revealing pages of Netta's Journal about Netta's hidden life and about the experiences she endured during World War II, as she fought to survive in war-torn Poland.

Poignant prose, remarkable storytelling, and a glimpse at an old woman's younger life changes Katie and Riley forever. The heartwarming ending adds joy to a wonderfully told story. 

This is a book filled with intrigue, wonder, joy, love, and one's will to survive. This story will not disappoint; it is filled with joyful and redemptive promises. As one critic states: "It is a remarkable example of story-telling!"

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A Passionate Story in the Midst of War

As Sure as the Sun Rises portrays the passionate love affair between Jack Taylor, an Army officer, and Julia Ormandy, a Canadian doctor. They meet and fall in love in Laos during the latter years of the Vietnam War. 

U.S. military action in Laos was an active and deadly part of the Vietnam conflict. 

Even though the story takes place some 40-years ago, the years and the distance are of no consequence. The love Taylor and Ormandy shared is as fresh and vibrant today as it was back then. It is no different from that which you feel for ‘the love of your live.’ 

The message in this book is important no matter what the era: cherish those you love. What you have today can disappear quickly. As sure as the sun rises, this is true. Never forget that love knows no boundary!

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Thoughts from a writer's mind:

Everything in fiction has roots in fact. It provides greater interest and is more credible!

Every piece of fiction should be rooted in truth. The scenes you develop, the dialogue you create, every last detail must be based in fact or feeling or observation...turn over every stone and find the jewels. Write with passion, write from experience, write about your ups and downs, about what goes right and what hasn't, about love and loss. The story resides in what you see and feel!

Your job is to add perspective, add insight, and add realism. Let your talent shine! You can learn about all my book by clicking on the following highlighted link: My Amazon Author's Page

That Tender Light (for excerpts and purchase, see links below)

That Tender Light is a magnificent story that touches the heart, captures the imagination, and explores the redemptive qualities of love and faith.


The nation’s best investigative reporter, Lockwood McGuire, is asked to find missing novelist Jack Taylor, a Medal of Honor recipient, who disappeared in 1986 without leaving a clue as to his whereabouts. McGuire’s search leads to a farm in Indiana where Missy Lee, a 98-year-old woman, lives with and protects mysterious secrets.

One of those secrets is Taylor’s final, unpublished novel which describes his love affair with Lee’s niece Lily Veronica Hall, includes the story of a Canadian woman he loved and lost in Laos, is an account of his secret mission to assassinate several men in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and reveals for the first time his torture and escape as a POW.

From a fateful meeting to a tortuous parting, the union between Lily and Jack is lyrical and touching. Lily is reticent to fall in love. Hurt once in an abusive marriage, the English professor fears losing the qualities that define her as a passionate, intelligent, independent, successful, and decisive woman. Jack Taylor fights his own demons and fears providence will destroy anyone he loves as retribution for the rapture he felt when killing in war.

That Tender Light blends the push and tug of human interaction with mystery, romance, adventure, and redemption. Kindle and print versions are available by clicking HERE.  

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The Heart By Which We Live

A story about love, murder, and revenge.
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The Heart by Which We Live is a story of murder and revenge, of love lost and love found, of money missing and money recovered, of tragedy and rebirth, of the importance of human interaction.  

In the depths of winter and personal despair, Jack Redding, a lonely and grieving man, travels across the country with his dog, Bailey, on a pilgrimage to avenge the death of his wife, Jill, and retrieve nearly $400,000 stolen by the crooked cop who killed her.

Police had labeled Jill Redding’s death accidental, her missing money as an unfortunate loss. However, a mysterious letter and memory card from a stranger’s cell phone reveal a different story.

Redding is a former Army Ranger—a tough man with a big heart—who is not afraid to get his hands dirty. He has the temperament and the skill needed to kill another man, having learned how to do so fighting drug wars in South America. The result: Jack takes matters into his own hands and, along the way, discovers a new life and new love.

In his travels, Jack meets people—old friends and new—who touch his life magically, people who help him remember the joys and pains of lost love and the importance of new romance. However, murder, mystery, and revenge are never far away in his jumbled life.

Flashbacks and introspection reveal key parts of Jack’s life. He ultimately visits a friend in Las Vegas where new love blossoms with a woman named Emma Cassidy but death and revenge threaten that relationship, too. THE HEART BY WHICH WE LIVE blends the push and tug of human interaction with mystery, romance, adventure, and redemption. 
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Spencer Mouse's First Great Adventure

Spencer Mouse in a timid little guy who is confronted by a great challenge. 


He is confronted by a big owl while helping his family collect their winter food. This is a story that is best read by children ages 6 to 8, or read to children ages 3 to 5. 

It is a story of courage, of unity, of endurance, of commitment, and of overcoming a variety of fears. It is a story of family, of joy, of happiness, and of working together to achieve an end.

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McToon's Final Shot

McToon's Final Shot is a bawdy, funny tale of golf and human passion. The Hillview Club in Morris, Indiana, is the setting and it is the toughest course in the world. Hillview was built by an Italian landscaper for a mega-rich Lothario who earned billions from a hot-dog fortune. In McToon's Final Shot, Killer Jackson, the world's number one golfer, stops by for what he thinks will be a friendly round of golf with Hillview's head professional, Dubs Roberts. Killer and Dubs were teammates in college.

Killer is stopping to visit before a trip to Indianapolis to play at Twisted Stump in the U.S. Open. Through a series of circumstances, they play a match against 64-year-old Mac Tanner and 86-year-old Angus McToon. 

Angus is a native of Scotland and an irrepressible character. By the time they finish, the match is worth upwards of a million dollars, it is being carried live across the world, and the readers have met all the 'loonies and toonies' who make Morris, Indiana, such a novel place to live. This is not just the story of a golf match, it is a story of the personalities who make Morris one of America's best kept secrets. McToon's Final Shot will make you laugh, it will thrill you, it will surprise you, and it will make you proud to be a golfer. 

You will come to appreciate a golf course of monumental dimension, you will become friends with the oddest array of characters to ever grace small-town America, and you will meet the number one golfer in the world and understand all his quirks. As told by Sanford Trap, this is a feel good story where the little guy rises up and makes his mark. If you have ever dreamed of walking in the shoes of giants, this story is for you, The characters are rich, the story is funny, the town in great, the golf course is diabolical, and the adventure borders on the mythical. 

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