Starting again is difficult when the demons of the past continue to haunt. Look at Me Now follows Deidre Davis as she tries to free herself from a dominating husband of two decades, an unsympathetic mother and guilt for a child she could not protect from the same man she herself suffered under.
A novel about gaining strength as an independent woman.
FATHER WALTHER'S TEMPTATION is the story of a man sheltered too long by his profession, "tempted" by life itself. Even the annual visit to his mother looms as just another disagreeable chore. But when his aging Ford gives up the ghost on the New Jersey Turnpike, the breakdown starts a chain of events and chance meetings that threatens to turn his life upside down.
What do you do when your next-door neighbor is arrested for sexual molestation? How does a dirt farmer from the old country feel about working for a Jewish landsman? The author’s world embraces Catholic convents, risqué Halloween parties and the steamy corridors of New York apartment buildings with equal ease. His observations are penetrating, his voice invites sympathy and understanding.
Novellets Summer romance and adventure
on Aug. 20, 2013
Great reads in both instances, and a remarkable pairing of the exotic and the familiar in one author.