First Stories

When Sister Gabrielle notices that one of her students is troubled, the young teacher at the all girl's Catholic high school attempts to get to the bottom of it. After all, one reason she became a nun and teacher was to help others. However, a communication misunderstanding between her and Cara Doyle, the student, sets a series of events in motion that has the nun breaking her vows and questioning everything she believes in.

A young man is hot for his mother. Will his persistence be rewarded?

Jenny asks her 14-year-old identical twin cousins to be bridesmaids at her wedding. Andy asks his teen cousins to be ushers. Did Jenny and Andy arrange for the teens to have adjoining rooms in the hotel after the reception? This is a stand-alone story, but you may like to read how Jenny and Andy met in The Lost Key first.

A divorced woman is doubting her value since the divorce. With three kids, she knows that finding love will be next to impossible. But she doesn't realize love is right there beside her - in the form of her son. He shows her that she has worth and value and when her two daughters learn what's going on they want the same sense of belonging their mother has!

Constance Norwood tried to make the best of her father's decision to send her halfway around the world to marry a man she'd never met. What she hadn't counted on was encountering one of the dreaded pirates of the Caribbean enroute.

A Clar war Story
I was small and never thought it would make me special. Of course the job they wanted me for was extremely dangerous. There is nothing like crawling into a hole and never knowing if an enemy soldier would be waiting or some trap. There were benefits too, like taking things we found or finding enemy intel that could stop an attack or turn the tide of the war.

Edited by Bird Dog The sudden invasion by the Dark sent the whole population scrambling. Our colony was a few hundred years old with several abandoned military bases. The one I went to was hidden inside a mountain. That was where I found a way to fight back and try to stop the Dark.

It started with a mission gone bad and a traitor. My father's enemies were a step ahead and used fleet admirals to dishonor me. When I learned the admiral that had been the judge had been ordered to do it I had to act. First against the noble that I thought ordered it. Of course he was a coward and would send someone. After him it was another noble that had been behind him and I wanted it to be personal.

This not really a story...it is a dialogue between siblings...the rest is up to the reader's imagination