Rags-to-Riches Stories

It is 1948 and London is recovering from almost a decade of war and only three years of recovery and rebuilding both the physical destruction and restoring society with new-found optimism for a bright new future. Gertie is 17 , nearly 18 and a bright and pretty hat check girl looking after theatregoers’ hats and coats in a lively West End Theatre. One evening, while everyone is watching the third act, a drunken patron attacks her and a dashing captain rescues her … changing her life forever.

She loved him, but she loved her social status more, betraying him so badly that he ended up homeless and penniless. Now she wants to betray him further by giving him cash to sell his children to her new husband. But all is not as it seems.

He died at seventy-nine and woke at twenty, same body, same year: 2003, in Leuven, the whole thing still ahead of him. James knows what's coming: the crashes, the fortunes, the people he'll lose. This time he'll go slow, build quiet, keep his head. But a second life is still a life, and knowing the future doesn't make it hurt less when it arrives. Least of all when it's her.

Zeke Clay receives a mysterious letter when he is down on his luck. He has lost everything but stands to inherit a fortune. If he agrees to a few simple tasks: Solve some clues, break a family curse, and restore true love. What does he know about any of that? Why are their ghosts running around telling him what to do? And why is his three-year-old tattoo suddenly bleeding?

A very lucky unlucky pilot finds his way into fortune from the wreckage of his downed aircraft. After returning to the civilized world from his nightmare away from home, his good fortune continues, and continues. Some want to stop him, and some want to seek revenge on his friends, but his good fortune holds. Follow Charlie in his adventures as he turns a valley into paradise and makes it his home.

Growing up in a boat shop, building boats, dealing with life, and living a dream. / (Reviews)

What if you are to inherit a business empire on the death of its surviving elderly founder and learn its startup capital was from Nazi war loot? Then you learn the empire's founders obtained that loot by stealing it from the Nazi Party and they kept a portion of what they stole for themselves to atone for the Nazi Party stealing their families' businesses and executing their families. That is Paul Adler's dilemma.

At the end of her rope, a desperate mother who has just been evicted from the low rent duplex where she lives with her fourteen-year-old daughter and is about to lose her job is offered what would normally be an unacceptable alternative. If she agrees to become his sex slave he will take her in and help her put her life back in order. He promises not to rape her daughter but admits he intends to seduce her. That being the only option open to her she accepts his offer. / (Reviews)

A Story in the Naked In School Universe
"Freedom" is a romantic coming-of-age story which is set in the “Naked in School” universe. A young teen, emotionally abandoned by her father and harassed by the father’s girlfriend, tries to cope with her life while living essentially on her own. On the day she begins attending her first year in high school, she’s forced to face the school’s new nudity program while trying to cope with memories of her past, the problems of her nonexistent family life and her burgeoning adolescence. Illustrated.

A merchant seaman, Tom, is forced to retire when his ship gets sold for scrap. He's a senior ship's engineer. He returns home, buys an RV, and begins an extended vacation across the southern states. An alien had to land in the Arizona desert to make ship repairs. The alien gets hurt. Tom rescues the alien, who is a real ditz. They soon become fast friends. Our alien, Drozul, does Tom a big favor by fixing a birth defect in Tom. A great relationship happens between the two men.