What Time Is It??

A parents worst nightmare.
A small child with an incurable disease and a father who served in Vietnam and blames himself for her illness. The family is torn apart. Finally only one choice remains to save the daughter’s life, a devil’s choice. The time is in the 1980s. Catherine, Lizzie’s daughter has returned to Sydney to study. She now lives in Balmain, near where her mother grew up. She settles into life there, establishes a successful career and marries. Then she has a daughter, Amelie, who is the joy of both her and her husband’s lives.

But when her daughter is two years old the unimaginable happens. Her daughter develops an incurable disease, advanced leukemia. Other treatments fail. Now the only option to save her daughters life is a bone marrow transplant.
They search desperately for a donor to match. But no one is found.

Her daughter has an unusual tissue profile that seems to come from her Catherine’s own father. But who is her father? Catherine was conceived when her mother was raped by three men. Two of the three men who raped her mother are now in jail, destined to spend the most of their life there. The third is dead.

Can Catherine bear to make the choice and bring herself to appeal to one of these men in an attempt to save her daughter’s life when she knows that even this may be futile.

This is the third novel in “Old Balmain House” Series. Novel two, “Lizzie”, tells the story of a girl from Balmain and her struggle to keep her own daughter when pregnant at only 15 and the terrible choices she must make.

This book continues the family’s story into a third generation.

To be Blessed is the ultimate reward. Or so they’re told.

JUNIPER struggles to survive in the Fray, a neon-lit city trapped in poverty. Her plan is simple: earn enough from her thieving to buy her way out with her only friends, Mino and Ida.

But when Mino is Blessed and taken to the New Realm station, Juniper’s world is thrown into chaos.

She knows better than to trust the shiny advertisements for the New Realm — Mino is in grave danger, and she’ll do anything to rescue him. Fortunately, a stranded pilot appears in the Fray at just the right time.

ASTOR, a privileged but kind young pilot from Lumina City, is mysteriously exiled to the Fray. With Juniper’s help, he might just have a chance of returning to his old life.

Together, they strike a deal. Sneak into Lumina, steal a ship, and fly to the New Realm station.

But Lumina harbors dangerous secrets. Secrets from Juniper’s past that she can’t hide. When distrust spreads, can Juniper and Astor work together to save Mino before time runs out?

Tommy has boomeranged back to his parents residence and a dead-end job after too many years in college. As he looks squarely at his next decade of life his smartphone convinces him the time is ripe for a change. A gift from his grandfather provides the means, so he embarks on the path of blues artists and beatniks before him — and hits the road.
He immediately meets a damsel in hitchhiking distress who says her name is Mona. Her presence persuades him that the bright lights and dark clubs of Chicago might be his kind of town. So on a summer Saturday night they settle into a fancy hotel overlooking the beaches of Lake Michigan.
On Sunday… Mona disappears.
But she leaves behind more than a sweet memory that involves Tommy in a brand new cash flow problem he never imagined. While trying to sort out how to stay on the right side of the law and get back on the road, he meets a young criminologist who helps him, a DJ who doesn’t, and a librarian who teaches him about the city, women, and the art of the makeover. After truth and lies are stirred like a blue martini, being assaulted by a pink monkey, and witnessing a drive-by shooting that drowns a Ferrari — Tommy is desperate to help Mona.
If he can find her.

An animal with near magical powers is brought back from extinction, but at what cost?

Anthropologist Claire Knowland discovers DNA from a species the world has never seen before. Now, she faces an unprecedented opportunity: resurrecting an extinct elephant with near-supernatural abilities, but the project spirals into an ethical minefield as her team realizes the world may not be ready for this animal’s very different form of intelligence, and that they have an obligation to protect him from those who covet his powers.

Bringing ancient beings back to life attracts dangerous attention. As powerful forces conspire to seize control of their extraordinary creation, Claire and her team must defend the elephant — affably nicknamed Bart — who never asked to be reborn into the chaos of the twenty-first century.

Enemies conspire to use the de-extinct species’ powers for their own gain. Ultimately, circumstances force Bart to become aware of the perils of his situation, and his preternatural powers turn out to be the key to saving those around him, and his taking control of his destiny.

From the author who challenged our understanding of evolution in Deep Past comes a provocative sci-fi thriller that blends realistic, cutting-edge science, globe-spanning intrigue, and profound moral conundrums.

A burdened elderly widow. A reclusive young bachelor. A lonely neighbor girl. A collision of fates that transform their lives forever.

After tragically losing her only child when he was just a boy, then facing her husband’s death two years ago from Alzheimer’s, 72-year-old Mazie questions why God doesn’t take her too. Her grief leaves her aching to escape her lonely existence and join her husband and son in the grave.

When Brian, a reserved young bachelor, moves next door, Mazie takes a special interest in him–attempting to set him up with her young friend, Claire. Then, there’s the odd little girl across the street who is determined to be his friend.

Brian doesn’t know what to make of the spunky old woman or the persistent young girl who both nudge their way into his life when he just wants to be left alone.

When a sudden tragedy leaves Mazie battling for her life, Brian steps in to help the old widow, and both discover that life’s purpose is often revealed in the unexpected.