The Bee Who Was Allergic To Honey

Polleena, the honeybee, has one wish: to harvest honey with the other bees. The problem? She’s allergic to honey. One day, Pollena sets out on a quest to cure her honey allergy once and for all! Alayah Solomon grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. Alayah is currently studying to get her bachelor’s degree in Biology from North Carolina Agricultural and […]

When Geese Fly South

Love comes in many forms and happens to the most unlikely people. Where will your admiration take you next? The year was 1977, when a prominent Japanese-American from New York City, Sorano Tanaka, strolled into the Irishman’s Pub in High Point, North Carolina. It was during the World Series, and the only open seat was beside a handsome young man […]

ANNA

When Pearl Swanson assumes the role of mayor of ANNA, she steps into a new set of challenges. While the town is ready for change and welcomes new residents, all are not accepting of the transition. Determined to keep ANNA under the old rule, a plot develops to disrupt the town’s progress and restore it to its previous regime. The […]

Does God Love Me?

Gloria Camp is a successful attorney who has climbed the ranks and made a name for herself. Despite her success, she longs for love, something she’s never really experienced. All Gloria knows is heartache, heartbreak, loss, and betrayal. When Gloria meets Susan, her life changes in ways she never could imagine. Susan transforms Gloria into a confident, well-rounded woman. The […]

Hazeline

It’s 1937 and Hazeline Morrison is a grieving sharecropper’s widow on a cotton farm in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. She earns a bit of money as a seamstress and does laundry for the landowner’s family in iron pots set over a fire. Other parts of the county have electric power but lines are just being run in this north end. […]

Hold on Kids!

“Hold On kids” is the last book of the trilogy about author Beverley Clarkson’s family.  The vignettes are events occurring over time – from elementary, junior, senior high school and college with the author and her brothers. Many of the narratives could easily stand alone, like short stories.  In the author’s thinking, that is befitting. The stories are certainly not […]

Saddles of Barringer

A Central Texas doctor befriends an orphaned boy. Together, the duo revels in all things ranching including bull riding and crafting custom-made saddles. Years later, a horrific accident has the boy, now grown, recalculating his future. The two embark on a cross-country journey to Barringer, NC that invokes some self-discovery for the newly retired doctor. Disturbing family secrets are revealed, […]

The Sum of Our Experience

The Sum of Our Experience is the ending to what started as the “Hattiesville Trilogy”. The first installment, The Wedding Party introduces the readers to the characters, and the fictional town of Hattiesville, North Carolina, a suburb of Charlotte. It ends with an unanswered question and disturbing news.  Absent…One From Another picks up three years later, answers the question, and […]

Rightfully Hers

Three generations of women born from the same ancestral line; yet separated by vastly different and inequitable life experiences.  Beverley, the youngest, was raised in the U.S. during the late 40’s and 50’s in a relatively stable middle-class home.  She never knew abandonment or isolation.  She never knew the scratchy feeling of itchy burlap next to her skin, or the […]

Burying Steele

Can we escape our genetics? Detective Cris Steele begins to follow in her father’s footsteps. Sliding down that slippery slope as her darkness grows, Cris convinces herself to try her father’s coping tactics, certain she will be able to handle it. The cracks in her armor grow bigger and more difficult to hide and the parallels become unmistakable. Like father […]

The Tobacco Barn

The extraordinary story of a man’s journey from soldier to fisherman unfolds as the “Son of the South” demonstrates resilience through relationships with friends and loved ones. Mickey Starr’s promise to his wife changes his plans and with the help of his grandson, he revisits what’s important to him. Covering a half-century of Starr’s tumultuous adventure, The Tobacco Barn, set […]

Deceived: The Final Reckoning

The beautiful Trinity Islands lay just off the northeast coast of Africa. They are inhabited by descendants of the original twelve Hebrew tribes. The inhabitants left the mainland to live according to the initial laws of God. Jubilee is the main island that houses the flow of government; without laws, there can be no government. However, Natas (antagonist) lives according […]

Redemptive

What does it mean to be bound? Bound by relationships, things from your past, or just life in general. How does one break free? Any freedom comes with a price and we must be willing to pay for it. Monique Harper is a woman who knows this too well. Discovering a secret from her past puts her on a path […]

We Are Family – A Mother’s Love

Precious Mills Johnson is a woman of deep faith and family values. Having lost both parents, family means everything to her. The mother of twins, she and her husband Tony devoted their lives to raising young respectable men. As much as life seemed perfect in the Johnson household, they would soon find out how imperfect it is. When one son […]

It’s of No Consequence

Three generations of women born from the same ancestral line; yet separated by vastly different and inequitable life experiences.  Beverley, the youngest, was raised in the U.S. during the late 40’s and 50’s in a relatively stable middle-class home.  She never knew abandonment or isolation.  She never knew the scratchy feeling of itchy burlap next to her skin, or the […]

Pearl

Anna is a town of affluence nestled behind mature trees and hidden driveways.  The place everyone wants to be. It has immaculate streets and is almost crime free. But because of an unspoken rule in Anna, all are not welcomed. Pearl Swanson has lived in the town of Anna for fifty years. Her life has been one of influence and […]

Who’s That Woman In My Bed?

Megan’s faith is shaken when faced with her husband’s infidelity; although it happened nine months earlier, she now questions everything from her role as a wife, mother and a Christian. It is especially challenging for her as the act took place in her marriage bed. Though it only happened once, and her husband has repeatedly asked for forgiveness, Megan doesn’t […]

Resurrecting The Living: My personal journey through grief, loss, and depression

Author Roblynne McDuffie describes her personal journey through grief, loss, and depression in Resurrecting the Living. She shares the steps and tools she used to cope with the loss of multiple family members in a short period of time—including the loss of her mother.  In Resurrecting the Living, she discusses: Coping Mechanisms for Various Emotions and Stages of Grief Dealing with […]

Breaking Steele

Too good to be true? Just as Detective Cris Steele thinks she has outran her past and finally has something going right in her life, she gets dealt another blow when her best friend and husband, Luke, is killed right in front of her. Chief Jeff Bolton assigns Detective Pete Bryan to the case, but Cris begins to secretly conduct […]

A Man & Three Women

Sam Mills is a rich and powerful man who is use to getting everything he wants. Married for several years, he is in love with another woman and they have a secret. As if that isn’t enough, Sam’s worse nightmare comes in the form of a man named Mr. William Johnson. Sam plots to send him away thinking it would be […]

Secrets for Your Sanity In This Insane World

Secrets for your Sanity in this Insane World is to offer teens and tweens practical ways to help them face many choices ahead of them. As they begin their journey into life in our Insane world, it may be scary. It will help them avoid poor choices and become productive and responsible adults. Anna-Louise Wiley-Fitzgerald has been a thinker all her […]

The Family Guide To A Successful Life

Have you ever wondered why your family life seemed more of a daily struggle than having love and peace in your home? Many families seek answers to but never seem to find them.  The family guide to a successful life, will guide you and your spouse into an inner peace with God or the “Universe.” This book will break down […]

No Ordinary Solider: My Father’s Two Wars

A young man from a gritty Pennsylvania mill town enlists in the Army Air Corps and heads for Hawaii, the “Paradise of the Pacific.” There, he and his buddies defend Oahu while it explodes and burns in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As the war surges, his bomber squadron ships out to primitive Pacific outposts. Amid air raids, stifling heat, […]

Christmas Dinner

“Christmas Dinner” is the finale of the “Hattiesville Trilogy.” It picks up immediately where the second episode ends. The first installment, “The Wedding Party,” introduces the readers to the characters and the fictional town of Hattiesville, North Carolina, a suburb of Charlotte. It ends with an unanswered questions and disturbing news. “Absent…One From Another,” picks up three years later, answers […]

A Better Way

If you could change one thing to create the wealth you deserve would you? If given the opportunity to live the life you always dreamed, could you take the next step? We asked ourselves these questions and many more when we faced the dilemma of financial setbacks in our lives. We believed abundance, wealth, and prosperity were our birthday. It […]

Just Write the Darn Book

Do you have a story you want to write but have every excuse as to why you haven’t written it? You may have een attempted to start it and years later it’s still not finished? Then this book is for you. It is a light-hearted approach to overcoming things like fear, procrastination, excuses, and distractions. It doesn’t have to be […]