It's a first-person narrative of what I consider one of three epic road trips I've made in my lifetime. U.S. 83 is a fascinating, old, largely two-lane highway that runs 1885 miles from the Canadian to the Mexican border through all the Great Plains states and what I consider "the Spine of America."

Cat (a marmalade cat) has one mission: to keep the unruly human practitioners of the Serene Lotus Centre for Health and Wellbeing in line and find the mysterious Silver Crescent Nest, so that she can graduate from her ninth life to become a spirit mentor. But when a scandal rocks the centre, everyone’s livelihoods are at risk, and it’s up to Cat to guard and protect them against harm.

When Velma White, a tyrannical landlady, now 74 and shaky on her feet, is found dead at the bottom of her Chautauqua home’s steep and slippery stairs, it looks like an accident. But was it? Only digging by reporter and relentless snoop Mimi Goldman —into Velma’s men, money and murky past—can solve this extra-tricky whodunit.

The Pianist's Only Daughter: A Memoir is a frank, humorous, and poignant exploration of aging in an aging expert's own family. Kathryn Betts Adams was the only daughter of colorful and talented parents: her mother, an English scholar and poet, and her father, a concert pianist and music professor.

Sheriff Gus Wallace, a no-nonsense retired FBI Agent, has only been in office a few months when a woman is murdered on a remote running trail in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, leading him into the most dangerous case of his career.

After seeing the boy at her birdfeeder, Ruth lures him into her web using cookies, milk and Mariners baseball games on the tv. She succeeds, but the boy is a flight risk. He keeps wanting to flee, and she keeps trying to stop him. They reach an uneasy truce and he stays, but there’s a problem: it’s a retirement home, so he needs to live there in secret.

Revenge has a way of backfiring sometimes. When Rudy, a twenty-something slacker, is evicted from his stepparents’ suburban home, he vows to get revenge on them. But his relationship with a devious new girlfriend and a series of amazingly bad decisions threaten to blow up on him in ways he never could have imagined.

In 2195, a group of misfit adventurers flees northward with the key to the Doomsday seed bunkers—one step ahead of corporation henchmen determined to possess it.     

Two best friends from either side of the grave are picked-up and trained by a governmental paranormal defense department. But their traumas and existential growing pains are put on the backburner when they must enter the dead realm to stop a powerful secret society and their private army of mercenaries from plundering souls for profit.

Two mothers. One missing daughter. One life-changing secret.