Shelby Pearce is released from prison fifteen years after being convicted of killing her brother-in-law. She is relocating to the small town of Valleysburg, TX, where only a few people know her background. Shelby found Jesus in prison and is determined to beat the odds and make Read more...
Rick Cahill is working his last case as a private eye that involves late-night stake-outs, thugs and guns. From here on out, he’ll be a family man, sitting in his office doing mundane background checks for corporations. Several things have brought him to this end Read more...
Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison are in Orange County, California to begin filming the movie of Nicole’s new screenplay, Murderwood. Jake met Nicole in Gulf Shore, Alabama, where he owns a restaurant on the beach. Nicole was hanging out and writing at her famous uncle’s Read more...
RETURN TO THE BIG VALLEY is a compilation of three novellas, written by related women. In WILMA’S WISH, Wilma Hosteller, who lives in the Amish community of Reedsville, PA in the Big Valley, is excited to be marrying Israel Zook. When an accident takes the life of Read more...
Tish Tarragon owns the Cookin’ the Books Café and Catering Service in Hobson Glen, Virginia. She helped the local police solve several cases recently and has just recuperated from actually being shot on the last case. Since the local police chief has left, perhaps her days of Read more...
Sophie Deiner left her Amish community of Nappanee, Indiana three years ago. Now living as “Englisch” in Elkhart, she is battling Lupus Nephritis. A recent flare-up makes her doctor suggest she take a couple weeks off work and rest. Sophie decides to go back to Nappanee Read more...
Magdelena Portulacca Yoder Rosen owns a bed and breakfast in Hernia, PA. She gives her guests a “genuine” Amish experience, as they have to carry their own luggage to their rooms, have no electricity or running water and check their cell phones at the door. They also Read more...
The mission is simple … get in, get the memory stick and get out. Marc Portman, code name “Watchman,” is called in at the last minute on this op, but little preparation had been needed. Good thing he picked up a gun after he landed, as it Read more...
The Rapture has occurred and chaos reigns across the globe. An alliance has been formed called the E10 and the United States is now part of that group, headquartered in Rome, Italy. President Thomas Banes is the US representative to this group whose purpose is to unite the world Read more...
Belinda King is ready to get on with her life after her husband, son, and son-in-law were killed in a tragic buggy accident almost two years ago. Her daughter Sylvia has met a young Amish man who has stolen her heart and plans to remarry. It&rsquo Read more...
Blinded by a gunshot wound to his face, private investigator Rick Cahill has spent the past nine months learning how to live in darkness and navigate his San Diego home. He’s doing pretty well now, counting steps and having everything organized, as long as no one moves Read more...
In Middlebury, Indiana, Sadie Kuhns daydreams about the trip she and four girlfriends made to Hawaii a couple years ago. She decides to make a unique blended quilt to represent her Amish heritage and her trip to these beautiful islands. She also daydreams about her relationship with Wyman Kaufman Read more...
In 1972 John Creighton is determined to make a beautiful wood table for his wife Joan for their Thanksgiving meal, while Joan is determined to learn to cook, using recipes her mother gave her when they married several years ago. These recipes also contain memories from her childhood as Read more...
FBI Special Agent Heather Lawrence boards her trans-Atlantic flight in Houston on her way to Salzburg, Austria for a much-needed vacation. She has a lot of things to think through during her time away because her husband Chad has asked for a divorce. They have been drifting Read more...
When her Confidential Informant is gunned down in the street, FBI Agent Kiley Dawson asks for the lead on the investigation. Kiley is a member of the elite FBI Red Team. She, Mack, Sean and Cam work well together. This is her first time to take the lead role Read more...
Christmas is not the same this year for the King family here in their Amish community of Lancaster, PA. Sylvia’s husband, father and brother were killed in a tragic accident just a few months ago, and everyone is still grieving the losses. Her maam, Belinda, seems to Read more...
Longly Investigations is called into action again in D. P. Lyle’s third installment of his Jake Longly Thriller series. This one is bizarre to say the least. A serial killer in Florida, Billy Wayne Baker, wants Longly Investigations to clear Read more...
Tommy Jeffers (aka “Pancake”) is on his way from Gulf Shores to Fairhope to reconnect with an old friend. He and Emily Patterson were an item in sixth grade but haven’t seen each other since. This visit is to check into her financial affairs for Read more...
Elise Carmichael is a single mom (widowed) of a seven-year-old deaf and mute little boy named Sawyer. She has become quite proficient at reading lips … even does it now for a living. While she is standing outside the courthouse, she “sees” the conversation of Read more...
Viki Ferrell
Viki is a former School Library Media
Specialist who spent 37 years in
education and is now enjoying her
retirement. She and her husband, Jeff,
live in Oxford, FL (central part of
the
state). They have two grown
daughters, two grandsons,
one Dalmatian and one Yellow Lab.
Reading, decorating, crafting
and
volunteering at church take
up most of her
spare time. She has been a successful
grant writer and done some tutoring
and
coordinated an afterschool program
through
grants she has written for her
church. She is also the Choir Director
and Women's Ministry Leader there.
Viki is active in her local Alpha
Delta Kappa chapter, an international
women educators organization. She
looks forward to doing a lot of
traveling after her husband retires.