Rory Carter grew up obsessed with her looks. Teased relentlessly about her weight, Rory was happy to leave her past behind when she enrolled in a Washington, DC, college and met her new best friends, Sierra, BJ, and Neekoo. Now a loving wife, devoted mother, and the owner of an image-branding agency, Rory is the one who keeps it all together. Years later, it is obvious she is perfect. But what about the other three?

Fast-talking and unfiltered, Sierra finds solace as a therapist who helps people overcome their hardships. BJ is a brilliant and beautiful fashionista who proudly showcases her culinary prowess at her well-known restaurant. The notoriously shy Neekoo has made her mark in Washington, DC, as a renowned journalist. On the surface, it appears that the girlfriends have the world in the palm of their hands. But what no one knows is that deadly secrets lurk in the midst of the seemingly perfect lives of these women—secrets that could cause each of their worlds to crumble.

In this compelling tale, an unanticipated intervention forces four long-time friends to face their personal demons and decide if preserving their picture-perfect images is worth the hefty price they have already paid.

Rory Carter grew up obsessed with her looks. Teased relentlessly about her weight, Rory was happy to leave her past behind when she enrolled in a Washington, DC, college and met her new best friends, Sierra, BJ, and Neekoo. Now a loving wife, devoted mother, and the owner of an image-branding agency, Rory is the one who keeps it all together. Years later, it is obvious she is perfect. But what about the other three?

Fast-talking and unfiltered, Sierra finds solace as a therapist who helps people overcome their hardships. BJ is a brilliant and beautiful fashionista who proudly showcases her culinary prowess at her well-known restaurant. The notoriously shy Neekoo has made her mark in Washington, DC, as a renowned journalist. On the surface, it appears that the girlfriends have the world in the palm of their hands. But what no one knows is that deadly secrets lurk in the midst of the seemingly perfect lives of these women—secrets that could cause each of their worlds to crumble.

In this compelling tale, an unanticipated intervention forces four long-time friends to face their personal demons and decide if preserving their picture-perfect images is worth the hefty price they have already paid.

When Alejandra German first immigrates to America, she has great hope that her new life will be much better than the one she left behind in Uruguay. But as the years pass, Alejandra discovers that her challenges have followed her. Now the mother of two sons and stuck in an unfulfilling marriage and a disheartening career, Alejandra can only hope that the dreams she once nurtured have not been shattered by her circumstances.

With a workaholic husband who barely knows she is alive and with professional success seemingly just beyond her reach, Alejandra reluctantly agrees to sacrifice her personal time to meet her business partner, Terry Longbow, and his son in Memphis for an impromptu meeting about a company for sale. It is not long before Alejandra and Terry purchase the small business without any idea that their lives are about to collide with a global economic meltdown. Now in a struggle for survival, a vulnerable Alejandra is led into the arms of another man who shows her that happiness may not be out of her reach after all.

Alejandra’s Quest is the compelling tale of a woman trapped between two lives as she embarks on a relentless quest to make her dreams come true.

When Alejandra German first immigrates to America, she has great hope that her new life will be much better than the one she left behind in Uruguay. But as the years pass, Alejandra discovers that her challenges have followed her. Now the mother of two sons and stuck in an unfulfilling marriage and a disheartening career, Alejandra can only hope that the dreams she once nurtured have not been shattered by her circumstances.

With a workaholic husband who barely knows she is alive and with professional success seemingly just beyond her reach, Alejandra reluctantly agrees to sacrifice her personal time to meet her business partner, Terry Longbow, and his son in Memphis for an impromptu meeting about a company for sale. It is not long before Alejandra and Terry purchase the small business without any idea that their lives are about to collide with a global economic meltdown. Now in a struggle for survival, a vulnerable Alejandra is led into the arms of another man who shows her that happiness may not be out of her reach after all.

Alejandra’s Quest is the compelling tale of a woman trapped between two lives as she embarks on a relentless quest to make her dreams come true.

Leroy Chester grows up in a small Oklahoma town knowing his mama is sad. She is all he has in the world, and he just wants her to be happy. When he turns eighteen, he embarks on a three-month journey from train to train with the hope of finding the only man she has ever loved. But when he fails and returns home, his mother is nowhere to be found. Two days later, he finds his mother’s lifeless body next to the chicken coop, the victim of murder.

Left distraught and without answers as to who killed his mama, Leroy drowns his troubles in whiskey. But it is not long before he determines it is Al Jenkins, his mother’s ex-boyfriend, who murdered her. After he kills Jenkins in a fit of rage, he flees on the train—only to meet up with his mother’s great love, John. Before he knows it, Leroy ends John’s life too. Now on the run, Leroy lays low until fate leads him to what he hopes is a new beginning in Arkansas.

The Man on the Train is the story of one man’s journey from childhood into adulthood as he attempts to put a tragic, violent past behind him and start anew.

Richard Eason’s father committed suicide when Richard was ten years old, and the memory of the event has haunted the young man ever since. His father was a rising star among southern architects when he killed himself, and Richard has followed in his father’s footsteps as an architecture student at Georgia Tech. Still, the mystery of his father’s death will not leave him alone, and the mystery soon becomes an obsession.

Meanwhile, with the help of his father’s friend, Tanny, he labors with clever, almost maniacal passion to build a replica of the magnificent, airy cabin his father had designed, built, and perished in. So much of Richard’s character has been shaped in some way by the night his father died. Now, Tanny might be a guiding light for young Richard as he searches for answers.

Along with Tanny, Richard has his girlfriend Lefay, an ex-hippie turned corporate executive who calls him Reason. Even with the help of friends, however, Richard has trouble keeping a grasp on reality. He digs deeper and deeper into his father’s life, but he might soon find spending so much time in the past brings disaster upon the present.

If your best friend’s deepest secret was a deep, internal struggle between good and evil, could you keep that secret from everyone for decades? Elizabeth has done just that for her friend Woody. She knows of his past—about his drunk and abusive mother. She knows Woody was raised to subdue all emotion into numbness. He wants to be normal, but he fears he may become a serial killer—or that someone else will discover his secret.

Woody finds a place to express his bloodlust in the US Navy, during the early years of the Vietnam conflict. Once back to civilian life, though, he has trouble adjusting to the idea that murder is no longer his duty; outside the military, murder is a crime. He still longs for revenge on his childhood torturers, but he knows that by hunting them, by killing them, he will be just like them.

Through these internal battles, Elizabeth is always there, keeping the truth of Woody’s past and present fantasies a secret. Together, they share details of their own personal defects and romantic relationships. Their friendship keeps Woody from becoming a monster, but how long will Elizabeth be able to calm Woody’s demons without awakening some of her own?

A journey through the mind of a man who saw the world from different eyes as most and how he saw himself in a busy and chaotic world.

If your best friend’s deepest secret was a deep, internal struggle between good and evil, could you keep that secret from everyone for decades? Elizabeth has done just that for her friend Woody. She knows of his past—about his drunk and abusive mother. She knows Woody was raised to subdue all emotion into numbness. He wants to be normal, but he fears he may become a serial killer—or that someone else will discover his secret.

Woody finds a place to express his bloodlust in the US Navy, during the early years of the Vietnam conflict. Once back to civilian life, though, he has trouble adjusting to the idea that murder is no longer his duty; outside the military, murder is a crime. He still longs for revenge on his childhood torturers, but he knows that by hunting them, by killing them, he will be just like them.

Through these internal battles, Elizabeth is always there, keeping the truth of Woody’s past and present fantasies a secret. Together, they share details of their own personal defects and romantic relationships. Their friendship keeps Woody from becoming a monster, but how long will Elizabeth be able to calm Woody’s demons without awakening some of her own?

If your best friend’s deepest secret was a deep, internal struggle between good and evil, could you keep that secret from everyone for decades? Elizabeth has done just that for her friend Woody. She knows of his past—about his drunk and abusive mother. She knows Woody was raised to subdue all emotion into numbness. He wants to be normal, but he fears he may become a serial killer—or that someone else will discover his secret.

Woody finds a place to express his bloodlust in the US Navy, during the early years of the Vietnam conflict. Once back to civilian life, though, he has trouble adjusting to the idea that murder is no longer his duty; outside the military, murder is a crime. He still longs for revenge on his childhood torturers, but he knows that by hunting them, by killing them, he will be just like them.

Through these internal battles, Elizabeth is always there, keeping the truth of Woody’s past and present fantasies a secret. Together, they share details of their own personal defects and romantic relationships. Their friendship keeps Woody from becoming a monster, but how long will Elizabeth be able to calm Woody’s demons without awakening some of her own?

It is 1995, and Kazu is an average office worker in Tokyo, Japan, walking among the evening rush-hour passengers in the Shinjuku train station. But moments later, Kazu is befriended by a gifted psychic and unknowingly takes the first step of a ten-year journey through endless questions and incredible spiritual experiences.

After meeting with the psychic and a palm reader, Kazu begins seeing people’s auras and experiencing mysterious phenomena that lead to questioning happiness, truth, and death. Feeling lost in a spiritual crisis, broken-hearted Kazu moves to Canada and starts healing painful childhood wounds and transforming through training, psychic visions, and self-healing. Continuing to gain insight and wisdom, Kazu grows into a professional healer who is rapidly moving toward a more hopeful, happier life—until a dramatic surprise unfolds that teaches Kazu the greatest lesson of all.

Heal the Eternal is the uplifting tale of one person’s journey of profound discoveries, including that happiness is available to all of us if we really look at ourselves and realize who we truly are.

It is 1995, and Kazu is an average office worker in Tokyo, Japan, walking among the evening rush-hour passengers in the Shinjuku train station. But moments later, Kazu is befriended by a gifted psychic and unknowingly takes the first step of a ten-year journey through endless questions and incredible spiritual experiences.

After meeting with the psychic and a palm reader, Kazu begins seeing people’s auras and experiencing mysterious phenomena that lead to questioning happiness, truth, and death. Feeling lost in a spiritual crisis, broken-hearted Kazu moves to Canada and starts healing painful childhood wounds and transforming through training, psychic visions, and self-healing. Continuing to gain insight and wisdom, Kazu grows into a professional healer who is rapidly moving toward a more hopeful, happier life—until a dramatic surprise unfolds that teaches Kazu the greatest lesson of all.

Heal the Eternal is the uplifting tale of one person’s journey of profound discoveries, including that happiness is available to all of us if we really look at ourselves and realize who we truly are.

Thirty-year-old Roger marks time by the gradual shifting of sunlight and shadows outside his Toronto high-rise apartment. As a freelance columnist, he makes about as much money as a twelve-year-old with a lawn-mowing business. With all his hopes riding on the novel he started eight years ago, Roger is clearly not in a hurry to do anything except dodge life’s ups and downs as much as he can.

While nurturing a crush on the cute girl at the local coffee shop, Roger notices a leaflet on the table advertising a psychic demonstration. Intrigued, he bribes three caffeine-loving buddies to accompany him to the show featuring Anya Dreamchaser, psychic extraordinaire. Anya turns out to be a fake, but the real surprise comes when Roger’s friend Karl begins displaying his own shockingly accurate psychic abilities. As the friends come to terms with what they have witnessed, they each embark on bizarre personal journeys of enlightenment that take one of them straight into a weird New Age cult and another into a confrontation with a maniacal Scottish churchman.

Crystal Balls is a comic tale about the adventures—and misadventures—of four friends who unwittingly change their lives forever after making the fateful decision to step out of their ordinary lives into an extraordinary psychic world.

Reggie “Rego” Kelleher is a deaf American Sign Language professor who is very unhappy with his girlfriend and how he is living his life. He has closed himself off emotionally to everyone except his parents. He is shocked by a conversation he has with his father who reveals to him a secret about the family that rocks him to the core.

Then, he has a harrowing near-death experience which forces him to re-evaluate his life’s priorities. After being in a coma and meeting his deceased relatives along with a totally unexpected visitor from the beyond, he comes out a much changed person with a new romantic interest and a brand-new outlook on his job at a community college in Las Vegas.

It seems like only yesterday when five friends with separate dreams stood together at their graduation ceremony at Stanford, turned their tassels, and looked forward with optimism. But two decades later, Neva, Annette, Lauren, Tamara, and Heather have all experienced a reality much different than the dreams they once envisioned.

A troubled marriage and unexpected motherhood threatens to still Neva’s voice forever. Annette’s inability to conceive a child is challenging everything she knows to be true about herself. Lauren is weary from juggling her career, motherhood, and marriage. Tamara has abandoned the hope of a loving relationship in favor of an all-consuming career. But it is Heather who is in the worst trouble of all. A heartbreaking job loss sends her spiraling downward into darkness, and she attempts suicide. As she slips into a coma, the friends reunite at her bedside, forge a stronger friendship, and finally face hard truths about themselves.

In this poignant tale, the secret of each woman’s shattered dream is finally revealed, forcing each to embark on a unique journey to discover what beauty lies beyond the broken.