Coming in the fall of 2010.  One in a series of Molokai stories.  Molokai pule-oo [of powerful prayer].

By 1850 white Europeans and Americans had wrested large acreages from native Hawaiians-some by marriage, some by subterfuge, some by virtual theft.  And they blanketed those rolling acres with sugar cane, a plant they found growing upon their arrival.  What they did not find was a ready supply of labor to do the terribly hot, hard and dirty work in the cane fields.  

Coming in the spring of 2010.  A coming of age novel set in old Hawai'i and the first in the series of stories set on Molokai--Molokai pule-oo [powerful prayer] .

"I'm a citizen, dammit," Sven hissed as he squinted down the barrel of the borrowed .45 and into the muzzle of the 9mm.  "And I'm gettin' awful tired of you tryin' to kill me for 'national security' reasons too precious for
me to know about!" 

A Cookbook Memoir of Hawai'i and Its Foods

1st Place Winner of Writer's Digest International Competition!

Remembering Diamond Head, Remembering Hawai'i, featuring 250 Island recipes, many of them "heart-friendly," traces the evolution of Hawaiian food from the "fish and poi" of Polynesian natives to the multicultural hybrids that make up the best of today's Island cooking.

Released in May 2008.

Puma Son of Mountain Lion is a half-Indian boy who is away from his village undergoing the rites of manhood. When he returns, he finds his village destroyed by a warring tribe and his family slain. His mother dies in his arms and her last words are: "Go find your father."

Puma finds his father in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His father welcomes him with open arms and trains him in the white man's ways. Puma accompanies his family to visit his grandparents in Virginia and Georgia. He attends West Point and becomes a cavalry officer and placed in command of a troop charged with protecting a wagon train traveling from Independence to Santa Fe. In Santa Fe, he is directed to prevent white outlaw bands from taking the land that belongs to the early settlers and must also fight off renegade Apaches.

Released in February 2008.

After thousands of years of atomic warfare, the Antons on planet Ergo had mutated so badly that they were no longer recognizable as human. They escape to planet Duos in Galaxy 3 and establish a new civilization. However, they want to restore their bodies, so they search the universe and find what they are looking for on planet Earth.

Released in February 2008.

Still half asleep, Michael looked up at his parents sitting on the buckboard of their covered wagon and saw an arrow penetrate his father's chest. Then he saw his mother being dragged from the wagon by two Indians. She was fighting them with all her might. He watched as one of the Indians hit her with his stone ax. His mother fell from the wagon and disappeared from his sight and from his life forever. Now he was alone.

The PKO (Protect Kaho`olawe Ohana) had set up, in the 1980's, a number of accesses to that island to restore the habitat and aquafers and, at the same time, educate visitor/volunteers about this special place. My name was submitted through a couple of sponsors and I took the opportunity to visit it. Upon return to Maui, I was encouraged by my Hawaiian colleagues to write about the experience. The result was my first effort - "Still Born - Na Mele o Kaho`olawe."

Released in February 2005.

A Brief Moment in Time is a collection of stories about events in the life of a child growing up in dustbowl Oklahoma during the Great Depression of the nineteen-thirties. These stories are told in sequence beginning when the child is only five years old to the last event which occurs after that child has grown to an adult and is just entering manhood during World War II.

Released in November 2006.

The Civil War has devastated the South. Confederate money is worthless so Union Carpetbaggers are taking over the southerners’ land. Young Tyree Terel goes in search of his father, who has not returned from the war. When Ty returns, he finds that carpetbaggers have stolen his home and killed his mother and sister. Ty is no gunfighter, but he is a brave young man who is fast with a gun when necessary. A showdown occurs. Men die. Ty is labeled an outlaw and flees into the wild, untamed West. He doesn’t know it yet, but a Union major named Pothman is charged with bringing Ty in and is determined to see him hang.

Released in September 2005.

A Stone Age people lived in caves beside a river that flows into a mysterious Valley of Mist. They worshipped fire. Priests ruled, and they sacrificed anyone who defied them to the Fire God.

When girls reach womanhood, they are required to go to the temple and submit to the priests nightly until they conceive. The priests tell them that they are being impregnated by God and, if they fail to conceive, they will be thrown into the pit of Fire.