SECRETS IN A FOREST
Wilbur Rancidbatch Denton left High School early, enlisted to serve in Viet Nam at the height of the war. He somehow survived and emerged from the jungle warfare an inspired man. He returned to the states with a GED certificate, graduated from Berkeley in two years and picked up an MBA at Stanford a year later. He was a wunderkind in Silicon Valley and then disappeared, living off the land and off the grid in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, He lived upstream from, and befriended Stephen O’Brien and Claire. He loved America and watched as paramilitia men postured in his forest as patriot soldiers, threatening to tear down the democracy his brothers in battle died to serve. Few knew Wilbur’s secret and many failed to see his prowess. When the January 6th insurrection hit America, Wilbur was a one man army prepared to die fighting the insurrectionists.
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THE PLAZA PRINCE
All the ingredients of a dumpster fire threaten a retail king’s small town, department store empire. Jonathon Vogel’s niche will soon become a victim of big box stores and online shopping. Extinction is inevitable. Employees unionize. Vogel’s son-in-law, one of many store managers, is a walking disaster in the flagship store. Despised by all, including his own wife, Curtis Jenson has to go. Vogel, the billionaire CEO and Senate candidate must play Tony Soprano with his son-in-law in order to preserve four generations of family honor. Capeesh?
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THE BOOK OF LEB
O’Brien took over Dr. Smith’s research when Smith disappeared in Nova Scotia. O’Brien reveals the skeletons in the closet, the dirt swept under the carpet. With each passing discovery in the Smith family tree, O’Brien began making apologies. Uncovering the evidence, implicating relatives, some times floundering in clues leading nowhere, he marshaled onward with the pioneers from the Atlantic coast, across the Piedmont, into the Appalachians, and crossing the Great Plains. O’Brien confessed, “I now understand why Smith stopped researching his family history and fled. He may have been in fear of losing his life to one of these online family historians. There are some zealots out there insulted by my findings. I seem to be uncovering some things better left hidden. A guy claiming to be descended from Captain John Smith of Jamestown, threatened my life when I revealed the Captain died without a known heir… And it gets worse!”
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WHIT’S END, THE SEQUEL
Whit and her sister Hazel planned a trip to the British Isles, hoping to see ancestral castles and properties. A local constable turned politician, Sergeant Devon Walpole accused the Whitingtons of plotting the heist of a castle. Follow the adventures of Whit and Hazel as they go toe-to-toe, mano y mano with Walpole and Scotland Yard! Can a great-grandmother from the Midwest secure titles of nobility? Claim ancestral castles? Hope to serve as the Queen of England? Can Whit and Hazel move into an old family castle or transport the fortress to the banks of the Mississippi River? Find out…Open the book… join the madness.
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OUT OF PRINT: WHIT’S END: THE ANTHOLOGY
The 600 page edition of Whit’s End displayed at the end of the Book Talk podcast interview with Dr. Smith has been revised and reduced to the trilogy:
- Whit’s End: The Novel
- Whit’s End: The Prequel (Where Billy Gets his Goat)
- Whit’s End: The Sequel
OUT OF PRINT and now AVAILABLE for ONLINE READING
MY FATHER’S TREE
The Smith tree is fascinating, filled with success and failure, frontiersmen and explorers, paupers and preachers; people who pulled themselves up by the bootstraps, people who took other folk’s boots and made them their own. Meet 32x great grandfather, Sir Roger Montgomery, who led a Norman invasion of England in 1066. Or did he? Find James and Robert Davis at Sagadahoc, Popham Colony (Maine) in 1607. Abandon Sagadahoc in 1608 and join the seagoing Davis family as they struggle through hurricanes to defend and protect the settlement of Jamestown. Their adventures are captured in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Surf Massachusetts Bay on the Mayflower. Settle into Virginia with Peter Smith of Westmoreland, Wolphert von Kouwenhoven in New Amsterdam and Oleg Stille in New Sweden.
