Kirjahaku

She's bright, she's beautiful, she's young, she's smart, she's ambitious, she's an orphan. As the sun sets on the day before Maria Martin's dream is to come true, her tennis ball gets away from her as she practices her strokes against the garage door of her foster home and rolls down a hill and into the garage of the house below. It is the home of two dark and evil men.He's the come-back champ. Left four years previous by the only woman he's ever loved, Russell Tucker has finally put down the bottle and resurrected his tennis career. As a bonus, he's just made a remarkable new friend in ball-girl Maria Martin at a pro tennis event and his life couldn't be better. Then Maria steps in front of a bullet that is aimed at him.Holly Stone is a world-renowned singer, remarried and on top of the charts, her life is perfect. Until her brand new husband, the man she thought she knew so well, brutally attacks her in their own home. Afraid for her life and with nowhere else to go, she takes a long red-eye flight to her childhood home where she finds her ex-husband desperately fighting to save a young girl's life.Benny Gluman is a snoop; he's a paparazzi reporter and he's hell-bent on destroying the lives of Russell and Holly. Join him as he looks through his camera lens and tries to figure out just what they are up too with this young girl lying comatose in a bed on Russell's beach estate and then listen in with him as Russell and Holly give Maria something to cling to as they tell her the story of their lives in this epic coming-of-age tale that brims with love, hope, and new discovery.But they must wake her quickly, for evil comes their way, and it seeks the secrets that Maria found in the shadows of that basement garage and then hid away so well.

A trilogy of stories about the resurrection of hope in the hearts of people whose lives have been crushed by tragic events.Book One - Prayers for the Soul of a Dying Star - He knew. Going to sea alone and unprepared wasn't the wisest thing to do. But he was too tired to care. And so not knowing if anything ever mattered, he hoisted sail, hoping to find something to set a course for - something bright, like a guiding star. Then the gale hit, with its high winds, thundering waves, and cracking lightning, and all of the stars were obscured, and he figured this was a good way to go - drowning quiet in the din. But the island - uncharted - got in the way of even that.Book Two - Prayers for the Soul of a Raging Moon -She runs the night--with the moon over her shoulder and a small pistol hidden in her shorts--Amy Tamme jogs the dark city streets. Her guilt paces her steps as revenge fuels the beat of her raging heart.Oh, how she misses him--her beloved husband--this man who loved her unto dying--as he saved her from the man that attacked her as she was jogging in the predawn hours those many months ago.And so now she hunts for her husband's murderer, using her body as bait as she runs a path through the darkest haunts of the city...her steps keeping a measured beat to the rage of the pulse in her veins, with the full moon over her back, shining out its call--a false siren of light--for the revenge of her lost and dear man.But then...one night Amy happens upon a newly opened jazz bar, with great live music and the tastiest craft beers, and she makes a new friend. And somehow this wonderful woman is like unto a savior for the rage that is crashing through her exhausted mind, and before Amy can muster the courage to reach out to her, this new friend comes to her instead, and Amy must decide if revenge is now her eternal and dark way going forward with her life, or if friendship and hope is her newly lit pathway. But then she tries to have both...and that can never work...or can it?Book Three - Prayers for the Soul of a Virgin Comet -The most beautiful woman in the world is a virgin. She stands every night at the end of her dock looking up to the stars, hoping for and dreaming of the chance to start her life again. But the nightmare that lies anchored in her past weighs much too heavy on her heart, so she sighs and turns back for the walk to her lonely home. Then one night there appears on the horizon a new light, a comet. And it has purpose--a cosmic mission--and this tragic and beautiful woman is forced to make a fateful decision.

The Bleeding Woman, Book Two of Sailor Stone's The Girl on the Cross trilogy, continues where book one, The Jairus Man, left off. Benny is now in the midst of his obsession and he finds Russell and Holly to be different in all ways than how he'd imagined them. FBI agent, Cooper Latchet, begins his hunt for Maria's attackers and he soon finds his life turned upside down after he meets Tamera and her seductive ways. Smokey begins to tell Maria, as she slips ever deeper into her coma, about what happened to him in Vietnam. All of this as Maria's attackers lurk in the dark of night just outside of the bedroom where she sleeps in Russell's estate.

In Talitha Cumi, book three of "The Girl on a Cross" trilogy, Russell comes center stage as he begins to tell Maria about the evil that came at him and his friends in the summer and fall of 1981. Agent Cooper Latchet is in way over his head with Tamera and her hauntingly sexual ways. Benny tries to man-up after a lifetime of living in the gutter. Holly is still being stalked by Chase, and Maria sets out on a journey to find her way home from the dark of her coma while being pursued by the same evil that was after Russell in his own childhood. Meanwhile, Maria's attackers are coming at her one more time.