Don March

Amber Cloud is a very different Western. We follow a girl named Jessie, in her early teens she has lived her whole life in a small town just west of the Mississippi. Jessie was born just after the civil war and her whole world has been her small out of the way sleepy, dusty town. Her mother's best friend Josephine, just moved back into the town, her children were Jessie and her sister Mikey's best friends before Josephine and her boys moved back east. Josephine left town following a bitter separation, and her return brings conflict and questions with her two sons and with her ex-husband. Jessie shares her love of the mystical "cowboy life" portrayed in the dime novels of the time and her love of the six-shooter. The beloved town doctor is shot, horses are stolen from the livery and Josephine's boys go missing in the dead of night, the talk of a posse spurns Jessie to go after the boys despite her father's wish to stay out of, what her father sees as a family dispute. Jessie's rescue mission is quickly complicated, when she is mistaken for one of the boy's. Her father comes to the rescue, but not the stogy shopkeeper father she has known but by the man, her father was during the Civil war, a dashing and heroic army scout. Together they ride to save the boys. Along the way, they join up with her father's old army unit and a group of Polish immigrants her father once saved from a deadly fever. The army unit turns out to be an elite civil war anti-guerrilla unit and the Polish immigrants turn out to be Polish Lancers, the finest cavalry unit in all of Europe. Their ride to save the boys, is much, much more, it is a ride straight into a trap. A trap set by a bitter foe of Jessie's Dad, a vile southern bushwhacker, the Snake of the South.

On the Beach at Turtle Bay is primarily the story of Bob Downing, a Union activist and parcel carrier. The reader will follow Bob, who thinks he's making a smart career choice by becoming a full-time officer in the National Association of Parcel Carriers. Bob instead becomes tangled in the wrongdoings of Nickolas James, Local Branch President. Bob's journey takes him down a path of sex, bribery and confrontations with Nick's more shady friends, culminating at the Turtle Bay Resort on the island of Oahu at a Parcel Carriers' convention.Along with Bob, we also follow other parcel carriers winding through their relationships with passion, romance and heartbreak: Nickolas James, whose indiscretions ultimately lead to the downfall of himself and others?Audrey Nance, a parcel carrier from a rural community whose small-town innocence causes her to suffer a great deal of heartbreak.David, the aspiring writer, whose long-time crush on Faith is ultimately shattered by Bob.Cami, a co-worker of David and Faith: Her close relationship with Nick is always in question.Amanda and Matthew, long-time members whose concern with Nick's illicit activities spark the interest of parties outside the branchDarcy, a promiscuous part-time officer who will do anything to secure a merger with another branch.Eddie, a Vietnam vet, brings humor with his schoolboy anticsDi, Bob's wife, who struggles with her addictions and reliance on BobOn the Beach at Turtle Bay is a full and vibrant story that contrasts the stark realities of illicit business dealings with the romance and beauty of paradise.

En la playa en Waikiki est una historia sobre la Mark Massman al revelador del software que visita Oahu para una conferencia del software. Su uni n est en sus piernas pasadas, l est en el borde del software que cambia de la industria, pero el encanto de las capturas de la isla su coraz n y la pasi n durante la conferencia. Mark para una carencia de una palabra mejor, va salvaje; l est fuera del control, que deletrea su condenaci n y ca da. Mark pierde todo, su uni n, su esposa y su trabajo as que l decide permanecer en Oahu y hacer un ir de l con los poco mil d lares que l tiene que su nombre. Incluso con la ayuda de algunos los vecinos, eso que l entablar amistad con, su vida deteriora m s lejos dej ndolo se rompi y n mada en la playa en Waikiki. En la playa @ Waikiki es una historia que clava que pone en contraste las realidades r gidas de vivir en para so con el romance y la belleza de las islas que los turistas ven.

This book is On the Beach at Poi Pu, a twisted, sexually bent tale based around four couples and the Ironman Triathlon on the Big Island of Hawaii. The Ironman Triathlon draws three related couples together. Kate and Josh, Kate's participation in the Ironman brings them all to the Big Island. Kate is focused on training, her whole life is training, and Josh is focused on being casual, computers, video games, good drink and good food. Mike and Tammy they live behind a facade of a perfect marriage, Mike is Kate's brother and Mike is a repressed gay and the stress of keeping up that perfect facade has placed Tammy on the brink of emotional collapse. Dan and Allie, Allie is Kate and Mike's aunt, she hungers for the good life always comparing her life to others and everyone's grass is greener. Dan prefers the simple life and despite money problems he makes the trip because Allie demands it. Mallory and Karol, Kate and Mike's parents didn't make the trip, Mallory's health the reason. Mallory is demanding and domineering. Karol is subservient and he is also a repressed gay. We throw in Lisa, Kate's lesbian trainer and Mike's best friend and boss Bob who seems to be gay and isn't. In Hawaii, the three couples' marriages are pushed to the point of disintegration before, during and after the Ironman. One couple is drawn closer, one completely disintegrates, one realizes they are better apart and two new couples emerge on the beach at Poi Pu.Some people might call it a romance novel, some call it escapism; I call it a nice little twisted fantasy.