BOOKS I HAVE WRITTEN

Buried Treasures - The Age Of Manifest Destiny --- 6-2005

Buried Treasures, The Age of Manifest Destiny is a story that begins with the expansion of Spanish power and the invasion of Hispaniola in 1492 - and on through the occupation of North America, South America, Central America, Mexico, and Cuba by the Republic of Spain who wanted power and would use any means to obtain it, in order to rule the world. Then, on a smaller scale at the beginning of the 19th century, the new Americans believed that it was their destiny to spread its borders to include the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans in their quest for Manifest Destiny. All believing that their social worth was superior.     

The story then takes us through the Haitian Revolution, the Louisiana Purchase, the Battle of New Orleans, the rescue of Napoleon from St. Helena, and finally to the burial of the privateer Jean Lafitte. However, that is not the end of our story. Lafitte’s legacy lived on, in his beautiful young daughter, Angelique.

Buried Treasures - A Date With Destiny --- 2005

The second novel for this author, presents the second installment in the Buried Treasures series.

 

The saga continues,  following the lives of Raphael and Angelique as they begin their adventure in a tiny coastal village on the Louisiana Gulf Coast.  Cheniere Caminada was a special place, not just because of its picturesque setting and colorful history.  Cheniere was the living monument of a people’s pride, the identity of the people who lived and worked there.  The residents were a fascinating and beautiful variety of Acadians, Cubans, Haitians, Africans, Creoles, Indians, Chinese, Slavics, Italians, Germans, English, Portuguese, and Spaniards.

 

This remote village was a bustling fishing and oyster-harvesting community on October 1st 1893, but on the next morning it was gone.  The Great Gulf Storm of 1893 flooded the tiny village of 450 homes with massive waves and estimated winds of over 100 miles per hour.  The French speaking community consisted of 1600 persons, less than half remained alive.

 

There were many stories of courage and bravery displayed by men and women during this devastation. However, there was one story of a 14 year old boy, that has never been told - until now. This is a true story of a brave young man named Claydomere who was washed out to sea on a rooftop. Eight days later he was found near death, over 30 miles across the Gulf, away from his home and family. Picked up by the pilot boat "Underwriter," he was taken to New Orleans where the Captain's brother, being a physician, cared for him. Three months later he was well enough to return to his home and family. But had they survived? Was his home still standing? This story will pull at your heart strings.

Buried Treasures - Through The Eye Of Destiny --- 2005

The third novel for this author, presents the last installment in the Buried Treasures series.

 

The saga continues and we  follow the traumatic events experienced by Raphael and Angelique as they fight for their lives after the devastation done to their Gulf Coast village of Cheniere Caminada by a severe hurricane.

 

After the storm, Angelique thinking her husband dead and not wanting to go on living without her family, decided to take her own life in order to be reunited with her loved ones forever.  Her plan was to board the Delta Conveyance and travel to the Desire World, as she had so many times before. However, this time she was never coming back.

 

Follow Hycinthe' as she embarks on a dangerous journey in search of her friend Angelique who is somewhere in the Desire World.  Will she rescue her in time to prevent her friend from going through the Eye of Destiny and certain death?

 

Come along for an exciting ride on the Delta.

The Disappearance of Alice - The Story Of The Great Gulf Storm of 1893 --- 2006

The fourth novel for this author, presents a tale of tragedy and survival.

WHAT IS THE WILL TO SURVIVE? It has been described as hope, determination, and a positive mental attitude. The "will to survive" is commonly referred to as a desire to live despite seemingly insurmountable mental or physical obstacles. When there seems to be no escape from your situation, and the odds seem against you, the "will to survive" can provide you with the spark you need to press on. The will to survive can also be considered "the refusal to give up."

"The Disappearance of Alice" is based on real events. In 1893, when a fierce hurricane destroyed her tiny village on the Louisiana Gulf Coast, a six year old child was separated from her family by the strong wind and waves, snatched by Mother Nature, tossed out into the night, alone and scared she endured days of torment on the open sea. Tiny bruised fingers clung desperately to a rooftop that floated 90 miles across the Gulf, away from her home and family.

Alice was fair skinned with hair golden that flowed in curls down her back. Those golden locks would shine as a beacon and eventually call attention to her near lifeless body as it floated on the waves toward her destiny.

Her story has never been told, until now. This is a story of a beautiful little Creole girl who was washed out to sea on a rooftop during a devastating hurricane. Days later, she was found in the surf near death, but her will to survive was strong.

A childless couple rescued her from an angry sea and for over ten years Alice lived with her foster parents, believing her real parents dead. But were they?

A Deal On A Handshake - The Story of Wildcatting And The Search For Oil --- 2007

The author’s 5th novel has topped her first!

While drilling for oil, wildcatters battle competitors and sabotage. A story of treachery, betrayal and treason - with rich sights and sounds of a unique place, alive with passion, dark with greed and desperation, this novel is an unforgettable reading experience.

Magical, bold and untamed, this is the story of an American wildcatter. A novel from the flat, red, dusty plains of Texas to the swamp lands of South Louisiana and the rich black oil pulsating beneath their surface. It is an eerie, feverish, delicate tale of Texas men and women and one man in particular, J.W. "Blackie" Corley, a patriarch who charmed his family to destruction.

With his wild recklessness, his magic touch, and his rash ways, J.W. was a born wildcatter, staking his life and livelihood drilling for oil in unlikely places. But oil would twist and break J.W. and take a price, finally, from his family.

Based on actual events.

For The Sake Of My Country -  An Intimate Conversation With Lt. Col. Jesse A. Marcel, Sr. --- 2007

Major Jesse Marcel was the intelligence officer for the 509th Composite Bomb Group of the Army Air Force stationed at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. At the beginning of World War II, Roswell Army Airfield opened and became home to the 509th bombardment group, the only Atomic Bomber wing in the world.

Major Marcel was a key witness and one of the first military personnel to handle the wreckage of an extraterrestrial spaceship crashed near Roswell in the early days of July 1947. The very fact that this man not only touched what he believed to be a space craft not of this earth, but had pieces of it in his home, is utterly amazing. In 1947 there were no television documentaries on UFO sightings as we have today. There were no support groups for people who claimed to have had a close encounter of some kind, as today.

How do you live your life after something like this happens to you? How did Jesse cope with the fact that this incident changed his life? What did Jesse now believe that he didn’t believe before the incident? Why did he wait 32 years before coming out with his story? And would he draw what he saw?

This book will reveal the only hand drawn depiction of the debris found at Roswell - from an actual eye witness who was at the crash site. 

Cheniere Caminada And The Tidal Wave Of 1893 - The Incredible Survival Of Claydomere Paul Lafont --- 2010

The author’s novel offers us an intimate look at life and hardships in a small fishing community on the Louisiana Gulf Coast in 1893.

 

Hit hard by tropical storms and hurricanes, the community suffered many losses, not just of their property and family, but of their innocence. The village of Cheniere Caminada had a population of 1600 on October 1, 1893. The next day half were gone.

 

The legacy left by the people of Chénière is a proud and courageous one. Chénière, before the 1893 storm, was a special place, not just because of its picturesque setting and colorful history - it was the living monument of a people’s pride - the identity of the people who lived and worked there.

 

There was a wild beauty about this place where waves rolled with haughty grandeur against the sandy shore. One day that wild beauty went horribly awry when the sea suddenly swept in over the land, then rushed out again with a terrible force, taking people with it.

 

There were many stories of survival, each one more horrible than the last. One, in particular, of a 14- year-old boy who experienced an 8 day ordeal on a raft so terrible that one can only imagine bow he survived so long without food or water, will break your heart - not only for the reality of the tragedy, but for the way in which it is told to the reader.

 

A beautiful compelling story of loss and redemption and the complex destructiveness of grief set against the Reconstruction Era in the South after the Civil War. It is a story of devotion and discovery, belief and trust, but above all - love - the love between one very special soul and another.

 

 

Based on actual events.