Brian had thought he had finally shaken off the pains of his childhood, a childhood stolen by his alcoholic father when he met Parminder, a brilliant Punjabi woman in Boston to attend Harvard on a scholarship. Together they forge a dream family despite a racist world around them in the 1980’s and 1990’s. When all seems to be going well, something terrible arises from Brian's past and threatens to tear it all down. It’s a tale of finding love despite the challenges of the outside world.
BUY NOW ON AMAZONFollowing the tragic death of Brian, the O'Malley must bond together to survive. As Parminder finds her strength waning due to the loss of her love and the oncome of a hidden illness, her daughter Sahara steps up and becomes the glue to bound the family in difficult and risky times with the IRA still on the front. Sahara dedicates 15 years of her life putting herself through Harvard Law and then join the Districts Attorney’s office and ultimately help reopen a cold case, her father’s. She and the office go head to head with a corrupt police group and the IRA. Sahara ultimately is battling to clear her father’s name. This is the Sequel to Brian's Stolen Dream.
BUY NOW ON AMAZONParminder's Legacy is the third and final book in the O'Malley and will deal with the follow-up to Parminder’s death. Sahara on the heels of finally gaining justice for her father's death loses her mother to a rare decease borne from her childhood homeland. She and her brother Dylan do what is expected of them and return her ashes to the Punjabi. While there, they once again face the threat of the IRA who are still looking for retribution for their losses in Boston at the hands of ADA Sahara O'Malley. In India they both find a connection to their mother's heritage and find they too have cultural and spiritual link to the homeland. The story goes full circle in this epic conclusion. Enjoy the twist of turns of a great romantic thriller that ultimately links a new world to and old one and brings to a close a fascinating trilogy.
BUY NOW ON AMAZONBlood and belonging are as old as the human species itself. The words themselves bring out a variety of emotions spanning the full human genome. In James’s Game, James takes on the concept by looking at the role of success in life and the importance of being born into the right family genetics as opposed to being put through the right system. The story also looks at the effects of personal cultural connections and an individual’s family history. Even today, as we look around the world, we still see caste or class systems in various parts of the world. Even where it isn’t a formal structure, in many cases, it still exists informally. While written or unwritten, the end result is the grouping of humans simply by birthplace and family lineage. James’s Game uses the old British system of elite families as the backdrop and the tale is seen through the eyes of three adopted children, one from Ireland, one from Africa, and one from China. It speaks to the mistaken value, in my opinion, of success and prestige at the expense of life’s more important values. In James’s case, because of his background, he desperately needs to prove the British nobility wrong and that any child, put through the right system, can succeed as well as any of those children from the British elites that he so despises. Thus his game is born. Welcome to James’s Game.
BUY now on AmazonIt’s the late 2020s and a young man is coming of age in a growingly hostile and challenging world. He is part of a small group of guys that are writers and song writers, young men who are trying to help change their world. They are following the model of the 1960s. He is also in love with a beautiful young woman from wealthy family. They are infatuated with each other, but her parents forbid her to see him because of he is from the wrong side of the tracks. One day a massive Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) suddenly effectively destroys the world’s technology. The event slowly sends humanity backwards and sides of the track no longer matter. In a world falling apart the two of them strive to find love while coming of age themselves.
BUY now on AmazonIt's the late 1950s. A six foot tall, albino. American actress named Jhill who is struggling for work ends up in Tokyo, a city which is still recovering post World War II. She becomes part of a craze of a new wave of silent films. The Japanese, in need of entertainment fall in love with Japanese silent black and white remakes of American classics. She's statuesque and becomes all the craze for the Japanese men and is suddenly the biggest film star in Japan. A news crew from Time magazine heads to Tokyo to interview her. One of the men in the crew, a 24 year old recent graduate, catches the eye of the 48 year actress known only as Jhill. They begin a passionate but bizarre love affair and she introduces to a very unusual underworld. Ritual killings and cage matches amidst opium fueled orgies. She drags him down through a depraved Tokyo to an unknown end. International Impact Award-Winner
BUY NOWImagine seemingly being handed the gift of a lifetime just when you needed it most. For Jennifer Tinsdale, a failed writer, finding eight unpublished, brilliant manuscripts while working as a custodian at the estate of man who had long being in a coma, well it seemed to be a gift from God. However it wasn't long before the gift starts to look quite the opposite. Jennifer then finds herself in battle to clear herself from an unholy contract she never intended to be part of.
BUY NOW ON AMAZONThree thrilling urban legends from across the for great Canadian landscape THE FOGO ISLAND BLIND SPOT Four McGill university students stumble into terror and a history of hatred between the Irish and the British that goes back hundreds of years when they unwittingly journey to Fogo Island Newfoundland to research a famous Canadian urban legend as part of their university history program. THE MANITOBA MINING MIST With the help of a crooked politician, an unscrupulous mining company sets up camp in a small Manitoba town and begin digging in an Indian burial ground. Ultimately, they dig in the wrong spot and a mine collapse takes the lives of many poor miners and releases a mist, a deadly mist. With the help of an Indian high priest the town folks manage to close the mine and the mist, staving off further disaster. Seventy Five years later, a group of university students, having learned about the story through a course on Canadian Urban Legends reopens the mine and worse, reopens the horror. THE BC NIGHT TRAIN A visiting Professor, from Hong Kong is in BC to audit a new course being offered by a number of Canadian University on Urban Legends. While auditing the course, at UBC, he is strangely taken by an urban legend call the BC Night Train and as the class takes on overnight ride on historic train, he find himself suddenly engulfed in what seems to be a reoccurrence of the horrors of the past.
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BUY NOW on AmazonKevin O’Brien grew up in tough world. He was born in Belfast in 1964 and grew up in the 1970’s in a divided and violent city. It was a battleground for the IRA, the Orangemen and the British army. Kids like Kevin were often the ones who paid the biggest price. Kevin did eventually manage to escape the chaos of his youth and found himself as respected detective for the Dublin Police. However, just as he feels he has shaken off the hardships of his youth and found comfort in Dublin his wife suddenly leaves him. As he struggles to deal with the loss, he picks up the bottle to drown his sorrows which ultimately leads to challenges at work. As the challenges start to close in on him, he was given a unique and challenging case. It crossed both Belfast and Dublin, his old and new worlds. While investigating the case, a series of brutal child murders, he finds that he has a repressed memory, one that is connected both to a horrific event in the past and the child murders. Now trapped inside the case himself, he finds he is facing an evil of biblical proportions.
BUY NOW ON AMAZONThe Celtic culture is riddled with myths and legends. Many diverse and enthralling stories have been told throughout the land for centuries. Some are but childish fairy tales, sometimes happy but more often not. Others, however, harken back to an older, harsher and darker world. While these stories may appear to be simple childhood tales, they’re often mixed with a degree of horrific truth. Where these stories originated isn’t always clear. Some are well-known tales borrowed from generation to generation, while others border on the fringes of reality. Why do such tales exist? That in itself is another story. Figuring out the why became the obsession of those drawn into those myths and legends. Ultimately, there are those within Irish society who seek to answer the question of why. Eamon McTaver is one of those people. He had been drawn into the great tales told around the dinner table by his father, uncles and their friends. They all listened, back then, with bated breath as each speaker spun their tale. In many ways, it was a duty, as they were Irish and the dinner table, within an Irish home, was both a speakeasy and an altar. Over time, myths and legends eventually became part of Eamon’s DNA. The desire to understand the nature and the why consumed him. Ultimately, he followed his calling, achieved a PhD in Irish history and landed a teaching position in Irish history at Trinity in Dublin. He soon became a leading figure in the research of Irish myths and legends. In time, Eamon also learned that there were legends that should well enough be left buried.
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BUY now on AmazonThis is a YA fantasy co writing project that I worked on with former Ontario Solicitor General David Tsubouchi. Its a story that David had created a couple of years back based on his imagination and experience. It is an amazing tale that combines fantasy and history in ancient Mongolia.
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