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Doggone is a story of loss. It is also a wickedly wry tale of love gone wrong in three generations of a middle-class American family. It combines the heartaches and longings of the parents, grandparents, and children as they struggle with the skeletons and secret addictions kept hidden deep in the household closets. Suicide becomes a stumbling stone on their path. Learning to survive their losses presents them with an even greater hurdle.

Blips on the Way to Oblivion celebrates an odyssey of eternal love. It is about a couple who find themselves over the centuries in different countries in different lives, only to fall crushingly in love once again.

LUCKY WOLFESON is declared legally dead after a flashflood sweeps her SUV into a streambed on the island of Maui. Why she “died” is at the heart of this story of serial murders, abuse, illegal sales of Hawai’ian land, and love gone wrong. News of a killing shocks and seems rare; yet killing is a fascinating and quite common occurrence. What if the killer is kind, compassionate, and never prone to any sort of violence?

Lucky, a naive American actress, has an accident in Tangier during a break from touring Europe performing in summer drama festivals. While her ankle heals, she takes a temporary job working at the American consulate where the Puppet Master, secret head of the CIA’s North Africa operations, is headquartered. He sees Lucky’s innocent appearance as an asset. He trains her as a courier and decoder, enticing her to stay for a year with enough money to pay for her future travels and higher education.