Illinois Authors

Someone in a peaceful Pennsylvania town has a brutal murder on his conscience......but who and why remain a mystery⁰́₄ until Meg Kessinger moves in. The house she's inherited from an aunt is dilapidated, but she adores it⁰́₄ and sets about restoring it with the help of a hunky, laid-back lawyer; a handsome, witty artist; and the secretive husband of her new girlfriend down the road. But soon Meg's rustic rhapsody is blighted by telltale traces of an unseen intruder's search for...what? Her determination to piece together rumors about the sexpot who lived there before her, and the convenient death of an old lady with a twitchy heart, will drag her into a perilous undertow of greed, cunning, and desperation that could turn her dream house into a waking nightmare...

St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York : 1999, ©1998.

Steck-Vaughn, Austin, TX : ©1993.

A biography of the Mexican president who during his tenure in office separated church and state, established religious tolerance, and made the land distribution system more equitable.

St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, N.Y. : 1997, ©1996.

St. Martin's Press, New York : 1996.

In the woods near Chicago, Robert Cooper encounters a boy and his guardian running from men trying to kill them. He puts them up in his house and proceeds to solve the puzzle: why did the boy's father leave him in the woman's care without giving a reason?

Raintree Childrens Books, Milwaukee : ©1987.

A teddy bear family spends an exciting day in and out of the water at the beach.

Raintree Publishers, Milwaukee : ©1989.

A biography of "El Libertador," whose victories over the Spaniards won independence for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.