Uncle Basil
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Uncle Basil’s Demise
Amidst the gas-lit streets of 1870 London, twenty-two-year-old Tamsin’s world is shattered when she discovers her beloved uncle, a retired Lieutenant Detective for Her Majesty, dead at his desk. It is midnight and sounds from her uncle’s library woke her. Determined to uncover the truth behind his untimely demise, Tamsin embarks on a perilous journey of deception and investigation. With the clock ticking and suspicion mounting, she must navigate the dangerous labyrinth of Victorian society to unmask a killer lurking in the shadows. A killer who may take her life as well. Perhaps a killer who is close to her. Finding a welcome ally in Harrison Spenser, a criminal law student, whom her uncle mentored, Tamsin and Harrison race against time to unravel the secrets of her uncle’s final moments. Can the two amateur sleuths uncover the sinister truths hiding behind the façade of respectability, or will the secrets of Uncle Basil’s demise be buried forever?
Love Has No Color: Love's Legacy
Nanzee and Basil Barden-Love, with their family, continually and un-dauntingly conquer whatever life metes out. Meanwhile, Gwen Duncan is on the rollercoaster ride of her life; she finds herself enduring things she emphatically detests. For Love, her reason for endurance is the cause of her misery. He is determined not to be bullied by her. She will know there is a difference between Basil and himself! Nanzee, on occasion winces at Gwens thoughtlessness; but she determines never to let it ruin her marriage. Meanwhile, Gwen, herself moves through a maze of uncertainty as their friendship forged since childhood is threatened.
John’S Pond
Like many other contemporary Cape Cod communities, Mashpee is a place divided among linesaffluence, race, heritage, and history. It will take nothing less than the selfless actions of a few pioneers to change the unchangeable. Tobin Horvath knows the pain of life in such a divided community. Two centuries earlier, his peoples land was swindled away by European settlers. Now, he and the other members of the Wampanoag nation work to win their land back, but its an uphill fight. Tensions are at the boiling point between the whites and the indigenous peoples, and no matter how much his Caucasian girlfriend, Laurie Matthews, tries to reassure him, he knows there is trouble on the horizon. Aware of her own familys prejudice, Laurie must conceal their love. Tobin and Laurie escape to Big Medicine Wheel, Wyoming, where she truly comes to understand Tobins peaceful relationship with the beauty and serenity of nature. But that sense of serenity is shattered when they returnand Laurie finds herself the target of hatefulness. Tobin sees the unhappiness and conflict in Lauries eyes, so he makes a decision to save them both. Despite Tobins effort though, it only makes matters worse. Then when Laurie learns of her mothers dark secret, her life continues to spiral downwardand tragedy awaits.