Books

The Serpent Bearer

Solly Meisner, a Spanish Civil War veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, has barely settled in after his return home when he discovers powerful Nazi sympathizers are working behind the scenes in his new hometown of Pennington, South Carolina . . .

The Serpent Bearer, part World War II spy thriller, part romance, part story of buried family secrets, is a tale that stretches from Spain to Hollywood, from a small Jewish community in South Carolina to a crumbling hacienda in the Yucatan and carries us into the lives of a group of glamorous, reckless men and women, swept up by the dangerous political currents in the years before and during WW2.

To save their own lives and the lives of others, each must confront their worst fears and take courageous actions. If they fail, the world they once knew will be gone forever . . . LEARN MORE

Del Rio

DEL RIO, CALIFORNIA, a once-thriving Central Valley farm town, is now filled with run-down Dollar Stores, llanterias, carnicerias, and shabby mini-marts that sell one-way bus tickets straight to Tijuana on the Flecha Amarilla line. It’s a place you drive through with windows up and doors locked, especially at night — a place the locals call Cartel Country.

To District Attorney Callie McCall, her dying hometown is the perfect place to launch a political career and make a difference. But when the dismembered body of a migrant teen is found in one of Del Rio’s surrounding citrus groves, Callie faces a career make-or-break case that takes her on a dangerous journey down . . . LEARN MORE