Murder on Sassafras Creek
Return to Carentan
Return to Carentan
When U.S. Army Air Force fighter pilot Donovan Davis parachuted from his doomed P51 Mustang fighter plane, in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, he thought his life may be over. In reality the golden years of his life had just begun.
A nearby band of French Partisan fighters quickly rescued the downed American Pilot. Included in his rescuers was a 19-year old French farm girl named Margaret Inghouf. Over the next 10 days Davis fought with the French freedom fighters.
In the pivotal post D-Day battle for the French crossroads town of Carentan, Davis was critically wounded. Margaret Inhouf saved his life and left him badly wounded in an America field hospital.
The seeds of love Margaret Inghouf and Donny Davis had planted in war-torn France in June of 1944, flourished when the former pilot and war hero returned to Carentan in 1984. Ten years later on the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Davis and his new wife, Margaret Inghouf-Davis completed their family circle.
White Collar Mules
White Collar Mules is a story of George and Susan Acworth and their grief over the loss of an only child. Successful businesses, comfortable income, world travel….nothing could stop the nightmares, the anxiety, the deep depression. Trouble, it seemed, traveled well. More than 16 years since their son, Thomas Grayson Acworth was killed in the first battle of Fallujah, in Iraq. Nothing, they thought could erase the pain of burying their son. They were wrong! Survival, as White Collar Mules, proved to be more difficult.
BROKEN NOT BEATEN
The Extraordinary Life of Dr. Kirin Torranz
Broken Not Beaten (subtitle) The Extraordinary Life of Dr. Kirin Torranz, is a sweeping 80-year saga of the life of a young Danish medical student who is swept up in WW2, when the German Army occupies Denmark.
As an example of total NAZI control, the German commander makes her a medical doctor, though she has only two years of medical school experience.
She later becomes an officer in the German Army Medical Corp and becomes the common law wife or a German officer. Kirin follows him, Colonel Klaus von Pratt to North Africa and back to Paris in 1944.
With no other options to escapes occupied Germany and spend three years alone in Montevideo, Uruguay. After which she finds her lost brother and parents and reunites with them in the U.S.
She becomes an American citizen, joins the U.S. Army and later becomes a General in the Army Medical Corps.
Ultimately Dr. Kirin Torranz becomes a pioneer in the development of artificial hearts and in perfecting procedures for open heart surgery.
At age 100, she becomes the oldest person to survive Covid-19.
DEEBO’S WARNING
Deebo’s Warning is a literary novel about memory, consequence, and the quiet moments when a life changes direction—often without anyone noticing at the time.
Wyatt Jennings is shaped by a single warning he chooses not to heed. Years later, the weight of that decision follows him through love, ambition, and loss, revealing how the past never truly releases its claim. Set against a historically grounded backdrop, the novel explores how ordinary people carry extraordinary burdens long after the moment of choice has passed.
More reflective than suspense-driven, Deebo’s Warning is a story about the private costs of ignoring hard truths—and the people we become as a result.
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Deebo’s Warning is a literary novel about memory, consequence, and the quiet moments when a life changes direction—often without anyone noticing at the time.
Wyatt Jennings is shaped by a single warning he chooses not to heed. Years later, the weight of that decision follows him through love, ambition, and loss, revealing how the past never truly releases its claim. Set against a historically grounded backdrop, the novel explores how ordinary people carry extraordinary burdens long after the moment of choice has passed.
More reflective than suspense-driven, Deebo’s Warning is a story about the private costs of ignoring hard truths—and the people we become as a result.
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Kings of Rock & Roll
Billy King and Eddie King share a regal last name. They share a genius level for music. They do not share a race. In the Deep South in the 1960s gifted black musicians and gifted white musicians rarely played and sang together. Billy and Eddie did–in a big way.
In 1965, the Kings met Danny and Mickey Prince. Then, they found a Court Jester. A six-foot, eight-inch, red haired rich kid who to most observers had zero in common with the white kid and the black kid, who formed the band. And the Prince brothers. They were in a whole different social culture. Phil Jester loved the Kings and Princes, and they loved him.
From the jump, their band Kings Court was Southern Rock & Roll royalty. When Kings Court played music at the nearby Sugar Shack, kids came from three states to watch and hear. They were bound for Rock & Roll fame and fortune.
Music people with influence came calling. King Court spread their Middle Georgia roots across the South. The next step was the fame and fortune they had each dreamed about.
Then Vietnam came. Then racial unrest and riots in the streets came. Then Kings Court was gone forever. Or were they?
Kings of Rock & Roll is about two loves. Music for the boys in the band and the Girl with the Strawberry Curls for Billy King.
In the long run, the Kings, the Princes, and the Court Jester found what they were looking for. That WHAT was not the same WHAT they were working so hard to find back in 1965.
Ethan’s Way
Lorena Abruzzi was hard-nosed, street-smart Chicago girls trying to make a life in New York City.
Christian Allan Porter was an Atlanta billionaire trying to escape a life he didn’t ask for and certainly didn’t want.
When their paths crossed in a mom-and-pop deli, across a crowded Manhattan street from the Julliard School, sparks flew and love grew. Their path was a perilous one. Sometimes filled with Southern-born laughter. Other times filled with tears generated by the different cultural realities.
The voice of reason that kept Lori and Christian together came from an unexpected source.
Ethan Marchand, and his family, were the source of Chris Porter’s wealth and fame. Though less than five feet tall and socially inadequate by any standards, Ethan, blunt and brutally honest, provided the way.
From their near calamitous meeting in New York City, to the hustle and modern-day glitter of Atlanta to the small farm in South Georgia where Lil’ Cap, as Christian was known by family and friends, was born. The city girl from Chicago and the country boy from Worth County, Georgia made their dreams come true.
Escape From Milltown
This novel is about the young life Ronnie Pridmore, who later in life became Dr. James Donnelly, who is the Father of the Unholy Ghosts in Book One of the 10-part series Family of Unholy Ghosts.
Pridmore grew up in a Central Georgia textile community, which consists of four cotton mills and five small towns. Collectively these towns are called Mill Rivers.
The story contains many back stories of his young life in Mill Rivers. His parents divorced when he was 11 years old. He was an only child. His father figure and mentor, was his Uncle Jack Davis, who was, before WW2, a professional baseball player.
Ronnie’s dream was to become a professional baseball player. He had the talent to do it. He had the family connections to do it. And, until a shattered rotator cuff in his left shoulder, he was on track to be the next Sandy Koufax for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Prior to making his way to what turned out to be a two-year career in minor league baseball, Pridmore’s life was filled with tragic events. These events shaped his future life in ways he never dreamed would happen.
Escape From Milltown is filled with humorous childhood and adolescent behavior in small town America in the 1950s and 60s.
After his injury in Spokane, Washington, Pridmore made what seemed to be an illogical choice. He joined the United States Army and volunteers to duty in Vietnam.
In Vietnam he meets Raynard Durham, a fellow Southern boy, from Louisiana. Together they are recruited to serve in the then fledgling Central Intelligence Agency.
His CIA career brings him a new family. A family of unholy ghosts.
Sister Warriors
Katherine and Carlie Davis are ghosts. Not the apparition kind. They are the children of ghosts. Nothing in their lives is what most of us would consider ‘normal.’
Kat was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, which was then a part of the Soviet Union. Her twin sister, Carlie, was born in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. They were neither sisters nor twins. Nobody who knew them, growing up in Sullivans Island, South Carolina doubted they were.
They came to the United States, from a brief life together in Australia, when both were 11 years old. From the moment they came to live across the bay from Charleston, South Carolina, Kat and Carlie were inseparable.
Brilliant, beautiful, ambitious, and competitive they lived in perfect harmony with their parents. Life was good. Life was peaceful. But, life has challenges. Theirs certainly did.
College came. Carlie left for Stanford. She was a mathematician. Her major professor in college dubbed her the smartest woman in the world. Graduate school came easy and she found her true love.
Kat chose to stay close to home. She took the challenge of being the first female to be the Top Cadet at The Citadel, in nearby Charleston, South Carolina. She was literally bred to be superior, by the Soviet Union. She was. After The Citadel, the FBI recruited and hired Kat. She was on her way to a long career in crime solving and prevention.
Then, the unthinkable happened. It was September 11, 2001. The day the world and the United States of America stood still.
Carlie should have died in the South Tower Employee Parking Garage. She didn’t, but her husband and unborn baby did not survive.
Their lives were changed forever. Kat and Carlie became the government warriors their parents had hoped and prayed they would never become.
Kat and Carlie Davis would become members of an elite U.S. Department of Defense anti-terrorism initiative. The acronym DODATI would never appear in public. The members of this elite group never existed and never will. They became The Children of the Unholy Ghosts. Their lives play an integral role in each of the 10 novels that make up the unpublished, 20-year story of the Family of Unholy Ghosts.
Goodbye Mr. Khang
Mr. Khang is a 15-foot-long Chinese box kite. The kite was built by Carlie and Kat Davis. The engineering dynamics of the colorful kite won them the South Carolina High School Science Fair when they were 15 years old.
Ultimately, the kite won Carlie a scholarship to Stanford. It also meant that Kat Davis must make a grown up decision. Together the girls were a force beyond the capabilities of any high school student. Anytime, anywhere.
Both young women new the next step in their lives would not be together. They also knew the bond that bound them would never break.
Their story, from their childhood, provides readers great insight into the women they would become.
Before leaving for college, they took their last long walk together, along the white sandy beaches they had grown up on. The town was Sullivans Island, but the place was much more. It was a home neither Carlie nor Kat expected to have.
They stood together, hand-in-hand, with Mr. Khang flying high above them in the gently breezes of the Atlantic Ocean. When Kat released the 50-foot-long twine that kept Mr. Khang in place, both young women knew their world would be changed forever.
Finding Morning Son
Antonio Michael Peron grew up the son of one of Mexico’s most successful and deadly cartels. When he takes control of the cartel, from his legendary father, A.M. Peron becomes Number 1 on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.
Unlike his father, A.M., the Morning Son, wanted a piece of the drug pie in America. This brought him into the domain of the FBI and thus became Kat Davis’ first case.
Across four continents, American law enforcement pursued the elusive Morning Son.
It was Kat Davis, the novice, young FBI agent who finally found Morning Son.
Capturing A.M. Peron should have been the end of the story. It wasn’t.
The investigation led the FBI toward a never ending trail of governmental involvement in the drug business in South and Central America. This was the background that provided both Kat and Carlie with a healthy disregard for political leaders.
