Purchase
FIRMITAS
BOOK TWO in the
Pocket Full of Seeds Trilogy
​
Firmitas, the second book in the Pocket Full of Seeds Trilogy, continues the saga of Horace and Fredericka and their flight to freedom along the Oregon Trail. They must persevere across brutal terrain rife with imposters, slavers, horse thieves, and eccentric travel partners to reach the boiling cascades of the Columbia River. Meanwhile, a young San Francisco comes to life and an unproven “shortcut” through the Sierra Nevada Mountains tests endurance beyond imagination.
“Another tour de force from a master storyteller!”
—Rosemary Howe Camozzi,
New York Times contributor
​
Available in the following formats:
LIBERTAS
BOOK ONE in the
Pocket Full of Seeds Trilogy
​
Libertas is a love story rising from the despair of slavery. Fredericka is the daughter of a White plantation owner and his Black house slave. Horace is a literate slave-companion to the son of a New York hotel baron.
This first book in the Pocket Full of Seeds Trilogy follows their flight for freedom through nineteenth-century America. It was a time when runaway slaves were hunted, steamships sailed around the Horn to San Francisco, horse-tugged boats navigated the Erie Canal, a midnight tsunami struck Buffalo, Mormons sought a new Zion, and wagon trains lumbered across a continent littered with unmarked graves. Most of all, this is a story driven by an unquenchable thirst for libertas.
​
“Brimming with excitement…a literary masterpiece!”
—Debra Whiting Alexander, award-winning author and 2018 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Contemporary Fiction for Zetty
CHISELED:
A Memoir of Identity, Duplicity, and Divine Wine
Through betrayals and loss and her search for redemption an idealistic journalist becomes the unlikely co-host to a television evangelist bent on becoming the president of the United States. When her past catches up to her, she is caught in the cross hairs of politics and religion.
​
Gold Medal Winner
Readers’ Favorite International Non-Fiction-Drama
​
2016 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist
​
Gold Medal Winner
Readers’ Favorite International Audiobook Non-Fiction