This is a supernatural time-slip novel which links two people from the same family but living centuries apart. Florence Pilkington-Smythe is an inmate in eighteenth century Bedlam and Stacy Smith, an author of chick-lit fiction, her modern day descendant. These two women are mysteriously linked and experience each other's lives, even though they live two centuries apart. This is a book about madness and confusion told through the eyes of two very different women, recording both their descents into madness and how they emerge out of the other side.

A record of the author's teaching experiences among the Walapai and Havasupai Indians

Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

Part crime family, part law enforcement, the Bedlam Boys are the beating heart and the blackened soul of Mt. Riley. To some, they are saviors. To others, they're terrorists. Led by Nikkolaus Beck, the public Face of the dictatorship, and Julian Work, a man as brilliant as he is insane, they are the force that brings order to the city and peace to its people.But when Nikkolaus finds love with Nate Thomas, a streetwise prostitute with nothing to lose, he unknowingly sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to destroy them all. Stricken by tragedy, the Dictator declares war on his city, and there's only one man alive who can save it. Is he willing to take the final step and do what must be done, or will the Bedlam crush Mt. Riley for good?

It was a warm summer afternoon when Bill and his little sister Nell headed out with their fishing poles and snacks for the little pond in the meadow. "Be home in time for supper," Mother called as she waved goodbye. Later that afternoon while sitting beneath a shade tree eating their snacks, they spied off in the distance a rusted old steam engine with a caboose attached behind. On exploring it further, they encounter unexpected events that prevent them from ever making it home in time for supper. Enjoy this mixture of adventure, fantasy, suspense and Christian morals all in one as you follow Bill and Nell through their adventures into the unknown.

RMS Rhone, just three years old then and the pretty queen of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company’s fleet, sank in the great St. Narciso hurricane of late October 1867, a devastating category three storm that bored a line east to west atop the Antilles, and ruthlessly thinned the islands’ population while it sank some seventy ships in port and local waters. Fleeing from Tortola across Drake Strait and toward open water at full speed, through the backside of the hurricane and nearly blinded by rain and spray, Rhone drove aground on Black Rock, in the shallows off Salt Island, shoved to her fate by 140 mile and hour winds. The impact and the subsequent explosion of her boiler tore the 310-foot long ship in half. One hundred twenty four drowned that morning or were scalded to death in the engine room. Only twenty-three survived. Five other company ships went down, too. Remarkably, a sixth company ship, the tiny paddle steamer Conway managed to live through the day, although dismasted and with her deck swept clear of funnel, paddle boxes, and rigging. This is the story of those ships, and the story of Jeremiah Murphy, a salty hardhat diver, who spent most of the next six years salvaging the wreck of the Rhone and clearing neighboring harbors of the storm’s detritus. Without a doubt, Black Rock and Blue Water will appeal powerfully to readers of maritime history, and to recreational divers of all ages.