THE STORY: A neurotic, middle-aged woman, her crippled son, and his sexually seething young wife await the return of Rosebloom, the father of the family, who has been in prison for twenty-six years. As they wait, their hidden thoughts come alive in

Rose - a precocious young girl in 1930s Wisconsin - runs away from home to avoid going onto high school and what she sees as a certain path to marriage and motherhood. What she seeks is adventure. What she finds is much more. ---------- Rose is thrown into the lives of the varied people and towns of the Mississippi while working on river boats, going to a prep school in St. Louis where she lives with a black family in the Ville, and working in a bordello in New Orleans (not as a call girl, of course. She is a Catholic girl from the Midwest after all). What she doesn't anticipate are the close relationships that develop with many of the women she encounters. She also discovers the harshness of the world far away from the security of home. Ultimately, Rose realizes what is most important in her life: her family and her friends. ---------- Rosebloom takes place at a time in history that buffets Rose between the great depression and the coming wave of World War II. She gets herself into situations through her naiveté and also just by chance that test her resolve and teach her not only about herself but about the world of others which she would have never know if she hadn't left her small farm in Southwest Wisconsin.

This is a thriller novel that holds you from the starting till the end. Here the protagonist is Jay Smith, after the death of his girlfriend he suffered from depression. He travels to Montauk one day to share his experience with Shelly- his fiancée. He discovers the story of his college girlfriend, and she died six months earlier. Jay will explain to her how she died, and why he was one of the reasons for her death. If Shelly listens, Jay’s story will find out why Jay was one of the reasons for death. If she listens will change Jay’s life forever.

A woman is suddenly diagnosed with a debilitating chronic disease, shortly after the death of her father. Unable to cope with her reality, she finds herself separated from her children and living on the streets while grappling with a fierce addiction to methamphetamine. Forced to make the ultimate decision, she must choose to live or die. This is the uncensored account of her journey to recovery.