In his reflection back over the years of his marriage, a man discovers the inner beauty of the woman who shared his life for over fifty years. Retracing the steps taken on a path which carried him and his wife through high school, military service, Pacific crossings, higher education, raising a family and into the final stages of life, the man realizes that skin-surface beauty is not the only thing which captures a mans heart and holds it in a gentle firmness over the years. A womans self-effacing support and steadfast strength inspires her husband to capture her essence in a poetic-like proseduring what could be the final hours of his life.

A missing woman. A suitcase full of drug money. An ex-cop with nothing to lose. A roadside shooting ended both his career and his marriage and sent ex-state trooper Henry Malone back to his childhood home in Serenity, West Virginia. A request to look into the disappearance of a young mother becomes a second chance, an opportunity to redeem himself. But Malone finds the unexpected as he scratches beneath his hometown’s surface: Crooked lawyers. Meth cooks. A hair-triggered sheriff. A beautiful legal secretary. And a seductive yet deadly white supremacist. It is a dangerous mix that leads Henry and his well-armed AA sponsor, Woody, down onto a wild and deadly road. A missing-persons case becomes the struggle for both men just to stay alive.

Everybody has secrets?For years, Benedict Lyon has been living a lie. Not even his family knows the truth he's been keeping from the world. Only Emmeline knows his secret-and she's dead.?some are darker than others?When the matriarch of the Lyon family passes away, Benedict is summoned home for the funeral. Emmeline urges Benedict not to go, certain that if he returns to that house, neither one of them will escape.?but are they worth dying for?Their presence in the family home causes the spirit of Gloria Lyon to become restless, and as the remaining members of the Lyon family attempt to put their mother to rest, long buried secrets, some deadlier than others, are unearthed. Who will survive?The Midnight Lullaby

This book reflects over fifty years of experience. Each has its own story, expressed by very different characters, some likeable and others a test of one's love for all humanity. Yet within them all there is a consistency of values (often expressed indirectly, or by their absence) and a 'spiritual' sense of the sacredness of life, the primacy of compassion and the overarching reality of interconnectedness. Dennis Oliver's poems and songs reflect their author's experiences of love and transcendence, plus an impatience with cruelty, injustice and indifference, providing many uplifting, touching, sometimes funny and sometimes inspirational reads.

A collection of poems for the Halloween season, designed to be read aloud on a dark Autumn into Winter night, when the moon shines bright, and the shades of orange glitter and glimmer through black shadows, into frosty light...