Olivia's Song (To Dance with My Father)
2008 Golden Heart Finalist

Olivia Spencer, a divorced African-American mother, inherits fifty percent of her godmother's nightclub. The other fifty percent is left to Olivia's white businessman father, Michael Fallon. Michael doesn't know Olivia is his daughter and she would like to keep it that way, but she needs his expertise to get the club back on its feet. Can she keep the secret of her paternity for six months?

To complicate matters, Olivia must contend with an embittered mother, a wayward son, a precocious half sister, and a growing attraction for the mysterious Lucas Grant, who is everything she wants but doesn't need in her life.

Lucas, a suspended Drug Enforcement Agent, is lying low until he's cleared of charges associated with the death of his partner.

A Race against Time 

When the FBI contacts Dr. Julianna Diaz about a bioterrorist plot using a virus possibly stolen from her research laboratory, Julianna turns to her ex-lover, Jake Merrick for help.

Jake, a security expert, finds himself the target of someone who doesn't want him to remember the minutes before a car crash that injuried him and killed his brother. Did his brother share with him details of a bioterrorist plot?

Julianna and Jake race to find the answers before the virus is released on an unsuspecting public.

Lakota Dreaming

Threatened with the loss of a promotion to Editor-in-Chief of a New York fashion magazine, Zora Hughes travels to a South Dakota Indian Reservation. She hopes to find answers to life long dreams her psychiatrist calls genetic memories. Her dreams are of a female ancestor who fled life as a slave and was aided in her journey to freedom by a Sioux warrior who would become her husband.

On the reservation, she meets John Deerwalker, a tribal policeman, who aids and sometimes hinders her in her quest to find answers about the murder of her forbearer.

Zora sees the parallel between her life and her long dead ancestor's. Try as she might, she can't resist the lure of loving John Deerwalker, a contemporary Sioux warrior. But someone will do anything, including murder, to stop her from digging up the past.