Something’s not quite right about the neighborhood of Woodland Heights. Five years ago six children disappeared in this suburban heaven. When Laura Wagner moves into a house that had been vacant for most of those five years, this something comes alive. Laura Wagner, divorced mother of two, addicted to alcohol and Valium, sees nothing wrong with her life; she sees nothing much at all. She gets by as well as she can, aided by the solace of her drugs and whiskey, until the day she backs into ...

Learning to Respect My Strut is a commentary on the obstacles women face and the untruths they've been functioning under for a long time. By using her own personal stories against the backdrop of the historical women warriors of long ago eras, author Karen Taylor shows the deep strength of women that has been traditionally overlooked.She draws parallels between her own background and the important women in her life while demonstrating the true strut of a confident...

A serial killer's obsession with the preservation of beauty sees him return to stalk the streets of Penzance in the summer of 2019. It's 23 years since his first victims went missing, setting DI Brandon Hammett on the hunt for the Sleeping Beauty Killer. A beautiful woman is being held captive in an unknown location. Although not physically injured, she is manacled to a chair in a darkened, sinister dining room. Her captor is polite but menacing. Her female companions silent spectators. Wh...

In todays hectic, fast-paced world, we all need reminders to stop and appreciate the beauty of God's creation, not just within nature but also within the people around us. In a collection of photographs, poems, personal anecdotes, and scriptures, Karen Taylor provides an opportunity for us to quietly reflect on our hearts and spiritual priorities.Through her inspiring words and accompanying photographs, Taylor encourages others to welcome growth in their spiritual journeys by build...

Owning our inner strength as women is no small task. Most of us are indoctrinated to play small, stay silent, and go along to get along. Karen's writing in her latest work, The Silent Strut of the Shadow Warrior: My Journey to Inner Strength and Spirit, invites us to turn away from patriarchal oppression and turn toward our inner power, especially when life gets hard. As a sequel to Learning to Respect My Strut: My Journey as a Woman Warrior, this book continues Karen's j...

He Is Yet Faithful seeks to encourage and inspire the reader to recognize that the God of the Bible is the God that works in our everyday lives. He manifests himself when we extend our faith toward him and even sometimes when we are not faithful. This collection can be used as a devotional and revisited over and over again.Drawing from life experiences, author Karen Lynne Taylor openly shares accounts and experiences in her personal lifesome challengingthat relate to salvation, car...

The book is about letters sent to Michael and family and about his lyrics concerning me.

The book is prophetic in nature. America is headed for another calamity if the people of God dont turn from their wicked ways, repent, turn back to God, and pray. Acknowledge truth as such, and abandon that which is false.

As the number of stranger-on-stranger crimes increases, solving these crimes becomes more challenging. Forensic illustration has become increasingly important as a tool in identifying both perpetrators and victims. Now a leading forensic artist, who has taught this subject at law enforcement academies, schools, and universities internationally, off

Karen Rae Taylor Ritzer is inspired by life and her experiences. Through a lens unique to her, she observes her surroundings with the quiet intensity that only a poet understands. In a second collection of poems, Ritzer reflects on diverse topics that include the familiarity and trust that comes with a lasting love, times of indecision or strife, the darker side of the human mind, two friends who drifted apart, the insights gathered from the blessing of growing old, the dawn that creeps in...

This book is about the life of one person who claims Charles Manson has a different name and who has been investigated wrongfully and has had Michael Jackson, a.k.a. King of Pop, involved in her life because of it all. This book was written with the hopes of a positive outcome.

With honesty and insight coupled with much gratitude and some regret, Karen O'Donnell Taylor talks to God about her concerns and struggles as a single mom. Although some of the experiences around which her conversations and prayers are written are familiar to married parents (shopping with a teenage daughter or concerns for their children's future), O'Donnell Taylor incorporates a fresh, positive perspective toward daily tasks and challenges that are especially relevant to single moms: pay...