Gabby's WellspringBy: W.L. (Bill) Lyons IIIGabby Jett is dying.In the gloom of her hospital room, she reflects on those who made a mark on her life. There was an old lady who claimed toilets were a miracle, a high school nerd who showed that people who shake left-handed could lead others to accept odd things, a university professor in a rut who found a student who taught him, an idealistic nuclear scientist who blossomed into a devoted romantic, a manic researcher w...

In a tragic story of striving against indolent government regulators, Wyatt Morgan, a gifted engineer, is stymied in a humdrum job. He teams with Madison, a gorgeous computer programmer, and starts his own business to develop an innovative airplane system. Wyatts wife, Lauren, worries her husband and Madison are getting romantically involved, so to keep an eye on them, she joins the new company.Interminable hours and immense financial strain threatens Wyatts family, but in spite of...

Wyatt Morgan, a gifted engineer, awakes in a hospital after a mugging. Battered physically and mentally, he fights to recover from amnesia and from crushing depression brought on by the failure of his business and the squandered investments of his friends. Jobless and facing foreclosure on his house, he battles a collapsing economy and the conniving industrialist who stole his invention.Lauren, his wife, struggles to understand her husbands affair with an ex-business partner while ...

We all have moments where we wish to go back in time and savor a friendship, a special event or our first love.In this delightful book about coming of age in Downey, California, the author, called Billy in the 1950s, re-creates his unique childhood. For instance, halfway up the block was a magical tree. To an adult, it may have appeared ordinary, but its branches were a refuge where Billy pondered the trials of boyhood. There, like butterflies waltzing on the summer breeze, he fell...