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...Sugar is the story of a woman who overcomes childhood poverty and abuse to become the mayor of Kaua'i. Then, as so many victims of abuse have experienced, she married the personality she was most familiar with, only to have history repeat itself. When she should have been at the height of her fame and glory, she found herself on trial for her freedom.
...When is it time to give up? When have you had enough? Those are the underlying questions that form the grist for this novel and the inspiration to keep trying for a better life.
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| ...Spice: An Island Intrigue is the continuation of the story begun in Sugar: A Hawaiian Novel. In order to clear her name and defend against a civil suit, Lili is forced to go to Barbados to determine the source of the money used to fund the bribes in Sugar. While there, a murder, intrigue and romance provide all the challenges that Lili Kaleo can handle and then some. Will she be able to escape the tentacles of evil and greed, or will she inevitably be bound, crushed or suffocated by them? |
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| That's What Little Girls are Made of |
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...That's what Little Girls are Made of is a work in progress, scheduled for release in the fall of 2008. What parent was ever born, who doesn't want a better life for his or her child? In That's . . ., Sugar (AKA Lili Kaleo) gets a chance to try to provide a greater opportunities for someone in the next generation. Whether it be her child, or not, is a determination for the reader. Whether the challenges are more painful, or less, as a nurturing bystander is at the heart of the story. Then, there's Emma's theatrical career to learn and think about.
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Delivery expected in fall of 2007 (before Christmas) |
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| ...Philips Park is at once, a coming of age novel, set in the Midwestern U.S. in the 1960's, an historical novel, involving the Underground Railroad 100 years earlier, and the story of a young man of unstable surroundings striving to cope with events involving murder, abortion, premarital sex, unrequited love, lust and the ornriness associated with the devilish and insecure trials of youth. |
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