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Lies I told

2015
Since Grace was adopted by the Fontaines, she has been carefully taught the art of the scam and has an uncanny ability to create a personality to help her "parents," but their latest job has her questioning everything she has been taught and the family she has grown to love.

Runner

2014
Retired Special Forces operative Sam Dryden saves the life of an 11-year-old girl with no memory of her past who possesses a dangerous skill that is highly sought by violent government forces.

Romeo redeemed

2012
In modern-day California Romeo is offered one last chance to redeem himself by switching sides and becoming an Ambassador--if he can prove himself worthy by making Juliet, as Ariel, love him in a reality with a different past than his own.

Evening news

a novel
1999
When Giselle's nine-year-old son Teddy accidentally shoots and kills his baby sister, Giselle must learn to forgive herself and her son and move on with her life.

Alosha

2005
While hiking in the woods behind her house, Ali stumbles across a plot by the elementals - mysterious creatures who live in a neighboring dimension - to invade and destroy the Earth. Not only that, she discovers that she has been chosen to stop the attack.

California fire and life

1999
Arson investigator Jack Wade, a claims adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual Insurance Company, is drawn deeper and deeper into an increasingly dangerous situation when he sets out to discover the truth about a fire that killed the young wife of real estate mogul Nicky Vale.

Like normal people

2000
Ella tries to give her handicapped daughter Lena a normal life, but when she discovers that Lena has a mind of her own, Ella must contend with letting her daughter go.

Caramba!

una novela
2006
Nataly and Consuelo, cheese plant workers in Lava Landing, California, try to find a way to cure Consuelo of her fear of public transportation and long car rides in order for the girls to take a trip to Mexico and do what needs to be done to free her recently deceased father from purgatory.

Music of the mill

a novel
2005
The Salcido family, immigrants to the United States from Mexico, struggle to reconcile their need for jobs at the mighty Nazareth steel mill in Southern California with the low pay, back-breaking labor, and harsh treatment they receive--a situation that weighs most heavily on twenty-year-old Johnny, a second-generation mill worker.

Ramona

a story
2002
Ramona, an illegitimate half-Indian orphan, lives a privileged life as a ward on the Moreno ranch until her love for an Indian causes her to leave the ranch and plunges her into the tragedies and poverty of life among the Indians.

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