Peter Clenott

It is 1931. Adolf Hitler is less than two years away from becoming the dictator of Germany. But nothing is certain. He is walking a political tightrope. He is maneuvering to court the German upper class, while trying not to disavow the violence of his Stormtroopers. Then, in September of that year, his niece, twenty-two-year-old Geli Raubal, is found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest in her locked bedroom in Hitler's flat. Is it suicide, as Hitler claims, or is it something more sinister?

For the unwanted, Fatherland, Motherland, Holy Land ultimately mean nothing. The only true homeland is family. 

Hana Ziegler is a fourteen-year-old child prodigy. But on September 1, 1939, as Hitler invades Poland and World War II begins, she is being taken to the Hollenschloss Institute to be euthanized. 
 

The compelling story of a young woman who discovers that the mysteries she remembers may be all that lies between her and extinction of the earth.

It is 1996 when a helicopter carrying a geological survey team is forced to land in the Amazon rain forest. There, they soon discover the only remnants of an indigenous tribe hidden for thousands of years: an elderly shaman, two boys, a girl, and an infant named Suyape. Medical tests run on the five Ipanao survivors indicate one troubling fact—something is not right with their DNA.

A tale of intrigue, betrayal, and ruthless ambition set against the treacherous background of the Middle East on the brink of war.

On the eve of the American invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, an international cast of schemers, spies, clergy, and scientists race to claim the greatest prize the world has ever seen. American archaeologist Molly O’Dwyer has unearthed a long-lost burial mound in ancient Babylon. Whose remains are in it? Are they related to the mysterious Gospel of Hannaniah, the alleged daughter of Jesus of Nazareth? Will the revelation of her shocking findings destroy the church and the faith of billions? This tale of intrigue, betrayal, and ruthless ambition set against the treacherous background of the Middle East on the brink of war, piles on the suspense until the final gripping scenes.

What does it truly mean to be 'Human'?

Chiku Flynn wasn't raised to be human. Born in the Congolese rainforest, she spends her first eleven years as part of an experiment. For her, the aboriginal-the primitive-is 'normal.'

Just after her eleventh birthday, Chiku witnesses the horrifying death of her mother, and her father sends her 'home' to the United States, to a normal teenager's life. But she can't adapt. She is the proverbial wild child-obstinate and defiant.

Pretty with a fist. That’s how some might describe Jemma Dalembert. Survival motivates her. Love for family. Loyalty. Respect. She’s only sixteen year old, but Jemma Dalembert will  devastate you if you cross her. Why? Because she can.

Jemma is three quarters French-Canadian, raised in a family of Maine fishermen, now down-and-out, unemployed and  willing to do anything to survive. She is also quarter Micmac Indian. Her grandmother says she is a shape-shifter, the last member of the Wolf Clan, the protector of her family and her tribe. Jemma may believe this, does believe it, but her father is only interested in how she can  help him keep the family going.

BOOK 1

Seven-year old Hannaniah and her mother Miriam live as outcasts in the town of Magdala on the Sea of Galilee. Hannaniah is the product of an illicit love affair between Miriam and Yeshuah bar Joseph, the man known as Jesus. Spurned by the townspeople, loved only by her mother, Hannaniah tries everything and anything to make people like her, including magic. One night, during a lengthy spring drought, which has the local fishermen and farmers praying for rain, Hannaniah watches a rainmaker cast his spells. While he fails to bring rain, Hannaniah performs her own ritual with the assistance of her only friend, a lame sheepdog named Sheshmesh.

Patrice Lumumba was wrong. Jesse Westcott knew what it was like to be violated. She knew what it was like to lose a loved one, to be insulted, degraded. To be betrayed. Albertville was as much her nemesis as it was Lumumba’s. But only one would survive it.

Just thirteen years old when her brother Bill, a Boston-educated lawyer, returns to Birmingham, Jesse is a product of the segregated Alabama of the 1940s and 50s. Her brother, an activist with the NAACP, intends to go into nearby Albertville for voter registration. Jesse worships her brother but knows him to be impetuous, a courter of trouble, someone who won’t be pushed around. Against her better judgment, she joins him on his fateful ride. But on the road to Albertville, he parks the car and disappears into the neighboring woods. Jesse never sees him again. Worse. The men who do away with her brother do not leave her alone.

As Kinnie Whitfield stares out the bedroom window of her farm house in Maine, all she can see is snow and darkness. The blizzard she can handle even if the weather forecasters are predicting two brutal storms back-to-back, shutting down and isolating New England from the world. Kinnie’s a married woman with an unemployed spouse she no longer loves and autistic twin sons she adores. She is an Army veteran who served her country as a sniper in Afghanistan. Now she supports her family driving a snow plow. Good money, vital money, this time of year. But squinting into the blurred blackness of the first Nor’easter, she can’t know that within a few  hours, while she is plowing out the parking lot of the local bank, agents of the FBI and Immigration will be surrounding her home, her  husband will be committing suicide, ending her life as she knows it and taking her two sons to the grave with him.

Archaeologist  Molly O’Dwyer has been around the world seeking the greatest treasures of antiquity. In Afghanistan and in Iraq she risked her life pursuing the remains of Jesus of Nazareth and his daughter Hannaniah. She is a driven woman conflicted by loyalty to her faith and unrelenting passion for historic truth. But it is in Boston on a lonely harbor island that she will  discover the secret that will unearth the greatest, deepest secrets of her own life.

In her early 30s, Molly is a highly educated, passionate explorer and teacher bearing up under the pressures of her recent finds in the Middle East. The president of the college where she teaches, a Catholic institution, questions her academic integrity. The press hounds her to reveal the identity of the bones she uncovered in the middle of the Iraqi war. Ghostly calls begin to come every night plunging her into a mystery that will involve her own family and her own dark past.

In 1850, America is ten years away from bloody conflagration. War with Mexico has been won. Now a war from within is being waged. The North wants to put a halt to the expansion of slavery into the new territories, from Texas to California. The South will take up arms to defend its ‘peculiar institution.’ Compromise is the word of the day, but is it possible?

In 1850, Zachary Taylor is President of  the United States. Though a native Virginian and slave owner, he has served in the military for over three decades and will fight to the death to uphold union. Despite being the general who defeated the Mexicans at Monterrey, the hero of the war with Mexico, he is mistrusted by North and South. For him, compromise is out of the question. Not so for his vice president. In the halls of congress and on the dusty, muddy streets of Washington City, whispers abound, the muttering of angry people who would just as soon see Ol’ Rough and Ready out of the way. He’s old. He’s out of touch. He’s stubborn and a danger to the peace and harmony of the land.