The World of Duggie Moon
There is a Blue Ridge of the mind, where the shadows beckon, full of secrets and music, especially when autumn comes clad in russet and gold. It’s a place where people mind their own business, but still look out for one another. Where sharing comes naturally and harmony breeds in the red clay. This is the world of Duggie Moon, affable slacker entrepreneur, former Latin scholar, and music lover. Duggie gets along with most people, but every now and then even a peaceable stoner like Douglas C. Moon finds himself in a tight spot, because not everyone on the planet is pure of heart.
Moon’s Blues
iUniverse
ISBN: 978-1-462-01312-8
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Trouble looms for Duggie Moon, Rapidan County’s most affable aging flower child, when the love of his life, Jenny Carson, takes a job with a suave handsome artist whose assets include a villa in France.
In hopes of impressing Jenny, Duggie throws himself into a musical career, but after discovering that playing guitar isn’t as easy as it looks, he decides to try his hand at managing a rock band. How hard could it be?
But when a talented local group takes him on, Duggie soon learns to his dismay that the six members of Identity Crisis are one frayed nerve away from implosion, and he’ll be lucky if he can hold the band together long enough to play at the big Halloween concert he’s promoting with borrowed funds. Lots of borrowed funds.
As the concert nears, pressure mounts, storm clouds gather, and egos clash like cymbals under the October moon, even a stoned-out optimist like Duggie knows someone could get hurt. He can only hope it will be the drummer. That guy’s been asking for it.
Potluck
iUniverse
ISBN: 978-1-440-12756-4
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“Not bad… Better than I could do!”
—P.R., Washington, DC
In the small town of Dudley, Virginia, what passes for social life reaches its apex each year at the Fourth of July softball tournament. In the sultry summer air, passions burn, tempers flare and anything can happen in the tall grass.
As captain of a team sponsored by his sister Glory’s Moonlight Café, slacker extraordinaire and former Latin scholar Duggie Moon has his hands full, after his ace pitcher and long-standing unrequited love Jenny Carson is forced to play for a rival team. In addition, a team of ringers from out of town have entered the tournament, and more than mere honor is at stake. His sister’s business and his job depend on the outcome, but Duggie, ever the optimist, is confident he can keep his eye on the ball even as it curves toward chaos.
Ignoring the sage advice of his neighbor, mystery writer Morris Dent, Duggie tries to manage infield intrigues while keeping secret the cash crop of pot he’s growing in a school bus hidden behind his mountain shack. But when the Sheriff comes sniffing around the championship match and Duggie’s got the game on his bat, all his plans could go up in smoke.
The Green Man Fantasies
Where the magic of nature meets the nature of magic, the Green Man exists to protect and nurture all the green and growing world. In my Green Man novels these guardians of the forest play an active part in the modern world, stepping through portals in the endangered ancient forests to support gardeners and environmental activists. And, as is only natural with creatures gifted with extraordinary charm and power, love also sometimes blooms.
The Goddess of Greenlake
iUniverse
ISBN: 978-1-462-03214-3
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Everyone who sees twenty-year-old Callie Linden is struck by her beauty, grace and confidence. Her outspoken passion for the environment has led the local boys to dub her “The Goddess of Green Lake.” But no one guesses that what drives Callie is a secret she’s kept hidden for fifteen years, ever since her mother disappeared, leaving Callie and her two older sisters with their heartbroken father. Only Callie knows that her mother believed herself to be a mermaid.
Now grown up and studying marine biology at the University of Washington, Callie is determined not to waste her life on fantasies and romantic nonsense. But her sensible plan shatters after she rescues an unusual orphaned baby sea otter, and finds herself drawn to Eel MacGregor, a struggling musician with secrets of his own.
Eel and Callie’s shared fascination for the baby otter leads to deeper feelings between them, but when they step outside the law to protect the otter, Callie is forced to confront the questions her mother left behind, while she and Eel must fight to discover if it’s magic or madness that draws them together.
Alice and The Green Man
iUniverse
ISBN: 978-0-595-40298-4
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“Imaginative and charming…love, magic and fascinating characters.”
—Romantic Times Book Reviews
“A wonderfully quirky read.”
—Coffee Time Romance
Love was the last thing on her mind when newly divorced Alice Owens planted a beautiful garden on the abandoned lot next to her house. But when a developer attempts to pave over her paradise, Alice meets the love of her life when a mysterious immortal Green Man arrives to help protect the garden.
While Alice’s two teenage sons take opposite sides in the conflict, her ex-husband schemes to put an end to her garden and her new romance in the hope of winning her back. But, when the Green Man casts a magical spell to shield the garden, a firestorm of media attention rages out of control, and Alice must risk losing everything she holds dear to save the one man she can’t keep.
In the modern climate of environmental awareness, Alice and The Green Man is a fairytale for the green at heart.
Seat of the Pants Romance
Forget the candles. The flowers. The champagne, even. The formula for romance is a myth. But you know how it is with myths – if enough people buy into them you can make a living off the lonely, the gullible and the desperate.
Love isn’t an equation. Romance happens mysteriously, suddenly, slowly, quietly or with a big bang. Romance is like a butterfly. Try to pin it down, it dies. You have to let go, put yourself out there, and hope like hell. Maybe you’ll be lucky.
When I first started out as a novelist I went to a lot of conferences and at one of them a respected romance author said, “You can always tell who the hero is in a romance novel. He’s the tallest guy in the room.”
Not in my first book.
Tall Order
An Avalon Romance
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Does every hero have to be tall, dark and handsome, or can a quality guy win the girl if he’s only got two out of three?
At 6’1″ and 27 years of age, art history professor Ava Morrison of Richmond, Virginia, is no starry eyed romantic, but she’d rather live alone than compromise on the specifications for her dream man. Ava’s attitude alters after she auditions for a part in a community theatre production and gets to know director Troy Burnett, a soccer playing single father who stands 5’8″. But, when a tall dark and handsome visiting English professor begins wooing Ava, Troy has to go the distance to convince Ava that when it comes to size, heart matters more than height.