... and you are standing before the judge awaiting your sentence. He looks down at you from his high bench and clears his throat: “You have been convicted by a jury of your peers,” he says: “I am now required, by law, to offer you a choice. You may choose five years in prison, or you may choose five years wearing a Personal Behavior Monitor at level 3 under the close supervision of the Department of Corrections.” You had hoped for level 2, but anything is better than prison. “Remember this,” the judge continues, “I will accept no excuses!”

A young couple seeks to retrieve the love they had lost by taking a snowmobile trip in Northern Minnesota. They meet people along the trail who help them understand what they each want out of life and that being together is crucial to their future happiness. This novella is presented as a dual language book, in English and French, and is accompanied by photos taken along the trails they followed.

A Billionaire’s Odyssey tells the story of Roland and Lillian Swanson, divorced billionaires who are desperate to reunite. Roland is in a deep funk. He misses Lillian and he has come to realize how much harm his business deals have caused to whole communities. Lillian can’t forget the man she married and the good years they had together but is adamant she will not forgive Roland and reunite with him unless he changes.

This is the story of the second life of eighty-year-old Charlie Durand. In 2026, he is dying in a hospital bed. He grieves, not for himself, but for the destruction of American democracy in 2024 by a fascist dictator. He closes his eyes and drifts off, but not to the death he expects. Instead, his mind has returned to 1960. All his memories are not only intact, they are enhanced. Charlie remembers the chaos of his last ten years. He decides he cannot let a dictator in his new lifeline destroy the great American experiment in democracy.