Daddy’s Evil Shadow
No one could have guessed what went on inside their marriage. They were the happiest couple friends and family knew. There was never a disagreement.
In truth, the couple was keeping an ominous secret. Brian’s life was a façade, concealing a monster. His loving wife sheltered him from exposure of his mental problems not realizing the depth of Brian’s depravity.
This psychological thriller is also a legal thriller where circumstances force a mother into the heroine role as she experiences a personal transformation battling a corrupt judge and his lover.
Daddy’s Evil Shadow is Book 1 of an eight-book serial thriller. It is based on a criminal case so extraordinary that it set legal precedent. Actual court transcripts and exhibits of the legal proceedings were used.
Enabling the Shadow
Divorce should have solved the problem but attempts to remedy the situation led Julie and her preschoolers deeper into the psychological thriller they had left behind.
Brian’s main fear was public exposure. It was embarrassing to the once spoiled husband to be divorced by his ex-wife. Now to hear that Julie planned to involve the courts was an unimaginable betrayal. Was his loyal ex-wife really willing to reveal Brian’s secret life?
Suddenly he had lost all control over Julie. He had always seen himself as a victim, but this was the worst that had ever happened. Brian devised an evil plan to once again silence Julie before she destroyed him.
Enabling the Shadow is Book 2 of an eight-book serial thriller. It is based on a criminal case so extraordinary that it set legal precedent. Actual court transcripts and exhibits of the legal proceedings were used.
Fleeing the Shadow
What circumstances produce a hero? Was the hero there all along looking for such an opportunity?
When the lives of her preschoolers were at stake, Julie was forced into the heroine role in this legal thriller meets psychological thriller.
As the criminal evidence mounted against her ex-husband, a bizarre sequence of events unfolded in which her former spouse used the courts to outmaneuver Julie at every turn.
Betrayal by the legal system that Julie had assumed would protect her children, led her in desperation to consider alternatives.
“We’ve never had a criminal in the family,” her mother cautioned.
Fleeing the Shadow is Book 3 of an eight-book serial thriller. It is based on a criminal case so extraordinary that it set legal precedent. Actual court transcripts and exhibits of the legal proceedings were used.
Secret Shadow Life
Their family was forced into hiding.
In order to create a secret life, Julie was about to undergo a personal transformation. Reinventing herself minus the pieces she had spent a lifetime accumulating was a difficult path. Ahead of Julie was a job search stripped of her past education, resume, and employer recommendations. She would no longer be the successful real estate broker and former elementary teacher. From this point forward, the only relationships she would keep were with her two preschoolers.
Julie’s gamble was that she could reverse the damage the shadow had inflicted. It was a steep price but worth it if she could restore her children’s spirits and put them back on track for having a happy future.
This fateful decision had been thoroughly researched. Numerous legal consults offered no other solutions to free her son and daughter from the evil shadow hunting them. The family was caught in the middle of a legal and psychological thriller.
Secret Shadow Life is Book 4 of an eight-book serial thriller. It is based on a criminal case so extraordinary that it set legal precedent. Actual court transcripts and exhibits of the legal proceedings were used.
Cruel Shadow
Faces on milk cartons,
Faces on the back of trucks…
Betrayal by the legal system that Julie assumed would help her children escape the psychological thriller they had been living, the family finds itself in a parallel reality with the threatening shadow of the ex-husband looming over them.
At this point, Julie is beginning to feel confident in her new life. Somehow Julie has mapped out a path to slowly rebuild a stable financial future as her employment opportunities gain momentum.
While the family is healing their wounds in Arizona, the older child’s face is appearing on milk cartons and the back of trucks.
Julie is blindsided with a life-altering choice with only a few hours to decide. Should she step into the heroine role again or take the logical, passive role of not acting?
Cruel Shadow is Book 5 of an eight-book serial thriller. It is based on a criminal case so extraordinary that it set legal precedent. Actual court transcripts and exhibits of the legal proceedings were used.
Shadow Prisoners
After all the sacrifices made, it was back to square one.
Julie and her young children find they have come full circle. Once again, Julie is faced with the seemingly impenetrable wall of the legal system. The brief reprieve from the child abuse has ended as Brian regained complete control over the lives of the children.
For Nathan and Elizabeth, their increased ability to act in their own defense leads their father to resort to more damaging, cruel choices to hide his crimes.
Julie is out of the funds she once had to even consider disappearing again. Therefore, Julie arrives at an astonishing plan to liberate Nathan and Elizabeth from their father’s prison.
Shadow Prisoners is Book 6 of an eight-book serial thriller. It is based on a criminal case so extraordinary that it set legal precedent. Actual court transcripts and exhibits of the legal proceedings were used.
Confronting the Shadow
Against legal advice, she put her life on the line.
This psychological thriller is also a legal thriller where circumstances force a mother into the heroine role as she experiences a personal transformation battling a corrupt judge and his lover.
Against legal advice, Julie commits one final extraordinary act of love to protect her children from their father’s continuing crimes.
The criminal trial begins. For the first time, the cruel shadow is fully revealed. Brian’s convincing words deliver more than he imagined. The evil plot explodes in his face as his secret life is put on public display.
Although Brian’s cohorts do everything possible to sidetrack the trial and mislead the media, all the medical reports and child abuse photos are finally entered into court. .
Confronting the Shadow is Book 7 of an eight-book serial thriller. It is based on a criminal case so extraordinary that it set legal precedent. Actual court transcripts and exhibits of the legal proceedings were used.
Defeating the Shadow
A shared dream comes true.
In the dramatic conclusion of the criminal trial, all brewing evil plots are immobilized and motives are revealed. Life takes some horribly shocking turns in this book before the family is triumphant against the insurmountable odds.
The testimony unmasks two of Julie’s trusted witnesses who have been conspiring against her and her children all along. Additional medical evidence is discovered by the expert witness on the case.
On the positive side, one self-interested impostor makes up for all previous bad deeds by stepping up to the ultimate challenge.
Barely able to hold onto their sanity, six-year-old Nathan and four-year-old Elizabeth prove to be just as courageous as their mother.
Defeating the Shadow is the final book of an eight-book serial thriller. It is based on a criminal case so extraordinary that it set legal precedent. Actual court transcripts and exhibits of the legal proceedings were used.
Deadly Ghostwriting
Prosecutor Teresa Aquino is horrified to see that her house has been burned down at a time her family was usually home. This is one of many attempts made to turn a ghostwriter into a ghost. Fasten your seatbelt, for once again, you are in for an exciting ride.
A Lost Piece
Sometimes the mind protects us from what is too terrifying to remember. A teacher and mother of three finds her world turned upside down after waking up in the middle of a bloody crime scene.
Balancing the Scales of Justice
It started out as a joke, wishful thinking. Back in law school they fantasized about bringing about real justice for their clients. It helped the women blow off steam and always made them laugh until the night it didn’t. On that night, the women decided to offer clients a clandestine version of justice where victims walk away smiling.
Balancing the Scales of Justice is still being written. It is not available yet.
Escaping the Shadow
The author tackles an important legal case that made national news before the internet and covered the front page of the San Francisco Examiner. Enough details of the story were changed to protect the innocent. Events of the legal case were left intact.
Escaping the Shadow is the sequel to the next book on the list. It was a huge book with small print not sold as an e-book. Eventually it was divided into five smaller books for the eight-book serial thriller. The content is identical.
The Shadow of Daddy
The Shadow of Daddy is a timeless thriller that speaks of one woman’s incredible determination to protect her preschoolers from falling through the cracks in the legal system. In the early 1980’s, the family law courts failed many victims of abuse. It was stories like The Shadow of Daddy that shaped significant legal changes.
This book is identical to the first three books of the eight book set, The Shadow of Daddy Serial Thriller, except it is not in e-book form and it is produced in one traditionally-sized book. The content is the same.