Private Power

A sinister Masonic-Templar organization - The Brotherhood of the Wand - is planning to bring the world to its knees and create a dystopian one-government world. The price? Eighty percent of the world's population. To achieve this aim, they are planning to harness ley lines and other ancient earth energies to reawaken the Serpent: a mythical creature known to all early civilizations by different names.

Detective Grace Powers worked at the Chicago Police Department for over eight years when she resigns to open her own PI Agency. Tired of the stress, the bureaucracy, the cases that went south, a testosterone-overload environment, plus not being forced to interact with her ex-fiancee, perpetual cheater, and overall scumbag, Hank, is a win/win all the way around.

An eye-opening book about how societies are designed to support the status of those in power at the destructive expense of those without it. From 1958, China declared war on sparrows, contributing to the deaths of more than 10 million people. In the 19th century, the Shuar people of Ecuador were driven by economic need to wage bloody wars to procure shrunken heads for the Western curio market, which nearly destroyed their society. There have been 55 prime ministers of Great Britain, of whom 48 have been privately educated, creating a society built for and by the privileged.

When the Judge dropped off his young son at the Strand Preschool that morning, he didn’t expect to find a body swinging from the rafters of the preschool’s maintenance room. Nor to be dragged into the middle of allegations of sexual abuse of the young charges attending the preschool. When his former lover is caught up in a national frenzy as the press and the networks rush to judgment, condemning her for child molestation and devil worship, the Judge feels compelled to step forward to help his old flame, leading her defense in a cutthroat jury trial and exposing the real story...

It was supposed to be a working vacation for the Judge, ensconced in a bungalow in Newport Beach with his new and very pregnant wife. But the FBI emerged from the morning’s mist along the Balboa Beach, asking a small favor. The favor detoured into a body, and the body led to questions nobody wanted to ask, a case nobody wanted to work. Dragging the Judge into a web of intrigue and stealth, leaving him to unravel a murder over FBI’s objections. A murder of one of their own.