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Adagio for Three
Against the wishes of her parents, Victoria (Tory) Beckett joins a regional ballet company as a stepping-stone to her dream of dancing in New York. but nothing has prepared her for the sacrifices she must make. She becomes caught up in a drama of damaged personalities that include Frank St. Germaine, a handsome, talented drug addict with a tragic past, and Jeremy Barlow, the assistant ballet master who is too self-absorbed to see beyond his fragile ego. Tory falls in love with Jeremy even though she is aware of his dalliance with the costume mistress. His indifference drives Tory to Frank and a myriad of bad decisions that follow a path to New York City and then to near catastrophe. This first volume of the Terpisichorean Sextet covers two years that interweave a complicated relationship between the three dancers that includes love, lust, jealousy and treachery.
Year of the Raven
An aging ballet dancer, Frank St. Germaine, makes a serious suicide attempt after his return from Canada where he coped badly with the aftermath of his mother's death. His daughter, Jude helps him put his life back together, but he is still fragile and has little left of his trust fund. He reunites with Tory and Jeremy when their son visits and he discovers a hidden secret that changes everything. He starts to recover his spirit when he learns he may have a terminal illness. This new battle completely changes his perspective and makes him more aware of his mortality and the need to live his life to the fullest.
As the Deer Longs
The town of St. Ives is not all that it seems. As life goes on, Paul Quinn is half-crazy wondering if his wife is going to run off with Father Neil, the visiting vicar, who used to be her lover. Zoe Quinn is a frustrated stay-at-home mom, with her music career on indefinite hold. Father Neil is faced with a serious crisis of his faith after the death of a friend. His world is completely dismantled when he meets someone he believes to be his ideal woman. Druids, folklore of the West Country, tragedy, and the temptations of a priest intertwine to create a reality check for all of them
Bitter Apple
In one day, Victoria (Tory) Beckett has gone from the ecstasy of having it all to devastating loss. She returns to New York City in a last desperate attempt to reclaim her dream of becoming a ballerina and encounters one bizarre turn after another. She meets a successful dancer who becomes her best friend and, at times, her worst enemy. Frank St. Germaine has achieved success on the Broadway stage. He has throngs of adoring fans, but love still eludes him. However, when the company talks about going on an extended tour, Frank faces a nebulous crossroad with the potential to unravel everything he has gained, including his sobriety. Jeremy Barlow returns to California to manage a successful ballet company. He is disillusioned by his marriage and feels trapped by impending fatherhood. An unforeseen reunion with his estranged mother reveals a dreadful secret. In this third volume, the three dancers reunite in unexpected ways with capricious results that throw each of them a little off center.
Back from Purgatory
Frank St. Germaine returns to San Diego from his home in Montreal more or less rehabilitated and tries to put his life back together. He accomplishes a noteworthy and newsworthy run of Swan Lake and has a chance to go on Broadway as an actor. However, his love life rapidly becomes a quagmire of craziness that includes an oversexed gym instructor with a solemn secret Frank cannot ignore and two cute lesbian actresses who have a convoluted agenda of their own. This second volume of the Terpsichorean Sextet explores the high price an entertainer must often pay to pursue a difficult and sometimes thankless art like ballet. This is also a compelling look at the passion that often rules on both sides of the ballet mirror.
Celtic Quandary
An Anglican priest who is struggling with morality, an ex-con who found God in prison, a former hippie, a Goth, and a ceramic artist with a mentally ill wife, reluctantly ban together to divert a holy war between two factions of Druids in Southwest England. Each of them has a personal problem to solve.
The Swanhawk
Gillian Johnson takes a much needed break from ballet, and travels to the village of St. Ives in Southwestern England. Everyone she meets thinks she is a hedonistic folk singer named Zoe Shepherd pulling some outrageous prank. Gillian begins to have memories that are not hers, and thoughts that don't make sense. Zoe appears the same day as Gillian's abrupt departure, and cannot understand why all her artist friends are suspicious. Then, she becomes involved with a defrocked priest. A bizarre mystery begins to unfold when Sinclair, a physicist, and self-styled Druid, formulates a theory that explains the connection between the two women. This haunting tale weaves Druid folklore, quantum physics. and romance into a curious mystery of nebulous identities, romance, resentment and treachery
The French Shell Game
Leanna Flannagan is the disenchanted wife of an Air Force officer. She takes a French immersion course to get away, and obtain much needed credits for a college degree. Leanna finds herself one of two women in a large group of men, and enjoys all the attention. New circumstances push her into a tumultous relationship with one of the men, and her life goes into a new mode of survival. Colin Greene is in his last year in the military, and like many other lower ranked men, he faces the prospect of being sent to Viet Nam, to a war with which he wants no part, and does not understand. John Storm is working as an undercover intelligencee officer trying to expose the identity of an insurgent he knows is in the midst of the French class. A complicated investigation leads him into a deadly web. The French class unites the three in a bizarre triangle that changes all their lives. THis is an intriguing slice of the life and ideals of Americans in the sixties in Western Europe.
Medicine Wheel
Frank St. Germaine has it all. He was handed the directorship of a noted ballet company in Quebec and a beautiful woman is by his side. After a difficult loss he creates "Medicine Wheel," a brilliant ballet that becomes his signature piece. But everything begins to unravel after a gorgeous young ballerina tempts him in a weak and confusing moment. He returns to New York and reinvents himself with the help of a fellow dancer. He runs with the higher circles and copes with everyday life that includes a teenage daughter who has become a Goth. Just as he is about to achieve an important goal, his new and hopeful life crashes horribly with an epoch tragedy. He loses everything including his best friend and is lured back toward substance abuse. Life and old age begin to catch up with him as he struggles to maintain some kind of status quo. When everything seems bleak, he encounters an unlikely person who gives him hope. This fourth volume encompasses the scope of 20+ years of artistic life in Montreal and New York City. It also explores an eyewitness account of one of the most horrific events of the twenty-first century.
Tell It to the Mountain
Mount Rainier is an active volcano with no major event for over 5,000 years. The mountain was not monitored until the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. Still there was little alarm for the possibility that the same event would occur with Mount Rainier even though it is considered a decade volcano meaning the damage and loss of life could be catastrophic. It is in the same category with Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii. Martin Quinn DVM, his wife Gemma, and younger brother Tristan live within sight of Mount Rainier They begin to see steam rising from the mountain at an unseasonable time and become alarmed. When their neighbor leaves his house behind, they begin to plan their own escape before they are trappedThis is a story of many possibilities.
