To help spread awareness on the effects of bullying on its victims and in support of the movement to end bullying, I have written a short story. With a young daughter who has been the victim of bullying over the last few years this is a topic that is near to my heart. This is the story [...]
Working as an investigative reporter and a prosecuting attorney respectively, Parker Knight and his wife both had jobs requiring secrecy and chasing down sensitive information. Unfortunately for Parker, his wife has been more secretive lately. Worse, his investigative reporting instincts bring him racing to the scene of an explosion that would rip his life apart. [...]
In Daughter Am I, Pat Bertram has created an entertaining tale of friendship, discovery, and mystery filled with diverse characters who are instantly likable. Not only does she bring to life the past world of the gangster era in the current age where it is mostly forgotten, she also reminds us through her elderly cast [...]
Newlyweds Sam and Lynn Stanley embark on a cross country RV honeymoon with Lynn’s young son Andy. However their trips turns more eventful than they bargained for when they suddenly find a barely passable mountain trail blocked by what appears to be a large roll of carpet. They have no choice but to run over [...]
Pat Bertram weaves a fascinating tale of a group of people connected by events in the past, beginning before they were even born, who are inexorably drawn together for the culmination of what was started so many decades before.
The doorbell chimed, its ring bouncing merrily off the walls. The old woman pulled herself from her chair with difficulty, pulling her walker to her to use for support. In the slow shuffle-walk of the infirm, she carefully placed the walker ahead then shuffled three little steps. Thump shuffle shuffle shuffle, pause. Thump shuffle shuffle [...]
Dean Koontz has stayed true to form in creating a suspenseful story that entices you into the lives of the characters with the need to find out where their lives will collide.
Indian Summer, by Dellani Oakes, is a story that would appeal to the younger romance readers. It draws the reader into a world of the past that is not much different emotionally to the world of today. The suspense of the events surrounding the heroine draws you on through a plot that is not over-complicated [...]
The waves licked wetly at the dock, muted and dull. The pale moon tried to illuminate the world below with little success. Dark clouds looming on the horizon drifted in, the first tattered fingers splaying across the moon like skeletal limbs. Wind drifted across the sandy edge of the water where the tide [...]
I felt a little anxious before I even turned that first e-page of More Deaths than One. I had never read a book written by anyone I knew before. While I’ve never actually met the author, Pat Bertram, in person I do consider her to be a good online friend and a valuable writing ally. What [...]
