Richard N Patterson

THE LOST WORLD - SILVERBACK Adventure ⋄ Fantasy BARTHOLEMEW CHALLENGER, and 'throwback' to his ancestors (GEORGE CHALLENGER) and a poacher-killing hermit, must  protect his jungle and neighbours (T-Rex's, campys and other 'extinct' species) from professional hunters and tv crew which incudes his brother and the only woman who ever cared for him.  

MOTHER'S LOVE Crime ⋄ Thriller / Suspense KAREN, a native woman and single mother is looking for work at the end of the Great Depression. She finds work and a husband and father for her son, KEVIN, in DAVID. As they become a family and Kevin develops a new sense of self-respect ("I figured out which came first....the chicken or the egg") their happiness is threatend by violent bullies nad racists. David is called off to World War 2 leaving Karen to make the most painful and dangerous decision of her life. Surprisingly, her only allies are the RACISM and BULLYING she hates.