Doris Gaines Rapp – författare

It’s 2113 in the United States but Christina Applewait does not recognize it as the country she read about in the banned books of the library. It is a nation where the ruling elite select the president by right of succession. Now, her heart is breaking and fear has flooded the craggy fissure. Her dear grandfather, Oliver Richly, the presidential candidate in the newly formed 1787-Constitutionalists Party has been kidnapped. Her friend, Dr. Jason O’Reilly, helps her in the desperate search to find him. Is he alive? If he is, will they find him before the presidential election?

It has only been a year since Silas Drummond broke the silence about the atrocities buried beneath Howard Mountain. Judge Carl Brunner issued a two-year stay on all those forced into the never-ending-sleep, thus ending their Length of Days. She and Jason crossed all four closed zone borders to establish a network to place a citizens’ referendum, to overturn the Length of Days Law, on the ballot at the presidential election. Now they travel to campaign for the one true candidate of the people, Oliver Richly. The whole country is excited about having their voice heard again after one-hundred years of silence. Will they find Christy’s grandfather before it’s too late and the authorities remove his name from the election ballot? That may also doom the Length of Days referendum and citizen will continue to die on the government’s schedule of death.

In Just in Time, the first book in the new cozy mystery series Murder, She Blogged, Clisty Sinclair’s romance with police sergeant Jake Davis is growing as fast as her career. She constantly worries how she’ll keep up with everything. From being a local newscaster and the super blogger of Fort Wayne, her life suddenly explodes.   The CEO of the Bryson News Network in New York discovers her blog when Clisty posts updates about Faith Sterling’s escape after ten years in captivity, and the trial of her kidnapper that follows. BNN’s boss is so impressed with her work he offers Clisty a contract that catapults her into the fast-paced world of network television journalism.   In the beginning, it’s hard for Clisty to celebrate her new gold-plated job. It involves a move to New York City, away from the family she loves and Jake whom she would love more deeply if her compulsive, in-charge nature allowed her. She thought she had to control everything around her. Remember, the abductor snatched Clisty along with Faith, when they were both nine years old, but Clisty managed to pull away and hid. She had almost a lifetime of fear to overcome.   Still, she knew anyone would feel blessed if offered a fantastic job with triple points in the contract. The contract includes BNN’s financial underwriting of her blog, Crime Beat from the Heartland; publication of her True Crime novels; and her own segment, Stories from the Heartland, on their popular program, American News Magazine. Clisty’s Heartland stories help change broadcast journalism from a constant focus on the negative, to a positive spotlight on ordinary people doing extraordinary things to benefit others. The first Heartland Hero she schedules is actually a couple, Dr. Karl Kramer, who created a convenient medical aid with universal appeal, and his wife, Professor Karen Kramer, who programmed it. Clisty, her producer and their camera man tape an interview with the couple a few days before Karen’s attack; before a stalker turns up at Clisty’s front door; and before the murder of a product-tester for the device. These events create a need to hire Jake as Clisty’s body guard and over-all security.   Clisty calls on her blog followers to help add light to the darkness by reporting any research they find that may solve the crimes. Could the Kramers amazing new medical “Buddy” be the cause of the murder and mysterious attacks the news team encounters?   Clisty must learn to move at the new rapid tempo; solve the mysteries that surround her; overcome her fears from the past; and secretly keep the new love in her life, Jake Davis, at the center of her whirlwind. Secret? Clisty’s life is as complicated as yours. ~Just in Time continues the story of blogger and news anchor, Clisty Sinclair, first introduced in the prequel, News at Eleven – A Novel.

The year is 1945. The horrible war that wrapped the world in torment has come to an endyet the torment of young Adam Shoemaker lives on. His father never came back from battle, and his mother is in the hospital with tuberculosis. Homeless, Adam seeks shelter in the Cranberry Street Church belfry but Adam is not alone.

The belfry is inhabited by strange spirits. One spirit seems to wish good on others, while the demonic shadows mean only harm. Adam hears them both; they whisper to him and give him power. When thieves break into the church one night, Adam is the only witness, but by revealing himself, he would expose his only home.

Adam has a choice. He can listen to the spirit of the belfry and get his family back, or he can side with the shadow beings, who promise justice to the thieves and power he never imagined. Adam feels as though he is being watched, but with the help of new friends, he stays hidden as he fights to decide who he will call on for help. Will he side with the light or the darkness?

Pray Them to Heaven. Some ask why God takes people from their loved ones so soon. I believe He takes no one but receives them when they arrive home. We feel helpless when a loved one dies who doesn''t believe that the one God is their God, and Jesus is their savior. We grieve when we lose the loved one. If we are Christian, but our loved one isn''t, our grief may double. We grieve over their passing and we grieve because we may not see them in Heaven. We think we must be in control of everything, but we can''t stop our friend or loved one from dying. It has to be someone''s fault. So . . . we blame God. This small book is my testimony of what the Lord gave me-a process to pray them to the gate of Heaven. Let me tell you of my experience, so you may grieve no more.

"Jackson Jones, you are the one," the red deer announces.

Jackson wonders, "The one what?"

To everyone in Waddyshire in 1846, fifteen-year-old Jackson Jones could do anything. But Jackson believes no one notices his creativity and hard work. When the evil Shaman-fey blasts icy wind across the heath, it threatens to freeze the village and all those in it. Jackson and his friend Becky set out to discover what the deer means and save their village. Will the music from his golden horn be strong enough to stop the Shaman? Is Jackson Jones the one?

After all the curtain calls and the audience''s uproarious cheers, Aden Malloy, a new Broadway musical star, is attacked in an alley after opening night. Left broken and crumbled among the hard bricks and cold stones just outside the theater''s stage door, she wanders through the alley like a spirit, caught between her injured body, her lost voice and lofty dreams, and the gate to Glory. Without telling Aden, Grandma Malloy plants pots of flowers on Aden''s apartment terrace, gardening therapy for relaxation and hope. Aden hates the space, the garden in the sky. The blossoms represent change and all she has lost. She must make peace with her body and her physical limitations, and find alternative therapies to stay positive. Healing begins when her high school boyfriend, Scott Russel, comes for a Thanksgiving visit. But will Aden be able to return to her beloved musical, Honeysuckle Rose, unable to sing? Will Scott be there to stop Aden''s assailant the next time he stalks her, ready for a second attack? Will Christian personal growth be the key to overcoming her crippling grief over what she has lost? If she accepts the garden, is that giving up, or giving in to God''s new plan?