Böcker av Valerie Connelly

When a child says to a grandparent, "Tell me a story," and adds the idea "from your childhood," the grandparent is blessed and (only gently) cursed at the same time. Suddenly, the young years of life flash in the mind, and the question is, ""How can I tell him about that? Well, nothing is more endearing. The challenge is to tell the stories with honesty, humor, and a gentle revelation about life. The window opens in the child's mind, and the grandparent is more human, more real, more loving than ever before.So, when my grandson asked me to write down the "childhood" stories ¿ which I had told him sitting in the back seat of the car with him on little excursions around town ¿ "So, Mommy can read them to me when you're not here," I practically flew to the computer and started writing. These eight stories are the beginning of a series of children's short story books. The illustrations are mine as well, and though they are childlike, that is only because my skills at drawing stopped with cartooning sometime around the age of nine or ten. I hope these stories are fun to read to your grandchildren, and that they get you started on telling your stories too!

Hannah Sebastian and Peyton Staley are just ordinary people who get the extraordinary chance to experience life as it would have been, if they had made the other choice at that crucial moment in their youth. Meanwhile, Lawyer Lynn Hargrove and Detective Jin O'Riley must stop the killer and unravel the mystery that threaten to destroy Hannah and Peyton's lives forever. SIDETRACKS unveils the mystery of life as it could be and might have been --- for better or for worse.

With fantasy reminiscent of Stephen King and adventure as in a Sydney Sheldon mystery, Valerie Connelly's SACRED NIGHT pits the corruption of greed against the endurance of love and redemption."Conflicts and liaisons between intriguing human and otherworldly chracters all working their own competing agendas keeps the pace swift." --- Brandi Reissenweber, Editor and teacher.