After beautiful, dark-skinned Temple Anne Lovely wins a beauty contest that sends her on a tour of southern Negro enclaves, she and her fair-skinned brother David, acting as her chaperone, find themselves confronted with the scars of their people. Stranded in Holly Springs, Mississippi by the white men who have concocted the contest, which is actually a hoax designed to humiliate elite Boston Negroes, brother and sister encounter madness, the lynch rope, and a self-annihilating fascination with light skin and the privileges it affords.

Set in 1895 as figures like Ida B. Wells and Fredrick Douglass fight for Negro rights and federal protection against mob violence, beauty is a 450 page work of historical fiction. Completed in 2007 and in search of an agent!!

MOURNING BECOMES HER. Broadway diva Antigone Clark is on the brink, of a nervous breakdown, of stardom. Her mother Helen has just passed away after a bitter battle with cancer and with life, leaving behind more than just empty closets. She has left behind a family fractured by her lies and a daughter who acts out with lies and treacheries of her own to avoid the truth that she is as vulnerable, as human as her mother. And then in walks Baldwin Dahl stage right. Brash, yet genuine, Baldwin, a rising star of the stage in his own right, is determined to force Antigone to forgive her mother before she destroys herself and her first and best chance at love.

MAD RIVER. Madalyn Denise Rivers runs off and joins the Cuban Revolution on the eve of the Civil Rights Movement. MAD RIVER is a work of historical fiction.