Five Women Of Adventure

FIVE WOMEN OF ADVENTURE

- Five Contemporary Comic Novellas About Extraordinary Women of Adventure -

Aunt Yolanda -

Things are not always as they seem in life. Why do people develop preconceived images of people they have never met? Ed Slaterfeld has a midlevel job at a health food company. He has a girlfriend and a reasonably good life. But he yearns for a more exciting life but is not sure how to pursue that goal. When he hastily accepts a new position after thinking he is about to be laid off, he is sent on an assignment to an exotic land with peculiar customs and laws. It is in that land that he meets the woman of his dreams and gets into more danger and excitement than he had ever dreamed possible. The danger puts him in confrontation with the family of his former girlfriend; the colorful Herrigano family members include a U.S. senator, a preacher and a crime boss.

The Story of Ralphaela

Whose family isnt somewhat dysfunctional? Ralphaela Hackwood becomes an overnight celebrity after winning a national singing contest. Born into a family with a century-long history of feuding with a neighboring family in the Ozark Mountains, she is also the daughter of a successful TV evangelist with a propensity for road rage. Ralphaelas father always told her she could do whatever she wanted in life as long as she never married a Glockenfelmer. Like the Hatfields and the McCoys and the Montagues and the Capulets, the Hackwoods and Glockenfelmers are sworn enemies. When two French monks, who were brought to America to start up the family winery get into a fistfight, it sets in motion a wild series of events. Ralphaelas life goes through several phases including cult membership, a kidnapping, Broadway musical stardom and ultimately rockstar fame. It is soon after she transforms herself into a rock-n-roll sensation that she reflects on her accomplishments and decides on what she really wants out of life.

Delphinium the Flower Child

Whats in a name? How do people get stuck with a nickname and why do some people want to change their names? Delphinium Zalindero is a teenager growing up in a twenty-first-century hippie commune. Her parents are part of an anachronistic cult of flower children still chasing generation-old dreams from the 1960s. Despite the peaceful appearance of the flower children, there are sinister forces at work. The young woman desperately yearns to leave her current life, get an education and ultimately change her name. Soon after her eighteenth birthday, she becomes romantically involved with the son of an eccentric presidential candidate. When she and a friend pull a silly prank on a middle-aged Wall Street skirt chaser, Delphinium has no idea the prank will ultimately go too far, involve the senator and his staff, but will help bring a criminal to justice and have humorous consequences.

Lisa Jean Takes a Vacation

Who says people who work in food service have boring lives? Lisa Jean Magnussen is a waitress at everyones favorite restaurant in the sleepy little town of Henryville, Virginia. Almost everyone in the town knows two things about Lisa Jean she is an avid runner and, thanks to an ex-husbands advice, she carries a handgun for protection. When her gun gets stolen on a trip to New York at the same time there is a plot to assassinate the secretary general of the United Nations, her life and her friends lives are turned upside down.

Marisol Decides to Moonlight

Do people take on second jobs only because they need the money or is it because they need variety and excitement in their lives? Marisol and Walter Lugerweiss enjoy a good life living in a south Tennessee town where almost everyone uses some variation of the phrase, bless your little heart. Marisol is a high school teacher and Walter is the town chief of police.