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Born the only son of wealthy slave holding plantation owner Jared Anderson has loved but one woman, Ruby Sanders, since they children growing up together on the plantation. But Ruby is a slave. And when their love for each other was discovered, Ruby was sent off to another plantation. It is nearing the end of the Civil War and Jared has made the ultimate sacrifice. He has become a deserter from the Confederate Army in order to fulfill a promise he made to Ruby when they were children -- that one day she would be free. To full-fill that promise Jared has moved his entire family, including Ruby, west to the Colorado territories. Along the way, they encountered drought, fire, a raging Mississippi River and two unexpected rivals. Now, those rivals are about to play an integral part in Ruby and Jared’s destiny. We pick up the story as Mennonite outcast Lorelei Hansmueller has followed Jared to Fort Latham, Colorado, after the death of her father, in hopes of making Jared her husband. Is Lorelei too late? On the night of the fire, that destroyed Henry Wilkes’ new home, Ruby and Jared finally gave in to their passion and Ruby is pregnant with Jared’s child. But can Ruby and Jared hold onto their relationship in a time when love, let alone marriage, between the races is strictly forbidden? Or will Lorelei force Jared into another loveless marriage with the threat of revealing his deadly secret?

Author Eliza Ankum has done what few writers of Historic Fiction can – brought her star-crossed lovers from her best-selling Civil War romantic epics, Ruby Sanders and Jared Anderson into the 21st Century with a well-crafted Contemporary Women’s fiction novel Ruby and Jared jumps ahead decades to the here and now, when all colors of love are possible. But when your heart is broken, it’s difficult to love. Ruby Sanders Williams is an out of work financial journalist who thinks that by scoring the most coveted story of the century – Jared Anderson’s defection from Crawford & Anderson Mining – she can redeem herself and get her job back after a very public and disastrous breakup with her boyfriend, Derek, who also happens to be her boss. So, Ruby is determined to find out why Jared Anderson, a multi-millionaire, married to one of the most celebrated beauties in the world, walked away from the company built by his great, great, great, great grandfather, Jared Anderson, on land stolen from Ruby’s family. A grieving husband, Jared Anderson is finally on the road to recovery after suffering the bitterest of betrayals by two people he thought he knew and could trust. Living a lonely and guarded life with his son, Lucas, can Jared learn to love and trust again? Will he allow Ruby into his inner circle? And what, after all these years, does he have planned for the man who betrayed him? Will these two star crossed lovers, resurrected from a time so long ago, finally find a true and lasting love and live happily ever after? Ruby and Jared gives us hope that love can survive a multitude of hurts, betrayals, and even death.

STALKED! By Voices is my soul searing autobiography of how I was – am still am – being stalked and mentally harassed for decades. In 1976 the word stalker, as we know it today, did not exist. It didn't become common place in our language until after the horrific murder of TV star, Rebecca Schaeffer. Schaffer was the star of the 1988 sitcom, My Sister Sam. And in 1989, she was shot dead on her own doorstep by Robert John Bardo. According to media reports, at the time of her murder, Bardo, whom Schaffer did not know, had been stalking her for some time. Before Rebecca’s murder there was no such thing as being STALKED. So, try to imagine that you’re a young twenty-three year old Black woman of no reputation trying to convince your local Police that you’re being stalked, 24/7/365. Everywhere you go. Every second of the day. Needless-to-say, my repeated attempts at getting help fell on deaf ears and ended with my being sent for out-patient psychiatric counseling and dosed, daily, with antipsychotics, drugs. After the so-called therapy ended with my forced confession that I had made the whole thing up, I was left to fend for herself against a family of psychic predatory sexual stalkers For example this excerpt from the book. Chapter 31 ….. THEY SKINNED ME ALIVE! How can I describe to you what it’s like having your every thought put on public display for the amusement of others? The closest I can come to it, is to say, it’s kind of like having your skin peeled off your body in long painful strips that leaves you feeling totally exposed. Stalked! By Voices takes the reader from rural 1965 Latham, Alabama to present day Maywood, Illinois and details a decades’ long true crime story of stalking, sexual harassment, and physical abuse

Two separate couples worlds apart. One couple lives in a private gated community in Phoenix, Arizona while the other struggles for survival on Chicago’s turbulent South Side. However, both couples have their worlds torn apart by a malevolent but impartial killer, Cancer. Each couple suffers the death of a long time spouse. Their heartbreak is immeasurable. Elizabeth uses alcohol to cope with the death of her husband, drowning her sorrow and grief in bottle after bottle of vodka. While, across the country, Frank turns to work, putting in long unnecessary hours in order to avoid going home to the dust covered and empty house he once shared with his wife. While on a business trip to Phoenix, Frank spots a beautiful woman in need of rescue during a rare dust storm known as a Haboob. Their chance meeting ends in what Elizabeth thinks is a one-night stand. But fate has conspired to bring this widow and widower together in order to right a long delayed injustice. Because they have more in common than the death of a spouse and a chance meeting on a Phoenix street. They share a violent and murderous past. Join E.D. Ankum as she weaves the death of a child in 1960 Centralia, Illinois with the turbulent 1968 Chicago riots that occurred after the assignation of Martin Luther King Jr., into a sweeping romance story for today’s readers.

Taken straight from today’s headlines, The Hunt For Red November is a powerful political thriller that throws the door wide open on the hardball game of politics and the savagery that goes into electing the next President of the United States of America. Everybody knows that once a Democratic President has finished his term in office — no matter how wonderful and glorious his achievements might have been — the country does a complete 180 and commits political suicide by electing a Republican. In The Hunt For Red November, an unlikely Republican candidate makes a bid for the White House amid a clamor of more worthy candidates while the Russian President, Spiridon Ivanovich, makes an all out bid for power. Into this mix of wild power hungry moguls throw in a former President with and ax to grind and a sitting President who came to office under dire circumstances who has a devastating secret to hide. Meanwhile, JSOCl Team 2-4 searches for a weapon of mass destruction and the vengeful woman who has her finger on the control button and you have the nerve pulsing political thriller, The Hunt For Red November. The game of politics will never be the same.

Ruby Sanders is the coming of age story of a young slave girl and her relationship with two very different men, Jared Anderson, the son of a wealthy planter and Mingo Williams, the son of a planter and his slave mistress The Civil War has ravished the plantations around Atlanta and then news comes from the North that President Lincoln has found a new general who’s willing and able to carry out his scorched earth policy towards the South. Playmates since children, Jared has vowed to free Ruby and her family but he must also save his own. In order to that, he has come up with a daring plan to move everyone, including Ruby, west to the newly opened Colorado Territories. But there’s a problem. Jared and his family are broke. He’s forced to marry the young impetuous daughter of Henry and Helen Wilkes in order to obtain enough money to carry out his plan. When Mingo joins the group will his presence destroy Jared’s plans? Or will Jared and Ruby live happily ever after?

Margaret Larson the young beautiful African-American widow of WKXR TV station owner, Sam Larson — who is twenty years her senior — twice divorced and part of Peoria, Illinois all White upper class. When Sam is suddenly killed in a bizarre Halloween plane crash Margaret is devastated but determined to carry on in spite of being spurned by all her society friends and Sam’s children from his previous marriage. Sam’s protégé and friend, David Walker — a Denzel Washington look-alike — who was also in a mixed marriage, until his wife Kate was killed in a ‘Unabomber’ type explosion, comes to Margaret’s rescue and helps her pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Soon David is running WKXR TV. But he can’t or won’t forget about his friend, Sam Larson, and their conversation on the night he died. His curiosity about the crash leads him to Thompson Airfield where the NTSB has brought the doomed plane. Unfortunately, for David, he has an out-of-body experience and is forcibly ejected from the hangar. Confused and embarrassed, David decides it’s best to leave while he still has a good reputation. However, on his way to his car, he spots a man in the process of searching what he believes is his car. He confronts the man only to find out it’s he who has the wrong car. As an apology, he invites the man to lunch. The man turns out to be Frank Roberts — field agent for the NTSB — and the agent in charge of investigating the crash of Flight 404. Frank Roberts is an embittered disillusioned man whose own marriage ended in divorce. He feels his career is going nowhere because of the NTSB’s new policy of promoting minorities. Together, this odd pairing sets out to find the real reason why Flight 404 fell out of the sky on that fateful Halloween night. Meanwhile, Margaret is slowly coming to grips with the death of her husband until on a lonely Thanksgiving night while looking at old snapshots, she realizes that Sam is the second one in a group of friends to die in a fatal plane crash. She tries dismissing her suspicions as grief. But when she finds an ominous email sent to her husband by an unknown party she is certain that the plane crash which killed her husband was no accident. Sam was murdered! Soon Margaret joins forces with David and Frank to find a killer before another plane falls from the sky.