Dear Reader, While my stories are considered fiction, they are based on personal memories, family oral history, and historical facts.

My intention is not to offend anyone but to give God the Glory "for the Things He has done." 

With that in mind, I offer you my books.

The Warehouse

The Coin Trilogy

The days after God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden, God’s fairies, Faith, Hope Serenity, Passion, and little Curiosity, are concerned about Him being sad and lonely.

Upon meeting The Creator in the Garden’s morning mist, the fairies ask if they could find Him new friends. With an approving chuckle, God offers an alternative. “Would you like to find people to build a storehouse in which I can keep My unclaimed gifts and blessings?”

So, the search for faithful men and women begins.

The fairies follow the lives of two young boys. John Wilkins winds his way from his home in Missouri through Arkansas, Louisiana, and finally to the wilderness of Florida where he meets Leo Bates, a native of the uncharted territory. 

These two men have no idea how their faith and building will affect their great-great-granddaughter and other townspeople more than a century later.

The Royal Order of the Last Coin is a work of fiction based on historical facts and the Burton family genealogy.

In 14th century England, on the William Wallace of Scotland’s execution, King Edward I knights Walter de Burton, one of his faithful warriors.

Walter de Burton struggles with his duty to the King of England and obedience to God, while Milton de Burton, Walter’s son and squire to the King, looks on with pride and longing.

Later, Milton realizes his dream of riding in formation with his father, and on the campaign, father and son speak secretly of the Holy Scriptures. Sir de Burton warns his son that the Church frowns upon anyone other than clergy reading the Holy Scriptures.

Today, because of the bravery of John Wycliff, sacred hymns of faith and scripture passages intersperse this story.

Richard de Burton is a prisoner of his own mind. His past haunts him. He did not complete knights’ training due to physical limitations. Consequently, each time he walks down the endless corridor of his ancestral home, he feels deep despair. Portraits of his knighted and venerated ancestors seem to peer down at him and hiss their condemnation. He would never earn the title of knight of the realm nor live up to their expectations.

Adding heartbreak to his self-loathing, he lost the love of his life, Elizabeth.

Feeling he has nothing to live for, Richard leaves his ancestral manor in Staffordshire, England, in November of 1605 and sails to The New World. In leaving England, he hopes he can start a new life where he does not feel the weight of failure and loss on his shoulders.

After a harrowing journey across the sea, Jamestown is not quite what Richard expects, but it is a new place to prove himself, find a new home, and hopefully find someone with whom he can share his meager home. But there’s only one woman he wants to spend his life with, Elizabeth, his first love. But that is not to be, for her parents promised Elizabeth to an Earl, a man of great wealth and advanced age, in an arranged marriage. Can anyone take the place of his dear Elizabeth?

Richard finds friendships with the most unlikely people in the Virginia colony’s virgin forest. He learns what it means to start fresh and show God’s love to everyone, even those deemed savages by everyone else.

What awaits Richard in Jamestown? Will he find a new home with love and hope and prove that he’s more than a title?

By the dark of the moon, canoes slide silently over a black river. Leading this contingency of braves, Chief Opitchapam and his son, Na-ta’a-em, protect Richard Burton, his young Powhatan wife, and John Running Stream Burton, the chief’s infant grandson, as they escape Jamestown. The small band of canoes travels for three days until they discover Henricopolis in the Indian territory of Virginia, where the Shawnee people welcome and protect the young refugees.

Years of unsettling violence of the French-Indian wars, the British press for more land, and the Iroquois’ greed for more fertile hunting grounds forced the family to leave their Henricopolis home in 1641. The Burton family forge across the Alleghanies to a land where blue grass grows abundant and sweet, and peace enfolds them. Richard Burton and his family make a new home in the Indian territory of Kentucky.

How will God lead the family? What adventures and misadventures await them?

Sam, a U.S. Army paratrooper, returns home from WWII with a severe disability and deformities. No one awaits to greet him home.

Rachel, a battered wife with two small children, is torn between loyalty to her abusive husband and self-preservation.

Kayla, an abused and orphaned teenager, is dying from the effects of anorexia.

Will Sam find a family? Will Rachel find safety? Will Kayla find herself? Will someone find her?

Dear Readers, People often ask authors, "Where do you get your stories?"

When I look at the world around me, dig in the dirt and meet a bug or my friendly black snake, dream at night, or even look at a picture, I can see God's love and greatness all around me. If, however, His love is not evident in the way we live, I sense His compassion.

While my stories are considered fiction, they are based on personal memories, family oral history, and historical facts.

My intention is not to offend anyone but to give God the Glory for the Things He has done in my life.

With that in mind, I offer you, my books. I hope you will buy them, enjoy them, and be blessed by them.

The Warehouse

The days after God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden, God’s fairies, Faith, Hope Serenity, Passion, and little Curiosity, are concerned about Him being sad and lonely.

Upon meeting The Creator in the Garden’s morning mist, the fairies ask if they could find Him new friends. With an approving chuckle, God offers an alternative. “Would you like to find people to build a storehouse in which I can keep My unclaimed gifts and blessings?”

So, the search for faithful men and women begins.

The fairies follow the lives of two young boys. John Wilkins winds his way from his home in Missouri through Arkansas, Louisiana, and finally to the wilderness of Florida where he meets Leo Bates, a native of the uncharted territory. 

These two men have no idea how their faith and building will affect their great-great-granddaughter and other townspeople more than a century later.

The Train - God Cares for His Children

Sam, a U.S. Army paratrooper, returns home from WWII with a severe disability and deformities. No one awaits to greet him home.

Rachel, a battered wife with two small children, is torn between loyalty to her abusive husband and self-preservation.

Kayla, an abused and orphaned teenager, is dying from the effects of anorexia.

Will Sam find a family? Will Rachel find safety? Will Kayla find herself? Will someone find her?

The Royal Order of the Last Coin

Book 1 of The Burton Family Series

The Royal Order of the Last Coin is a work of fiction based on historical facts and the Burton family genealogy.

In 14th century England, on the William Wallace of Scotland’s execution, King Edward I knights Walter de Burton, one of his faithful warriors.

Walter de Burton struggles with his duty to the King of England and obedience to God, while Milton de Burton, Walter’s son and squire to the King, looks on with pride and longing.

Later, Milton realizes his dream of riding in formation with his father, and on the campaign, father and son speak secretly of the Holy Scriptures. Sir de Burton warns his son that the Church frowns upon anyone other than clergy reading the Holy Scriptures.

Today, because of the bravery of John Wycliff, sacred hymns of faith and scripture passages intersperse this story.

Jamestown - A New Life

Book 2 of The Burton Family Series

Richard de Burton is a prisoner of his own mind. His past haunts him. He did not complete knights’ training due to physical limitations. Consequently, each time he walks down the endless corridor of his ancestral home, he feels deep despair. Portraits of his knighted and venerated ancestors seem to peer down at him and hiss their condemnation. He would never earn the title of knight of the realm nor live up to their expectations.

Adding heartbreak to his self-loathing, he lost the love of his life, Elizabeth.

Feeling he has nothing to live for, Richard leaves his ancestral manor in Staffordshire, England, in November of 1605 and sails to The New World. In leaving England, he hopes he can start a new life where he does not feel the weight of failure and loss on his shoulders.

After a harrowing journey across the sea, Jamestown is not quite what Richard expects, but it is a new place to prove himself, find a new home, and hopefully find someone with whom he can share his meager home. But there’s only one woman he wants to spend his life with, Elizabeth, his first love. But that is not to be, for her parents promised Elizabeth to an Earl, a man of great wealth and advanced age, in an arranged marriage. Can anyone take the place of his dear Elizabeth?

Richard finds friendships with the most unlikely people in the Virginia colony’s virgin forest. He learns what it means to start fresh and show God’s love to everyone, even those deemed savages by everyone else.

What awaits Richard in Jamestown? Will he find a new home with love and hope and prove that he’s more than a title?

Kentucky to Missouri

Book 3 of The Burton Family Series

By the dark of the moon, canoes slide silently over a black river. Leading this contingency of braves, Chief Opitchapam and his son, Na-ta’a-em, protect Richard Burton, his young Powhatan wife, and John Running Stream Burton, the chief’s infant grandson, as they escape Jamestown. The small band of canoes travels for three days until they discover Henricopolis in the Indian territory of Virginia, where the Shawnee people welcome and protect the young refugees.

Years of unsettling violence of the French-Indian wars, the British press for more land, and the Iroquois’ greed for more fertile hunting grounds forced the family to leave their Henricopolis home in 1641. The Burton family forge across the Alleghanies to a land where blue grass grows abundant and sweet, and peace enfolds them. Richard Burton and his family make a new home in the Indian territory of Kentucky.

How will God lead the family? What adventures and misadventures await them?

HOW DID I COME TO WRITE

THE WAREHOUSE?

The story, The Warehouse is based on an allegory I heard in church when I was a teenager. That story was about the saddest place in Heaven. 

It was not until after I wrote this book that I realized that the sadness was not ours, but God's. How His heart must be saddened when we reject or do not ask for His many gifts He has stored up for us.

I used my grandparents as the character background of part one of the story. From that standpoint, the ideas are my memories of things I witnessed or heard from my family.

This story is based on an allegory I heard in church when I was a teenager. That story was about the saddest place in Heaven. 

It was not until after I wrote this book that I realized that the sadness was not ours, but God's. How His heart must be saddened when we reject or do not ask for His many gifts He has stored up for us.

I used my grandparents as the character background of part one of the story. From that standpoint, the ideas are my memories of things I witnessed or heard from my family.

In The Train, the protagonist, Sam, is based on two people very dear to me: my daddy and his brother, Uncle John.

Uncle John suffered severe frostbite in Germany’s Herzog forest during WWII and begged the Army surgeons not to amputate his feet.

I remember Daddy telling me his story of being injured in battle during WWII. He prayed, "Lord if you get me out of this 'hell hole' I will serve you for the rest of my life."

And he did.

Despite Daddy's amputation and phantom pain, and with God’s help, he was a loving husband, father, provider, confidant, and friend. He never used his disability as an excuse. Instead, he used it as an opportunity to minister to others going through difficult situations. Even after a sleepless night of phantom pain, he would drag himself to work and would often go to the hospital to visit other amputees. He was a dedicated church member, deacon, and teacher.

A childhood friend I grew up with at church said in astonishment, "Joyce, I never knew your father had a wooden leg."

That was Daddy. He carried himself with grace and dignity, and always had a broad smile or resounding laugh.

I am blessed to be his daughter.

In The Train, the protagonist, Sam, is based on two people very dear to me: my daddy and his brother, Uncle John.

Uncle John suffered severe frostbite in Germany’s Herzog forest during WWII and begged the Army surgeons not to amputate his feet.

I remember Daddy telling me his story of being injured in battle during WWII. He prayed, "Lord if you get me out of this 'hell hole' I will serve you for the rest of my life."

And he did.

Despite Daddy's amputation and phantom pain, and with God’s help, he was a loving husband, father, provider, confidant, and friend. He never used his disability as an excuse. Instead, he used it as an opportunity to minister to others going through difficult situations. Even after a sleepless night of phantom pain, he would drag himself to work and would often go to the hospital to visit other amputees. He was a dedicated church member, deacon, and teacher.

A childhood friend I grew up with at church said in astonishment, "Joyce, I never knew your father had a wooden leg."

That was Daddy. He carried himself with grace and dignity, and always had a broad smile or resounding laugh.

I am blessed to be his daughter.

Growing up, I always heard stories from Daddy or his mother, Granny B about their family's Native American Heritage. However, I never received any details. Now that I am the matriarch of both my paternal and maternal family, I wanted to pass down the stories of our oral history. 

As I researched the Burton genealogy, trail of information led me to as far back as 14th century England. That was a surprising gift. 

I followed the family line to the New World but the information vanished. Apparently, a fire in the newly formed Philadelphia capital destroyed those records. Still, I followed the information I had to follow the family to Virginia, Kentucky, and finally Missouri. At this point, I had to rely on Granny B's sparse information, but I finally created that cherished Black Foot American Indian line.

Growing up, I always heard stories from Daddy or his mother, Granny B about their family's Native American Heritage. However, I never received any details. Now that I am the matriarch of both my paternal and maternal family, I wanted to pass down the stories of our oral history. 

As I researched the Burton genealogy, trail of information led me to as far back as 14th century England. That was a surprising gift. 

I followed the family line to the New World but the information vanished. Apparently, a fire in the newly formed Philadelphia capital destroyed those records. Still, I followed the information I had to follow the family to Virginia, Kentucky, and finally Missouri. At this point, I had to rely on Granny B's sparse information, but I finally created that cherished Black Foot American Indian line.

Growing up, I always heard stories from Daddy or his mother, Granny B about their family's Native American Heritage. However, I never received any details. Now that I am the matriarch of both my paternal and maternal family, I wanted to pass down the stories of our oral history. 

As I researched the Burton genealogy, trail of information led me to as far back as 14th century England. That was a surprising gift. 

I followed the family line to the New World but the information vanished. Apparently, a fire in the newly formed Philadelphia capital destroyed those records. Still, I followed the information I had to follow the family to Virginia, Kentucky, and finally Missouri. At this point, I had to rely on Granny B's sparse information, but I finally created that cherished Black Foot American Indian line.

Growing up as a child, I always heard stories from Daddy or his mother, Granny B about their family's Native American Heritage. However, I never received any details. Now that I am the matriarch of both my paternal and maternal family, I wanted to pass down the stories of our oral history.

As I researched the Burton genealogy, trail of information led me to as far back as 14th century England. That was a surprising gift.

I followed the family line to the New World, but the information vanished. Apparently, during the Civil War, a fire in the nation’s capital destroyed those records. Still, I followed the information I had to follow the family to Virginia, Kentucky, and finally Missouri. At this point, I had to rely on Granny B's sparse information, but I finally created that cherished Black Foot American Indian line.

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O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

  Psalm 19:14 King James Version

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be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

  Psalm 19:14 King James Version

In the days after God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden, God’s fairies, Faith, Hope Serenity, Passion, and little Curiosity, are concerned about Him being sad and lonely.

Upon meeting The Creator in the Garden’s morning mist, the fairies ask if they could find Him new friends. With an approving chuckle, God offers an alternative. “Would you like to find people to build a storehouse in which I can keep My unclaimed gifts and blessings?”

So, the search for faithful men and women begins.

The fairies follow the lives of two young boys. John Wilkins winds his way from his home in Missouri through Arkansas, Louisiana, and finally to the wilderness of Florida where he meets Leo Bates, a native of the uncharted territory. 

These two men have no idea how their faith and building will affect their great-great-granddaughter and other townspeople more than a century later.

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