Give Me A Reason
Dr. Sterling Pierre Morris II, a prominent Detroit Psychiatrist, is contentedly serving
his clients when he is suddenly offered a six-month assignment at I.C.C., a secret
organization, nearly twenty-four hundred miles from home. Meanwhile, Dr. Morris had
reservations about accepting the assignment because this friend had a tendency of
volunteering him for assignments in the past that jeopardized his psychiatric license.
However, the attractive offer, including generous benefits and the idea of awakening to
the California sun, instead of enduring another bitterly cold Michigan winter, made the
assignment difficult to refuse. So, without much hesitation, Dr. Morris convinces himself
to accept the offer. After all, if he can survive in Detroit, he can survive anywhere.
After arriving in sunny California, Dr. Morris soon discovers this assignment is starkly
different from anything he ever encountered in Detroit. He immediately began to
remember that “all money, wasn’t good money.” The cases are unsettling. The stakes
are high. Each client’s reality is more disturbing than the last.
Then there is Mr. Troy Shields, a client whose personal tragedies mirror Dr. Morris’
own experiences and feel like a scripted version of his past. This is when Dr. Morris had
a premonition that his life would never be the same. He was now convinced that his
friend may have intentionally withheld vital information about I.C.C. and he may have
signed the contract in haste.
With only six months to complete the assignment, Dr. Morris is faced with tormenting
thoughts: why was he chosen and what is the real reason he is here?
Synopsis
Compendiums (Synopses)
Unwise Counsel
For twenty years Morris & Morris Psychological Practice has had a contract with High Performance Manufacturing (HPM) to assist HPM employees with problems caused by the pressure of their work environment, and to cope with everyday challenges.
Dr. Sterling Pierre Morris II, Dr. Cheyenne Zoe Bouvier, and Dr. Benjamin Arnold Karson counsel at the plant, and they also meet demands from clients they serve at their private practice. From dealing with a micro-managing foreman to struggles of infidelity, the doctors advise company employees how to balance work and private life.
But do the good doctors follow their own advice?
When they are not dealing with the brutal realities of their clients, each doctor battle their own personal struggles. Dr. Morris’ challenges with his children keeps him giving into vices he cannot control. Dr. Bouvier copes with her obligations in the partnership, coupled with an obsession with Dr. Morris, and utter disdain for Dr. Karson. Dr. Karson has spent the last 30 years hoping to make sense of his life. His struggle with his identity has him agonizing over who he is, and to which culture he really belongs.
Given their entanglement with their own issues can they really give sound instruction? Or do they provide their clients with unwise counsel?
Last Year Before Reality Series
This is the story of African American youths who are approaching adulthood and independence. Their friendships, experiences with life, love, and tragedy help to prepare them for the road ahead. Their commitment to remain close friends, and overcome unexpected challenges are the recipe for nonstop action.
Their last year of high school is a series of hope & despair, dreams and disappointments. For some it was their last year of high school - for others it was their last year.
No Time For Love
There are few things that are dear to Bridgette Tate’s heart - her relationship with God; her career as an attorney; her work and support of a shelter for abused women and children, and Renè Anthony Davis, her high school sweetheart. But, over the years their relationship has become complex.
Renè is a multi-faceted man who has experienced a multitude of tragedies. He has a vendetta to avenge his father’s murder, while overcoming the guilt associated with the deaths of other loved ones. His life is dedicated to vindicating acquaintances, friends, and even strangers. He struggles to conquer personal demons that control his cynical thoughts and relentless ruthlessness - vices that hold hostage true passions he longs to fulfill, and, which hope to pull him from his saving grace - the only woman he has ever loved, Bridgette Tate.
Bridgette waited what seemed like a lifetime for Renè after falling in love with him their senior year of high school. Since then life has taken them on different paths - mostly due to Renè‘s other obsessions. Renè must choose between his notorious life and making Bridgette his wife. Bridgette has choices of her own. Will she wait for Renè? Or, will she give in to advances of Kevon McMillan, an attorney, or Larry Anderson, a detective? Renè & Bridgette’s relationship grows more uncertain. Read along to discover if Renè will make time for the love, or lose Bridgette forever.
Behind the Broken Cross
What happens when corruption in the church is exposed? All hell breaks loose!
Follow Renè, Bridgette & their friends as they journey through another chapter in their lives. Self-examination of their personal lives reveal that each friend has come to believe the cross of Jesus Christ has lost true meaning.
All his life Gregory Hill followed biblical teachings and maintained his relationship with God Almighty. He nurtured his faith, gained respect in the community, and honor among his friends. His quest to bring wayward souls to Christ has been a success. There was only one exception - interference from Rev. Bobby “Showtime'' Hayes, a foe who has brought Rev. Hill great opposition.
Reverend Hayes pastors a newly built church. But, Rev. Hayes doesn’t serve God. He believes he’s god. Contrary to the biblical precepts Rev. Hayes conducts church business as he pleases. Power, sex, and money are the influences that control him. He uses the church‘s platform to pimp from the pulpit.
As the battle between good and evil ensues, read along to discover…
•Can Minister Hill expose the corruption in the rival church by forming his own team of “Thuggish Christian Soldiers”?
•Will he continue to keep his church family intact?
•Can he prove that the God he serves is greater than the tangled web of deception, denial, and corruption spawned by Reverend Hayes?
Trying My Hardest
After twelve years of experiencing life on different roads, Rene and Bridgette finally marry and start a family.
In the name of peace, and all the responsibilities that come with love and family, Renè has pledged to change his lifestyle...But can he relinquish leading I.C.C., his allegiance to Johnny Miller, and denouncing an alter ego who determinedly compromises his relationship with God and his family?
Renè’s violent past continues to collide with his endeavor to lead a quiet and peaceable life, which forces a resurrection of his alter ego. Yet a return to his sinister, dark side may be the only thing that will bring Renè peace, or a final resting place.
Knowing the Rules of The Game – Nonfiction Novel
The education of young Black men and women in America is vital. However, far too often they learn the rules of the game too late. The struggle to make an honest living in America has been detrimental to our young people - mentally, socially and economically.
This book was written as a tool to help prepare African American students for the challenges they will encounter when crossing the threshold to adulthood. I share my trials and successes so these young adults will be better prepared for challenges in the 21st century. Reading about my experiences of survival serves as a compass to provide direction to them for success.
Truth is reality. History does not change. It is perpetually revisited in every generation.