Bøker av Claudia Helena Ross

"Dorothy Jones, the quintessential renaissance woman of Jazz Age Harlem, operates an upscale dress shop by day and an exclusive, underworld speakeasy by night from her posh Sugar Hill brownstone. When Dorothy agrees to hostess an event for mob boss Johnny, Dorothy's longtime friend and bartender, Charlie, serves her hallucinogenic martinis made with Johnny's bootleg gin. After a few drinks, Dorothy awakes to find her speakeasy has crash landed in the Land of Oz. Sporting her new ruby studded stilettos, provided courtesy of the deceased Witch of the East, Dorothy begins her journey to see the Wizard in the Emerald City in hopes he will send her home in time for a meeting to sell her numbers racket. Dorothy does not get far in five-inch stilettos, so she enlists the help of the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion. They are more than happy to help Dorothy for reasons she can neither fathom nor conceive, for unbeknownst to Dorothy, once her stilettos click upon the Yellow Brick Road, she will alter the future of Oz for all time"--

In the shadow of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom telecast in 1963 New Orleans, Louisiana, Lela Chevalier Roberts continues her recount of the Chevalier family history to her great-grandson, Julian Charles Chamberie, with the life of her late husband, James Roberts in 19th Century Louisiana.Assisted by angels and heaven, James escapes annihilation at the hand of his father and flees the war torn American South for Paris, France, where he finds refuge with his cousins Emmanuel and Jonathan. Yet, Mammon the Devil pursues him, destroying the new life he has created. Clawing his way out of the madness of Hell, the memory of an ancient love compels James to continue on in spite of Satan ploys. He returns to America at war’s end, finding himself faced with the true love he has dreamed of, Lela. Nevertheless, the devil is busy. Mammon executes his greatest plot to destroy Lela’s and James’ love forever, jeopardizing the lineage and birth of the End Time King, Le Baton.