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The Day the Whores Went Home is based on an actual event that occurred in the small town of Sault Ste. Marie in far northern Michigan just as the Prohibition Era was ending. This story's characters are as diverse as any the reader will encounter: a notoriously sinister gangster, a young woman with a painful past and a farmer whose moral code is, at best, fluid. The Day the Whores Went Home will pull the reader along on a voyage that explores pain and possibilities, condemnation and redemption, wins and losses.

Everywhere Saviors is Frank Dewey Staley's fourth novel and is clearly his most expansive. This story reconnects with the life of Dobro Temple, agent to the Los Angeles glitterati and his daughter, the effervescent and precocious Sara. For light to appear there must be darkness as contrast, and Everywhere Saviors explores a darkness both frightening and consuming. Experiences within this book will keep many readers up at night. But this book shows us more than simply an underbelly of who we are; Everywhere Saviors reminds us again and again that so many of the faces that surround us are there to smile at us and offer us a helping hand.

Eat No Evil brings together wildly diverse characters, some damaged, some not. We meet a failed priest struggling with his abandonment of the church, a high-end chef with a secret past both glorious and painful, a retired rock star, a psychiatrist and his wife and the people they encounter along their respective paths to wholeness. This is a story of pain and promise, of abandonment and salvation. Eat No Evil will most certainly invite you to look at those around you with different, more all-encompassing eyes.

Orphans is a free-flowing novel that tells the story of love and loss, of redemption and punishment, of kindness and hatred. Its characters range from Native Americans to the lesbian community, to mid-America, to studio musicians in the deep south. Told with a dry and often caustic wit, Orphans is certain to make the reader look at the people and places in our lives through a more diversified lens.

This collection of stories contains an eclectic and often weird group of characters ranging across all walks of life and all sexual orientations. Often told with a dry wit, these stories are certain to make the reader look more closely at the every-day life surrounding us.