Bøker av Gehla S Knight

During wartime in 1944 a young grad student falls in love with a mysterious beauty who rents him a room. His infatuation leads him to abandon his doctoral thesis for a fantasy love affair, but lovestruck dreams lead him to real life tragedy.

Charlotte wonders if the contented old-lady image she's comfortable with is less like Opie Taylor's Aunt Bea and more like her grandmother's idol, Mae West. Charlotte begins to explore the sexual pasts of women almost no one notices-lollies toting shopping bags huddled in the back of the bus, humped-back grannies fumbling for their checkbooks in the grocery line-faceless barricades among the harried crowds rushing past. Could these invisible souls once have been beauty queens, models, call girls who entertained celebrities in penthouse suites? Maybe even Mafia arm candy, closet lesbians or S&M mavens? And just what do they see when the lights go out at night? Are their rooms filled with visions of lost lovers, heart-thudding trysts and deviant pleasures no one would suspect they'd ever known looking at their dowager humps and varicose veins?Revealing secrets from their youth, their stories pierce the veil of silence society attaches to women beyond their sexual prime. Charlotte's queries unlock spiced reminiscences not linked to senior citizens in our culture. In an environment where explicit, raunchy sex is slapped in our faces a hundred times a day through advertising, product display and entertainment, these women's sexual identities are shadowed in anonymity.Eroticism and romantic passion smolder in the ashes of old age until the last little flicker of flame finally dies with dementia or death. Stories of wife-swapping, prostitution, rape, bawdy beddings, soulful regret and marital bliss encourage all of us not yet across that threshold to look up from the daily grind and catch the scent of adventure. They urge us to dive off the edge of our nine-to-five lives and risk the thrill of sexual intrigue before our beds are cold and carnal tempests visit only in our dreams.

Slap Happy takes readers on a quirky, hilarious ride through the Galaxy to a parallel universe where a smooth-talking agent named Bob offers success, fame and fortune to struggling Scribblers all out of hope.Could there really be a roadmap to make it to the Bigs of the Publishing business? Could your latest masterpiece star at Barnes and Noble and run up the scale on Amazon? Perhaps there is a magical formulas to explain away all the disappointment, pain and frustration that challenges many writers to fall into utter despair and mania.How much is it worth to bargain away your soul to make your dreams come true? Bob has the answer for all those louts and losers at the keyboard who follow his roadmap through a parallel Uni where monsters, grifters, con men and purple nymphos illuminate the Dark Side.Follow authors as they wander through the unknown of Bob's Book of the Dead to discover even in Paradise, there are roadblocks and potholes big enough to harvest the mud ball we call Earth. The moral may be "Be careful what you yearn for. You might not like it. Especially if you don't look good in green.

Miles Brodie is just a bargain-rate lawyer handling divorces for Big Joe's Tiki Bar girls. He's barely squeezing rent money from his third-rate law practice when Joe hires him to find out who's knocking off his pals. Before a full-blown turf war breaks out, Brodie signs on and follows the blood trail to find out who's trying to shut his client down and take over the Portland rackets.Everybody from City Hall to the cop on the street knows a hustler needs an insurance policy. But it's not the kind Prudential Life sells. Somebody is cooking the books, keeping payoffs and bribes strictly off the radar to cover their bets if Big Joe ever tumbles to the double cross.Joe's bookkeeper Melba Malone knows how to keep secrets. How much are they worth to the rat who wants to deal him or herself in? When bodies start to fall, Brodie feels like the last cardboard duck in a carnival shoot. Caught between his greedy ex-wife, crooked cops and a deadly client, Brodie's left holding the losing hand.

Mike and Lester, two mid-life travelers hawking burial insurance policies to crones and the unwary, scheme to hit the jackpot with another big score. They interrupt a robbery when they stop for a cold one, and end up hoofing it to town. On the road again, they get picked up by an Elvis zealot who plans to open a museum for the King in Memphis with her treasured relics she hauls around in her Graceland Vanatorium.Nothing is working out according to plan for the two misguided hucksters when they are stalled in a hippie haven with man-eating pets, commit a major felony by accident, and head out a few leaps ahead of a local posse.On the road, there's romance, crazy fun and surprises for everybody...

ZIG ZAG is a raucous ride with truck-stop cowboys bent on revenge, bored housewives curing the blahs with motel trysts and a motley crew of wannabe baddies who are sure a Commie led invasion across the Canadian border is due any day. Their wacky plot to blow up a Reno casino and finance a backwoods revolt makes for hilarious fun, murder and romance.

Woodrow Hand and his Buddy Deadeye Dan, who runs a gas station and motel, try to do the right thing by helping out a California redhead passing through the Oregon Badlands. When she turns up an obvious suicide, they rally to her side. But nothing turns out like it's supposed to. She disappears, and when Sheriff Berry tries to figure out how he can have a missing corpse on his beat, he stumbles into more than he bargained for.Woody and Dan are in the thick of it and before they can make sense of their predicament, they're eating mush at the Harney County jailhouse. Now nobody's sure what's a suicide, a kidnap, a runaway or murder. That is, not until bodies start showing up. Maybe the answer to the whole mystery is a long forgotten cold case and a secret that's been kept for years. Right under the Sheriff's nose...