Helen Breedlove: 9 books

A & K is a collection of literary works in three categories: adult short stories which focus on human relationships; read-aloud stories for children; and poems, many of which reflect an appreciation for nature and for lifes experiences.

As a child, Billie Lualan grew up in the home of her aunt, where she had been dumped by her father when she was no more than a toddler. Unwanted and unloved, she developed an attachment disorder, which followed her all her life. She eventually married a man she cared little about and gave birth to a daughter and son, whom she was incapable of loving, even after psychological counseling.

In the summer of 1956, there is little for Sheriff LeRoy Chalmer to do in the law abiding county seat with a population of no more than two thousand. All that suddenly changes when Ekbert Pewzer, a notorious small-town bully, is found beaten to death. The deceased had left terror in his wake wherever...

With very different motives, Boss and Man make a pact to do away with Mary Craddock, but unfortunately the men hired to abduct and kill Mary inadvertently also capture Marys daughter, Brenda, and her friend Jackie. Meanwhile, Jackies mother, Phyllis McDaniels, agonizes over the disappearance...

In the fall of 1984, twenty-two-year-old Olivia Lawson is thrilled to receive her first high school teaching position. Finally, she can sever all ties with her father, whom she has avoided since adolescence. Shes free to start a new life and an exciting career, and she finds an immediate friend in...

In 1928, ten-year-old Lenvil OLoughlin and his two younger brothers are picked up off the squalid streets of New York City and put on an orphan train headed west. Scared and fearful of what the future holds, Lenvil only hopes the three of them can stay together. When the train screeches to...

Rachel Prouge is seventeen in 1944 when things in her life fall apart. Her best friend, Kimberly, is madly in love with her boyfriend. Meanwhile Rachel meets Russell, a handsome military man, and is instantly charmed. Yet both girls are nave, and soon disaster strikes. Kim ends up pregnant,...

It is 1933, and seventeen-year-old Rhoda Bowling is filled with indignation, outrage, and fear. Th e moment she has dreaded for quite some time has finally arrived. As her train pulls away from the depot in rural Stoutland, Missouri, Rhoda tries her best not to hate her father, but deep inside, she...

During Germany's World War II occupation of Norway, Anna, a pregnant nurse, is kidnapped for Hitler's secret Lebesnborn program, which sought out blond, blue-eyed Aryans to create a racially pure Germany. After a difficult labor and near death, her newborn is stolen from her, but not before she sees...