Che Parker: 4 books

Helios is a collection of short stories by author Che Parker that skillfully sheds light on the writer's many varied interests, including a fantastical tale of a single mother with a daughter dying from cancer, a future tense telling of revenge and murder, several humor pieces and an essay reliving...

The first in a three-part series, Alex Xavier is a vivid and intense coming-of-age story set in Kansas City in 1989. Narrated by a 12-year-old boy, Alex Xavier depicts the life of an inner city family struggling to make it. The young narrator, astute and creative, longs to be a superhero, and he discovers...

A seemingly happy and stable marriage spirals out of control in a hailstorm of hurt and betrayal. Vivid and raw, full of the consequences of terrible actions done in the name of love, The Precious Life documents the unraveling of a marriage that, on the outside, appeared to have everything...

Following in his Italian father's gangster footsteps, the bi-racial Cicero Day has little problem rising to the top of the Kansas City underworld. He and his comrades deal with their enemies with all manner of weaponry: guns, knives, poison, trained beasts and even HIV. Yet, Cicero is haunted by recurring...