BOOK 1 Not To Be Denied captures humorous, sad, and, scary family life between 1900 and 1970: The Depression, wars and life at home, schizophrenia; tomboy girls and teen girlfriends, sexual encounters, children, husbands, and individuals’ choices that shape them.
“Before all else, you are a wife and mother.” But Jan becomes a liberal newspaper reporter; Bea, a femme fatale. Passion explodes in their early ‘40s. Liberal religion and Transactional Analysis (TA) weekends bring them together. Their paths meld when these naïve lovers test their magnetic attraction after Jan asks, “What could it hurt if we just let it happen?”

BOOK 2 In Gullibles’ Travels, bi-sexuals now, divorced Bea tries not to be a lesbian; her lover Jan strives to keep her children, husband and Bea happy. Jan’s communication tactic helps defuse a prolonged hospital strike. She recalls living in Cold War Germany in the 1950s; touring Leningrad, Moscow and Greece with her husband. Bea and Jan escape to Europe for a rowdy and romantic three-week adventure. “A peaceful resolution to our double lives may not be possible.”

BOOK 3 In Secret Transgressions, willful Jan’s marriage turns raw. Jan’s hospital PR job expands with Bea as her associate. Jan comes ‘out’ to her trusted boss. The lovers buy their home. Trumped-up rules force Bea’s dismissal. Bea submits to a sexual encounter, loses it in Las Vegas, tries sobriety. Known now as lesbians, they are free to be themselves and create Mother Courage Bookstore. Jan is aggressively harassed to quit her hospital job but she persists and excels.

BOOK 4 "I’ll be a key to help you unlock the door to your side of that closet." In Being Mother Courage, Bea and Jan become the visibly out local lesbians with their feminist bookstore. With parents passing and ex-husbands getting the kids, Jan and Bea create women’s groups and Goddess circles. They boldly confront the loss of Jan’s cherished Door County land and her continuing job harassment despite her successes. Humorous misadventures ride with them along Door County’s precious land. Florida’s Atlantic Ocean tests their scuba-diving skills. Mexico’s road to and from Chichen Itza requires some spunk. After they get a two-page manuscript, they illustrate, design, publish and promote Something Happened to Me, their children’s sexual abuse book, which goes international and relocates their dream. Bea moves out of the confines of the local bookstore to sell their book to the world.

BOOK 5 In Grit & Gratification, Sailor Bea commands the boat and Jan is her bungling crew. Bea and Jan muster strength after Bea’s homophobe father and Jan’s supportive father die and they rehab their inherited rundown properties. Their Mother Courage Press creates a significant new book for sexual abuse victims. When their retail bookstore closes, they are free to travel. As lusty lovers, they tow their camper to New York City, Provincetown, America’s Stonehenge and Niagara Falls. They survive deep ocean scuba diving, wild camping trips, and sneaking into Disney World. They experience Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival and Jan accepts that her lost Door County acres can be found on women’s festival land.

BOOK 6 Moving On and Up reveals Jan’s emotional abuse and financial injustice, but she heals through her uniquely devised therapy scheme that also benefits Bea. Jan’s professional reputation earns her a PR job at a major metropolitan hospital. Bea and Jan stay strong together to gain success as solutions fall into place. Bea and Mother Courage Press begin to thrive. Their personal feminist and global spirituality expands and deepens. They thrive or survive camping adventures and women’s music festivals and travel through the Great Northwest before tackling change in demanding situations.

2 more books to come in this series!