Paths to Freedom profiles twelve extraordinary women who faced impossible challenges. Each story is unique and uplifting. You will discover what inspired these women to persevere and achieve success.

Paths to Freedom: Women Who Triumphed Over Adversity

Self-Help

Powers, Alexis

Personal Transformation

Liz Leine Publishing

Becoming Alexis Powers is the memoir of a remarkable woman whose life turned out differently from many of the women of her generation. At age nineteen, Alexis was seduced by an older, wealthy man, thus entering a world that was the complete antithesis of everything she'd been taught to believe. The story reveals her understanding that many people were hurt by her lies, addictions and selfishness. By reading the regrets of others, we understand we are not alone in wishing we could be granted a do-over.Such is life; we learn from our mistakes and move on. This also is a story of unbelievable luck, redemption and healing.

Becoming Alexis Powers: A Memoir of Conflict, Self-destruction and Sobriety

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Independently published

Sound of Silence: A Murder Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hammond, Rayford

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A Leah Gordon Mystery Kiss My Tattoo is the first in a series of the adventures of Leah Gordon, Private Investigator. After tiring of a probate paralegal career, Leah decides to start over and rents a small office in South Pasadena. Her change of occupation takes her many places she never thought of going. When a new client hires her to investigate a woman he contemplates marrying, Leah discovers more than she bargained for. Part of the excitement introduces Leah to a world of art, especially the world of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Set in luscious southern California, Leah’s escapades take the reader along with her where she faces danger, finds villains and has a rollicking good time. Leah’s boyfriend, Dan, is a Los Angeles policeman who unsuccessfully tries to keep the rambunctious Leah out of danger. A fun read.

Kiss My Tattoo

How does a young woman raise her two teenage daughters alone while fighting her own demons? This is the memoir of a highly functional alcoholic guiding her two daughters. “Don’t Die Before Paris” is a collection of touching, heartfelt, hilarious recollections of a woman who faces down her own failings and insecurities to triumph as a loving mother. Alexis throws her heart and soul into this memoir filled with honest emotion and shortcomings of her attempts and failures to be the perfect mother.   Readers will laugh and cry as they read about a mother and her two daughters who manage to survive and love one another despite the craziness.   Alexis Powers is the author of several books, including “Paths to Freedom”, a profile of twelve courageous women who face adversity to triumph against all odds. Her latest book prior to this memoir is “Madi’s Dollhouse”, an inspirational illustrated children’s story.

Don't Die Before Paris

How does a young woman raise her two teenage daughters alone while fighting her own demons? This is the memoir of a highly functional alcoholic guiding her two daughters.  “Don’t Die Before Paris” is a collection of touching, heartfelt, hilarious recollections of a woman who faces down her own failings and insecurities to triumph as a loving mother. Alexis throws her heart and soul into this memoir filled with honest emotion and shortcomings of her attempts and failures to be the perfect mother.   Readers will laugh and cry as they read about a mother and her two daughters who manage to survive and love one another despite the craziness.   Alexis Powers is the author of several books, including “Paths to Freedom”, a profile of twelve courageous women who face adversity to triumph against all odds. Her latest book prior to this memoir is “Madi’s Dollhouse”, an inspirational illustrated children’s story. www.alexispowers.com

Don't Die before Paris

How does a young woman raise her two teenage daughters alone while fighting her own demons? This is the memoir of a highly functional alcoholic guiding her two daughters.  Alexis throws her heart and soul into this memoir filled with honest emotion and shortcomings of her attempts and failures to be the perfect mother.   Readers will laugh and cry as they read about a mother and her two daughters who manage to survive and love one another despite the craziness.   Alexis Powers is the author of several books, including “Paths to Freedom”, a profile of twelve courageous women who face adversity to triumph against all odds. Her latest book prior to this memoir is “Madi’s Dollhouse”, an inspirational illustrated children’s story. www.alexispowers.com

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Kiss My Tattoo is the first in a series of the adventures of Leah Gordon, Private Investigator. After tiring of a probate paralegal career, Leah decides to start over and rents a small office in South Pasadena. Her change of occupation takes her many places she never thought of going.When a new client hires her to investigate a woman he contemplates marrying, Leah discovers more than she bargained for. Part of the excitement introduces Leah to a world of art, especially the world of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.Set in luscious southern California, Leah's escapades take the reader along with her where she faces danger, finds villains and has a rollicking good time. Leah's boyfriend, Dan, is a Los Angeles policeman who unsuccessfully tries to keep the rambunctious Leah out of danger.A fun read.

A LEAH GORDON MYSTERY When private detective Leah Gordon learns that her friend Erin O’Malley has been arrested for murdering her father, a wealthy Pasadena surgeon, she is astonished. Erin had been fun, even audacious, but could she have crossed the line to murderess? Eager to prove her friend’s innocence, Leah agrees to search for the murderer. Her search for justice leads Leah to discover many dark secrets about Erin and the O’Malley family. Presented with conflicting evidence, Leah begins to doubt Erin’s innocence, as well as having to face her own fears and uncertainties. Leah’s adventures with motorcycle riding and flying in a small plane add to the excitement of Kiss Daddy Goodbye.  About the Author: ALEXIS POWERS was born in New York where she began her writing career. Kiss Daddy Goodbye is the second novel in the Leah Gordon series. Alexis presently resides in Tucson, Arizona. She plans to release the third novel in this series later this year.

Kiss Daddy Goodbye

“Paths to Freedom” profiles remarkable, courageous women who found themselves in a black hole of loss, injustice, illness, injury, heartbreak, addiction and persecution. Alexis Powers brings each woman’s story into sharp focus, examining the lives shattered and rebuilt, so that the reader comes to know and care for each of these women.Their triumphs are a testament to the strength of the human spirit.

Paths to Freedom

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Paths to Freedom: Women Who Triumphed Over Adversity

Becoming Alexis Powers: A Memoir of Conflict, Self-destruction and Sobriety

Sound of Silence: A Murder Mystery

Kiss My Tattoo

Don't Die Before Paris

Don't Die before Paris

Don't Die Before Paris

Kiss My Tattoo

Kiss Daddy Goodbye

Paths to Freedom