Nothing could have prepared Darlina Flowers for the reckless Texas rogue musician, Luke Stone, to come stampeding into her life like a team of wild horses. Their love ignited into an ever burning flame, enduring a cruel twist of fate and injustice. A compelling true story based on the lives of Rick and Jan Sikes. A passionate love story set in the rowdy raucous honky-tonks of Texas in 1970.

Flowers and Stone

Literature & Fiction

Sikes, Jan

Dramas & Plays

RiJan Publishing

The Convict and the Rose (True Story Series)

Genre Fiction

A sizzling true love story! Darlina Flowers, raised in a strict religious home, is determined to explore and try everything that had forbidden by her mother and the church. She is attracted to the nightlife, live music and is learning to be a go-go dancer. Everything changes when Luke Stone walks through the door of The Faded Rose, a popular night spot in Abilene, Tx in 1970. He is a veteran musician. He's traveled the roads for more years than he can remember and he's burnt out. Darlina is a breath of fresh air and he is as drawn to her as she to him. He's made a lifetime of bad decisions, but this time he's determined to get it right. However, fate has dealt the cards and his past is swiftly catching up to him. More than anything, he wants to protect her. Their love blossoms and deepens with each passing day. But, can they survive Luke's past? Take a ride up and down the roads of Texas with Luke and Darlina. It could get a little a bumpy, so hold on.

Flowers and Stone (True Story Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Rebel Texas musician, Luke Stone, refuses to finger the real bank robbers and loses everything he treasures in life to the forty foot walls and iron bars of Leavenworth Penitentiary. How is it possible that, in America, a man can be convicted of a crime he did not commit? Believing in his innocence and locked in her own prison attempting to live with only half a heart, is Darlina Flowers a fool to keep holding to nothing but memories and a dream? Join Luke and Darlina as they continue their epic journey through shackles and chains, drugs and gurus with undying love as their North Star in this true story.

The Convict and the Rose

Biographies & Memoirs

With empty pockets and a heart full of dreams Luke Stone leaves behind the nightmare of fifteen long years in Leavenworth prison, not giving it a backward glance. Eyes firmly on the future, he boards a Greyhound bus bound for Texas…for freedom…for the one who holds his heart. The unjust conviction no longer matters and revenge haunts him no more. Darlina Flowers, the woman who takes his breath away, waits ahead and with her by his side, nothing can stop him. He is headed HOME AT LAST.

Home At Last (True Story Series)

When life, as he knew it, was stripped away, left with NO freedom except in his mind, Rick Sikes journeyed deep inside seeking to discover his true self.  It took time, but he eventually found the man he’d forgotten existed. Even though they confined his body in an iron cage, they couldn’t lock away his mind. He made a conscious choice to channel all of the creativity inside him to a positive beat.  What you’ll find between the covers of this book are expressions of raw emotion…Poems of deep sadness and loss, humorous musings, political wisdom, life observations and tender love from both Rick and Jan Sikes.  The pen-and-ink art drawn by Rick, is simply another extension of creativity and partner with the poems. The proper name for this style of art is Pointillism, but I prefer to think of it as Rick's unique brand.  Rick Sikes poured pieces of his heart and soul into these writings and art, and it was his hope that through hard-earned wisdom and insight, he could help others on their soul’s journey.  He departed from this earth in 2009 and this poetry and art book is another tribute to the rich legacy he left behind.   With a wide variety of subjects within these writings, there is something for everyone. 

Discovery

Sikes, Rick

Arts & Photography

Breaths of Life from within a prison cell...When life, as he knew it, was stripped away, left with NO freedom except in his mind, Rick Sikes journeyed deep inside seeking to discover his true self.It took time, but he eventually found the man he'd forgotten existed. Even though they confined his body in an iron cage, they couldn't lock away his mind. He made a choice to channel all of the creativity inside him to a positive beat.What you'll find between the covers of this book are expressions of raw emotion...Poems of deep sadness and loss, humorous musings, political wisdom, life observations and tender love from both Rick and Jan Sikes.The pen-and-ink art drawn by Rick, is simply another extension of creativity and partner with the poems. Rick Sikes poured pieces of his heart and soul into these writings and art, and it was his hope that through hard-earned wisdom and insight, he could help others on their soul's journey.

Texas Authors have once again allowed their creative minds to open up and expand the Universe in which they live with short stories that captures one's emotions through the everlasting aspect of storytelling. In this, the second volume of award winning short stories, the reader is taken on a personal ride of growth and understanding, then through history both factual and fictional as they explore each side of two wars. Then fear grabs hold of you and shakes you with terror before unleashing giggles and out-right laughs. Those are just a few of the emotions one will experience as they read these 17 short stories from all parts of Texas.

Short Stories by Texas Authors: Volume 2

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

GARCIA, ELIZABETH

Allen, Lorri

Mystery

Texas Authors Institute of History, Inc.

Jag Peters has one goal in his quiet comfortable life--to keep his karma slate wiped clean. A near-miss crash with a candy apple red Harley threatens to upend his safe world. He tracks down the rider to apologize properly. Slipping into a seedy biker bar, he discovers the rider isn't a "he", it's a "she", a dark-haired beauty. Rena Jett is a troubled soul, who lives in a rough world. She wants no part of Jag's apology, but even while she pushes him away, she is attracted to him. When he claims to see a ghost--her brother--can she trust him? And could her brother's final gift, a magical rune stone with the symbol for "happily ever after" have the power to heal her wounds and allow opposites to find common ground--perhaps even love?

Ghostly Interference (The White Rune)

Romance

Romantasy

Wild Rose Press

Vann Noble did his duty. He served his country and returned a shell of a man, wounded inside and out. With a missing limb and battling PTSD, he seeks healing in an isolated cabin outside a small Texas town with a stray dog that sees beyond his master's scars. If only the white rune's magic can bring a happily ever after to a man as broken as Vann. On the run from hired killers and struggling to make sense of her unexplained deadly mission, Nakina Bird seeks refuge in Vann's cabin. She has secrets. Secrets that can get them all killed. A ticking clock and long odds of living or dying, create jarring risks. Will these two not only survive but find unexpected love along the way? Or, will evil forces win and destroy them both?

Jagged Feathers (The White Rune)

Romantic Suspense

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Flowers and Stone

The Convict and the Rose (True Story Series)

Flowers and Stone (True Story Series)

The Convict and the Rose

Home At Last (True Story Series)

Discovery

Discovery

Short Stories by Texas Authors: Volume 2

Ghostly Interference (The White Rune)

Jagged Feathers (The White Rune)