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.

A Beggar's Bargain (The Bargainer)

Romance

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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

A Beggar's Bargain (The Bargainer)

A Beggar's Bargain (The Bargainer)