Foreword from Remaking Abbi

Remaking Abbi is Book 1 in the Abigail Carter Detective Series. The series tells the story of a young college graduate struggling. The Abigail Carter character in this series is symbolic of women who were not given the opportunity “to be the best you can be”. Abigail was fortunate, she recognized that she needed to remake herself. She had support and allowed herself a “Remake”. One theme for young readers is to realize that there is an opportunity if you chase after it; it may require patience and hard work. Women need to believe that they possess the innate ability to be equal partners in our society whether they become president, senators, judges, state troopers, lawyers, doctors, dentists, educators, soldiers, pilots, or truck drivers. These skills can be learned, not solely with physical strength or with education, but with perseverance. I created this story to honor the challenges that women have faced and the goals that they can achieve. Abigail chose to become a trooper out of necessity when her youthful dreams vanished through no fault of her own. But even as a Trooper, she does not realize her potential. Life is full of complications, and sorting out priorities helped her travel forward from “a lost soul”, to a self-assured woman, to falling in love, to become a resourceful investigator who was able to think ahead. Her goals did not include being the head of the Colorado State Patrol, but she allowed her potential to flourish. She met someone from Pittsburgh who could have added or subtracted from her ambitions. Like most of us, she struggled with life’s complications.

Today’s world needs to recognize the value in the changing of women’s roles. It is not enough that women can drink alcoholic beverages, can vote, when they cannot be fully recognized in society and remain oppressed. My message is that our society needs to not just accept women in all endeavors, but to strive for gender equality. Progress has been made, but when we no longer need courts to support these rights, then society flourishes. No one should be surprised today that your commercial pilot is a woman, that the officer who pulled your vehicle over for speeding is a woman, that when you are fighting for your life in a hospital that your surgeon is a woman. Foreword from Moving On Moving On is Book 2 in the Abigail Carter Detective Series. Remaking Abbi, Book 1, deals with Abigail Carter, a young woman in her twenties, who had been struggling to see her post college graduation plans come to fruition. As Abbi struggles, she realizes living in California was difficult and she felt her life might be in danger. She needed to start over in Colorado where she was born and had graduated from college. When she returned home, she stayed at her sister and brother-in-law’s home. They encouraged her to apply to the Colorado State Patrol Training Academy to become a State Trooper. Her father was a senior state judge, and her brother-in-law was a deputy sheriff in Boulder. They felt the rigors of training would build her physical stamina and restore her self-confidence. She accepted the challenge, and we followed her young career, her dreams and her love life. It was all that she had hoped for until one day…. This is where Book 1 concludes. I constructed Moving On to follow Abbi Carter as her life transitions, no longer the life she had dreamed of or the life that she had trained for. She starts on a journey that may go beyond your imagination, but one that for Abbi was real. More adventures are in store for her. My premise was to construct stories about women who learn their own strengths. They transition through life, and along the way they discover how much more there may be in our world beyond what we are taught in school. Her adventures could be your adventures as you learn more about being able to take these steps. Please read or listen to my next book in the series, Bonding. We follow Abigail Carter as she steps out from under a marriage canopy. Foreword from Bonding Bonding is Book 3 in the Abigail Carter Detective Series. It begins with Abbi and Andrew returning home from their honeymoon in Aruba. She is both a private detective with her own agency and for at least 10 hours per week she is a Lieutenant in the Colorado State Police but reports exclusively to the Governor. She was hired to help

Oversee the Highway Patrol new assignment of seeking out motor vehicles than are transporting this illegal and deadly drug within Colorado State. Bonding is a realization by Abbi that her husband offers more than she anticipated. It is through Bonding that Abbi discovers Andrew in a different light. Book 3 the final in my series about Abigail Carter, began in 2024 and is expected to be completed in late 2025.. As of June 2025, I’ve completed nine chapters and have another 20 chapters to go. Along the way I started a new book unrelated to th Abigail Carter Detective Series/ This novel, tentatively called Survival, deals with totally new subject. It is the memories of a man who served in country and for unknown reasons minds himself locked in confined to some type of mental facility. He is alone except for the staff that keeps him. We here from his own voice the story of life, of his service overseas most of his live. He has no idea where he is, although when the staff speak it is in English. We hear a first hand recollections of his mysterious life abroad as a young foreign intelligence agent and how he survived.