Books published by publisher Southern Drive Press

Political intern Hannah has one goal: to make the right connections in order to further a cause she deeply believes in. A cause that would ensure abused women are able to find justice and safety from their abusers. But when an unknown group begins threatening the safety of her sister, she finds herself in a desperate situation. Not sure of the group’s end goal, she is forced to marry the current vice-presidential candidate's son, and commit an act that would tear apart the new love she has found. But if she doesn’t follow their plan, she might have to forfeit her sister’s life. Can she protect the innocent while fighting the powerful forces that pull the strings of government or will she be crushed by the gears of a machine that has secretly controlled us all?Clean, no sex, no foul language, inspirational, sweet. appropriate for all ages

Can the quiet bookstore owner land the playboy?Alyssa Duncan’s life revolves around books. If not for the fact the town’s playboy Connor Phillips has a secret reading addiction, she most likely wouldn’t be on his radar…or his friend. The two personalities just don’t mesh…or do they? She gets a chance to find out when a book-reading bet leads to dinner. Alyssa experiences a wide a range of emotions. She’s elated her beyond-friendship feelings seem returned, but his reputation precedes him. Is she just another gullible female in a string of women? As a relationship begins to develop with Connor, going past the limits of friendship, things grow muddled and complicated when an ex-boyfriend shows up in town and things aren’t what they seem. When the dust finally settles, will Alyssa find true love with someone or end up with just another friend?

When Poppy Parker turns 21, the popular TV witch detective discovers she has supernatural powers OFF the set as well as ON. The show gets canceled and she returns home to figure out how to harness the magic brewing inside her. Freaked out by these recent paranormal gifts, Poppy just wants to fit in, so when she’s asked to serve as a judge for the annual Bloomin’ Belles youth beauty competition she readily agrees. But when the pageant’s snooty director drops dead and Poppy’s friend is arrested,the former TV sleuth sets out to uncover the real killer, only to find…the business of beauty can be deadly.*Recipes from Aunt Cricket's B&B included.*Note: This cozy paranormal mystery is a clean read with no graphic violence, sex, or profanity.

Jeffrey Chaussier, an actor in Midwest theatres, is asked to return to New Orleans to investigate his father's death. A reluctant sleuth, he re-connects with old friends as he delves into the circumstances of his father's so-called accidental death. New Orleans is home to what his co-workers in the Midwest would think "exotic" inhabitants. To Jeff they are his friends.In the eyes of New Orleans, an ex-Marine female impersonator, a huge black dockworker with the nickname of Paul Bunyan, an ex-cop with a red face and an unslakable thirst, a four hundred pound pool shark named Skinny, and honest cops are just the people who live in her embrace.Jeff grew up knowing them all, and they are his resource and his friends. Jeff also grew up knowing the easy camaraderie of the neighborhoods, the casual cuisine of neighborhood restaurants, the Creole flavored food of the French Quarter and the cooks at the firehouse for whom food is a consolation of their dangerous vocation.His trip takes him to the the music clubs where his brother plays, to a brother whose mind and heart are not defeated by physical paralysis and to the docks where his father worked, a police station where his grandfather worked, and the theatre where he once worked. There he meets a stunning blonde. Feelings explode on both sides, but Jeff learns that she is burdened with a secret that could ruin her life and threaten his. Jeff started with a simple question:Was his father's death an accident?As he treads the streets of New Orleans more arise:Why is he assaulted on the streets?What secret is his girlfriend hiding? Why is his old neighborhood being bought up and razed? Why are big, black cars following him?What hold does a sleazy judge have on his new girlfriend? Can he resolve the question of his father's death without losing his new-found love?Before those questions can be answered, Jeff may lose everything he wants in a raging fire. LIT BY LIGHTNING is the first in a series of the New Orleans-set adventures of Jeffrey Chaussier, actor and reluctant sleuth.

It's a new school year and Ed and Jimmy have made friends with sisters Maggie and Grace. While off on an adventure along the Brazos River, the four friends discover a broken-down, abandoned stagecoach partially submerged in the river. Inside the coach is a sealed jug containing a lost letter. Can the friends solve the mystery of the lost letter? Join Ed, Jimmy, Maggie, and Grace as they set off for a new adventure on the Butterfield Trail.

It's a new school year and Ed and Jimmy have made friends with sisters Maggie and Grace. While off on an adventure along the Brazos River, the four friends discover a broken-down, abandoned stagecoach partially submerged in the river. Inside the coach is a sealed jug containing a lost letter. Can the friends solve the mystery of the lost letter? Join Ed, Jimmy, Maggie, and Grace as they set off for a new adventure on the Butterfield Trail.

The story describes the personal struggles of an eighteenth-century pioneer girl captured and bought up by the Iroquois. This carefully researched account not only explores the animosity felt by the differing ethnic and regional groups, but also delves into the positive and very humane attitudes of these very same people. As the young white girl, Calli, grows to be a part of the Indian community, she learns more than tribal skills and customs; she begins to truly understand and appreciate the wisdom, the loyalty, the sense of fairness, and most of all the great compassion the members of her new extended family share with her. Throughout the book we see the young heroine contend with the past until she can ultimately accept the present.