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The Missing Christmas Candy, A North Pole Mystery
It's Christmas Eve, time for Santa to deliver the toys to good girls and boys. But wait, the candy stocking stuffers are missing. Santa and Mrs. Clause look everywhere and they can't find the candy. Everyone is searching, but the candy can't be found. No one seems to know what happened to it. What will Santa do? There is no time to make new candy. Follow the mystery and the hunt for the candy. Will Santa be able to deliver the toys on time?
Uplifted
"Uplifted" is a small volume of honest prayers and the bibical answers to them. When it comes to what we can expect God to do, with Him it is always and forever promises made, promises kept. On these pages you will find real life situations and prayers and you will find the scriptural answers to many needs you may have. Read with a thoughtful mind, an open heart and you will be blessed
The Cow Who Came Home For Christmas
Judy the lovely cow is happy in the big, red, mountaintop barn where she was born. She has many barnyard friends who live in the barn with her. What special and good times they have together, especially at Christmas. Follow Judy on her journey from home to homesick and back again.
When Angels Dance
A volume of love poetry, from the soul to the page. The poetess expresses her love, devotion, and attraction to her husband. The collection offers tender love poems and fiery poetic declarations of passion. Read these poems and your belief in true love will be rekindled, Love will find you, even if it arrives late in life.
Standing On The Edge, Gazing Into Eternity
An open and honest volume of poetry expressed not with thoughts alone but from the depths of the poet's soul. If you are young you will find wisdom and if you are old you will experience empathy and inspiration on the pages of "Standing On The Edge". A book to treasure and to read again
Patchwork
"Patchwork is a collection of poetry that presents little scraps of the poet's life and soul. Sit back in your rocking chair and enjoy a journey though the poet's depths. "Patchwork" is like an old patchwork quilt, created with the patches of the clothing of those she has loved.
You're Invited
A volume of Horrible Haunts & Twisted Tales taken from the horror books La Belle Rouge has written every October for a decade and a half. If you have read her works in the horror genre, you know the invitation is for you to enjoy thrills, chills and gripping fear. If you've read the author's previous books of macabre short stories you'll love this huge volume containing most of them. Steel your mind and leash your emotions, If you don't like weird stuff this book is not for you. "You're Invited" to a collection of stories as terrifying as a haunted house and a horrible Halloween hayride.
Tap Tap Tapping On Your Door
A childrens' book that teaches a lesson about fear. Mike is a brave boy but there has been a tapping on the front door for weeks. He imagines some horrible creatures are doing the tapping. He's so scared he can't sleep at night. Find out what Mike and his dad do to stop the tapping.
"A Glimpse Of My World,"
A poetry collection that is a mixed bag of the many phases and related heart emotions of the author's life. Penned with depth and openess, offering thoughts and feelings the reader will relate with. Find a quiet place to read and enjoy this honest reflection of a poet's life.
Novels & Novellas
All That Glitters (Sci Fi Fiction)
"All That Glitters: is not gold" is a SciFi novel that brings alive a cold dystopian world and a warm paradise. Unexpected twists and turns abound. Characters are brought to life in a world that could happen at any time. A lesson in the fact that everything is often not what it seems to be. The world, as most know it, has completely changed.
Fallen Woman (Literary Fiction)
Christina is young, inexperienced, impressionable, heartbroken and alone when Brother Eli chooses her to be his bride. Follow her long journey in the Pentecostal Fire Of The Spirit Church. Wounded and hopeless, fearful of eternal damnation, will she find her way out of a legalistic, artificial existence to become the real woman God created her to be?
The Witch's Cat (Historical Fiction)
The widow, Grace Sherwood, is a colonial farmer, compassionate healer and local midwife, who was born and lived her life in the coastal county of Princess Anne Virginia. Suddenly her whole world is turned upside down when she is accused of being a witch who transforms herself into a black cat and causes curses to come upon her neighbors. The story of Grace Sherwood, The Witch of Pungo is a well known historical tale from Virginia colonial times. Follow the legend in this imagining of what did and might have happened to her and her cat.
Skeletons In The Closet (Paranormal Fiction)
Lorna grows up in a decaying antebellum mansion where her best friends are a little girl from the distant past and a deformed cat. As she ages, Lorna realizes that the figures she sees in the family graveyard are not just figments of her overactive imagination. The spirit world has become as familiar to her as the present world. There are mysteries haunting the old plantation and questions no one can or will answer. Lorna must find a way to solve them on her own. A paranormal novella with a twisted plot.
Short Story Collections
Hardscrapple
Over the mountains and through the hollows, beside the rippling creeks and old log cabins, there are thousands of curious stories both humorous and sad, poignant and frightening that have been passed down from generation to generation. In this volume you'll enjoy imaginative tales about the land and the people who found their identities centered there. Stories of love and loss, pain and revenge. Tales of ghosts who haunt the overgrown graveyards and wander the backwoods trails chasing an elusive rest they will never find.
"Tell Us A Story, Gramma"
A book filled with adventure. On a snowy, winter day as they sit by the fire, the children ask Gramma for stories. Gramma recounts to her grandchildren, stories about their family that happened long ago and in recent years. Adventures to get lost in. Stories that foster family ties with an appreciation for history and the sacrifices made for family and country. Pop some popcorn and sit by the fire as you enjoy Gramma's stories
Strange Mountain Tales
There is nowhere on Earth spookier than a remote, mountain wilderness, or creepier than a lonely, forgotten graveyard. Are you brave enough to spend some time in an abandoned, old farmhouse with a tragic, haunted history or visit Baron's Hollow deep in the forest where no one ever goes?. Maybe you'd enjoy a face to face visit and heart to heart conversation with a ghost. Welcome inside the pages of "Strange Mountain Tales." where you will love the view but want to escape to a more down-to earth place.
Rest In Peace
Every Halloween La Belle Rouge publishes a volume of paranormal poetry and short stores or a novel. "Rest In Peace," is a scary, macabre short -story collection of La Belle Rouge's fantastic and paranormal imaginings. All the short stories gleaned from her books of the twisted kind for readers to enjoy all in one place. Read it at bedtime but be warned, you may not rest in peace.
The Darkness
Vampires, Ghosts, Unexplained Paranormal Events, Fantastic Creatures, Twists Of The Macabre, Travels Through Time. Full Moon Nights When The Wind Moans Your Name Like A Mournful Song Floating Through An Old Graveyard . You'll Find Them All Inside The Cover. All Your Worst Nightmares And Fears Bundled Together In A Volume Of Macabre Stories
Little Book Of Horrors
A story of dark revenge in the Old South and a vacation from hell in the low country. Native American legend of an ancient evil. a mysterious, screaming harbinger of death and proof that ghosts can go home again. Late night encounters with the undead. Childhood traumas and pretty, little, stray kitties you will wish you had never taken home. An immigrant couple who take up residence in a tomb. Haunted houses and graveyards. Enjoy the shivers and chills of this collection of twisted tales and poems.
Dark Tales
Every Autumn, around the season of Halloween, author La Belle Rouge publishes a volume of macabre stories and poetry. If you have read her work in the horror genre, you know "DARK TALES" will provide thrills and chills for readers who enjoy less gore and more psychological horror stories. Sometimes the most ordinary places are backgrounds for the most extraordinary events and creatures. Familiar legends and ghost tales of North Carolina have been reimagined by the author to bring chills to her readers. It's definitely not a Mayberry RFD world! A book you'll want to read not only at the haunting season, but year-round.
No Time To Die
All new short stories to read on stormy nights or anytime you are willing to be frightened. In the title story a man who is deathly afraid of death or anything that reminds him of it, finds that he does have time for death after all. Witches not of the good sort, ghosts who insist on having the final word, cryptic, mysterious creatures who baffle the mind and jar the senses, blood thirsty fiends are all included in "No Time To Die." La Belle's pen never fails to give the reader chills and macabre thrills. Read this book and get creeped out. Explore the what if's and maybe's of the twisted kind.
Haunted
An Intriguing Volume Of The Strange And Paranormal Presented In Poetry And Short Stories.
Long Ago Far Away
Romance That Lives On.
Poetess Of The Heart La Belle Rouge leads The Reader on an enchanted journey through medieval castles, Celtic hillsides and beside exotic shores. Through the mists of time you'll catch a glimpse of a world where magic and chivilary thrived and dragons were more than a myth. From Medieval times to the lure of the Old South and the Old West, you'll treasure many fanciful fantasies of love and tragedy only found now in such volumes as this.
Knowing You
A volume of love poetry penned from the heart. Honest and vibrant expressions of love and passion from the pen of a contemporary poet of love and romance. A book to enjoy and cherish . Loving, sensual poetry to share with the one you love.
Short Story Collections
Over the mountains and through the hollows, beside the rippling creeks and old log cabins, there are thousands of curious stories both humorous and sad, poignant and frightening that have been passed down from generation to generation. In this volume you'll enjoy imaginative tales about the land and the people who found their identities centered there. Stories of love and loss, pain and revenge. Tales of ghosts who haunt the overgrown graveyards and wander the backwoods trails chasing an elusive rest they will never find.
"Tell Us A Story, Gramma" is a book filled with adventure. On a snowy, winter day as they sit by the fire, the children ask Gramma for stories. Gramma recounts to her grandchildren, stories about their family that happened long ago and in recent years. Adventures to get lost in. Stories that foster family ties with an appreciation for history and the sacrifices made for family and country. Pop some popcorn and sit by the fire as you enjoy Gramma's stories