If you could know how your life would turn out ten years before it happened, would you still do everything the same? Would it change the way you lived your life? Would you make the same choices? Would you have the same friends, date the same people, live the same life? Would the life you lead be a reflection of your desires? Of who you want to be? Would the person you are now be the same person you are then? What would you change? What would be important to you? What would people say your life was, productive or incomplete?

Brady McEwing is the dependable one. The shoulder his friends lean on, the one they go to when things are bad. However, over the course of 10 years, Brady comes to find that he is no longer the source for their comfort, for their joy. His search for his own happiness in his life leads him down paths of disappointment and unhappiness. What will it take to bring him the joy that he is missing? Where will Brady find the ultimate source for his joy and see… Better Days?

If you could know how your life would turn out ten years before it happened, would you still do everything the same? Would it change the way you lived your life? Would you make the same choices? Would you have the same friends, date the same people, live the same life? Would the life you lead be a reflection of your desires? Of who you want to be? Would the person you are now be the same person you are then? What would you change? What would be important to you? What would people say your life was, productive or incomplete?

Brady McEwing is the dependable one. The shoulder his friends lean on, the one they go to when things are bad. However, over the course of 10 years, Brady comes to find that he is no longer the source for their comfort, for their joy. His search for his own happiness in his life leads him down paths of disappointment and unhappiness. What will it take to bring him the joy that he is missing? Where will Brady find the ultimate source for his joy and see… Better Days?

If you could know how your life would turn out ten years before it happened, would you still do everything the same? Would it change the way you lived your life? Would you make the same choices? Would you have the same friends, date the same people, live the same life? Would the life you lead be a reflection of your desires? Of who you want to be? Would the person you are now be the same person you are then? What would you change? What would be important to you? What would people say your life was, productive or incomplete?

Brady McEwing is the dependable one. The shoulder his friends lean on, the one they go to when things are bad. However, over the course of 10 years, Brady comes to find that he is no longer the source for their comfort, for their joy. His search for his own happiness in his life leads him down paths of disappointment and unhappiness. What will it take to bring him the joy that he is missing? Where will Brady find the ultimate source for his joy and see… Better Days?

Have a quirky multi-millionaire build a quirky golf course in the hills of western Pennsylvania. Then mix in a variety of normal and not-so-normal folks to play golf on that course, and you have the setting for Match Play, a novel about bitter rivalries in golf and romance.

Shallow Creek Country Club is a course with several deliberately odd designs by its owner and architect, a man who made enough money in ball-bearings during World War II to indulge his fantasies about a golf course that includes one large sand green in honor of his father’s memory, a pipe through a fairway hillside for those who want to play a little putt-putt golf, a green with a huge maple in the middle, and an underground cavern that was originally built as a bomb shelter but later turned into a cool stopping-off spot in the middle of a round. The cavern sits beneath one high hill overlooking most of the holes on the course and has a long tunnel leading back to the clubhouse.

The story takes place in the late spring and summer of 1986 and is told from the point of view of a young English teacher and low-handicap golfer named Tom MacKenzie. He is romantically involved with his co-worker-counselor, Pat Thompson, as well as one of his graduating seniors, Amy Forrest, and he’s not sure how he should handle the situation. Both Pat and Amy are good golfers, Pat about a twelve handicap and Amy a single-digit and getting better all the while. To further complicate things, Pat Thompson is also involved with Roger Burdis, a newly wealthy Floridian who has inherited money from an aunt and returned to Porter, Pennsylvania, to live. Roger Burdis is a borderline psychotic with an almost instant hatred for Tom, or Mac as all his friends call him.

They encounter each other in several matches on the golf course, in a poker game in the club house, and in a variety of social situations, all leading up to one final confrontation on the golf course, but not for a golf match—a middle-of-the-night match of wits with lives at stake.

The plot includes several dashes of humor, a slice or two of sex, several layers of suspense, and enough golf to satisfy any club golfer in the country. And a conclusion as exciting as any Kentucky Derby photo finish.

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Skyler Swift's past and his future collided in one split second, ironically in a moment during which he had total control as a home plate umpire. Through a decision which he would make in the time it takes a camera to flash, he would not only determine the outcome of a conference championship baseball game, he would also change his own life. A decade of memories would be wiped aside and the foundation for a promising future would be laid. It was a close play at home that would change Swift forever.

Luke Williams has athletic ability, he has friends … and he has a challenge. As his first summer in professional baseball unfolds, his career begins to unravel … in ways he could not imagine. He begins to question his skills and wonders whether his faith is misplaced; he loses his friends and has second thoughts about whether his hard work will pay off; but he finds advice from a most unlikely … and unwelcome source. Following Williams’ fortunes leads the reader through an emotional roller coaster of confidence, doubt, and rejuvenation. Along the way, the youthful ballplayer encounters the biggest surprise of his life.

Skyler Swift's past and his future collided in one split second, ironically in a moment during which he had total control as a home plate umpire. Through a decision which he would make in the time it takes a camera to flash, he would not only determine the outcome of a conference championship baseball game, he would also change his own life. A decade of memories would be wiped aside and the foundation for a promising future would be laid. It was a close play at home that would change Swift forever.

Luke Williams has athletic ability, he has friends … and he has a challenge. As his first summer in professional baseball unfolds, his career begins to unravel … in ways he could not imagine. He begins to question his skills and wonders whether his faith is misplaced; he loses his friends and has second thoughts about whether his hard work will pay off; but he finds advice from a most unlikely … and unwelcome source. Following Williams’ fortunes leads the reader through an emotional roller coaster of confidence, doubt, and rejuvenation. Along the way, the youthful ballplayer encounters the biggest surprise of his life.

A young man who went by the name of Jay Cee lived in a small town in Pennsylvania. He worked as a carpenter’s helper at a job that paid less than a dollar an hour above minimum wage. Teaching Sunday school was a passion of his. He arrived in Detroit one day to attend a four-day religious retreat along with twenty thousand other Christian believers from several midwestern states. Due to an incredible set of circumstances, he found himself at the Detroit Lions’ training facility in Allen Park, Michigan, a nearby suburb of Detroit. In an even more bizarre twist of fate, he found himself practicing with the Detroit Lions football team at the position of quarterback. He dazzled everyone on the field, especially the head coach. His pinpoint passing, his ball handling, and his elusiveness in the pocket were nothing short of amazing! However, he had absolutely no desire to play professional football. He was very satisfied living and working in that small town and teaching Sunday school there. No amount of money offered to him could make him change his mind. One evening, Jay Cee attended a class at the retreat during which the instructor told them, “God wants us to live up to our potential by using the talents He has given us. Sometimes, we have to step outside of our comfort zones before we can recognize what those talents are.” That made him realize that perhaps living in a small town and working for minimum wage was not his destiny; maybe it was time for him to broaden his horizons.

A young man who went by the name of Jay Cee lived in a small town in Pennsylvania. He worked as a carpenter’s helper at a job that paid less than a dollar an hour above minimum wage. Teaching Sunday school was a passion of his. He arrived in Detroit one day to attend a four-day religious retreat along with twenty thousand other Christian believers from several midwestern states. Due to an incredible set of circumstances, he found himself at the Detroit Lions’ training facility in Allen Park, Michigan, a nearby suburb of Detroit. In an even more bizarre twist of fate, he found himself practicing with the Detroit Lions football team at the position of quarterback. He dazzled everyone on the field, especially the head coach. His pinpoint passing, his ball handling, and his elusiveness in the pocket were nothing short of amazing! However, he had absolutely no desire to play professional football. He was very satisfied living and working in that small town and teaching Sunday school there. No amount of money offered to him could make him change his mind. One evening, Jay Cee attended a class at the retreat during which the instructor told them, “God wants us to live up to our potential by using the talents He has given us. Sometimes, we have to step outside of our comfort zones before we can recognize what those talents are.” That made him realize that perhaps living in a small town and working for minimum wage was not his destiny; maybe it was time for him to broaden his horizons.

A young man who went by the name of Jay Cee lived in a small town in Pennsylvania. He worked as a carpenter’s helper at a job that paid less than a dollar an hour above minimum wage. Teaching Sunday school was a passion of his. He arrived in Detroit one day to attend a four-day religious retreat along with twenty thousand other Christian believers from several midwestern states. Due to an incredible set of circumstances, he found himself at the Detroit Lions’ training facility in Allen Park, Michigan, a nearby suburb of Detroit. In an even more bizarre twist of fate, he found himself practicing with the Detroit Lions football team at the position of quarterback. He dazzled everyone on the field, especially the head coach. His pinpoint passing, his ball handling, and his elusiveness in the pocket were nothing short of amazing! However, he had absolutely no desire to play professional football. He was very satisfied living and working in that small town and teaching Sunday school there. No amount of money offered to him could make him change his mind. One evening, Jay Cee attended a class at the retreat during which the instructor told them, “God wants us to live up to our potential by using the talents He has given us. Sometimes, we have to step outside of our comfort zones before we can recognize what those talents are.” That made him realize that perhaps living in a small town and working for minimum wage was not his destiny; maybe it was time for him to broaden his horizons.

"He punched the light at the end of the tunnel with such force that he thought he heard the walls of the tunnel collapse in his wake. To the viewer sitting still, the blur of his jet-black helmet extended, for an instant, the dark of the tunnel behind into the light of day. As his engine purred through the soaring bandwidth of it´s seventh and highest gear, the long, gray-streaked hair that ran out from under the back of his helmet beat wildly against the chassis of the black racer. While the driver could not notice the stunned silence brought about by the last announcement, what he did next caused the announcer to stop mid-sentence. And the gasp that issued forth from the crowd was of such strength that he thought he might have heard it..."

But even this was as nothing for what yet was to come.

In a monastery deep in the Carolina wilderness, a monk prepares for his ultimate destiny. A born racer, time, tragedy and a deep, religious faith have mellowed him to blot out almost completely his ´World of Before´ -- and the dreams of a much younger man.In an equally inauspicious district of Middle England, an eccentric car manufacturer puts the finishing touches on a career that parallels the automotive age. Accepting his familial role as purveyor of an exotic, handmade relic of a car in an age that had long since passed beyond the quaint, runabout world of his inventor-father, he now stands ready to watch his own son carry the banner of an impractical, but elegant classic into another century.

How the enigmatic monk and the eccentric carmaker combine forces to outwit and ultimately vanquish the world´s automotive powers at the world´s greatest race is a tale that will stay with you long after you read it.

Take a deep breath now... You will not have time to breathe during those fateful, final laps...

´What we have here is some wild combination of St. Francis of Assisi and Chuck Yeager! ...And, oddly enough, this one could outsell them all...´