People said that nobody escaped alive from Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge, yet one of his wives, Prudence Lutrelle, manages a daring escapes and survives. She leaves the ship bearing a beautiful Emerald necklace. Many years later the necklace gives her descendant, Anna O’Neill, a hint at recovering the treasure of Blackbeard. Anna, accompanied by her life time love Casey, travel to a remote island in North Carolina to search for the treasure with which she will ransom her daughter, kidnapped by her husband in a daring insurance fraud plot. Anna’s husband, in desperate financial straits, has engineered a scheme to follows them to the island, intent on killing his wife, Casey, and their seventeen year old daughter and making away with the treasure.

Emerald begins with a pirate assault on a merchant vessel. Blackbeard, or Edward Teach, terrorized the east coast of America from Nova Scotia down to the Virgin Islands. This book shows how people with a unique mental power called the Knack fight against the evil of pirates from 1715 to the present day. It even includes a long look at the court of King Arthur and his chief adviser Myrthynne, who also had the most powerful manifestation of the Knack. This book, then, flows in several time periods and pulls together romance, villainy and a dramatic treasure, all of which frame a love story between a woman with the Knack and a man devoted to loving and protecting her.

A Magic Amulet allows two teenagers to discover how to make a difference in the world of animal poaching.
Two teen-agers, different in every way, form an unshakable friendship as a result of the adventures they share after meeting in Disney Springs, transported through a magic amulet to a total different culture and continent, they are offered an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of endangered animals.
Dangers abound as they face poachers and pirates in their attempts to rescue these creatures, and they discover a courage within themselves that leads each one to a positive change in how they view themselves and others.

In the second book published by Total Recall Press, Maureen Kellar-Kirby expresses her talent in poetry in rhyming verse in “The Leprechaun Who Was Not a Mouse” and teams up with Christine Me`nard, illustrator to give us a charming story of a little boy who has a friendship with a leprechaun who lives beneath his house. As an Early Childhood Teacher she realizes the importance of showing to children the qualities of a good relationship, love, loyalty, sharing and caring which she depicts in her story. The title itself makes asking the question, “How can a leprechaun be mistaken for a mouse?” The story will certainly satisfy our curiosity and reaffirm what friendship is all about.