Road to Siran, Erin's Story
Published November 2013 by bookbaby
In
Road to Siran, Erin’s Story, Erin
Ozcomert, a beautiful, graduate student at UCLA, has always felt compelled to
learn more about the little known stories of her father; stories that have been
hidden from her since his death several years before. Leaving modern day Los
Angeles, Erin is swept into the ancient customs and traditions of her father’s
village in northeastern Turkey. What she learns there is not at all what she
had expected to find.
As
she is enfolded into the loving arms of her Aunt Fatma Ozkoy, Erin discovers a
place where tradition prevails in social ceremonies and family feuds are still
kindling hatred and murder, torn by some never forgotten malice performed by
past generations. Trying to integrate these discoveries, Erin is given the gift
of her grandmother’s journal. Reading the handwritten treasure, her emotions
are stripped raw as she uncovers her heritage and the answers to her questions.
Forced
to leave the village before she is ready, Erin returns to Istanbul only to
discover more secrets from her father's past.
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Murder on the Naval Base
Published December 2011 by Bookbaby
Beginning with a blurry account of a cold-blooded shooting of a couple, singled out while having dinner at an Officer’s Club, the prime suspect is apprehended hours later while apparently attempting to flee the state. With over a dozen eye-witnesses collaborating the incident, little was left in the puzzle for the military investigators to piece together; especially once it was determined the two victims were in fact the perpetrator’s wife and the man she was having an on-going affair with.
After the shocking beginning of the novel, the reader in taken on a journey throughout the life and career of the characters while interlacing the technical jargon and vernacular of naval flight training and the nuances of the military lifestyle. Combined with a steamy undercurrent of lust, love, sexual fulfillment, jealousy and primordial desires of the cast of characters, the human condition of married life versus the structure and demands of military careers are juxtaposed against the strength and will of personal upbringing and ethical behavior.
Voice of Conscience
Published September 2009 by Authorhouse
Voice of Conscience is a tightly-spun tale of redemption and human nature vividly depicted in the story of one man’s manic journey to fulfill his debt and reclaim his past at whatever cost.
Voice of Conscience begins in a small village in eastern Turkey, where Ramzi Ozcomert Jr. is catapulted into a fearsome adult world after the brutal death of his parents and sister. Shattered by grief and fear, Ramzi begins his flight from threats both real and imagined that take him from Istanbul to London, engendering in him a deep need for revenge. His plans are interrupted when he discovers love in the most unexpected of times, allowing himself to fall for an American and start over in California.
Despite his subsequent success in America, he cannot overcome the horrifying images of his murdered family members that plague his every moment. Ramzi’s obsession will take him to the very heart of his past as he travels back to Turkey, culminating in an ending that will confound all expectations. Voice of Conscience articulates a collision of opposites – of Turkish customs and Western values, loss and new life, love and hate – in a compulsively readable book essential for our times.
