About the Author
Dr. Lurma Swinney
Dr. Lurma Swinney is a retired public-school educator. She is a Christian and credits God for everything good in her life. Dr. Swinney started writing at a young age but did not become serious about writing until she was an adult. Dr. Swinney writes to inspire, educate, and encourage all people. Dr. Swinney earned a BA from Francis Marion University, an MA from Lesley University, and a Ph.D. from Capella University. Dr. Swinney has published several novels: Consequences, Sister Lucy, Sister Lucy II, Single Mom, Toni Talk, Forgotten Memories, Second Chance, and Unconditional Love. Dr. Swinney is the owner and operator of SD Publishing House.
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Library of Books
Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love is a story of forgiveness, patience, long-suffering, and love. a brand voice that resonates with your target market.
Second Chance
Second Chance is a heart-warming story of love and envy, set in a well-rounded trilogy of strife, religion, heartache, and closure.
Forgotten Memories
A Novel of Mystery, Hope, and Triumph.
Toni Talk
A Story of Love, Ambition, Commitment, and Betrayal.
Single Mom
A novel of trials, tribulation and faith as told through the eyes of a single mom.
Sister Lucy II (Kip and Lucy)
Sister Lucy II (Kip and Lucy) is a novel about the struggles, triumphs, victories, obstacles and faith of the saved and the not so saved.
Sister Lucy
Men and Women of the cloth struggle with love, lust, and faith
Consequences
The story is rife with incredible, hair-raising incidents in an exciting, imaginative whodunit centered on three friends.
Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love is a story of forgiveness, patience, long-suffering, and love. Jada Harris-Lane is a beautiful, African American woman on the verge of losing herself forever. She suffers from anxiety, uncontrollable anger, and extreme wrath, alienating everyone she encounters. The only things that save her from the brink of destruction are a loving husband and a caring family. Jada must face her fears head-on and let the chips fall where they may.
Unconditional Love guides readers through the heartaches, decisions, and mishaps of a woman desperately trying to control her unacceptable behaviors before they destroy everything she cares about — and more. Carter Lane, Jada’s loving, handsome Caucasian husband, is in a difficult situation, away from home so much because of his career as a pilot for a major airline, fearing for Hailey, their three-year-old daughter, because of his wife’s uncontrollable temper.
Amidst Jada’s tantrums, her mother is dealing with breast cancer, her brother is trying to make detective while falling for the wrong woman, and her sister tries to keep Jada from destroying her own beauty shop business with her abusive behavior towards the employees. Carter’s mother works so diligently in her real estate business, neglecting Carter’s father, who is surrendering to the charms of a woman half his age.
Unconditional Love is the desperate search of a woman trying to find where her life went wrong, ultimately putting her family, husband, and life in danger of a great fall through no one’s actions but her own. Lurma Swinney, the author of Consequences, Sister Lucy, Sister Lucy II (Kip and Lucy), Single Mom, Toni Talk, Forgotten Memories, and Second Chance, takes you through the intriguing life of a woman who keeps you in anticipation of her next move, as the readers plummet along with a confused and frightened woman, trying to find some peace in her life. In contrast, her husband keeps extending his unconditional love, hoping to endure.
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Second Chance
Second Chance is a heart-warming story of love and envy, set in a well rounded trilogy of strife, religion, heartache, and closure.
Second Chance evolves around the entanglement of Marcus, a handsome, intelligent, easy-spirited lawyer, who is torn between his past love, Karen, a high-strung, TV News Anchorwoman, who left him at the altar fifteen years ago; and his present love, Saundra, a Christian, OB/GYN Doctor, who is now his fiancée, and Karen’s long-time rival.
Karen’s friend, the Dynamite Divas, ridiculed Saundra in high school, and now they are all paying the price for their cruelty. Milena’s husband is having an affair with Marcus’ sister; Hilda’s husband is an abuser and beats her every chance he can, because he does not want to admit he has a problem with drugs until he places his family in danger; Sharla goes through a period on welfare with two children living in a roach-infested housing project; and the beautiful Karen experiences health problems that could end in death.
Lurma Swinney, author of Consequences, Sister Lucy, Sister Lucy II, Single Mom, Toni Talk, and Forgotten Memories, has captured the hearts and minds of people experiencing heartache, misery, and strife. Read it with a box of tissues, because this story will tantalize your heart and tug at your emotions with every tear-filled page of drive, commitment, and desire.
Second Chance awakens love, motives, morals, drives, and attitudes of the entanglements of people in their fallible lives to arrive at a burning conclusion, to achieve a lasting impression, exploring the all-powerful question: Do you deserve a second chance?
Forgotten Memories
What would you do if you awakened one morning not remembering who you were? That is what happened to famous artist, Valencia (Vinny) Perkins. She had a great life with a wonderful husband, a supportive friend, and a caring family, but she woke up one morning not remembering any of it. Not only was Vinny frustrated with not remembering her life, but she also had to contend with who and why someone was desperately trying to kill her.
Forgotten Memories will appeal to mystery buffs everywhere, as they travel on a bumpy ride with Vinny on her journey to remember the unknown while danger is lurking on every side, as she tries to continue her life with her scheduled art show. Vinny doesn’t know what she witnessed before her almost fatal accident that took her memories away, but she knows that she must regain an ounce of recognition before someone succeeds in killing her.
Forgotten Memories is a mysterious story of hope and triumph with mind bobbling, twists and turns of a woman running out of time to remember her past to save her life in the present.
Toni Talk
Are things always like they seem? For Toni Melton, an acclaimed, nationally recognized, ambitious, outspoken journalist of the famous column, Toni Talk, and her illustrious husband, Ron Joyner, a criminal defense attorney who has ambitions of his own, the answer is quite shocking. Just when they are at the top of their professions, Toni, on the verge of winning a prestigious award, and Ron becoming a partner of his law firm, a detrimental article appears in Toni Talk, causing Ron to become faced with the reality of a lawsuit, disbarment, and unemployment, which is about to change their lives forever!
While they struggle to regain honesty and stability in their marriage, few people around them can offer support. Toni’s co-worker, Mason Whittaker, has hurdles to cross of his own when he finds himself in an extramarital affair. Toni’s closest friend, Angel Scott, is faced with a tragedy in her home, which upsets her peaceful world as she knows it. Ron’s best friend, Travis Bland, is kept out of the mix of things until Ron and Toni analyze exactly who can be trusted. Toni’s family is no help either; she has a mother who she feels hates her, and a father who’s married to someone else. Ron’s family is no better. His sister Melissa is falling for Ron’s rival, Simon Kennedy; and Ron’s father and mother are forced to deal with their oldest son who lost hope after losing his medical license. Toni and Ron’s love is tested and tried to the ultimate level of deception, betrayal, and lust while they are forced to deal with it on their own!
Lurma Swinney takes you through a series of mishaps, twists and turns that will leave you guessing all the way, anxiously awaiting to turn the page. Lurma Swinney’s unique style in Toni Talk, as in her earlier novels, Consequences, Sister Lucy, Sister Lucy II (Kip & Lucy), and Single Mom, will have you riveting through the lives and entanglements of everyday folks. In this case; the press and the legal world. You will be left with a breath-taking burning desire to reach the end, while keeping in mind that things are not always like they seem!
Single Mom
Carla David was a mother of three, living a dream life with Brandon, the man of her dreams. Until one day, without either forewarning or expectation, he tells her that he doesn’t want to be married anymore. To say Carla was either shocked or bewildered would be a drastic understatement, because she had neither education nor gainful employment and is in dire fear of what to do next. Carla soon learns that Brandon had been harboring a secret, which jolts her into reality that she is a single mom, and she does not have time to wallow in pity, but pick herself up, step up to the plate, and take care of her children. What Carla does will not only inspire single moms everywhere, but it will encourage them as well, as they witness her transformation growing from a weak, self-pity married woman to a strong, vibrant single mom who will put herself in harms way to protect her children at any cost.
SISTER LUCY II (KIP AND LUCY)
Sister Lucy II (Kip and Lucy) is a novel about the struggles, triumphs, victories, obstacles and faith of the saved and the not so saved. It is centered around the handsome and charming Pastor Kip Mitchell and his lovely wife Lucy, as they continue their lives together in love and happiness, with trouble lurking behind every nook and cranny.
Kip and Lucy quickly find out that the devil doesn’t have new tricks, just new people. Dr. Robin Bonner has set her sights on Kip. She sets her traps carefully for him as she tries desperately to hide from a tormenting past, while etching a place in the heart of Dr. Julius Hammond. Just as Dr. Bonner feels that she is making progress with snaring Kip, a long-time buried truth is revealed that could change all their lives.
Lucy’s sister, the beautiful Lisa, must again battle for her husband with the delectable Blair, who has returned with her own husband to defend Kip’s mother, Maxine, on a murder charge. Then something else pulls Lisa’s attention away from the situation of losing her husband, and that is the possibility of losing her life.
Joannie, Kip’s baby sister, is in college now and finds comfort in the arms of her professor, until their secret is revealed. He is forced to make a decision that changes Joannie’s life forever.
Lucy’s family goes through a transition of betrayal that could disrupt their lives in the most devastating way.
Sister Lucy II (Kip and Lucy) has all the excitement, trials and tribulation as Sister Lucy. It takes you through a journey of the lives of church folks just being human and ends with a big dose of soul-stirring faith, which reminds you that all things are possible if you BELIEVE!
Sister Lucy
Not everything is peachy with the ministers and preachers of the St. John Fellowship Community Church. Beyond the sermons and the hymns, they are stuck in illicit affairs, spiritual crises, and lies. Sister Lucy Davis, one of the ministers, sings like an angel but her heart cries out with guilt and discontent, as she struggles to reassess her faith and to find her way out of dead-end relationships. Unknown to Lucy, her misadventures are pushing her into danger. At one point, Lucy scans the mess in her life, wondering what the heck happened to that church-going woman who was always ready to extend a helping hand.
Lucy Davis’ latest boyfriend is none other than Reverend Clyde Mitchell, a charismatic leader who finds pleasure in the beds of all women except his wife’s. Rev. Mitchell’s son Kip, a handsome detective, struggles to be faithful to the ideals of his religion but covets Lucy. Minister Samantha Marsh further complicates matters by plotting to ensnare Kip.
The members of St. John Fellowship Community Church teeter on the edge of self-destruction, looking for an opening of hope, but falling into the traps of their weaknesses and delusions. Lurma Swinney successfully weaves a tale of ambivalence concerning faith, religion, wrath, envy, and love with characters who stumble through the complexities of their deceptions.
Sister Lucy depicts church leaders in their fallible lives, their chaotic entanglements, and their struggles with temptations. The novel opens with a mystery that would lead to a “spiritual conclusion.”
Consequences
Consequences is a compelling tale of death and murder told by a writer with a solid imagination. Amid the intrigue and romance, the reader is gripped from the opening scene to the shattering conclusion. The story is rife with incredible and hair-raising incidents in an exciting and imaginative whodunit. It is centered around three lifelong friends: Cecily, a pediatrician who became involved with organized crime when she paid her way through medical school as a call-girl, which becomes a living nightmare for her; Lillian, a housewife turned alcoholic, who fights hard and steady for her husband, who has a philandering desire for Cecily; and Trudy, a wild and spirited fashion model, who finds comfort in the arms of Cecily's ex-pimp, turning to food at her heartbreak, achieving obesity and a failing career.
Recommended for its brisk pace, solidly grounded plot, and its appeal to readers of detective stories, romance novels, and realism, Consequences does it all. It takes you through a decade of trials and tribulations of three friends who have to endure the ultimate tests of friendship, through time, heartaches, sacrifices, and consequences.