2 Books Published by Rise & Read Free Press on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Charlie Mo is incompetent, reckless and has a penchant for gold-digging women. The worst possible combination of character traits for a young man who inherits two million dollars plus the family business. It doesn’t take long before he loses his inheritance and finds himself working a job as a regular and struggling to pave a new path for himself.

When he finally begins to turn his life around, his boss and friend, Tin Can, accepts him as a business partner and even gives his blessing for Charlie to date his daughter, Gabby. But as Charlie tries to leave behind his bad habits and phony friends, he quickly learns that more money always creates three times more problems.

For more than fifty years, Harold Phifer’s childhood living conditions remained a secret, even from those who thought they knew him best. No one knew about his past growing up with a mother who suffered from mental illness; a greedy aunt; a mindless and spoiled older brother; an absent father.

It wasn’t until an explosion in Afghanistan that his memory was blasted back into focus. This book is the result of a long, cathartic chat with a stranger at a beach bar, where Harold finally found some peace.