3 Books Published by VFTC Universe on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

At eighty-four years old, widower and award-winning geneticist Bernie Crenshaw has reached the end of his life. Bernie gifts his only grandson, eighteen-year-old Inglewood high school senior Nova, his multimillion-dollar property located in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills.

Hours before his death, Bernie informs Nova that he did terrible deeds years ago. Bernie reveals that he never got caught because his freedom was contingent on an agreement he made with a "woman in the shadows" to keep the cabin in the family’s bloodline. Nova promises his grandfather that he will never sell the property.

Years after Bernie’s death, Nova hosts a wild twenty-first birthday party weekend filled with alcohol, music, and OnlyFans web cameras. After a handful of eerie encounters in the surrounding Los Angeles forest, Nova’s friends allege that his grandpa’s cabin is the burial ground for people who disappeared during their childhood.

The birthday weekend shifts from celebration to terror as the friends piece together that the man Nova knew as "Popsi" matches the profile of one of the most notorious wanted criminals in Los Angeles—"L.A. Love Hunter."

Will Nova preserve the Crenshaw family’s sadistic legacy, or will he choose the rare and valuable gift of friendship?

If you were to write a book about your Life, what would the title be? If you burst into song every time someone met you, what song would you sing?

Your Story Is Your Clout! Your Voice Is Your Power! is a book that blends the author’s experience as an English teacher, how-to publishing tips, and insights from the author’s grief journey to empower readers as writers and editors of their Life, by exploring their inner child’s voice as a source of motivation to complete a personal project.

Our inner child never leaves us. Coming to terms with trauma, neglect, and misgivings that have lurked in our lives’ shadows is the groundwork for personal development. Pushing through negative emotions by processing the past through written form is a freeing and powerful way to take ownership of our sense of oppression and shift it into an expansive mindset.

Using quotes from acclaimed psychotherapists, spiritual healers from around the world, and literary geniuses as the foundation of the book—with practical tips the author has learned while publishing four earlier books—readers will discover basic writing methods to enhance their narrative and find themselves overqualified to write their first book, legacy statement, song, or whatever they choose their way.

If you picked up this book, your past was preparing you for this moment.

And your future self will thank you.

Some say family is everything. Some say family are just people we’re assigned to at birth.

Trey Amana, a forty-something, hardworking father of two, discovered his dad’s death five years ago on the day after Christmas. Although Trey has grieved and prioritized his health, holiday music and decorations trigger painful memories. To take the final step toward healing the loss while saving extra cash for his holiday-obsessed kids, Trey decides to close his late father’s storage unit once and for all.

Trey discovers a journal written during his father’s college years. His dad, Art, reveals an outrageous family secret driving Trey into a wormhole of suspicions. With family members en-route to Trey’s home, Trey is burdened by the need for answers while somehow producing a hospitable Christmas.

Father & Sun explores how secrets and well-meaning motivations from the past can have a counteractive generational impact.

Father & Sun contemplates life in the shadows or life standing on the Sun (owning one’s truth), speaking to the passing of the torch from father to son, what it means to be honorable, and the spiritual, emotional, and mental effect on heirs.