REVIEWS of
THE COACH’S WIFE"A slam dunk!" NCAA basketball game is the thrilling opener of The Coach’s Wife but the behind the scenes jockeying for power is even more of a trip. Coach Neal Connors leads his underdog team to a coveted national
championship, but his glorious moment is soon shattered. Connors and his young wife, Marla, face charges of malfeasance and a ruinous murder trial. The resolution of this taut suspense thriller plays out as fast as any action you’ll see in the gym." Sara Williams
Author, The Don Juan Con
The Coach's Wife is "Outstanding!"
Howard Fried
Publisher, Woodfield Publishing
Aviator, Author, Basketball Fan, and Avid Reader of Popular Fiction
The Coach's Wife is “Brilliant and heart-pounding!”
Simon Coe
Author, Justice Comes On Friday
"The Coach's Wife combines the thrill of an unforgettable Division One college basketball final with university politics, steamy sex and murder. Amidst page after page of the heart-pounding novel, Barbara Casey portrays vivid scenes of the North Carolina landscape. A mystery not to be missed."Mark Jacoby
Author, Path to Arequipa
Twists, turns, and heart-stopping fast-break excitement! No, it's not college basketball's national championship game, but instead "The Coach's Wife." Barbara's unique insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of college
athletics combined with her extraordinary talents as a writer makes this book a must-read! Enjoy.Mark McKay
CNN Sports
I just finished The Coach's Wife, and it was great. I really felt like I knew the characters by the end. And I believe all great fiction is character driven. The scene where Marla is describing the trip to the island to her friend, Gale,
(actually taking her there in her mind) while she lay beside her in bed, dying, is one of the most powerful scenes I have ever read...beautiful.Thanks for the great read! John Monaco, MD
Critical Care Pediatrician
Author , Slim and Fit Kids and Moondance to Eternity
REVIEWS of
SHYLA'S INITIATIVE
From the fascinating introduction of Shyla's Initiative the reader is drawn into the intimate life and mysterious events enveloping Shyla Wishon, author and creative writing instructor.
Striving to overcome the stress of being a young widow, and a failed second marriage, she does her utmost to build a worthwhile life by writing and teaching in South Florida. Shyla becomes emotionally caught up in the manuscript (a family saga) by a student from a wealthy Cuban family that brought ancient beliefs of Regla de Ocha to Florida along with the occult ritual of Santeria. Inexplicably, the manuscript influences Shyla's life.
The characters are vivid. Shyla is so finely drawn that you won't soon forget her. A must read! Mark Jacoby
Author, An Intriguing Event
Fascinated with this novel! I'm FASCINATED with this novel! Technically, it's perfect. Timing, suspense, character development, theme interest...it's all there. And the writing is fast, precise, accurate, trimmed to perfection, like a French garden. Barbara Casey is a GREAT writer! aljfer
Reviewer, Amazon.com, February 23, 2003
Could not put it down!I found this to be a very absorbing book. Read it from end to end in two sittings (being mad at the interruption,)
since I wanted to know what followed next in the story. Barbara Casey, as a writer, is able to carry multiple "threads" that the reader can follow without getting entangled in a web. The meat of the novel deals with Santeria and the occult, which the author seems to have researched thoroughly. Set around "Ritzy" Palm beach County and other South Florida locales, this very concise and well written novel
could very well be transcribed to what might be an equally absorbing film which deals with the little known and often misunderstood occult rituals of many Latin cultures. A reader
Reviewer, Amazon.com, December 30, 2002
Shyla's Initiative, an occult romance by first-time adult novelist Barbara Casey, is a well crafted tale that entwines a forgotten, but primitive faith with a more modern tale of relationships and traditions, of pain and sorrow, and how life
still goes on...with a new plan. A new initiative. The novel is Casey's first attempt at writing adult fiction. She, has had several shorter pieces and poems published in Byline, American Poetry Review and other publications, but delivers this dynamic tale much in the same style of James Patterson in his Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas and Sam's Letters to Jennifer by breaking the novel down into
different points of views; each from the various characters within the book, but with the main focus still being on and around Shyla Wishon, a novelist who, at best, is at the center of this much enchanted tale. "The woman didn't seem to understand or care that she and Carl might want time for themselves. Shyla tried hard
to suppress her feelings, because Pilar was Carl's mother..." Shyla believes. Yet there was something more than Pilar's unrelenting requests for her son to do things for her that troubles Shyla; there was the new computer he claimed was a gift from a co-worker, but when she confronted him with the sales receipt, he fessed up. Then, there were the documents left in her suitcase. They indicated that Carl named his estranged daughters as beneficiaries;
but why; why hadn't he told her? What else was he keeping from her? Certainly,"...doubt had been raised, and no matter how hard she tried to block it out, the question kept resurfacing: Does he really love me?" But that isn't the only thing brewing. Maria Fanjul, the last of the guardians, knows the end is near. "Maria was old;
soon she would pass. According to the traditions of Regla of Ocha, it was time for her to give her knowledge and wisdom -- the inheritance -- to another female related by blood... "There were difficulties, however. Maria's daughter had been born with the grayness." So had her own granddaughter, and time was running out. She and her followers would again petition the gods in hopes of getting the reply they are praying for... in time. Gothic-Review
Reviewed by Robin M. Buehler
REVIEWS of
THE HOUSE OF KANE
Simultaneously wise and poignant, exotic and suspenseful, The House of Kane is a fascinating story of loyalty, treachery and the power of destiny. With an insider’s view into the world of high stakes publishing,
Barbara Casey weaves a masterful story that haunts the reader long after the final page. Nancy Steinbeck
Author, The Other Side of Eden: Life with John Steinbeck
Barbara Casey’s The House of Kane is a touchingly tender love story, set in an intrigue-riddled publishing industry. Her characters are interesting and varied. Her story is refreshing and engagingly told. Aspiring writers will want to read The House of Kane to tap her wisdom about getting into print. John DeDakis
CNN Senior Copy Editor
Author, Fast Track
Want you to know I couldn't put The House of Kane down... Read in one day... Actually, stayed up until about 3 am to
finish... Must read your other books. You are as good, if not better, than Mary Higgins Clark. Maureen Bashaw
President, Adonis Autism Foundation
No matter what was going on, I couldn't wait to return to The House of Kane. So many places I know so well, and then the literary philosophies that I can so easily identify with; yes, to the point of saying, that's it, that is what I feel, or, yes, that is what I think! It was a total immersion of my life into your pages. And why? Not just because of being
able to identify with so much, but mostly because you are simply a fabulous writer… Talk about a page turner!! I love the way you intertwine the mystical into the text. Life has so many layers and it is rewarding to read the work of someone who thinks this way, too. Patricia Daly-Lipe
Author, Myth, Magic and Metaphor, Nature’s Wisdom and La Jolla: A Celebration of Its Past
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