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THE CURIOUS NUMBER - Release Date - March 9th, 2012

Rose McKillop’s virtuous life as mother and homemaker, and seventeen-year marriage to an upstanding, decorated police officer, are safe haven from her outlandish family: sexually-unfettered sister, Justine, a freelance writer; brother, James, always in trouble with money, prostitutes and the law; and elderly grandmother, Marlene Burich, who raised the siblings after the cold-blooded murder of their parents three decades ago. Marlene’s radical ideology has estranged her from Rose for twenty years.

The bitter truth is that Rose’s life is a tragic fraud. Disconnected from her workaholic husband, sexually dissatisfied, and spiritually empty despite her religious facade, she harbors a secret that could tear apart her marriage, and expose not only its dysfunction, but also her personal failures. In pain and desperation, she reaches out to another man, risking everything in a sexual affair.

Rose and her siblings are abruptly reunited by a series of catastrophic events, including Marlene’s increasingly bizarre behavior, and a brutal double-murder. In the process, Rose isn't the only family member whose dirty secrets threaten to destroy the ties that bind.

DEATH BY BITTER WATERS

Release Date - 22 June 2012

The great American Dream has always defined the essence of Americana, a nation of people who share a common memory of settlement and expansion, and the social components that transformed America from wilderness to world power

But the flip side to the commonly accepted truth diverges from history books, and tall tales of heroism in conquering a vast frontier. These are the memories of treaty and genocide, of sovereignty and legal warfare, contained in the Native American experience.

And yet, the lives of a people who have been deemed aliens in their native land, share a commonality with the descendants of the conquering tide: life and death; love and loss; and the simple human hope of happiness. They conducted their lives, loving and dying, warring and hunting near the central theme of a lake whose alkaline waters came to be known in local tongues as Death. It served as the backdrop to perseverance, and a new era of contemporary Red Power in northeastern California.