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This Novel started it all in 1996

51 and dying

63 and still alive

written in 1996 when i was told i was dying

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Wall of Silence

When secrets are buried beneath generations of expectation, one voice must find the strength to shatter the quiet of a community built on shadows.

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Hope Returns

After the harvest of heartbreak, can a barren soul bloom again? A sweeping tale of restoration set against the backdrop of a changing world.

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Treasure in a Tin Box

A forgotten heirloom, a desperate search, and the realization that the greatest riches are often hidden in the most unassuming vessels.

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30 years of writing the following six novels prepared me

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Wall of Silence

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Hope Returns

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Treasure in a Tin Box

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The Attic on Sycamore Lane

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The Shadow Dweller

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Treachery in Terrebonne Parish

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To look at these two sisters, no one could guess the secrets they hold onto, as if life itself depended upon it. But secrets have a way of coming to the surface, no matter how determined you are to keep them secret. They are like a whale in your life. You can keep it submerged for some time, but at a certain point, that whale must surface for air, and there is no force strong enough to keep it under water.

Like the size of that proverbial whale, it took something just as enormous to get these two sisters to face their secrets and allow them to breathe fresh air for the first time in their lives. The Murder trial was their whale; just as daunting, just as scary, but equally forceful in its intention to get to the truth.

You do not Keep Secrets 

Secrets Keep You

this Exclusive Edition of the award-winning novel, by Dorey Whittaker, is offered to my fan club members, with the wish that, if you enjoy this novel, you will share it with your friends and hopefully that one person that came to your mind as you read this novel. I have given this novel and all its royalties to charity as a thank you to the Lord, for helping me step out from behind my Wall of Silence and let my secrets breathe. We have all heard the saying, “You are only as sick as your secrets.” 

Personal Note from the Author:

Having held onto secrets for over 30 years, I know how much pressure that puts on a person. Constantly having to avoid, distract, divert, or simply ignore pushy people is a skill no one should have to master. Two-stepping around invasive questions that might expose the secrets I was threatened with utter disaster of everything I loved if I did not keep my mother’s secret. To keep such a huge secret, as a three-year-old, just to keep my family intact, was a burden many children in dysfunctional families have experienced. The earlier that occurs, the harder it is to face them later in life.

The links that God puts in our lives, if we pay attention, are profound signs of just how much God loves and care about us. Some people write them off as coincidence, but I have come to embrace them as love-notes from a Loving Father. I cannot share my whole story here, so at the age of 80, I felt compelled to finally write My Story, so I could explain, in detail, all the “Serendipitous” things that God placed in my life, just to tell me, just how much He Heard My Cry for Help. I have set the Publication Date to coincide with my 81st birthday, as a love letter back to God for hearing my cry for help

Exclusive Edition of Hope Returns

Lisa was very grateful to be found not guilty of murder, but the cost was higher than she ever had intended.  First, she wanted to protect someone she loved, and she had reverted to her childhood habit of keeping secrets to do that. She had not planned any of it; it became instinctual, without considering how her decision would affect the one person she had sacrificed her whole life to protect, she put her in a snare that threatened Hope’s future, and probably their relationship.

Old habits are hard to break, but now Lisa must wait again, hoping that Hope will give her a second chance.  But waiting is hard to do, in a small town that now knows her every secret.  Lisa must learn how to live in a fishbowl and wait for Hope to decide what she will do? Will Hope return?

As if that was not enough pressure, Lisa is facing another dilemma, will she entertain the idea of risking love into her life, after all that she has done? Can she trust that Ben means what he says, “that her past is in the past.”  Does he mean that, or is she just so starved for attachment, that she feels vulnerable to his pressure?

During her darkest years of drug abuse, Lisa had learned not to hope – because hope made you vulnerable. But can she allow herself to become vulnerable and risk getting hurt, just to have hope in her life?

Living without Hope

Is not Living – It is Existing

Exclusive Edition of Treasure in a Tin Box

The train ride in Treasure in a Tin Box is an allegory.

the train represents everyone’s journey through life. We all board the train with different experiences, but once onboard, every passenger is traveling from point A to point B and beyond, differently.

Some passengers just look out the window, watching the world pass them by; bitter and imprisoned by their past, resentful of their present, and fearful of their future. 

Others, like Tobias, take the opportunity to focus on the things in life with which he can be grateful. For some, those things are insignificant ~ until you make them significant, being grateful makes them significant. What kind of passenger are you?

This Exclusive Edition of Treasure in a Tin Box, by Dorey Whittaker, is offered to my fan club members, with the wish that you, if you enjoyed this novel, I have lifted the “security locks” so you can share it with your friends and hopefully to that someone that God put on your heart as you read this novel. Please do not abuse my generosity. To quote one of my favorite characters, Great-Aunt Ruby, “Because in the re-telling of their stories, they get to live again.”

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Although this is a story about middle-school children in the 1950s, this is not a child’s story. It is a ‘returning home’ story, remembering the best summer of his young life. His reflection shows his struggle, giving up being a momma’s boy, and he credits his older sister, Daisey for believing in him, when he was full of doubt. Ted is now a successful New York attorney, who specializes in juvenile justice, and he credits that summer for his life-long ambition to become a lawyer.

A story within a story

n 1955, Daisy and Teddy Dillard were

caught up in their own life, trying to

grow up and have adventures. Like

most children, they had no idea how

much their lives would impact a lonely

old spinster, who always had dirt under her fingernails. Because gardening was her only relief from the strict social structure of Southern living in

the 1930s-1950s.

Having been born in 1872, to a proper couple, living in Mobile, Alabama, “The Rules” dictated every aspect of Victoria’s life; how she dressed, what she read, and with whom she could associate. To say she felt stifled would be an understatement; until a twelve-year-old girl, who loved solving mysteries as much as she has since she was twenty-two years old.  That was the year she came across a copy of a Sherlock Holmes mystery that her father owned; a first edition, published in 1887, A Study in Scarlet, and Victoria, read it in 1894, and was a serious fan from that day forward.

     It is said that at her death, they found every first edition ever published in her private library. For a proper Southern Lady, reading material like Sherlock Holmes was inappropriate reading material. Gardening was a woman’s only escape. She could wear gardening trousers, get dirty, and wear comfortable shoes, and no one bothered her.

     But one day a spunky little girl had an idea that made Miss Vicky utterly thrill to wake up every day. She finally had someone who thought like had for years, but had been forced to keep it to herself, until Daisy Dillard came along.

If you enjoy this novel, please share it with others.  I just want people to read about these amazing characters, and what they were able to accomplish during that special summer in 1955.

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I am Buzzard Bill, better known as The Shadow Dweller. I am a crotchety old buzzard, who has always been afraid to fly; not because buzzards can’t fly, but because my fear of flying caused me to clip my own wings so I would never be tempted to try. All the cajoling in the world could not budge this buzzard to fly.

     Buzzards are unattractive creatures, but watching them soar, flying high in the sky is exciting to watch. On land they seem clumsy, vulnerable, and out of their element, but when flying, they seem to know how to use the air currents to their advantage, because Buzzards were created to fly.

     Fear was the driving force that made me clip my own wings. Fear is a common issue for most humans. When we allow our fears to rule our decisions we are clipping our own wings.

   We were created to soar, not just to trudge along, vulnerable to the criticism of others who also are afraid to soar.  Just think how far you could go, if you stopped being afraid to let go and just started flying?

    Fear is a real and ever-present Giant in most people’s lives, fear kept me afraid of flying for many years, until God did for me, what He did for Buzzard Bill. He made situation in our lives that required that we fly.  God put something that was even more scary than our fear, to defeat our fear.  The unknown is scary, but when the known is even more scary, you find out that fear is a giant that you must face. For believers, the Bible says that God is our shelter, our guide, our strength, our sustainer. Fear makes us feel puny and small, but when we Trust God’s Word about who He says He is, we can Trust what He says we are. Then we can refuse to submit to the giant’s declaration of who we are, and what we can achieve; choosing the hard path instead of the easy path brings freedom as you remain steadfast, unmovable, resilient. To quote the Bible, “when you have done all to stand…STAND. Stand in Faith that You are who He says you are. You can accomplish what His Plans are for you to accomplish

To my fans, never surrender to the giant’s condemning mockery.  You can Stand Resilient, not in your own strength, but because you know that God is more than just a religion that you join. He is real, relatable, and He desires to be your strength, your path- maker, your guide through the darkest times of life. Join us on The Journey to a new destiny, a different life, one of hope, one of purpose, one of being a child of a Loving God who cares about you.

Believe me, because I know how big the giants are, and how puny you feel when their mockery of your weakness are running through your head, but here is the secret for defeating the giants of fear, a puny little grasshopper + God are always greater than giants.

Exclusive Edition of Treachery in Terrebonne Parish

Mike Majors and Charlemagne Smalls had very different backgrounds, but they had one thing in common, they both desperately needed a Do-Over

Mike Majors felt lost after losing his childhood sweetheart and wife of thirty year, and the job he loved just three years before retirement. Fortunately for him, Mike was well acquainted with the ‘Do-Over’ principle. As a boy growing up in Philly, playing streetball, the rules for Do-Overs’ were well established; if the boy needing a ‘Do-Over’ admitted he needed one, all the other boys graciously nodded their heads in agreement.

You see, Mike Majors is a member of the baby-boomer generation, and found himself trapped between two worlds, his father’s post-WWII trauma that no one spoke about, and the bright and shiny future that television was constantly pushing.  Mike grew up on the mean streets of South Philly, where Coal factories loomed large, and their insatiable need for cheap labor, loomed over the boys in South Philly like their fathers who expected them to follow

suit and live their father’s life – a life they had witnessed and wanted no part of.

   For baby-boomers, their coming-of-age story was Vietnam, a scary experience, one that swallowed soldier whole, and returned them in a pine box; if at all. Mike was one of the lucky ones. He returned determined to break free from what his father expected of him. Having survived Vietnam, Mike felt invincible, and he was going to fight for a different future. He had no idea what that future looked like, but he knew two things; he knew what it did not look like, and he knew that his high school sweetheart, Tilly, was going to help him find their future away from South Philly.

    Then, as a grown man, Mike had gotten so involved in his job that he became an absentee father, who did not know his own boys. Mike did what he had learned as a boy, he sat in front of his boys and admitted that he had failed them as a father and asked for a ‘Do-Over.’

    Mike had no idea what was waiting for him in Terrebonne Parish. Her name reeked of ‘Drama Queen,’ but if years of being a detective taught him anything, it was wait and see where the evidence leads you.

     Regardless of how we perform in life, we all need to ask for a ‘Do-Over’ when we find that we have failed. Admitting our failure is not defeat – it is the beginning of a new beginning.

     God was the first one to offer us a Do-Over.  His Grace and Mercy are renewed daily, because we need His Grace and Mercy every day