While in college, native New Yorker April Alisa Marquette was delighted with the Literature and Creative Writing electives offered. Once a tutor for middle and high school students, she yet shares her love for reading and writing with pupils. However, it is her endeavor to create detailed adult sagas that depict smart, sexy, multi-cultural women. She writes about men too--her Cohort Trilogy is a must read! It is about tall, attractive, buff Beau, a gay male whose three closest friends are women. If you want drama...on the pages of a book, and not in your own life; if you love beautiful imagery and enjoy the journey as well as arriving at a destination, then you will find her novels captivating! Her adult works have been called intense and emotionally jolting. They have even been called all-night-reads. In a review a fellow writer once wrote 'Ms. Marquette spins magic with her words.' Reading her, you just may laugh out loud one moment, then shed tears the next. April also writes non-fiction. She happens to be the co-author of an inspirational series entitled Relinquish and Reap. Biographical in nature, the quick-reading purse-sized books are slated to tell seventy-something Jessica Janna's story. There is a book for each decade of the singer/songwriter/evangelist's life. Pull up a chair; feel the love, the breeze and the sunshine as the authors share tidbits on how to live peaceably amid life's turbulence.