Rhea’s Upcoming Projects

The Most Great Law
A novel
By Rhea Harmsen

A strange menagerie in an unlikely setting. Jack Wolinski, a young white architect with a crazy scheme and some maxed-out credit cards. Fiona Reed, a very young sista with the brass of a CEO and the innocence of a nun. Ottis Reed, a Denzel-like construction foreman with a penchant for poetry. And Towana Jackson, a desperate single mother with too many pounds and too many kids. Their lives intersect at the juncture of Drexel Boulevard and 47th Street. It’s a wild bid to turn a corner of the ghetto into paradise. Starting with boarded up, urine-smelling, condemned properties. Aiming for yuppie south side “revitalization,” and urban gardens. A mad venture that sucks them into a vortex of hard work, laughter, and near-bankruptcy hoping to find dignity, love and healing. But what the heart longs for and the eyes crave, you must not touch. It’s the truth about race in America. Complicated and perilous. You can lose your heart, you can lose your soul, you can even lose your life. It’s the most challenging issue sabotaging the American dream. A challenge that can only be conquered by The Most Great Law.

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The Morn of Salvation
A novel
By Rhea Harmsen

Elena has all the sweetness and femininity that her money and social position…make irresistible. So she’s the jewel every Puerto Rican boy covets to crown his dreams. But her life revolves around a carefully concealed lie and all her goodness cannot save her. She learns early that only bad girls can keep the devil at bay.

Joel is the heartthrob a girl dreams of meeting on the dance floor and taking home to mami. He’s got everything going for him and all of it paid for with his own sweat. But he’s also got an ominous past he cannot escape. And he’s not sure if machismo is an outdated concept or the only way to keep his family safe.

Both Joel and Elena are fleeing the intoxication of true love, both are feeling the bite of hand-me-down shame. Both are keeping secrets to conceal their pain.

Where is the end to darkness? Where will the dawn come from? If love is not enough, and craven desire can’t take you there, perhaps only the truth can bring the dawning of The Morn of Salvation.

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Moral Courage
A novel
By Rhea Harmsen

East meets West in this story of two quintessential twenty first century women. The American: Debbie Armbruster, a Special Ops captain of a platoon of buff, cocky, fire eating Rangers infiltrating Afghanistan in the dead of night. She’s razor sharp, confident and stoic. The mission: Long Range Recon operations in a war intended to bring down the Taliban by air power alone. The Afghan: Fataneh, a village girl living in the dark ages but determined to win her freedom and her country’s liberation. They are thrown together in a time of great danger and crisis. Complicate matters by introducing Shawn McNeil, second in command—a scrumptious, oh baby please save me, modern chauvinist. A former football hero, now a tough, disciplined lieutenant whose heart’s in trouble. Under siege of horrible atrocities, collateral damage and friendly fire, they must forge a bond that tests their leadership, proves their Moral Courage, and allows them to make it out alive.

Dayspring of Grandeur
A novel of Haiti
By Rhea Harmsen

Isaiah’s Longing
CD of spoken word poetry
By Rhea Harmsen with original music by Lee Robinson

The Boundaries
A short story
By Rhea Harmsen

Children of the Half-light
Selected Poems
By Rhea Harmsen

The Biracial Child’s Credo
CD of spoken word poetry
By Rhea Harmsen

Reflections of a Mad Gardener
Essays
By Rhea Harmsen

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