Mark Twain’s Visit to Heaven And Other Short Stories is a collection of twenty-two short tragedies, comedies and parables, including two novellas (The God Desire and Christopher O’Connor’s Romances) and the title story (which imagines the iconoclastic Mark Twain’s visit to heaven).

The Morning Light is an idealistic, philosophical novel about a Roman Senator’s doomed stand against slavery in the 2nd century B.C. Senator Janus Luminius cautiously compromises in his pursuit of a Roman consulship so that he can enact his cherished reforms. But when Janus gambles everything to prevent the fantasies of an unscrupulous merchant from undermining Rome’s economy, he discovers those illusions are far more attractive to the Senate’s leadership than his own more civilized dreams.

Bob and Charlie is a humorous novel about two 50-year-old Manhattanite dreamers, one an energetic pessimist and the other an exhausted optimist, who pool their resources to build Captain Bob’s Casino (“Where Everyone is a Winner”) in Las Vegas.

The Senior Partner is a legal thriller about four crucial months in the life of Stuart E. Craxton III, whose flirtation with greed leads to two kidnappings and increasingly excruciating demands on his stoicism as he attempts to prevent the destruction of his law firm, his family and his life.