James Herbert Harrison, a native of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, has lived and worked throughout the continental United States as a businessman and industrial equipment and software sales representative. He currently resides in Olathe, Kansas with his wife, Maryna, and their teenage son. James has an older son who remains in Cape Girardeau, as well as two older stepchildren.
James’ pedigree as a writer began ten years earlier with the publishing of his first novel. Quest For Power, a political thriller to be re-released as The Programmer. Miracle From Ukraine, a totally different departure in genre, was inspired by the real-life saga of James and Maryna having experienced many of the actual events in the story.
Indy 500 champion Alex Moretti set the sporting world abuzz when he proposed marriage to Amanda Cook right on the victory podium, following an explosive criminal trial clearing him of statutory rape, a charge that was made at the behest of Amanda’s vindictive father.
Substituting for his brother, who was recovering from a serious racing accident, Alex makes an impressive debut in Formula 1 when Amanda and her sister, Allison, are suddenly kidnapped in front of a popular Paris bistro. Foul play is immediately suspected and frustrated with Interpol’s progress, Alex hires an unscrupulous former CIA operative, Cotton James, and his cadre of two Israelis to find her.
While the exciting jet set world of Formula One intersects with the criminal seedy underworld of human trafficking, Alex’s father struggles to keep Moretti Motorsport financially solvent while his star driver breaks from the team in a desperate search to find his fiancée.
The second release of the Moretti Racing Family Saga series, Racer’s Fiancée is a tale of international intrigue, conspiracy, and personal vendetta against the backdrop of international motor racing.
Buy Now ReviewsThird-generation championship caliber racer Alex Moretti drives for his father, Andy, a motorsport legend and now expanding team owner. The team had seemed to hit a grand slam when landing a lucrative multi-year sponsorship with Unibank, a major banking institution based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Just when Moretti Motorsport was advancing toward super team status, the sponsorship relationship explodes when young Alex is involved in a serious car accident, injuring the bank CEO’s youngest teenage daughter, Amanda, who is suddenly comatose in a Las Vegas hospital and aborting a six-to-seven-week pregnancy.
Released from the team, Alex spends two years in motorsport exile while Amanda’s father is hellbent on destroying the Morettis, threatening Andy with a multi-million dollar lawsuit and pushing criminal charges against his son, who now traveled the world for any free-lance ride in a race car he could muster.
When Alex finally gets a chance to resurrect his career, Amanda is pressured to testify against him following new inculpatory evidence from their past relations. As both push back against their feuding fathers, their forbidden romance is forced to a climax while playing out in the courts, the press, and in the corporate suites and backstretch of the world’s largest motor race.
Buy Now ReviewsIrina Balabanova is a beautiful Ukrainian girl, twenty-seven years of age and heartbroken, abandoned by an American post-graduate teacher who had worked in her country as an intern. Fending off the unwanted advances of locals and co-workers, she reluctantly agrees to a chance meeting with John Masters, a middle-aged American businessman, stranded in pre-war eastern Ukraine following an ill-advised romantic venture. Despite their wide differences of culture, language, and generation, the two are brought together in a whirlwind of love and adventure.
Their dreams of a life together are threatened by the acts of a fanatically jealous Ukrainian State Security officer, who will stop at nothing to stop Irina from leaving their native country to marry an American. When all hope seems totally lost to the point of both facing criminal persecution, John’s perseverance and some ever-present divine intervention keep the unlikely and miraculous romance alive.
Inspired by actual events, Miracle From Ukraine is a story of international intrigue, faith, and romance.
Love knows no borders, but will fate allow it to flourish? Miracle From Ukraine is a heart-stirring tale of romance, faith, and resilience set against the backdrop of political turmoil. As Irina and John fight against forces determined to keep them apart, their love story unfolds with breathtaking twists and divine intervention. Will they defy the odds, or will destiny pull them apart forever?
Buy Now Reviews9218 METCALF AVE SUITE 280 OVERLAND PARK, KS 66212