Penniless Souls

Twenty years after Penny's Hawaiian adventure, she and her husband are moving to Las Vegas, Nevada.But when they run out of gas in the Mojave Desert, the couple is rescued by a famous painter. The eccentric artist hires Penny to redecorate his property, while her husband finds work on a skyscraper on the Strip.Things are looking up, until Penny hears rumors about human trafficking. When her daughter goes missing, Penny's mothering instinct goes into high gear. But will a mother's love make a difference, or does God hold all the cards?Forty-eight hours is all Penny's got to rescue Lani, and the clock is ticking. Eve Gaal is the author of the romantic novel Penniless Hearts. She writes at www.evegaal.com, as a freelance writer after several decades in the newspaper business. Her work has been published in The Los Angeles Times and also The Daily Pilot where she had an ongoing column. Her humor and poetry is scattered among various anthologies and journals such as Writing for Peace which featured her travel story in DoveTales-An International Journal for the Arts-"Nature" edition.Born in Boston but a longtime Californian, she lives in the Inland Empire with her husband and two Chihuahuas. A series by Eve Gaal.