Tanto – Mikiko Ohara learns on her 20^th birthday that her maternal grandmother committed suicide. Finding the American serviceman she holds responsible for her grandmother’s death wish becomes Mikiko’s sole mission in life. Although living in Japan, she discovers through relentless research that the guilty man is president of Barwick Bank & Trust in La Jolla, California. For seven years she rigorously prepares herself physically and intellectually for her trans-Pacific mission. This is the intriguing story of her revenge… and what happens after 27-year-old Mikiko comes face to face with Lance Barwick. 

WindanSea – Sexuality in the 21^st century is this book’s theme. Nat Goldman, age 29, drives a limo at an upscale residential hotel in scenic La Jolla, California. Extremely handsome and personable, Nat privately aspires to write a novel that will make the world a better place—and apparently has the brains to do it—but lacks the discipline to start his book and the willpower to refuse sex from lovely, sensual females. This humorous and colorful narrative follows him for several months during his quarterlife crisis beginning in the autumn of 2000. A parallel story covers the romantic relationship between a charming older man with a hidden identity and his gorgeous Argentine nurse who live in this same hotel. An incident 19 years ago in the personal history of the older man causes the lives of the two male characters to climactically converge near the story’s ending.

 Although WindanSea contains profane language and explicit sex, it also has the required features of any great novel. Save your final judgment for the last page of the book, and then you’ll agree that it’s among the best stories you’ve ever read… and one you’ll never forget.

Coast Walk – Katherine Churchill, a gorgeous, talented and wealthy African-American, has it all… except romantic love. Frank Taylor, charming, intelligent, older—and racially white—skillfully conceals his background and agenda when he meets Katherine. The reader learns what can happen when the lives of two apparent soul mates intersect on the same path, Coast Walk, which leads to their unavoidable destinies. The two main characters learn that the past has an uncanny way of catching up with them and eating away at their psyches, forcing them to make critical, life-altering decisions. Kat and Frank enjoy what appears to be a unique relationship until the day fate taps them on the shoulder.

The primary setting is La Jolla, California, one of the most scenic spots in the world, with additional chapters taking place in Honolulu and Acapulco, plus a prologue aboard a sailboat off the coast of Australia. In the virtually irrepressible attraction between Kat and Frank, passion is the common denominator. Kat considers herself a devout Catholic. She just happens to be highly sexed. Frank’s cloaked background has numerous surprises. This book is not for sexually timid readers.

Never - A Spiritual Love Story – This story is the first version of another novel by Frederick Regenold entitled Coast Walk. Although each has the same main characters, including the dog, Rocky, the endings are completely different. If you like the people—and Rocky—in this book, and you’re not sexually timid, you might want to check out the other story just for surprises; however, please be advised that the first 12 chapters are basically the same. Never is a nice clean, touching love story with no murders, no profanity, and no explicit sex. It’s for readers who believe in love. If they don’t, perhaps after reading it they will. If nothing else, they’ll think twice at the beginning of a romantic involvement.