Books by Roland Boike

In 1868, Jarmon, a young African boy, and his sisters Kindra and Karla struggle to live after the death of their parents. Jarmon, in his spare time and in order to supplement his wages as a thirteen-year-old working in the African diamond mines, hunts for diamonds along the Orange River in Africa. One morning, while hunting diamonds, Jarmon finds he is accosted by the mine owner and is knocked unconscious. The following day the mine owner fires Jarmon, kidnaps his sisters, and plans to take them back to Holland.Finding that he is unable to get his sisters back, Jarmon seeks out a local witch doctor to have a curse placed on the stolen diamonds. In a fit of anger Jarmon seeks out the aid of an African native inyanga to place a curse on the diamonds. It is believed that the curse has caused numerous mysterious deaths of the previous owners of the diamonds.One hundred years later, Grant Powers purchases the diamonds to have made into a thirty-fifth wedding anniversary gift for his wife. In order to save the political life of Grant Powerss brother, Grant and Marianne Powers agree to adopt and raise the illegitimate child of Grants brother.While vacationing the diamond ring is stolen, and the Powers are killed in an automobile accident. The caregiver simply keeps the child and raises her as her own. The true identity of the child and the eventual recovery of the stolen diamond leads to the final removal of the curse.

The brutal attack by an unknown assailant on the assistant manager of a supermarket leaves the victim in a coma. This is the second violent crime in this small community within a month.There appears to be no obvious motive for the attacks. The police task force assigned to solve the mysteries is conducted by Constance Mathis a lieutenant in the Loveland Ohio Police Department. Mathis is assigned the case of the attempted murder of Clayton Westfield along with the murder of an elderly man named Bill Hamilton.Lieutenant Mathis, in the course of her investigation, falls in love with the victim. Her romantic inclinations are thwarted when she is removed from her investigation by the FBI.The FBI realizes one of the deaths being investigated on is a man secretly hiding out in the community for the last ten years who was in the witness protection program.

Wayne Thompson learns early in life that he must take advantage of every opportunity. Wayne, seeking to better his life, accepts an opportunity for employment in Tucson, Arizona.A stranger gives Wayne a ride as he hitchhikes his way to Tucson.The stranger sees Wayne as an opportunity to end his nasty divorce by substituting Waynes body for his own in a house fire.Along the way, Wayne meets the wife of the stranger who turns out to be his old childhood sweetheart, April.Wayne and April seize the opportunity and make plans of their own to become very rich by having Wayne assume the identity of Aprils husband.