Note from Dannye Williamsen:

It is not the accepted practice in the industry to stray from a single genre. I might be able to excuse this path I’ve taken by saying that I am an Aries and easily bored. I prefer, however, to say that I go where my muse takes me.

My muse has been more focused when it comes to nonfiction which has been dedicated to spiritual psychology or personal growth over the last four decades. In my fiction writings, six of my novels have had a paranormal twist which dealt with the abilities of the mind (perhaps influenced by my nonfiction passion?).
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Recently I listened to a woman talking about one’s “branding promise." That’s when I realized that mine, which has always been Opening Minds and Imaginations, actually validates my broad approach to writing. If any of my works can open someone’s mind to different ideas or open their imagination to new worlds, then I have kept my promise.  

Invisible Shadows​

Allegra Harris has never really thought about marriage until she meets Harper Frost during a land deal negotiation. Allegra is a top-notch negotiator and is justifiably proud of having reached the position of Senior Vice-President of Security Land Investments. Harper’s deal falls through, so she is startled when Harper keeps asking her out even though she has no time for relationships. Harper turns out to be as career-focused as she, and the two of them fall into an easy rhythm. Having felt alone most of her life, Allegra doesn’t recognize the superficiality of their  marriage. She feels content because neither makes demands on the other’s time.

That is, until Allegra discovers she is pregnant. For the first time, she experiences a love that actively competes for the attention she’s always reserved for her work. Chloe’s birth shines a new light on hers and Harper’s lives and creates a shift in their marriage, but she still believes she loves Harper. Still, the loss of her nest egg to shore up his business lingers in the back of her mind as her need to protect her daughter’s future grows.
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Everything moves along routinely until the day she receives a phone call from the NTSB. It seems Harper is presumed dead in a plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean while on a flight to Nassau. With no body found, Allegra’s life is turned upside down. Trying to handle his affairs, she discovers she did not know her husband at all. The more she tries to tie up loose ends, the more stray threads she discovers. Threads that lead to more questions: Did Harper Frost ever really exist? Is he still alive? Is he dangerous?   

The Elyrian Emergence  

Elyria is the only country on the planet of Galen which is located in the Andromeda Galaxy. Galen meaning calm and Elyria meaning blessed place demonstrate the principles upon which this civilization was founded many centuries ago.  Escaping from their ancient planet before it imploded as the result of  their destructive policies, the mission of the Founders, those who orchestrated the means of escape, was to develop a civilization based on the philosophy of Self-Emergence.

On the surface, it seems to be working until the Karons, the sensitives who monitor the global energies, detect a negative shift in consciousness. The Karons’ visions wake those in charge from their complacency and send them scrambling to curb the decline engineered by someone with an inordinate amount of power.

The questions this team of people find themselves asking are these: Can we stop this before it’s too late? How could we have not seen how vulnerable we are?
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The ultimate question is whether Elyria will wake up and realize that Self-Emergence is a forever journey, one where fear of the mistakes of the ancient planet have no place.

When The Walls Come Tumbling Down
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When The Walls Come Tumbling Down is a touching, page-turning novel of triumph over fears and sorrows. As it unfolds, it reminds us that when a crack appears in our walls and widens, something new has a chance to appear.

Two generations apart, Ashley Stanford and Claire Montoya have very little in common until their universes collide. Each has built walls in their life to survive. Ashley, however, has a head start of nearly six decades over Claire as a brick mason of the psyche. Tragedy has brought them together.

For well over a decade, Ashley has been the caregiver for her husband, who now lives in a nursing home. Trying to rediscover her life, she meets Claire, who is homeless and being stalked by a local drug dealer for reporting him to the police. Ashley takes her in and soon discovers there is much more to her story than she could have imagined.
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After committing to helping Claire, Ashley is faced with her husband’s passing. To help her occupy her mind in her grief, Ashley joins Claire on a journey that could turn both their lives upside down.

Chasing Shadows - A Brita Madison Paranormal Mystery

[Book 1]  Brita is at best a reluctant psychic, and Chief of Police James Weston is the "poster boy for  conservative."  Can he accept the unimaginable?

Brita Madison has found a sanctuary in  

Williams, Arizona, a refuge from the multitude of visions and voices that have chased her all her life. Then one vision touches her soul, and she finds herself embroiled in the middle of a missing person's case with a woman’s life at stake. Little does she know that this is only the beginning.

Brita's visions uncover a trail of murders centered around the historic Route 66. As she steps deeper into the world she has been trying to escape, she and Weston are in a race against time to identify the serial killer. This journey threatens to tear apart their lives as well as those closest to them.

Shattered Hearts - A Brita Madison Paranormal Mystery 

[Book 2]  In Shattered Hearts her newfound courage is pushed to the limits. A ghost boy she encounters in Phoenix while at a gathering of her new writing clients, who all possess and write about paranormal abilities, ignites an adventure that drags everyone in her world into the dark underbelly of a pedophile ring.  

Trying to rescue the children puts all of them in the cross-hairs, including her boyfriend Sam and her unofficial partner, James Weston. Many hearts will be shattered before this case is put to rest. ​

Unraveling Memories - A Brita Madison Paranormal Mystery

​[Book 3]  Brita Madison has come a long way since she first met James Weston five years ago. After nearly being killed twice and losing her best friend James at the hand of an evil pedophile, she appreciates the slower pace of her interactions with the spirit world since moving to Phoenix with her new husband, Sam Jenkins. All that comes crashing down when the past returns with a vengeance, threatening her family and friends.

As if to make up for lost time, spirits begin showing up whose muddled memories test the resolve of Brita and her friends, old and new, to meet the challenges from the past and the present.

Circles of Freedom

When Brandon Boehle creates the Circles of Freedom blogs to strike a blow for truth, he has no idea of the loss, the love, and, the chaos it will set in motion. When the dominoes start to topple, there's a race to survive for friend and foe alike.
Brandon never imagines that a mercenary hired by the President of the United States would be out to kill not only him, but his assistant, Alise Winston, and the professionals who are writing the blogs. What started out as a simple, though carefully safeguarded, effort to get the truth out there has put all of them in the crosshairs. He quickly realizes that his expectations of the United States government have been naïve.
The contract put out on Circles of Freedom turns out to be the least of the worries for the country. A nefarious plot is uncovered to overthrow the government, and the players believe themselves to be untouchable. Circumstances draw Brandon and Alise and all those closest to them into this dark plot. Their only hope lies in a twist of fate.

Second Chances

When a wolf known as Avatar escapes the voracious clutches of an evil presence known as Darian Beel, a quest is set in motion that changes the lives of all those in the path of this malevolence, particularly Fredrika Marsh.

​Second Chances is the evolutionary journey of Fredrika, whose life has been defined by her  fear of an unspoken power within 

her and her need to suppress it by controlling herself and the world around her. Everything is brought into question by the appearance of a ghostly stalker, who disrupts her ordered existence and kills her assistant, leaving her clueless how to get rid of the chaos that has taken over her life. When she is forced to step outside the rational confines of her life to accept the help of a wolf named Avatar, who seems to know more about what’s going on than she does, the first step in her evolution begins.

The Threads That Bind

Thirty-nine years after Second Chances, the threads that bind the generations begin to reconnect for the final battle in The Threads That Bind.

By quirk of fate, Mandy Gray, whose last and best friend was Fredrika Marsh, leaves her secluded profession as a research psychologist in 2019 to take a position as a guidance counselor at Briarton Academy where the orphaned and wealthy Jillian  

Missildine is a student. They become fast friends, but it is four years before they discover the thread that connects them. 

Once this connection is made, all the others - those connected to the past through Freddie and her nemesis - flow swiftly toward each other. The patterns of their lives become tangled and knotted, and the decision has to be made about who will survive. 

"Sometimes the threads of one's life fit neatly together and a pattern begins to emerge that has great promise. Other times, the threads become tangled and knotted, and the pattern gets lost. When this happens, it is best to snip the threads and begin again, for the pattern always awaits you." -The Book of Metanoia.

Center Stage

April Saunders is a woman after the brass ring and willing to do whatever it takes to feel it within her grasp. In her quest to be center stage, she barely even notices the trail of victims she leaves in her wake. Eventually her husband and daughter join all the others left behind.

Now the tide has turned. She has been left behind. No power. No options. No family. No friends. No hope. 

Then a mysterious and seemingly magical woman named Grace appears at her door. Despondent, April is so weak-willed at this point that she allows Grace to take charge, unaware that her life is about to take a turn that few ever get to experience. As she takes a preternatural journey into her past, will her ambition continue to rule her heart? Can there be salvation for one who has betrayed so many? 

The author dedicated this story to the people in her life who have always allowed for the possibility of her personal growth before jumping to conclusions based on the person she might have been at one time.

The Evolution Of A Slingshot

A story of a boy whose life is often as raw and unfettered as the time.

He lives in a world of tarpaper shacks and basement homes, of dusty roads and outhouses, of poverty and optimism, of the American Dream and justice snubbed.

In the late 1940s, while the country is recovering from the Great Depression and World War II, an eleven-year-old boy is simply trying to survive his small town world in Illinois. The great tragedy in his life has been the mysterious murder of his father, which has turned his world upside-down. The fear that grows out of his loss leads him to cling to his brother, Ray, as a substitute father figure. Unfortunately, Ray is only four years older, and while seeking retribution for his father’s death, he is also struggling with his family’s expectations of his filling his father’s shoes. 

After watching the way Ray handles the situation when Jake is attacked on his paper route, Jake recognizes how self-destructive his brother’s anger can be, and he is afraid for him. This strengthens Jake’s resolve to handle his problems himself. The slingshot, which was once a toy to Jake, has now become his only means of defense. His life continues to offer him opportunities to choose how to deal with confrontations and the loss of others close to him. 

His struggle to make the right choices transforms his relationship with his slingshot. It is this evolving relationship that mirrors the changes in Jake’s inner psychology—the changes which mold his personality and shape his ideas of right and wrong. When he finds himself at the decisive moment where he has the means to avenge the wrongs his family has suffered, what will his decision be? His future now hinges on the choices he makes.