The Emancipation of Kat Turner
The Tulsa Turnaround
Kat is not human. She is property.
On a plantation in Sabine Parish, Robert Barnum is infatuated with Kat Turner, his uncle’s fifteen-year-
old slave; an infatuation considered taboo throughout the South. To outwit the law, he hatches a plan to
steal Kat and flee to Mexico, where they can both be free to wed. But Robert never saw coming his
cousin’s betrayal or the war that will eventually force him to abandon his pregnant bride.
The Emancipation of Kat Turner is a tale of longing, hope, betrayal and revenge.
Teaming with East Texas’s most notorious outlaws, Sara and her Native American friend accompany a young orphan girl, Rose, across Louisiana, Texas and modern-day Oklahoma to get Rose to her uncles along the Cimarron River.
The Tulsa Turnaround is a historical western, blending Cooke's fictional cast with true historic characters and loosely based off of Poco’s, album Rose of Cimarron.
The Legacy Begins
Moonshiner's Legacy
The Legacy Begins unravels a haunting tale when Sara Barnum returns
home from college to spend time with her dying grandfather, Cecil—a
man whose past has always been shrouded in silence. Despite living
their entire lives in Louisiana, they never set foot in nearby New
Orleans, and Sara never questioned why.
But with Cecil’s time running out, he feels an urgency to share the
secrets he’s kept hidden for decades.
As Sara pieces together her grandfather’s shocking revelations, she
begins to understand why the past was kept locked away. Cecil's
confessions take her down a twisted path of family secrets and
betrayal, where nothing is as it seems.
Beneath the nostalgic melody of jazz pulses a darker rhythm: one of
murder, crime, and a deep connection to the underworld .Leaving Sara
to wonder who can be trusted when everyone is a suspect.
A slice of Americana as bittersweet as Grandpa's shine. Set in Texarkana, Arkansas in the 1920's, naive 16 year old Bo Barnum takes over the whiskey running for his father Cecil Barnum. Barnum would rather pick a banjo than run shine at that age. "Don't make friends with the clients." His father's first work of advice to Bo, but the youth's first love was music and He runs into a fiddler named Early Greene. Meeting Greene in a neighboring town, his safe run is hijacked and Barnum flees for home to find a home of ashes, and Barnum and Greene or force to flee Arkansas.They flee Arkansas by hopping a freight train North and end up in Omaha. Bo meets a young Tejano singer, Lydia Fuentes, the daughter of two exiled revolutionaries. They get married, have children and try to settle down in a normal life. Early Greene's deadly past and a Barnum Family Legacy guarantees Bo will never be safe.
Sara's Swamp Blues
Sara Barnum, an aspiring civil rights attorney in Baton Rouge in the latter days of segregation was a rising star in the civil rights movement. Not only did Sara fight Jim Crow, she also dealt with a sibling rivalry and the haunting legacy of her family. Find out how Sara was destined to live in exile.
The Lost Song
of Miriam Landry
September of 1938, Bo Barnum's family found the young Miriam Landry standing on a bridge, resting while hitchhiking in Central Louisiana and hired her for the family maid. During the course of her employment, Sara Barnum felt she hid a deep secret. Under a Sabine River bridge, Miriam revealed her secret. A secret which would shock the music world.
End of a Legacy
Jerome Heard, a local business executive, is found murdered at a new club in town run by Reynaldo Benoit, an African immigrant.
Reynaldo is already neck-deep in a relation with Katie, a daughter of the victim. Their relationship takes a staggering spiral after investigations reveal Reynaldo as a probable conspirator in the murder.
Everyone is a suspect. From the club staff, consisting of drug dealers and prostitutes, all the way down the list to even Katie Heard, the victim's daughter. The murderer could be anyone.