Jazzoetry Lives

Jazzoetry Lives

J. Vern Cromartie’s Jazzoetry Lives is a fierce, jazz-infused poetry collection that transforms Black history, grief, resistance, and ancestral memory into a living call-and-response across generations.

Life After Fall

After a childhood shaped by abuse and a bitter divorce, a driven man escapes on a motorcycle journey to Alaska and climbs Denali, only to discover that the peace and faith he was chasing in the wilderness had been revealed all along through the kindness of strangers, humility, and the courage to love again. Life After Fall is the story of Eli, a man whose life is shaped by early trauma, driven ambition, painful loss, and ultimately transformed through humility, faith, and love. Eli grows up in a volatile home dominated by an abusive father addicted to prescription pills. As a boy, Eli learns to survive by escaping-riding bikes through the city with his best friend Gabe, exploring woods and rivers, and losing himself in the outdoors where life feels simple and safe. Yet beneath the adventure lies a constant tension at home. As an adult, Eli channels that drive into building a successful career and a marriage to Rachel. Yet beneath the outward success lies unresolved pain and pride. Eli becomes obsessed with proving himself through achievement and financial success, believing that accomplishment will quiet the insecurity born in childhood. At his lowest point-emotionally, financially, and spiritually-Eli embarks on a solo motorcycle journey north toward Alaska. What begins as an escape gradually becomes a pilgrimage. Life After Fall is a story about transformation: how pain can shape character, forgiveness frees the heart, and the search for meaning often leads us back to the quiet truths that were present all along. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4vJwMba [https://amzn.to/4vJwMba]

The Price of Deception (Price of Revenge)

A murder, a mystery, and a cult of lies… After a woman is found stabbed to death in her run-down trailer, her 21-year-old daughter, Pepper, is nowhere to be found. Police Chief Donnie Smith is stunned by the mountain of circumstantial evidence pointing to Pepper as her mother’s killer. The young woman he first met as a frightened child ten years earlier couldn’t be capable of such a heinous crime. Or could she? He’d witnessed firsthand their embattled relationship. When truck stop security footage supports Pepper’s innocence by showing a rough-looking man dragging her from her car, Smith’s focus shifts. Teamed with the FBI, he’s determined to rescue the young woman he’s come to regard as a daughter. But first, they have to find her. Meanwhile, as Pepper navigates her frightening new reality in a remote cult compound hundreds of miles from home, she comes to understand the bizarre past her mother had shielded her from and grieves for the bitter, godless woman she had never understood. Can Pepper escape? Will she be rescued? Or will a future in an isolated compound of polygamous zealots be her fate? This thrilling sequel to The Price of Revenge will keep you turning the pages to find out.📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QBERj7 [https://amzn.to/3QBERj7]

Sunday Morning at Café Noir

A grieving woman’s comforting Sunday ritual at Café Noir becomes an unsettling confession as she revisits the abuse, losses, and resentments that drove her to cross a line she can never uncross.

Eternal Springs: Joy Found in the Book of John

What if joy isn't optional in the Christian life-but essential? For many, religion feels heavy, demanding, and joyless. Yet Jesus promised life "to the full." In Eternal Springs, the author draws from his deeply personal journey of leaving faith behind to pursue happiness, where he ultimately discovered that true joy could only be found by returning to Christ. Rooted in the Gospel of John and shaped by decades of lived experience, this book uncovers a vibrant, Spirit-led understanding of joy-not as shallow emotion, but as the divine energy that fuels love, grace, fruitfulness, and spiritual vitality. This is Christianity rediscovered: * * Joy that sustains rather than distracts * Faith that overflows rather than burdens * A life that becomes an attractive aroma to the glory of God Eternal Springs is for seekers, believers, and anyone who has ever wondered if there is more to faith than duty-more to life than striving-and more to God than they were ever told. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/440gkY5 [https://amzn.to/440gkY5]