The Solace Creek Stories

Tina is a student at Solace Creek High school who works part time at the Azteca theater in downtown Boulder-Springs, Colorado.

Dr. Andrea Bellows is a clinical psychologist who operates out of an office in downtown Boulder-Springs and has hospital privileges at Boulder-Springs Municipal Hospital. Her closest friends are Catherine Combes and Berni Piat.

Claire is a young actress who moved to Boulder-Springs from her small Nebraska home town. She's done some minor theater and some training films and public access television. Her current claims to fame are dressing up in a clown suit to hawk hamburgers on a street corner and being in the only training film for survey equipment that ever contained a bedroom scene.

Born in Lawton Oklahoma, the son of a traveling preacher, Cade founded Acolytica.  Rev. Cade is also known as the Gleaner of Souls.

Think of the Branch Davidians on steroids. Over 15 million strong already, the Acolytican Church, under the leadership of Perseus Cade and Hugo Spengler is planning a merger.  The fiscal and philosophical marriage to Evangelical Crossway will result in an organization over 30 members, bringing in over $11 billion a year.

At six-five, Combes is an Amazon. Before becoming a cop, she was a professional basketball player. Born in Derry, Occupied Ireland, her RUC father brought her to the U.S. after the murder of her mother. She was a street cop in Santa Ana and Los Angeles before moving to Boulder-Springs to take a detective's shield.

Joely is a sales clerk at a fashion retailer. She lives for the active Boulder-Springs club scene. Her older sister Marci, still tries to keep an eye on her and keep her out of trouble.

Marcy is an account executive with Davis Utley, a large financial consulting firm in Boulder-Springs, Colorado. She is Joely's older sister.

William Albermarle "Big Willie" DuMont is the CEO and majority shareholder of CORE Airways. He started the company as Colorado Regional airways and retained the helm as it became one of the world's largest carriers. Through his marriage to Ursuline Winkle, he controls fifty-one percent of SeemsFree, the world's largest retailer. (He gets extra votes because he was wealthy before he married into the family, unlike his two brothers-in-law.)

Some places you can find Big Willie:

• CORE Airways
• Worms In Ermine (a rock opera)

Jenn is a rental agent for a major car rental company at Boulder-Springs International Airport (DCO).

Dom likes to play near City Park Lake with his dog Sailor. Sometimes, in the cattails, they find more than they bargained for.

Thaddeus Emory Gideon is a congressman from Colorado who is destined to become the President of the United States. Depending on where you catch a story line, he may be congressman, vice president or president. There is no suspense, he will become President, though not by election.

Father Gregory Francis Levoret is a Roman Catholic priest who has known Catherine Combes since high school.

Dr. Lumos is the head of internal medicing at Boulder-Springs Community Hospital.

Michelle, Jocelyn's daughter, is a paramedic for the Boulder-Springs department of public safety.

Dr. Medwin is the medical examiner for the Boulder-Springs Metroplex. He has a penchant for miniature Snickers™ bars and keeps a gallon jug full of them on his desk.

Paige is medical examiner Ross Medwin's wife.