This Little Bit Of Heaven: Book One of the Starfield Valley Tales

Armilda Smith, Millie for short, never thought she’d be able to go to heaven before she died instead of after. Her trip begins the day she runs out of Pampers for her two year old son Brandon just when she is supposed to take him to dinner at her rich uncle’s place.Before all is said and done, she finds herself living in Starfield Valley, Colorado, a little bit of heaven built from the dreams and wishes of its residents. But her past, in the form of Brandon’s father, Ronnie Blaine, and her Aunt Ethel, who wants Brandon for her own, no matter what, threatens to turn her heaven into hell if she can’t find a way to persuade them she is her own person, responsible for her own choices, and that they face death by the sword if they refuse to grow up.Along the way, she meets Bruce McKenzie, a police officer for Colorado Springs, and a Knight of the Village in Starfield Valley who must bear the Sword of Justice. She also becomes acquainted with Christine Watson, Founder of the Village and Senior Arbiter, who has chosen to enable Millie’s rescue from the unwanted attentions of Ronnie even at the risk of testing the legality of the dispute resolution process she has incorporated into Starfield Valley as a better way of dealing with people like Ronnie and Millie’s Aunt Ethel.Join Millie on her odyssey from the way things are now to the way they could be if enough people decided to learn how to live by the Golden Rule.

Theresa Holmes has been writing science fiction and fantasy for decades and waiting for technology to catch up to make it easier to self-publish her work. She’s been designing her perfect house for even longer. Over the last twenty years or so, she’s expanded on that idea to design the Villages of Tomorrow. Through the Starfield Valley Tales, she explores what it would be like to live in villages designed to be as fully integrated as possible, not only physically, but ecologically and sociologically as well, because only such villages will enable their residents to survive in reasonable comfort anywhere on Earth-or in space.