A Burning in The Darkness

A murder at one of the world’s busiest airports opens this simmering crime romance where a good man’s loyalty is tested to its limits. Circumstance and evidence point to Michael Kieh's guilt. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revenge.

Michael chose a lonely life devoted to helping others, despite growing up in the midst of a brutal civil war where he witnessed the killing of a missionary priest who refused to betray him to certain death. But there was a first love that he left behind in the pitiless confusion.

Painting of Sorrow

What would you do if you discovered a lost masterpiece worth millions, which a curator will kill to keep hidden?

Sarah Downing, an art conservator, hiding in witness protection, identifies a lost masterpiece by Caravaggio. History says it burned in WWII Berlin, but here it is, on her easel.

Soon she is fighting to save the painting and herself. Someone has betrayed Sarah—an agent, a friend? Whoever it was, her ex-husband Jimmy is standing on her street, outside her house, waiting.

What Sarah does next sends her from Kingston to Italy to rural Ontario in her desperate attempt to survive, save the Caravaggio and rebuild her life.

A Little Murder

A day of fishing on Lake Winnipesaukee sounds like just the medicine for Angie's overworked husband's birthday. In spite of inherent seasickness, she happily goes on the tour with him.

How is she to know that by the end of the day they'll both be suspects in the boat owner's death? As police storm the boat, Angie comforts the distraught widow, who quickly becomes the chief suspect.

Which makes sense; besides Valerie, why would any of the five strangers want the insensitive Nolan Little dead? Fearful Val begs Angie to help clear her name. Angie says no, it's too dangerous.

Murder in Keswick

Murder always seems to have a way of finding Sherlock Holmes. While on a Watson-instigated holiday in the Lake District to get away from the toils and troubles of London, Holmes and Watson find no respite (to the delight of the great detective and the chagrin of the good doctor).

As soon as they exit the train they hear news of a grisly murder making its way around the murmuring commuters. A local aristocrat, Mr. Darcy, has been found missing his head! Holmes and Watson head straight to the local constabulary to offer their assistance in the matter, which is heartily accepted, and they begin their investigation with the help of Constable Wickham.

Crimson Gold

George Johnson’s brother, Harmon and Harmon’s wife, Zelda, have been murdered in the Dutch Hills of Alaska, along with two other men. Harmon has left a large estate and his ex-con brother Ron wants it all. When George travels to Alaska from Southern California, he finds himself at odds with Ron. George and Ron must put their animosity on hold when they are forced to team up with U.S Commissioner Bob Maywood and FBI Agent James Riley to find Harmon’s killer. The investigation stalls when the primary suspect is murdered until George finds Zelda’s diary giving the investigation new life.  They now have a possible suspect and the confirmation that there are thousands of dollars in gold buried at one of Harmon’s mining sites.

A Fiction based on a true family murder mystery

Younger Every Day

From an award-winning writer. A stand-alone novel, NOT a Series. Teenage Penny is embarrassed by her Dad, Tom, who is 50 and growing bald and fat. Mom, who is 36 and a hottie, is having an affair with her boss. One day Tom allows a chemist to shoot him up with a serum that will age him backward slowly.

When he looks 25, he returns from a “business trip” then claims to be Penny's “cousin from La-La.” Soon Penny finds herself competing with Mom for the younger Tom's attention, to comic and horrific results. There's no other story quite like this one.

Last Seen

Psychologist and police consultant Dr. Pepper Hunt, struggling to deal with the murder of her husband, leaves the private practice they shared and relocates to Wyoming. There, in the stark landscape of the high desert, there is nothing to remind her of everything she lost and left behind.

Then her new patient, Kimi Benally, goes missing in a Wyoming blizzard after her last therapy session—making Pepper the last person to see her. She knows the secrets Kimi shared in therapy hold clues to her mysterious disappearance, and she joins forces with Detective Beau Antelope to try to discover what’s happened to her.

Tom

The First Book of Gabriel

From the time before the great pyramids were built, an ancient prophecy foretold that for the sake of humanity, when nature could no longer absorb the abuse of man, a newborn of unknown blood would walk among us. Led by the divinity of elders, he will change the world.

Join Gabriel and his close companions on this journey of mystery, danger, and intrigue.

As Gabriel must interpret riddles to find the path to the light, he must also learn on the way. As this journey will teach Gabriel about the altered genesis of man and his aggressive nature for self-fulfillment, it will also teach of mans forced dominance of women and the abusive, unequal treatment inflicted upon them from the beginning to this day.

Murder in Palm Beach

The doorbell rings in the home of a prominent Palm Beach citizen, quickly followed by a shotgun blast that shatters a window, cracking the calm of a cool January night. Rodger Kriger falls to the floor, mortally wounded, leaving a wife and six children.

Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide That Never Died is closely based on a sensational, real murder that happened in the posh oceanside town in 1976. In the thin guise of fiction, the book contains shocking new information never before made public. Author Bob Brink, an award-winning journalist, was a newspaper reporter in the locale where the sensational assassination occurred. It made media headlines for 15 years.

Letters From The War

After the death of her beloved grandmother a young woman discovers a box of letters from World War II that will both destroy the life she knew and bring her a better understanding of her true identity.

Seduction of Combat

A Mafia conspiracy. A female undercover cop. A honed and fit suspect – an international boxer and billionaire playboy, Freddie La Salle.

The Warramunga's War

The Warramunga’s War is a sweeping narrative of the friendship that forms between a young Australian army officer, Jamie Munro, and an educated half-caste Warramunga aboriginal NCO, Jack ‘Jacko’ O’Brien, during the Syrian campaign against the Vichy French in World War II. Jacko rescues a wounded Jamie after which they are conscripted in Cairo by MI6. Here, Jamie and Jacko learn about the seamy side of war in counterespionage as they track down German spies. The principal fictional characters interact with actual historical figures and events throughout the story.

Confessions of a Teenage Rape Survivor

Before she was raped, almost sixteen-year-old Allison Sommer knew exactly what she wanted and was in total control of her life.

Get through high school, go to college to appease her dad, somehow stay fit, lithe, and athletic through all the stress and become a professional cheerleader. Normal teenage stuff.

Simple. At least it was all pretty simple before she was raped. Now Allison isn’t sure what she wants anymore and her whole life is totally out of her control.

Quest to the Unknown

Quest to the Unknown revolves around up-and-coming Dutch reporter Jessie Golden, ready for her first holiday with business mogul and playboy Carlos Gomez, with whom she is engaged in a budding romance. Her journey begins when she finds a folder full of information on a mysterious woman named Nancy and her son Paul, leading her to an unexpected quest. Soon thereafter Jessie is confronted with a series of unexplainable supernatural occurrences. She realizes there is no such thing as coincidence, although she can’t unravel the true meaning of her quest nor her link to Nancy and her son.

Stranded in Love

If a gold medal was awarded for ‘Worst Day Ever' Laney Calderone would win it today, hands down. She's just discovered she's pregnant, her fiancé abruptly dumps her when she tells him, and her new car refuses to start as a brutal snowstorm hits Toronto.

Good Samaritan Tyler Hammond offers to take her home; however, with the heavy snow falling and his patience dwindling, Laney's gold medal day isn't over yet.

Storms intensify both outside and in as Laney finds herself inexplicably attracted to this tall, dark and very handsome but infuriating stranger.

Kitchen Canary

Kitchen Canary is a novel about the power of greed, the toll of guilt and shame, and rewards of reconciliation.

At the insistence of her parents, sixteen-year-old Katie O'Neil reluctantly left her beloved Galway. She joined her cousin, Moira Murphy, in Boston, Massachusetts to work as a nanny and domestic. In mid-nineteenth century Boston, Irish domestics were often referred to as Kitchen Canaries and considered property of their employers.

As immigrants to America, the young women encounter rejection, fear, and humiliation. Their lives become entangled in the secrets and lies of their employers at 2102 Beacon Street.

Waterlilies Over My Grave

YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE
DEATH STALKS YOU IN EVERY CORNER.

After a nasty divorce, Psychologist, Annabelle O’Brien moves across country to take a job in the resort town of Lake Nager. Her ex-husband psychotic psychiatrist, Duncan Byrne, follows her with deadly intentions. Her only hope is a burn-out and hostile Detective, Mark Driscoll, who she’s recommended take a mandatory vacation. To the horror of both, he’s assigned to protect her.

After a series of attacks threaten her and two ladies who resemble Annie are murdered, a town is held hostage with fear, and Mark and Annie must work together to catch the killer before he catches them.

Love Attempted

Famous Hollywood actress Susan Chatham-Lomegistro is newly married to the doctor who helped to reverse her conviction for theft and get her out of prison. While she suffered horribly during her jail time, she came away with a new love and loyal friends.

Life on the outside is great. The sex with her new, hot hubby is even better.

Now Dr. and Mrs. Franklin Lomegistro are starting a family, and Susan is looking forward to resuming her movie career.

Unfortunately, being famous makes her a target, and her new life isn’t going quite the way she’d planned.

Pulditch

Set between nineteen fifty-eight and eighty-three, PULDITCH offers a funny, sad and revealing story of ordinary Irish people living through extraordinary times and challenges.

Timmy Talbot battles to hold the line at work while his fearless wife, Patsy, battles years of ignorance and oppression while searching for a mysterious nun and a friend who had vanished without trace.

Peopled with a tapestry of matchless characters this is a rare ‘on the deck’ version of those years and a must-read for anyone interested in a unique version of times and events that shaped and haunt Ireland to the present day.

Poor Lamb, Poor Lamb

Poor lamb, poor lamb, that was what the nun said when he her asked if his parents were dead. It would take many decades before he discovered what she meant…

Frankie Lynham is about to undergo heart surgery. On the night before the operation he sits in his kitchen remembering how, just one year before, a woman arrived claiming to be his sister. Her visit rocked his world and launched him on a year-long quest to find out as much as he could about the family he had never known and above all, why his mother had abandoned him to the care of strangers.

He has until daybreak to try to make some sense of what he has found…

Back from 44

Back from 44 – The Sacrifice and Courage of a Few. Nick Bentas, Staff Sergeant US Army Air Force, finds himself in a severely crippled B-26 Marauder, trying to return to base, he remembers the different times in his life that led him up to this point. 

The German Half-Bloods

From the Multi-Award-Winning Author comes, The German Half-Bloods.
“A historical novel steeped in horror, danger and suspense; a true page-turner.”

Germany, September 1939. At the outbreak of War, Dieter Vogel and his family face catastrophic events and separation as each member embarks on their deadly paths towards survival, love, and freedom.

Dieter Vogel, a German industrialist, believes in protecting his family at all costs, but in a bid to keep his English wife and children safe, he is plunged into a well of deceit that tears the family apart.

Until You Say I Do

The Until You Series continues with Until You Say I Do.

“The first time I saw her, I knew she would be mine. Cliché? Yes, but that doesn’t make it any less true.” Joseph

Trust is hard earned, and easily broken even for those who believe they have triumphed and now lie on the winning side of love.

Having won Samantha’s heart and trust, Joseph is determined to conquer his next challenge of making her his wife and priming her for a career at MCI. But, an old nemesis threatens the woman he loves, shaking her to her foundation and jeopardizing their very happiness.

The Parking Space

To get you started in this New Adult Romantic Comedy

“I’ve been waiting for that spot.” Then pointed to it, “with my blinker on. I was waiting.”  My conversation was with the sleek black sports car that just had cut me off and stole my parking space.

“What are you going to do? Are you going to say something, Beth?” I gave my friend, Jane Landers, a sideways glance as she asked, an excited grin bloomed across her face. She moved sideways in the seat, her blue eyes searching the expensive sports car for the driver. I was so angry I couldn’t answer, but I wasn’t about to let this …. get away unscathed.

Pam of Babylon

A Reader's Favorite winner! A beautiful life at the beach is marred when Jack has a heart attack on the train from Manhattan. His wife and his two lovers discover secrets and lies, and each other. A #1 Bestseller

1. Pam of Babylon
2. Don't You Forget About Me
3. Dream Lover
4. Prayers for the Dying
5. Family Dynamics
6.The Tao of Pam
7. In Memoriam
8. Soulmates

Sarita and Imani: an erotic tale of lust, love, faith, & a princess

A mysterious homeless woman has been hanging around social worker Sarita White’s office building. On her way to work, Sarita begins to offer the woman coffee and food and communicates with her in sign language, as Sarita discovers the woman is deaf. Sarita wants to help the woman find shelter, especially after she is victimized by local juveniles.

After a particularly horrifying beating, Sarita rescues the woman from the marauding youths and brings her to her office. From there, life as Sarita knows it is turned upside down. She is drugged, kidnapped, and ends up on a tropical island, part of a wilderness adventure program under the strict rule of Commander Imani Abdullah, from which she may never recover.

Will Imani turn Sarita away with her harsh and ruthless methods? Or will Sarita and Imani find true love as an island prophecy decrees? Find out in Sarita and Imani, an erotic tale of lust, love, faith, & a princess.

Jillian's Cowboy

Sweet, clean & wholesome story of love and suspense.

The past haunts her idyllic life.

Jillian Parker moved from Florida to northern Minnesota, determined to put behind her all reminders of her mother’s tragic death. Here, she discovers the home she’d always dreamed of – thirty acres of land filled with magnificent meadows and wildlife surrounded by beautiful lakes.

Sadly, soon after settling in she’s informed that her father suffered a fatal heart attack. While his death was a grievous blow, the letter he left gives her a tremendous shock as it reveals a past she’d never suspected..

Beneath The Scars

Undercover New York City police detective Lacey Burke grew up in the foster care system, bouncing from house to house without ever finding a permanent home. Perhaps that’s why she’s dating Tyler Hathaway. He may be a pompous Wall Street overachiever, but he’s wealthy and good-looking, and he can offer her the exotic travel and glamorous experiences she craves.

Recently, however, Lacey has begun to suspect that financial security may not be enough. She realizes she’s fallen in love with her good friend and work partner, Jason Reed. Jason’s a shameless womanizer, however, and Lacey doesn’t want to be just another conquest.

Don't Call Me Mum

Raised by a cold stepmother, Lacey Taylor’s life was turned upside down by the stroke of a pen, putting her on a path to find her birth mother, Cora Maguire. But Cora is not the maternal type. For her, her career is paramount to everything else, including her only child, Lacey. Their relationship is, at best, strained. Lacey struggles for Cora’s affection, but when her life-path takes an unplanned twist, Cora becomes furious. Lacey’s half-siblings, the Taylors, want to help, but they have their own demons that threaten to rip the family apart.

How often can Lacey deal with life’s struggles without finally succumbing to them?

The Last Road Home

“This novel is sure to join the rich canon of Southern literature.” –Anna Jean Mayhew, author of The Dry Grass of August

From Pushcart Prize nominee Danny Johnson comes a powerful, lyrical debut novel that explores race relations, first love, and coming-of-age in North Carolina in the 1950s and '60s.

At eight years old, Raeford “Junebug” Hurley has known more than his share of hard lessons. After the sudden death of his parents, he goes to live with his grandparents on a farm surrounded by tobacco fields and lonesome woods.

Close to the Skin 

Never back down, never turn your back, and never fall in love. Head of a multi-million dollar criminal enterprise, Vernon Newell doesn’t let family ties or misplaced sympathy get in his way. But there is one chink in his armor—Sirena Patras, the beautiful young Greek girl he seduced and deserted eight years ago.

When Vernon discovers that Bella Bell, a prospering tattoo artist in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is actually Sirena, he sets out to woo and to win her. Despite her attraction to the fabulously sexy man, Bella wants nothing to do with a hard-headed, ruthless criminal.

But when threatening messages start arriving, and Vernon disappears, Bella must choose to abandon the man she loves, as he did her, or risk her life to save him.

Close to the Skin 

Never back down, never turn your back, and never fall in love. Head of a multi-million dollar criminal enterprise, Vernon Newell doesn’t let family ties or misplaced sympathy get in his way. But there is one chink in his armor—Sirena Patras, the beautiful young Greek girl he seduced and deserted eight years ago.

When Vernon discovers that Bella Bell, a prospering tattoo artist in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is actually Sirena, he sets out to woo and to win her. Despite her attraction to the fabulously sexy man, Bella wants nothing to do with a hard-headed, ruthless criminal.

But when threatening messages start arriving, and Vernon disappears, Bella must choose to abandon the man she loves, as he did her, or risk her life to save him.

Stronger 

Karen Pruitt and friends came to New York on a long weekend holiday sponsored by the airlines she’d worked for, meeting FBI Special Agent Michael Calder at a bar in Greenwich Village. “I couldn’t help hearing your accent,” he’d said, a lame pick up line at best but truthful.

“We’re from England,” she replied, smiling, sweeping him off his feet.

His love for her took him by complete surprise. Not looking for a relationship, Michael was twice her age and a confirmed bachelor, which he later realized he should have stayed. Grumpy, crotchety, irritable were words used to describe him around the office. Everyone noticed the difference on Monday; he was glowing.

When his team puts a mobster behind bars, no one in Michael’s circle of colleagues and family will be safe. Will Karen be able to forgive him when his job threatens her life?

Toy of the Gods

When a recently awakened Inca god strands a group of tourists in the Amazon, a reluctant former adventurer, Leslie Kicklighter, must lead the group of tourists to safety, or face the ultimate consequences.

They’ll have to get past armed bandits, angry villagers who think they are out to exploit the land, a banana plantation owner who has a secret that he’ll do anything to keep, and even drunken monkeys — all while hoping the god doesn’t want any more from them.

Toy Of The Gods is the story of one woman’s heroism, and how a group of strangers band together and attempt to survive an impossible journey with plenty of action, sex, thrills, and fun.

The Fever

Sam Milton is just a normal guy until a chance deathbed confession changes him forever:

“There's a gold mine out there … ya gotta follow the devil and look for the table, then turn around and you'll see the why of it …”

An obsession, kindled by these words, smolders in Sam's soul for years, forging a life that is a solitary struggle of self and purpose. He works in secret, lying, trespassing, and doing whatever it takes to continue his quest. His lonely and dangerous trips to distant West Texas cost him dearly in terms of time and money as he sacrifices love, friendship, and family pursuing his elusive goal.

The Jewelled Egg Murders

A Christmas holiday in Vermont turns deadly for Dr Anne McPhail whose hopes for a quiet family celebration with Thomas Beauchamp derail when his children reject her, and his mother falls ill. Anne flees to her friend Catherine's B&B for comfort and a place to stay, but when she goes for a walk in the snow to the town square, she stumbles across a body in her friend Erin's antique store.

A few hours later, Erin disappears. Is Erin a suspect or a victim? While Anne joins the search, an old adversary, plotting revenge, arrives from Europe. Anne stumbles over another body, and then the killer closes in on her.

The Istanbul Agent

A DARPA scientist, with a proclivity for bio-weaponry and genocide, has gone missing in Istanbul. Art Sheppard, the new Chief of the CIA's Near East and South Asia Division, suspects the involvement of an arcane, international cabal referred to only as The Board. Sheppard's last encounter with the group was on the heals of a near-miss operation in Shanghai run by NCIS Special Agent Ruben Carver.

A man with a reputation for heavy-handed conflict resolution and an uncanny survival instinct, who'd already faced The Board twice. With intelligence leaks in the Agency compromising his operation, Sheppard is approved to enlist the assistance of NCIS and Carver. The mission is to fly in, find the traitor, put the grabs on him and devise an extraction, without involving in-country CIA or military support.

Death by the Jaguar

A Vietnam veteran, wounded and returning home, was not looking forward to spending the rest of his life tied to some wheel chair. He had planned to make this homecoming the beginning of a new life with the woman he was to marry. A barrage of mortar shells had changed all that, now nothing would ever be right again! He wasn’t going to ask Nickie to be his future wife, knowing what would be involved and the sacrifices she would have to make.

What he hadn't realized was the strength and tenacity of this beautiful person who would bring him back from despair to begin a new life, have his Son, and enjoy life to the fullest. The inseparable three, along with their ever-present Maltese Lulu, enjoyed leisure time aboard their trawler, in the California Delta. His world is to be forever changed when his treasured wife, and son are taken from him violently, in the river they so loved.