A fictional finalist of the Cowley Literary Award 2013, this short story intimately follows the Journey of Sarah Riley as she confronts life as a young widow. A moving and intense short story about the tragic heartache of loss and the acceptance of mortality.

When sorority woman and lawyer’s wife Elyse Anderson, still as beautiful at 50 as she was in her youth, loses her son Ovid to suicide, she sets out on a mission to find out why. She befriends her son’s last girlfriend, 34-year-old Shirelle Justice, a dutiful janitor, night-shift cashier and single mother who seems to harbor the truth about Ovid’s reason for killing himself.What begins as a search for truth about her son's death becomes, for Elyse, the discovery of a profound truth ...

Keeley Hunter grew up as a farm boy in rural New Zealand. He left the farm for boarding school and never really looked back. After graduating he went overseas, restless in his quest for a contented life. This is hampered by chronic illness, something he's dealt with all of his life. This is impacting on his work as a security engineer for banks and other institutions all over Europe. He is further affected by the sudden death of his partner and lover, Kristian, in an explosion that also in...

Everyone wanted to know about her. The scariest thing of all was that she also wanted to know. Eve Summers was lost in her own dead mind. All she knew was the day before. Her whole life had disappeared after she woke up in a tiny cabin on a hillside. Befriended now by a kind woman, but harassed by a police chief, she also wondered about the man that had owned the cabin. So many questions and not one answer to who she was or where she came from.

Telah Costner has enlisted the help of psychic after psychic in a quest to find her missing daughter, Claire. Dani is the latest psychic, and Telah is hopeful because she senses something different about Dani.To Dani, however, Telah and Claire are just two faces in a sea of clients and missing people. Dani doesn't believe in psychics and never has. She and her sister Kate have perfected a scam in which money is the only thing that matters. That is, until weird things start happenin...

Sometimes the depths of love can only be understood when lost...Scientist and vampire Sian Tallant loves a human doctor – a relationship that's taboo in the world she comes from. She knows she has to break both of their hearts by leaving him forever…before he finds out the truth about her dark heritage.Unwittingly, Taz follows her into vampire territory, where he's captured and learns that the world isn't the safe place he's always believed it was.To save h...

After working late one night, Ruby misses her bus home. Taking a shortcut through town down a dark alleyway, she is abducted and taken to a remote location where she is held captive by her kidnapper. Ruby must find a way to escape before she becomes a serial killer's next victim.

To Katie life was simple, she wanted; a little house in upper Boston, and four kids, fathered by her best friend, who she’s been infatuated with since she was eight. After a devastating family secret is exposed, all she wants now is to escape the media hype that follows her everywhere she turns. Leaving her family, friends, and Jason behind, she travels to places she’s only read about, to find a father she’s never known.Jason is on a mission and he’s come half-way around the world ...

What she doesn't want...is exactly what he needs.The visions could destroy her. But they might help him catch a killer…Shunned and ridiculed all her life for something she can’t control, Samantha Blair hides her psychic abilities. She lives on the fringes of society – until drawn out.Against her will, she taps into a killer’s victims. Each woman’s murder, blow-by-blow, ravages her mind until their death fi...

On a scorching August day in 1963, seven-year-old Annie Banks meets the girl who will become her best friend. Skinny, outspoken Starr Dukes and her wandering preacher father may not be accepted by polite society in Jackson, Mississippi, but Annie and Starr are too busy sharing secrets and playing elaborate games of Queen for a Day to care. Then, as suddenly as she appeared in Annie's life, Starr disappears.Annie grows up to follow the path ordained for pretty, well-to-do Jackson wo...

Deadly Offerings is an ebook with a blend of pulsing passion and razor-sharp suspense. It is the first adventure in this sizzling romantic suspense trilogy.Anne Mason thinks she’ll be safe living in the Midwest building a wind farm. She may be dead wrong. Someone is dumping bodies in her corn field and telling Anne they are gifts—for her!As the body count rises, Anne realizes a cold-blooded serial killer is patiently waiting and watching her every move. And he won’t stop unt...

A young girl lives in fear of her abusive father....A powerful short tale. Based on a true story.