When Terry Rankin launches Rankin Personal Security Services in Orlando, Florida, it’s not his first fresh start. Not by a long shot. After serving as an investigator for the MPs in the U.S. Army, Rankin spent several years on the Pennsylvania State Police force before packing up and heading south. In Tampa, bad business decisions and a penchant for gambling—and losing, badly—sank Rankin’s security business and his marriage. Starting over in Orlando as a middle-aged divorcee certainly wasn...

"Lonesome Cove", my fourth novel, fully two years' worth of research, writing, editing and rewriting, is now available for purchase. It is a tale about the search for a missing woman, the granddaughter of a Mob hitman released after serving twenty-five years in prison for a double murder. It's also about a dirty cop, Latino gangs, and revenge. And three tons of gold, stolen off a ship in the Port of Miami back in the early 80's. It's still missing, you see…

Terry Rankin is the owner of Rankin Protective Services Inc, in Orlando, Florida. It's a small company with a few very nice contracts. Terry has a meeting with Travis Warren, at his horse ranch just north of Ocala. He has invested a few months in negotiating for a very lucrative contract to provide bodyguard services to Mr. Warren and his family. This is the morning when all of that time and effort are going to pay off.He does not expect to walk into a home invasion.As the th...

Terry Rankin has a new client; Fatima al Natsche, a Muslim woman living under a sentence of death for her work on behalf of women suffering under Islamic law. Terry's a businessman – he'll protect just about anyone who can pay the freight. In fact, he admires Ms. Al Natsche and the sacrifices she's made to get her message out.But then her daughter flies over from Norway and gets snatched off the street in front of her mother's home, and all of the masks come off and all of the dirty...

He dropped the camera and stared at its monitor. The video paused. His face, in lustful pleasure, was frozen on the screen.  Marcus grew up a gangster kid, but now he's a Priest. He's come back home to re-start a 19th century Catholic church that has been completely vandalized. He finds out the community is heavily influenced by Satanism—something Marcus intends on changing, but his past lingers and sin is in his blood.  Jada is a Satanist, and she seduces Marcu...

A young woman who confronts the fear of inheriting mental illness when her husband moves her into a hundred-year-old farmhouse where neighbors insinuate it's haunted. Her new friend confronts the fear of a stalker when perverse anonymous letters arrive in the mail. Their stories merge as their friendship grows and their fears escalate.Excerpt:"Debra's hands were small, delicate, the kind of hands that could fit inside a mayonnaise jar. She had bitten her fingernails down to ...

When pretty, smart Sara Long is found bludgeoned to death, it's easy to blame the man with the bat. But Georgia Davis -- former cop and newly-minted PI -- is hired to look into the incident at the behest of the accused's sister, and what she finds hints at a much different, much darker answer.It seems the privileged, preppy schoolgirls on Chicago's North Shore have learned just how much their innocence is worth to hot-under-the-collar businessmen. But while these girls can pay for ...

Betrayed by one of your own…When the defection of an Iranian nuclear scientist is compromised, CIS spymaster Justin Hall suspects this was an inside job. Unsure who he can trust within his agency, he begins a dangerous game, and soon becomes ensnared in a web of lies and deceit.When a piece of intelligence points to his former boss, Justin is left with no other choice but to go rogue, forging alliances with a sinister Russian oligarch and Yemeni insu...

From USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award-winning author Robert Swartwood comes the exciting first book in the Man of Wax Trilogy ...Ben Anderson goes to bed Sunday night, lying next to his wife in the comfort and safety of their Pennsylvania family home, to wake up the next day in a rundown motel in California — alone.He doesn't know how he got there, he doesn't know where his family is, and written in dried blood on the bathroom door are ...

From USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award-winning author Robert Swartwood, the first book in the Holly Lin series."Excellent—memorable and something I’ll read more than once." —Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of An Untamed StateMEET HOLLY LIN. NANNY BY DAY. ASSASSIN BY NIGHT.Holly Lin is living two lives. To her friends and family, she's a pleasant, hardworking nanny. To her boss and ...

Nick Carter and his lover Selena Connor work for the Project, a black ops counter terrorism unit reporting to the president. Ancient gold coins found in a terrorist stronghold in the Philippines set the Project team on a collision course with a ruthless terrorist who dreams of an Islamic state in India. Nick and Selena struggle with their doubts about one another as they find themselves standing in the way of nuclear war between China, Pakistan and India. Can they stop it in time? Success ...

IN BOOK 15 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:Finally--Donna Stone, as you've never seen her before: through the eyes of those who affected her life the most.In this full-length series prequel, Acme Industries black-ops agent Jack Craig is tasked with investigating the mysterious death of his organization's most prolific hit man, Carl Stone, only to fall in love with the dead man's wife, Donna--a woman he must never contact, but who ...