The snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard...Nothing is more mysterious than footsteps in the dark. Are those approaching steps that of friend or enemy? Lover or killer?Authors L.B. Gregg, Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon, Dal MacLean, Z.A. Maxfield, Meg Perry, C.S. Poe and S.C. Wynne join forces for Footsteps in the Dark, eight sexy and suspenseful novellas of Male/Male Mystery and Romance.

Academic librarian Jamie Brodie hasn't seen old boyfriend Dan Christensen in years. When Jamie reads Dan's obituary in the paper, he's surprised. When he receives a letter from Dan, written just before his death, Jamie is shocked. Dan's letter suggests that Dan was in danger, lists two article citations from medical journals, and asks Jamie to look into the citations. When Jamie requests the articles, strange things begin to happen. His computer is hacked, his tires are slashed, he thinks ...

When Jamie Brodie agrees to help his ex-sister-in-law Jennifer clean her hoarded apartment, the last thing he expects to find in the hoard is a dead body – and what the dead man was clutching in his hand might be the answer to a thousand-year-old mystery. As Jamie and the police investigate, they uncover a hoard of secrets – but the biggest secret of all belongs to Jamie's boyfriend, Pete. Suddenly Jamie is searching for the answers to three questions: who killed the man in Jennifer's apar...

Rafe Conroy, has-been actor, is filming the TV pilot intended to be his big comeback. But Rafe's comeback is cut short when he's found dead in his swimming pool. It was murder, all right, but there are nearly too many suspects to count. Was it the network owner, a wealthy heiress who was sleeping with Rafe? Was it the jealous girlfriend? Was it the cast member who hated Rafe? Was it the scriptwriter who saw his masterpiece edited into schlock? Was it Rafe's drug dealer? Or was it the drug ...

A phone call in the middle of the night is never good news. When Pete Ferguson's phone rings, he learns that one of his childhood friends, Mark Jones, has committed suicide. Mark's family is shocked, and wonders if Mark was abused by the same priest at whose hands Pete suffered. Pete and Mark's family want answers, and they ask Jamie to find them. Pete is convinced the priest is connected to his friend's suicide. Jamie isn't so sure. When the evidence starts pulling them in different direc...

After eighteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, Kevin Brodie is starting his new career as a social worker with the District Attorney's Bureau of Victim Services. He's meshing with his new partner, Jamilah Daly, and his first client encounter goes well. Life is good...except he can't figure out why Jon Eckhoff's victim looks familiar.Jon's first case as a Homicide Special detective is a French artist named Genevieve Lemieux, strangled and tossed into a ravine near the ...

Who killed Norman Ellis?Dr. Norman Ellis is a plastic surgeon--the kind that will do any procedure his patients ask for. And the results aren't always pretty. One of his victims, actor Jonah Gentry, hires Angeles Investigations to find others with disastrous surgical outcomes. But Angeles has just started searching for Ellis's other mistakes when the doctor is found dead in his office, stabbed and mutilated. It looks like the work of an unhappy patient, and...

When Jamie Brodie's dog sniffs out a corpse at a campsite on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, Jamie thinks, "At least it's a natural death this time." Not so fast. The dead man is freelance investigative reporter Danny Norman, and he was on the trail of a major story. Who or what was Danny about to expose? Meanwhile, Jamie's husband, Pete Ferguson, is behaving strangely: careening from one obsession to the next, neglecting the classes he's teaching, and refusing to admit that there's anyt...

Jamie Brodie is on deadline. The proposal for his second book is due, and he desperately needs uninterrupted writing time. At the suggestion of patron, friend, and former monk Clinton Kenneally - and over the protests of Pete Ferguson, Jamie's husband - Jamie schedules a week-long writing retreat at a local monastery. But the monastery is not exactly what Jamie expected...which might explain the flicker of disquiet in Clinton's eyes.Meanwhile, Kevin Brodie and Jon Eckhoff are dealin...

Mercedes Moran is one of the stars of the self-publishing world, a romance author who's made millions by selling 99 cent romance novels through all of the ebook platforms. Her fan base is enormous - but Mercedes is a horrible person, and she's made plenty of enemies, too.The Association of Self-Publishing is holding its annual conference on UCLA's campus, and Mercedes is the keynote speaker. When Jamie Brodie and Kristen Beach attend the keynote at the encouragement of their supervi...

Library work-study student Austin Sharp upset a lot of people. When Jamie Brodie finds Austin dead, strangled to death in the library stacks, the police have plenty of suspects. When another library work-study student is found strangled, the focus of the investigation shifts – both students were from the same hometown. Then a third student is found dead. A serial killer is on the loose, and the police send in detectives from the elite Homicide Special unit.And their favorite suspect...

"Was it National Old Boyfriends Week, and I'd missed the memo?"Librarian Jamie Brodie is looking forward to a week of vacation in Oxford, England, his first trip back in seven years. Before he's even packed, though, a couple of complications arise.The first complication is Jamie's ex, Ethan Williams, who shows up at Jamie's office with his new boyfriend and a request. Ethan's going to Oxford too, and he needs Jamie's help to find a rare 15th century book in the Bodleian Libra...