She steps into a dark world of crime.Sherry Proper is a legal researcher with a compulsion to dig beneath the surface. When she is assigned to work on a seemingly routine assault case at a local strip club, she quickly discovers a web of corruption and deceit that reaches deep into the halls of power. A disturbing connection between the strip club and a powerful group of business moguls and government officials would warn most people off.But not Sherry....

“It's not the destination, it's the journey.”That little bit of wisdom is according to none other than Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unfortunately, Ralph never managed to drive the back roads of the southwestern US. If he had, like Horace and Irma he would have learned just how interesting a journey can be when you travel the back roads that crisscross the wide open country.Those two love to wander and see what's out there, even if it's nothing. They've got differen...

The bullets fired into the cafe changed his life forever.1943 — Cole Miller, a young Chinese-American OSS agent, returns from a mission. His boss (and friend) is murdered during a terror attack on a cafe. Are they related?Japanese occupation forces control the country, but the Vichy administration running the colony turns a blind eye to OSS operations. When the Minister of Security learns of Cole's affair with his wife, he decides to pin the murder on Cole....

Martin’s brother is in jail in Venezuela—charged with murder.Proving his innocence means dealing with the police, a mysterious and gorgeous woman lawyer, a vicious gringo, a seemingly affable drug lord, and a guy named Raul.And every one of them would much rather Martin just turned around and went home.It’s a good thing Ugly Bill is on his way.Follow Martin’s fast-paced adventures in the Caribbean.Get a copy now!...

Important people want to stop her!A high-profile client has Sherry Proper digging into places and events that influential people want left buried. They will go to great lengths to stop her. Criminals are like that.With her assistant, Cela, and the help of out-of-favor vice cops, the odds are against them. But Sherry doesn't play fair either—whatever that means.A story of vice and murder, politics and high drama.And this is just book two!...

Tina’s best friend is in a bit of trouble.A drug deal went south, and several people got killed, including Beryl’s boyfriend. Now she is being stalked by his biker gang—and the cops. Tina Clarke wants to help, but her only real skills are very specific—those of a professional, government-trained assassin.Army Intelligence prefers that the assassin disappear. Someone betrayed Tina’s special ops unit, leaving her the sole survivor, kicked out on a medical dis...

It’s time to take a break from the world you think you know and to step through into another one. These five stories offer a guided tour of new possibilities and different places. They rely on magic, science, and sleight of hand, and will betray your trust at every opportunity. But just because they are fantastic, doesn’t mean they aren’t real (somewhere).You can stay tucked away on a safe perch and let this book unveil the genre-bending consequences of rather mino...

It’s time to get to work!Traveling using Beryl Markham’s identification, Tina Clarke takes Bobby Black’s advice and travels to Gallup, New Mexico to meet a lawyer there—Stella Meyers. Stella is supposed to set up a company for her, to provide a cover so she can get to work helping people, and begin searching for answers about why her team, Squad Four, was betrayed, and by whom.Making friends, especially getting to know a deputy sheriff named Jeff Nez, and t...

The magnetic pull of your opposites can provide an unfathomable attraction. To put it simply -- you know better. Still, that attraction is as powerful as the lure of the dark and giving in to it is as exciting as it is disruptive.

Games are a thing for children; a pastime for those with nothing better to do…or are they?At the most basic level, games are competitions that are conducted according to rules with participants working toward a goal. Sometimes those goals are mutual, but most of the time, not so much. Games are a part of every culture and go back further than human records. Take the simple marble which has been found in the tombs of the ancient Egyptians, in the ashes in Pompeii, and in North Ameri...

Ron Añejo loves his carefree lifestyle in the Caribbean, cruising from one dodgy job to the next in his barely-seaworthy boat. It takes chutzpah and more than a little optimism — when your strongest skill is managing to get by, legal work can be hard to come by, even if you actually had a work permit. And who can bother?~~~~~ Excerpt ~~~~~The day Ron Añejo bought his boat, the day he took possession of it, actually, got hot early. He'd lived in the West Indies a long time, ...

Trouble is brewing on an island paradise. Not only is there a stranger sitting out on the boat of that nice French couple looking all suspicious, but Martha's skillet has gone missing. She's starting the morning fixing up and it ain't in its place. It gotta have been thieved! Johnny gotta find out who doing them things.~~~~~ Excerpt ~~~~~On that fine sunny morning Caleb drove his old Toyota van carefully down toward the beach, trying to avoid the broken glass left from a be...