SAFEHOUSE BETAOne family’s life is changed beyond anything they could ever imagine.A major foreign power has been funneling key intelligence personnel into the United States for nearly a year, hiding them as embassy and consulate staffers, students, and plain immigrants. In response, the FBI activates its Domestic Sleeper program.Scattered across the country as architects, cab drivers, and other innocuous roles, failsafe ag...

One family’s life is changed beyond anything they could ever imagine.A major foreign power has been funneling key intelligence personnel into the United States for nearly a year, hiding them as embassy and consulate staffers, students, and plain immigrants. In response, the FBI activates its Domestic Sleeper program.Scattered across the country as architects, cab drivers, and other innocuous roles, failsafe agents in the Domestic Sleeper program ar...

The Establishment: the wealthy, elite power mongers who run the country from the shadows, with eyes and ears everywhere. They are spoken of only in whispers.When the President-elect and the Vice-President-elect arrive in Rome to visit the Pope, CIA Station Chief Thomas Billings knows it’s not the only reason they’re in town. In the Presidential Suite of the swankiest hotel in Rome, Billings is confronted by Establishment heavyweight Marjorie McBain, who wants him d...

One family’s life is changed beyond anything they could ever imagine.A major foreign power has been funneling key intelligence personnel into the United States for nearly a year, hiding them as embassy and consulate staffers, students, and plain immigrants. In response, the FBI activates its Domestic Sleeper program.Scattered across the country as architects, cab drivers, and other innocuous roles, failsafe agents in the Domestic Sleeper program ar...

One family’s life is changed beyond anything they could ever imagine.A major foreign power has been funneling key intelligence personnel into the United States for nearly a year, hiding them as embassy and consulate staffers, students, and plain immigrants. In response, the FBI activates its Domestic Sleeper program.Scattered across the country as architects, cab drivers, and other innocuous roles, failsafe agents in the Domestic Sleeper program ar...

Indie Publishing changes quickly.You need to pay attention and keep up.We started the Milestone Indie Publishing Newsletter in March 2020 to try to organize what we knew at the time and what we heard on the streets.Catch up with everything you missed during Year Two (March 2021 - Feb 2022) and see how far we've come.Sign up for future newsletters to stay out ahead of the curve at blazeward.com/newsletter.

Crime And...I challenged folks to give me a crime story with a one word title that could complete that phrase above.Many answered, and nearly twenty made the final cut, from coziest fun to darkest noir, always with Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in the back of their minds.Historic tales sent in mid-Twentieth Century Los Angeles or Budapest. Modern mysteries from small towns to Appalachia to the big city.Crime takes many forms. Where will it take you?

Hero worship is dangerous when the hero knows she doesn't deserve it.Sister Jacobine has served the Catholic Church for centuries. She looks twenty-five, heals from any wound, and carries out the Pope’s most final assignments with a gun in her Gucci handbag.Her latest target is Bishop McGinty in Philadelphia. The execution itself is routine. Getting arrested for murder before she reaches her rental car is not.Detective Rafferty has video of...

COMPROMISEDOne family’s life is changed beyond anything they could ever imagine.A major foreign power has been funneling key intelligence personnel into the United States for nearly a year, hiding them as embassy and consulate staffers, students, and plain immigrants. In response, the FBI activates its Domestic Sleeper program.Scattered across the country as architects, cab drivers, and other innocuous roles, failsafe agent...

Time Travel Rule #1: Don’t interact with anyone for any reason.Yeah, right.CIA field agent Ryan Cochrane thought testing an experimental time machine would be just another assignment. Then a police dog damaged the activation switch on his arm and stranded him twenty years in the past.Getting home should be simple: find the theoretical physicist who helped make time travel possible and get him to repair the switch.There's ju...

Taking refuge turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse…In an attempt to shift the base of power in the church, the Pope’s trusted advisors have convinced him that Sister Jacobine has to go.On the run from a Vatican hit team, Sister Jacobine seeks a safe haven with the only people she can trust. That trust nearly gets them all killed, when the ruthless killers from Rome finally track her down.With an army of trained killers closing in, Sister Jacobi...

This Omnibus Edition collects the six Nun With A Gun stories into a single volume, The Book of Jacobine.The Pope calls Alice Fisher—Sister Jacobine—his giusta mano destra or “righteous right hand.” At his behest, she deals with those who step outside of the Church’s doctrines and, through their actions, dishonor His Holiness. Alice’s unique skillset and God-given gifts make her particularly well-suited as the Pope’s enforcer.Powerful force...