"Life isn't all hearts and flowers. It's pain and suffering too. It's dirty little secrets buried deep in the muck and mire where the grubs and worms feed. Secrets I unbury." ~ Rachel Cord, Confidential InvestigationsFour Full-Length Novels: This boxed set includes Books 1-4 of the Rachel Cord Confidential Investigations series and the Rachel Cord short story Hangman's Oak as well as a first look at Book 5 in the series, "Where the Hell is Tessa Ryker?".LIFE'S A BITCH. SO A...

"Where The Hell Is Tessa Ryker?": Rainbow Award for Best Lesbian Mystery/Thriller (2021)*Fourteen-year-old Tessa Ryker hears shots. Sees someone leaving her home. The sharp tang of gunpowder invades her senses as she enters the house. Before she understands what she smells or her eyes adjust from the outside brightness, she covers her mouth in horror. Her mother dead on the hallway floor. Her father dead in the living room a gun in his hand.It looks like he killed his wife ...

Can you steal from a god?A witch and a thief tempt fate when they seek a god's power.It was neither the tang of sea nor the rancidness of rotting fish, garbage and offal that roused me from my doze. Nor was it the creaking of ships at berth, the loading and off-loading of cargo, nor the movement and cries of men. No, it was none of the everyday stench and noise about the quay of Portside, that festering pustule that marks the fair cheek of uVaal, the Splendid City. It was th...

"Life isn't all hearts and flowers. It's pain and suffering too. It's dirty little secrets buried deep in the muck and mire where the grubs and worms feed. Secrets I unbury." Private detective Rachel Cord chases multiple threads through a labyrinth of missing persons, buried bodies, sex, new love, and an ex-lover who may be a serial killer. Threads that threaten to bind Rachel within a tight cord preventing her from getting the answers she needs and saving the woman she loves. Book Two, Ra...

Life's never easy. It's rarely fair. In fact, Life's a crapshoot. We don't know the result until we roll the dice. But what happens when the dice roll says someone wants you dead?I heard a squeal of tires and glanced in my rearview mirror. A dusty and faded white Ford pickup that had been behind me was accelerating quickly and passing in the left lane. As it came alongside, I glimpsed the twin barrels of a shotgun sticking out the window. I hit the brakes hard and the double blast ...

Thomas Wolfe wrote 'You Can't Go Home Again'Something Rachel Cord believed and lived by for nearly 21 years. She'd run away from those she loved who wouldn't or couldn't accept her as she was. That life was gone. She has no desire to revisit it.Until Wendy Devlin, the love of her life, the woman she wants most to marry, gives her an ultimatum."Rachel, I'll marry you anywhere. But I'm meeting your family first. That's my deal."Now Rachel must decide if she ca...

Hard-boiled, private detective Rachel Cord pursues multiple threads seeking a runaway teen and why gay performers are being beaten at Miss Kitty's Kathouse Kabaret. Threads that twist and bind Rachel within a tight cord of lost love, child pornography, rape, murder and near insanity. Leaving her to question her personal credo that "Life's a Bitch. So am I." Book one (Second Edition)“An engaging hard-boiled adventure with a memorable protagonist.” ~ Kirkus Reviews“Nothing li...

On Oct. 1, 1947, Paul Jasper Monroe was lynched at Hangman's Oak. He was a decorated WWII veteran. He was Black. He was also Gay. Despite rumors, no one was ever arrested. Sixty-eight years later on the anniversary of Monroe's murder, George Armstrong Cutter, often suspected as one of the killers, was found hanging from Hangman's Oak. Revenge or Justice?

When a friend and troubled army veteran kills himself, independent Internet journalist Elle Pharell goes to Kuwait to investigate the mysterious private security firm he strangely does not remember working for until the day of his suicide. Elle hires brilliant interpreter Cass Hunt to help navigate the area. In a remote desert village, they find everything abandoned and no one to tell the story of what happened save one crazed local. Elle discovers a conspiracy involving the testing of bio...

Faye Blakemore is a photojournalist for a major New York newspaper. Faye has been taking photos since she was a small child, taught by her photographer grandfather, after spending hours in the strange blood-red light of his darkroom. Now Faye specializes in what one reviewer calls, “blood-and-guts journalism.” Her first book of photos is as celebrated as it is controversial—and as harrowing.Faye convinces her editor to send her to Afghanistan and the Congo to report on the acid bur...

In which the governments of the world are threatened by a fanatical cat with a disconcerting enthusiasm for cushions.

Her touch is death... her love is worse.For as long as she can remember, Rose has been a monster. Cursed by a man who would one day become one of the most feared creatures on the earth, one of the future Alpha werewolves. Alister Marcus.For hundreds of years she has roamed the earth, living apart from humanity, watching from afar. Her skin and the briar vines that serve as both her protectors her tormentors, are poison. It is an instant death sentence to anyone, or anything...