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 ...

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 ...

It's 1997 in Oceanside, California. Jamie Brodie is turning seventeen. His grandfather hasn't spoken to him for nearly two years, ever since Jamie came out to his family. But Jamie's concerns are mostly centered on his grades, because it will take a near-perfect GPA to get into Berkeley. He's busy with Advanced Placement classes; spending time with his "friend with benefits," Robbie Harrison; and his weekend landscaping job with his best friend, Ali Fortner.

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 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...

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 Stephen Atcheson was fired from UCLA's Young Research Library, no one expected that he'd resurface - literally - floating in the Stone Canyon Reservoir with a bullet hole in the back of his head. It falls on the LAPD to solve the case, and it falls on Kevin Brodie and Jamilah Daly to deal with Stephen's mom and sister. Mom is grieving. Sister, not so much. Kevin has to set aside his dislike of Stephen to comfort Mom while Jamilah tries to figure out why Sister is so squirrely. Where ...

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...

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...

Four murders. Four different areas of the city. Four different methods. No apparent connection between the victims.But one of the victims was Clinton Kenneally's best friend. When the death is initially ruled a suicide, Clinton hires his old friends at Angeles Investigations to get to the truth.What they find makes no sense…until the librarians get involved.

Who killed Matt Bendel? The police suspect his partner, Elliott Conklin, the assistant chair of the psychology department at Santa Monica College. Elliott was found with the body, covered in blood – and he doesn't have an alibi. Elliott wants Pete Ferguson to help clear his name. But Pete doesn't have time – he's had to take over one of Elliott's classes – and he thinks Elliott might be guilty.Jamie Brodie isn't so sure. Matt had a secret that may have gotten him killed. The investi...