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A young boy’s excitement brings a shock to a neighborhood. A teenage girl is asked to her first prom, only to discover that her father is not the man she thought he was. What God decides is the solution to the world’s biggest problem backfires and changes the world forever.

“We’ll take it,” Jack Keegan told the realtor. Little did he know that once those words were out of his mouth, his life would never be the same. “We bought a cabin in the woods,” he jokingly lied to Michael and Alex, his two teenage sons. “You’re going to love it,” Jack assured them, grinning. After all, who wouldn’t love a ten thousand square foot home set on forty acres with your private lake and all the amenities that money can buy? Love it they did, until Alex lets it slip out that there is a nudist camp on the property north of theirs. Two weeks later an old ...

THE LEDGER 1954 Deep in the woods, secluded in a bleak, old convent, a young girl screams in pain. She’ll get no sympathy today. Years of attending to these wayward girls have left the nuns cold and indifferent. They have one purpose now – to save the baby. 1994 Monica cries out in pain as her husband’s fist slams into her face, and she drops to the floor. She doesn’t go to work today. Instead, she soaks in a hot bath, trying to ease the pain from her battered body. Hope answers her front door, and a shot rings out, barely missing her head. Maybe asking for a divorce wasn’t a good...

A Bad Week in HollisterMelissa Johnson’s death has been solved and Sheriff “Cowboy” Berkson figures Hollister, Missouri has finally returned to normal. His plans are to spend his days with his feet up on his desk, drinking coffee, and enjoying an occasional piece of homemade pie from Minnie’s Diner. That plan is short lived, however, after a key witness from the Melissa Johnson trial is found floating in Lake Taneycomo. Now, it seems the Sheriff’s main problem isn’t that he hasn’t got a suspect – it’s that he’s got too many. Never one to play by the rules, Sheriff ...

Don’t Smother Your Mother When Melissa Johnson’s husband crosses the line, she pulls out her .45, fires a few warning shots, and boots his butt out the door. He disappears, leaving her to raise three little boys on her own. It is now twenty-three years later, Melissa is struggling to make ends meet, and her three grown sons are still living at home. Tired of supporting them, she finally puts her foot down and gives them three months to move out. However, before they pack up and leave, Melissa comes into a windfall, and they decide they aren’t going anywhere. Disappearing steps, ...

Shortly after Jack Willerton’s head and torso are found hanging in his barn, his fifteen year daughter, Rachel, is arrested and charged with his murder. Judge Reinhold appoints Peter Fisher, who has just recently passed his bar exams, to represent Rachel. Peter quickly realizes he is in over his head and wants no part of it. He contacts, Jessica Patterson, the best lawyer in Iron Mountain, and asks her to take over. Jessica, aware that this case could be bigger than the O.J. trial, agrees to partner with him to defend his client. After Jessica begins to investigate her client’s ...

The Mayor’s son It’s summer time, 1957. Early on a Sunday morning, a young woman is found dead in the street. She’s been murdered and thrown away like a sack of garbage. Hours later, a second woman is pulled out of the Crawfish River, another victim of a brutal killing. Chief Augie Austin, Columbus’ top cop, suspects that he may be dealing with a serial killer. But, when the clues send him in two different directions, he realizes that is dealing with two murderers, not one. Austin’s peaceful world is turned upside down, as he realizes that Columbus is not the unspoiled, perfect ...

Five minutes after Fran saves her sister, Phoebe, from a rape attack, she makes the biggest mistake of her life. Concerned the cops won’t buy the story of what actually happened, she convinces her sister that they should size down the body, bag it, and toss it away in the woods. However, cutting up a body is a lot easier said than done. After one of the man’s fingers goes missing and can’t be found, thanks to Fran’s cat Sammy, the fear of being caught intensifies.Emotions run high and Phoebe, who has spent her entire life being told what to do by her passive/aggressive sister, ...

A knock on the door in the middle of the night. Your heart races and you know if you answer that knock, your world might change forever. Nichole opened the door the night that knock came and, in one split second, her world came crashing down. A horrible car accident starts the downhill plunge that slowly begins to destroy a once happy family. Never in a million years did Nichole consider, when she opened the door, that she would be spending months in a hospital sitting next to her comatose daughter. Somethings are not what they seem and, soon after the accident, Sheriff Katts determines ...

Let’s Play Autopsy Kalispell cop, Detective Myers, was on the job the night two twelve year old children lost their lives in a tragic accident. The six surviving kids swore to each other that they would never tell the true story of what happened, and they’ve kept that promise for sixteen years. Now, one by one, the survivors of that horrible night are being brutally murdered. Detective Myers delves into his old case files to see if he can find a connection between what happened sixteen years ago, and the murders. The pressure is on to find the killer, but Myers has nothing to work with ...

FLOATING FACE DOWN Bobby Johnson has a target on his back and his former best friend, Cal Cuddihey, has him in his sights. Cal’s first attempt to wipe Bobby off the face of the earth fails, but Cal doesn’t give up. He figures there’s more than one way to skin a cat, and that cat’s name is Bobby Johnson. But, when a stray bullet misses Bobby head by inches, Bobby decides it’s time to put on the gloves and start fighting back. Officer Funtelli’s old girlfriend, JoJo, who went missing three years ago, is found with a gunshot wound to her head on a filthy bathroom floor in a local ...

DON’T SMOTHER YOUR MOTHER When Melissa Johnson’s husband crosses the line, she pulls out her Colt .45, fires a few warning shots, and boots his butt out the door. He disappears, leaving her to raise three little boys on her own. Twenty-three years later, still struggling to make ends meet, she comes into a windfall and she thinks her troubles are over. However, disappearing steps, objects falling from trees, shots being fired and a missing toe makes Melissa start to think that someone just might be trying to kill her. For the first time in years, she cleans her gun, loads it, and puts ...

Except for the survivors, if there are any, that is, does anyone really know what goes on behind closed doors? If a house could speak, what ghastly tales could it tell? Of course, there’s always a slight possibility that there is that one person, still living, who will speak for it. It’s 1956 and Samuel Hassel is old and bored and ready to kick the bucket. So, when a couple of curious teenage boys ask him a simple question, he grabs at the opportunity to start talking. There’s a house, on Ludington Street, which was built in the early 1900s. Samuel helped build that house, and now, ...

Cassie’s Cookies A Mystery Novel A rocky romance leaves Kate beaten, bruised, and seeking revenge against her ex-boyfriend, Mark. Arrogant enough to believe she can commit a perfect murder; she buys a gun. However, when Mark is found shot, the gun Kate bought isn’t the murder weapon. Detective Morris is sure that Kate is the killer, but he has no concrete evidence to arrest her. Then, a few weeks later, another body is found, murdered with the same gun as Kate’s ex. Although Kate is the only one with a motive, she is hundreds of miles away from the murder scene. Is Kate constantly a ...

Girls just want to have fun and, as far as Tillie’s concerned, age shouldn’t be a factor. Going on eighty, Tillie discovers that an electric scooter gives her the freedom to start living her life again. After a chance meeting with an old friend, romance blooms and wedding bells are just around the corner. Tillie is having a ball, and her daughter is having a nervous breakdown worrying about her mother. But, as we all know, love can have its ups and downs. And, a day after Tillie and her fiancé get into a fight, he is found murdered. Is Tillie next? Or, is she the murderer?

John Box migrated to a small town in Wisconsin in 1910. He bought some land, built a house, and started a rabbit farm. It was a weird shaped house, designed so that he could watch out for predators and keep his rabbits safe. But, the predator that came knocking on his door wasn’t a fox or a weasel. It was a man. A man who would start the chain of horror that would continue for over a hundred years, until the last of John Box’s family was dead.When Samantha Carlson hears the story of a fortune hidden on this old rabbit farm, she doesn’t hesitate to buy it with expectations of finding ...

After Detective Donovan receives the call that wealthy millionaire Barbara Stiverson has been brutally murdered, he knows solving this case will not be easy. Everyone who was close to her could be the killer, as millions of dollars are at stake and everyone wants their share. There is no doubt, in his mind, that this murder was close up and personal.A few weeks later, at a birthday celebration, Donovan watches as the guest of honor takes his last breath, falls to the floor, and dies. Donovan suspects that he was poisoned by someone in his family, but there is no proof to confirm his ...

Crossing Sydney Sydney Geyer first killed at the age of twelve. Now, forty-eight years later, a medical prognosis indicates that death is only months away. With time running out, Sydney decides to come clean to the FBI and confess to multiple unsolved murders. When that plan falls short, Sydney randomly chooses Dr. Gabriel Miller as the psychiatrist to hear the story. Day after day, for five weeks, Dr. Miller listens to Sydney relay the stories of the gruesome and heartless murders that were committed over a period of forty-eight years. Knowing that he is dealing with a psychopath, Dr. ...

Chief Mike Callas is worried. A developer has bought old man Farmer’s farm and is about to tear down the buildings. There’s a body out there and Callas doesn’t want it found. Or, is there? Forensics that are found at the murder scene of a local man leads Callas to the doorstep of the local priest. Deputy Sheriff Barry Williams pulls a fast one with Maggie Duncan and just may live to regret it. And, Maggie Duncan, the outspoken, horny, and demanding old girlfriend of Callas, continues to show up in the most unusual places. Maggie’s Revenge - Book Two of the Silver Fox Crossing series...

WHERE THE HELL IS HARRY? Where the Hell is Harry? is the third and last book in the Silver Fox Crossing Mystery Series. It's summer. Chief Callas has spent the past six months trying to get over the loss of his deputy and good friend Barry Williams. No suspect has been found and it looks like the case is going cold. Less than a week after being hired, one of his new cops is found murdered at the Silver Fox Crossing Police Station. With no forensic evidence left at the scene, Callas is concerned that he has another unsolvable murder on his hands. Silver Fox Crossing is growing. New homes ...