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Best chums Nancy and Beverly get a surprise trip to the city for graduation. Excitement at being on their own, free to watch Tyrone Power and Loretta Young at the movies, soon becomes tempered by a huge storm moving in, and a killer on the loose called the Creeper. Not about to let the storm dampen their weekend, they decide to make their own fun with some phone calls. But what they don't know, is they may be dialing up murder...

Laura Langdon is a woman whose only escape from her humdrum existence is the romantic pulp magazines she hides from her unimaginative and penny-pinching husband. Then a flat tire leads to her being picked up by a charismatic gangster on the lam. Appalled initially at his brazen manner, she is soon forced to acknowledge how his attentions and praise make her feel. When things take a dangerous turn, she has to choose between safety and home, or living a life she's only read about in the pulps. A story set during the 1930s, and harkening back to pulp stories of yesteryear.

Book one in the exciting new Noir Shots series concerns a hot office affair turning sour. Set during the 1940s, laced with spice and a sense of impending doom, and featuring an old-fashioned femme fatale, this homage to the darker side of noir hits all the right notes. An unforgettable noir short dripping with atmosphere.

Christmas was fast approaching at the conclusion of Eight Blonde Dolls, and A Candy Red Christmas finds Seth and Caroline off to South America for a holiday both love. However, with Harry’s time possibly running short, and Candy in need of the forgiveness she cannot find within herself, neither has ever seen a Christmas more in need of miracles.

Christmas was fast approaching at the conclusion of Eight Blonde Dolls, and A Candy Red Christmas finds Seth and Caroline off to South America for a holiday both love. However, with Harry’s time possibly running short, and Candy in need of the forgiveness she cannot find within herself, neither has ever seen a Christmas more in need of miracles.

One good thing is all Jack has going for him as he awaits execution. When he begins recalling the events which led him to Death Row, a tale of a man trying to redeem himself through one selfless act emerges. But in a noir world where fate has the last laugh, whether his one good thing will be enough to save him is unclear. The second in the Noir Shots series is a homage to the great Cornell Woolrich, in both its soft-boiled sentimentality, and its acceptance that fate will always have the final word.

The first three stories in the Matt Ransom series have been gathered together for the first time in this exciting and explosive collection. The Velvet Sea, The Tender Shore, and the powerful The Gentle Tide await readers just past the shore…

Two 1940s romantic noir stories of suspense! In I WON'T FORGET YOU, a young woman is left rudderless when the local soldier boy she'd planned to marry sends her a Dear Jane letter. Spring returns to her heart when a second chance at love unexpectedly comes her way. She soon finds herself in a nightmare, however, when he disappears just as they are to be married. The police are convinced the man existed only in the woman's mind. Vowing to never forget him, she finds herself in a sanitarium, where only one man can help her. In THE UNLOCKED WINDOW, a woman who lost her husband during the war ...

The tender interlude in Monaco between Matt and Andrea alluded to in the epilog of The Dreamless Sea, is finally told in this beautiful and poignant ode to love, and the end of spring.

Mike walks into a diner on a rainy 1940s San Francisco night only to discover a different kind of storm waiting for him inside. Nora is a luscious brunette with a black eye and a husband sucking the life out of her. As if drawn together by fate, they quickly embark on a romantic and heated affair. But when her husband gets what's coming to him, they'll have to take it on the lam to discover who did the deed, because all they have in this sixth entry in the Noir Shot series, is each other, and a glass alibi.

Everett Jordan has become famous for his unabashedly romantic tales of love. But no one knows Everett Jordan is the pseudonym for Nick Barrow. Each day Barrow goes to the public library to write his ethereal stories of love, because the girl who inspired them when he was at his lowest, works there. Jennifer has no idea that Nick Barrow is also Everett Jordan, and he has no idea that her feelings for him are as tender as his own, in this uplifting and old-fashioned feel-good Christmas treasure sure to warm romantic hearts. Set against the backdrop of a snowy Christmas in the city, Love at ...

A darkly sensual and deeply romantic mystery set in the latter half of the 22nd century. New Chicago's Civil Regulator Matt Ransom begins an investigation into the brutal murder of a bio-organic Cherry 6. The clues will lead Matt and his Cherry 6 wife, LeAnn, from New Chicago to Paris as a conspiracy affecting all mankind is unraveled. The sensual love between Matt and LeAnn is intertwined with the case more than either of them realize, and once the reason for the murder is discovered, this inaugural entry in a spectacular series becomes an exploration of what it truly means to be human. ...

Jeopardy lurks around every corner in these three intricately plotted Noir Shot entries. From Kentucky to New York, to the French Riviera, love collides with treachery and madness in a collection of old-fashioned noir stories no reader will ever forget.

For the first time, the Wild Country trilogy is gathered in a single collection. The Wyn Witcomb saga begins with a traumatic event in childhood that shapes one man's life. On a quest to find his sister and mete out justice as a young man, Wyn becomes known as the Ghost Rider. Wyn's story is set against the sprawling vista of a wild country only just beginning to take shape. The trilogy includes The Wild Country, The Trail to Santa Rosa, and Whisper Valley. Filled with colorful and memorable characters, thrilling action, emotional insight and tender romance, the Ghost Rider collection is ...

In GYPSY SUMMER, a young man working in a fabled San Francisco movie house meets a lovely gypsy girl in the park. She claims she is living under a gypsy curse. Observing firsthand the effects of the spell, he falls deeply in love with her. But when the final facet of the spell rips the young lovers apart, he must decide what price is too high for love. In NIGHT CRY, a struggling young writer in San Francisco thinks his luck has changed when he meets a sensual girl named Calina. But after meeting her, the old-fashioned horror story he's writing begins to intrude on reality, as a sleek black ...

A handsome young couple are having a morning of relaxation along the Spanish Riviera. Their conversation slowly begins to reveal that nothing at all is as it first appears…

A young pretty teacher hiding a terrible secret, a young man grieving the loss of his parents, and an appointment with fate all collide in a small Oklahoma town during the 1970s. The tender, sweet and forbidden is sensitively dealt with in this atmospheric rural noir which will inevitably explode in violence, and require a miracle for anyone at all to survive…

Matt and LeAnn are in Hawaii for Maria's wedding to Lucas. Matt has been having dreams about the day he rescued LeAnn as they arrive in Kauai, while great changes have been taking place in the lives of those he loves. Leaving Hawaii briefly to fly with Meagan to Paris, and share in her exciting news, Matt discovers that not all is as it seems with someone very dear to him. Once he discovers the reason, his world will never be the same. Meanwhile in Portugal, a beautiful Italian girl with whom Matt has only a passing acquaintance is having one last fling at living while she still can. When ...

In SLOW HOT WIND, Beautiful Hollywood star Lila Chantry walks into gumshoe Sam Barlow's office with a sad story of a husband gone astray. Barlow quickly discovers that he's strayed much further than Lila understands. Blackmail, gangsters, a big Hollywood studio and a race to Mexico in a slow hot wind all come into play for a whiz-bang 1940s detective story in the grand pulp tradition. In GLASS ALIBI, Mike walks into a diner on a rainy San Francisco night, but inside is a different kind of storm. Nora is a luscious brunette with a black eye and a husband sucking the life out of her. As if ...

A private detective in Miami is hired to track down the wife of a powerful gangster. But when he finds her, and they fall in love, only a miracle can help them escape together.