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Sheriff Jace Wilkinson must deal with a quirky rural community, an adorable deputy who resembles a preteen idol, a mysterious Air Force base not on any map, and a town which has a predilection towards the very strange. Filled with rural and conservative humor, join Jace and his deputy, Janie, as they solve some very strange cases in Crystal Falls, Idaho, a town you'll quickly grow to love.

Brooke Lonesome is a Missouri legend who disappeared into the mountains long ago. Katie Wells is a slightly past her prime saloon girl with a young boy to raise. Haunted by the past, a chance meeting in Sonora with a kindly Mexican grape grower offers a second chance for both. The second sprawling and emotional story in the Wild Country saga gives readers a chance to revisit their favorite characters from the first novel, while making friends with new ones. The Trail to Santa Rosa is an intimate and emotional portrait of two damaged people looking for a second chance in an often unforgiving...

The third entry in the Noir Shots series of short noir stories is a deeply moving and emotionally powerful tale of big city despair. Two children growing up together are at the whims of a father who might be far more than just a mean drunkard. As they grow closer, forming a bond borne of circumstance and desperation, their lives spiral toward an act of violence that almost seems fated. Beginning at the end, and then revealing how it got there through the haunted memories of the young man, a heartbreaking story emerges. * This ceaselessly somber noir contains mature themes and sensitive ...

Riding through the Dakotas toward a town where a killer turned bounty hunter lives, Wyn encounters trouble sooner than expected, in this thrilling Wyn Witcomb short story which takes place prior to the events in the Wild Country trilogy.

A MATT RANSOM HALLOWEEN: Halloween is growing near, and Matt's buddy Ray, already spooked by strange noises in the morgue, insists the old mansion down the street from Edna's is haunted. When Matt also sees a girl standing at the window of the abandoned old mansion, plans are made for a ghost hunt! With Stacy on her way into town for Halloween, bringing with her some very alluring costumes for her best friend LeAnn and herself, there is sure to be more than a little fun mixed in with the chills! Taking place after The Velvet Sea but before The Tender Shore, this is a fun holiday treat for ...

Blending the atmosphere of 1940s crime and noir films with an era when spicy pulp magazines of crime and mystery were so full of innuendo and suggestion, they were kept under the counter for public safety, Lucky Penny pays homage to both mediums for a deliciously spicy and nostalgic cocktail. Lucky Penny takes the reader on a hot ride through 1948 Los Angeles as a man who may be more than he seems picks up a beautiful girl as sweet as she is wanton. What he’s involved in is not made clear until it explodes in violence. As the newly formed couple set their sights on Florida, this final job...

Two years have passed since the shattering climax of The Gentle Tide. Matt and his wife LeAnn, blessed with a young daughter who has made them a family, are on the Amalfi Coast of Italy to attend a wedding. Earth is finally beginning to recover, and the future seems bright. Matt becomes fast friends with a backpacker from Mars he meets on the beach. She brings into his life a special light at exactly the right time. But when he discovers she is being watched, and then someone attempts to kidnap her, he knows he must keep this gentle soul from harm. Matt's search for answers as to why ...

This beautiful otherworldy romance set in San Francisco and Australia explores the possibility that love truly is all that matters. Tom Archer is a writer whose gentle fantasies of love assisted from above have garnered him a large following. But he has lost faith in those things about which he renders so beautifully for others to enjoy. When a lovely woman named Arianne passes away without the experience of being loved, heaven intervenes, setting in motion events which will change Tom Archer's life forever. Chance at Heaven is a magical novelette which reminds us of the importance of faith...

In CITY OF ANGELS, a reporter walking home in the wee small hours of morning meets a charming girl in a park many in the City of Angels believe is haunted. She is attempting to break free from the shackles of wealth and the stuffy conventions of the upper crust. Beguiled, he decides to write a human interest story about Sarah. But when he runs into one mysterious contradiction after another, he begins to suspect the impossible has happened. In CHRISTMAS EVE, a delivery man prevents a lovely young girl from harming herself at his first stop on Christmas Eve morning. Then he begins to see her...

Return to the days when names like Woolrich and Chandler, Cain and Gardner filled book racks across America, and radio shows such as the Shadow and Suspense ruled the airwaves in this anthology of stories sure to keep you glued to the edge of your seat. Old-fashioned mystery and suspense in the grand tradition return in nine original stories you'll never forget. The Day Kathy Died, Johnny's Girl, Dark Corridor, Slow Hot Wind, No Holiday From Murder, I Won't Forget You, Glass Alibi, Voodoo Road, and the title story, The Unlocked Window, are sure to keep readers up late, turning pages, and ...

The seventh entry in one of the most unique series in fiction has Matt in a melancholy mood as his first Christmas without Annette and Teagan approaches. A shocking crime eerily reminiscent of the Red Robin Diner slayings of The Velvet Sea pulls him from his home in West Palm Beach back to snowy New Chicago, where Brooke has seen the dead come back to life. Matt soon discovers a grisly murder spree aimed at enticing him into a deadly spider's web. When all leads point to ancient voodoo, Matt realizes no one he loves is safe. While he teams with a lovely CR in Nice, France, LeAnn and the ...

A lovely young woman must finally leave the orphanage which has been the only home, and family she has ever known. Traveling to Palm Beach, Florida by train, Anne meets the man of her innocent dreams, and is quickly drawn into an old-fashioned noir vortex of love, wealth, and murder. Reminiscent of black and white noir melodramas of yesteryear, I Died Twice is a romantic and involving tale of noir suspense set during the 1940s. Re-proofed, Edited and Revised 9-30-2022

A young writer down on his luck, wins a dream vacation to the California coast. Though he can't recall entering any contest, the opportunity is too good to pass up. Soon after his arrival, he meets a pretty surfer girl too wonderful to leave behind. But all may not be as it seems in this ethereal fantasy.

The inaugural entry in the Matt Ransom series, The Velvet Sea, breathed fresh life into a sub-genre of sci-fi many thought dead. Filled with action and dripping with sensuality, each successive entry has only gotten better, expanding on this unique world while tackling sensitive subjects such as abuse and incest, suicide and faith, and for Matt Ransom, what it truly means to be a bio-organic with a soul. Readers have been guided from a dystopian Earth where love was in short supply and global conspiracies abounded, to a recovered Earth, where the tide against those who would ruin what ...

A crew of three, led by Captain Jack Spender, have been searching the galaxy for an inhabitable home for the remaining population of their own dying planet. After more than one disappointment, they discover a lush and lovely planet that appears to be the answer to all their hopes. But the planet is mysteriously empty of life, save one vibrant and lovely girl. Young Jack Spender is immediately taken with young Chloe, and she with him. Slowly the reason for her survival emerges, and the hatred which once destroyed all life on her planet threatens the lives of the crew. Spender must race ...

A woman who lost her husband during the war never expected that she would be spending this Christmas honeymooning. As Jerry and June drive through quaint towns in snowy Vermont, Jerry's ex-wife, locked up in a hospital for the insane, and an escaped murderer from a local prison cast a shadow over their Holiday plans. Before long, June's dreamy Christmas honeymoon becomes a full-blown nightmare.

Four stories of noir told in the old-fashioned tradition of days gone by. Colored by atmosphere, mood, and story rather than expletives, brutality, and graphic violence, and peopled by real human beings rather than unredeemable low-lifes and drunken narrators, the Noir Shots series is a return to the more traditional noir of days past. Gathered here in Silhouettes are the first four entries in the Noir Shots series: Dangerous Crossing, One Good Thing, Where the Busses Don’t Run, and Not Dark Yet. Three long short stories and one novella which turn back the hands of time to another era in ...

Captain Neale Jordan lands in Los Angeles after the war, becoming a private detective. Three years down the line he finds himself restless, and sick of the City of Angels. News about the tragic death of a young soldier under his command during the war takes him to San Francisco. Jordan knows Andy could never have killed himself, and so does his lovely sister, Ellen, who is a reporter for The San Francisco Mirror. The only clue Andy left them, however, is an old photo of actress Claire Allen. Claire was tragically murdered during the war, her killer never found. From San Francisco to ...

Grover’s Creek is a wonderfully nostalgic and unabashedly sentimental Christmas fantasy. Filled with Americana and imbued with the longing most of us feel for a better time in our shared history, there is something universal in Nick’s story of disillusionment with the present woes of the world. Searching for something more than his life as a crime photographer for a major paper in a metropolitan city has given him, what he finds can only be described as a Christmas miracle. A town steeped in the past, no longer on any map, and barely remembered, may hold the key to his future if he can ...

Glenn Colby’s fishing vacation across the border begins with a wild bang when he picks up a sweet but insatiable little Mexican girl in a cantina on his way to Puerto de Angeles. Once Colby meets Tammy Kanakaredes in Puerto de Angeles, however, his plans change. Her desperate situation coupled with their passionate romantic entanglement leads to thoughts of murder. Looking for another way out, Colby contacts crime boss Don Miguel, and learns information which might give him the leverage he needs to both get the girl, and stay alive while he’s doing it. Filled with innuendo, unabashed ...