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The morally complex and emotionally beautiful Sapphire Sea took the Matt Ransom series to new frontiers, reshaping the sensual and complex world while fulfilling all the promise suggested in the series’ lean and sexy inaugural entry, The Velvet Sea. If readers were expecting the follow-up to The Sapphire Sea to be a letdown after the series’ most emotionally powerful entry, they can be forgiven. It was difficult to imagine where this series could go from where we last left our favorite bio-organic and his sensually close group of friends, especially after such devastating losses. Yet ...

The Gentle Tide is a pivotal moment in this most unique series. While its riveting mix of sensuality, mystery and dystopia pulled readers into this world in enthralling fashion, The Gentle Tide began widening in scope the mythology of the series. Matt has regained the part of himself lost after Rio, but then he sees a ghost from Paris in the rain. He begins searching for answers as to how a woman who died in a way which haunts his dreams could actually be alive. What Matt and his new friends uncover is a perversion so twisted, that even the dead are not safe. For someone Matt loves very ...

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...

Along the lonely backroads of Kentucky, a trucker deliberately flying under the radar and a beautiful woman stranded in the rain come together. Whether they’ve met by chance, or design becomes murkier as their tragic and dangerous secrets are slowly revealed to one another. Even as a tender romance takes wing, those secrets bring the possibility of violence that threaten not only their lives, but their very souls. One final secret leads to a romantically haunting sacrifice which culminates in inescapable violence, in this tender and mysterious Noir Shot entry. * Contains mature themes and...

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 ...

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.

When the most beautiful woman Ray has ever seen is dumped on his doorstep, love quickly blossoms. But she's in the kind of jam that doesn't go away, and he soon realizes he'll have to take it on the lam to South America until things blow ever. That means he'll be leaving Matt and all his new friends behind. But with someone gunning for his new love, he may need their help to get there.

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 ...

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 ...

Six stories of love found in those intoxicating hours after midnight where lonely lives. Imbued with a tangible ache for love felt by those who walk those lonely streets, and the quiet disconnect between the spotlight of day and the sanctuary of night, each of these six stories is touched in some manner by the supernatural. Collection contains: Night Run, City of Angels, Christmas Eve, Requiem, Gypsy Summer, and Night Cry. Come walk these lonely streets for a journey into night you will never forget…

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...

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 ...

A tragic accident in the distant past that led to a heartbreaking decision, a great love Matt can’t remember, and a girl about to die who will use her final days to give Matt the life that was stolen from him, collide with two unsolved murders in the present in The Romantic Shore. Sprawling across worlds, aching with romantic longing and sensuality, and filled with some of the most beautiful moments of the entire series, The Romantic Shore begins Act II for Matt Ransom, when the truth is finally revealed, and Heaven sets right Matt’s destiny…

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.

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.

As Karen spends her Saturday preparing for a big date which could change her life forever, her radio keeps her updated on the search for a strangler roaming the city. Six women are dead already. It's enough to give any girl the shivers. Set during the 1940s and rich with detail and atmosphere, this tale will keep you in suspense!

The lure of Whisper Valley is too strong to resist for Wyn Witcomb and the gang. Indian legend says thousands of cattle roam free in the haunted and secret valley. But there is also a legend concerning an ambush of soldiers, and gold. Joining Wyn and his friends as they attempt to find the hidden valley is a foreman known only as the Southerner, and his young Cherokee bride, Awenasa. But with buffalo hunters holding a young girl hostage trailing them, Wyn and company may have more to worry about than those strange whispers on the wind Indian legend maintains are spirits of the dead. ...

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...

From the Amalfi Coast of Italy to the Twenty-Second-Century Dead Zones of Brazil, the Matt Ransom saga continues in Harbors & Shores. Containing books four and five of the series, The Lovely Harbor and The Sandy Shore, this special edition of Matt Ransom encapsulates an exciting and complex new story-line within the greater saga, and contains some of the most romantic, action-filled, and thrilling moments of the entire series.

In this poignant testament to love, an ambulance arrives on a stormy night at one of the city's oldest apartment complexes, a landmark many believe is haunted. What follows is a moving story of four lonely people searching for love, two of whom will pass together into the lonely night.