Kelly Katz is a Kindergarten Teacher who believes her life is boring and is craving adventure. She is longing to find her “Mr. Right” to come and sweep her off her feet. Her most recent interest does not measure up to what Kelly wants. Right now Kelly’s focus is making sure that her best friend Casey is calm and not overwhelmed by her upcoming wedding.

After meeting Valentino (the father of one of her students) during Open School Night, Kelly starts to fantasize about him. Kelly’s fantasies become reality after an unexpected meeting with Valentino one night. She soon begins an intense sexual affair with Valentino who has no problem adding Kelly into his world.

Things are going great for a while until Kelly’s romantic interlude turns sour and deadly. Valentino becomes more than what Kelly had bargained for and when he becomes obsessed and then ends up dead in a hotel room, Kelly finds herself on way more than an adventure but in a murder mystery. The questions start to circle as Kelly begins to wonder who has set her up and why this situation is happening to her. This two part mystery will not only have you guessing but stunned when all is revealed.

Briarpatch College has all the problems of American higher education in the nineties, at least as many as can be packed onto one small semirural campus. Unfortunately, Briarpatch also has had a multitude of other problems the administration would rather not admit. In the last few years, the academic dean has drowned, the president has died suspiciously, and one scandal after another has rocked the college—all events allegedly instigated by the late dean. Now with a new president in place and the college operating on a somewhat normal routine again, no one has any idea that in just a short time, the discovery of the librarian’s body will upset everything and everyone.

Mirabel Gates was a person with no friends, but also no particular enemies. Consequently, she appeared unlikely to be at the center of scandals that threaten President Flora Boater’s plans to push the college off the bottom of the US News popularity poll. As Professor Donahue and Chief Biggs begin investigating the librarian’s death, they begin to suspect once again that the late dean is somehow involved.

In this continuing mystery, murders, scandals, and the complications of academic fads shake the foundation of a small college as everyone wonders who will be the next victim.

Briarpatch College has all the problems of American higher education in the nineties, at least as many as can be packed onto one small semirural campus. Unfortunately, Briarpatch also has had a multitude of other problems the administration would rather not admit. In the last few years, the academic dean has drowned, the president has died suspiciously, and one scandal after another has rocked the college—all events allegedly instigated by the late dean. Now with a new president in place and the college operating on a somewhat normal routine again, no one has any idea that in just a short time, the discovery of the librarian’s body will upset everything and everyone.

Mirabel Gates was a person with no friends, but also no particular enemies. Consequently, she appeared unlikely to be at the center of scandals that threaten President Flora Boater’s plans to push the college off the bottom of the US News popularity poll. As Professor Donahue and Chief Biggs begin investigating the librarian’s death, they begin to suspect once again that the late dean is somehow involved.

In this continuing mystery, murders, scandals, and the complications of academic fads shake the foundation of a small college as everyone wonders who will be the next victim.

West College’s incoming Board of Trustees member, Buck Brady, wants nothing more than to help his wife’s alma mater. The school has been in upheaval recently over a murder investigation and the subsequent resignation of its president and is struggling to recover its image. Brady charters a schooner to help his fellow trustees welcome the new president of the college, but no one could predict the aftermath. After one trustee is lost overboard in a storm, everyone aboard wonders if it was really an accident.

As a series of apparently unrelated accidents and attacks plague the college, professors Nora Perry and Hendrick van Pelt, along with several of the trustees, suddenly find their lives threatened. As decades of passions, infidelities, and obsessions are unveiled, Nora insists the events must be connected. But without a motive and no clear suspect to question, Nora and Van have no choice but to partner once again with Captain Frank Pierce to find the connections and reveal the twisted motives hidden in human hearts.

In this continuing mystery saga, a sleuthing trio must grapple with deceit, murder, decades-long grudges, and love in the beautiful setting of the Chesapeake Bay.

West College’s incoming Board of Trustees member, Buck Brady, wants nothing more than to help his wife’s alma mater. The school has been in upheaval recently over a murder investigation and the subsequent resignation of its president and is struggling to recover its image. Brady charters a schooner to help his fellow trustees welcome the new president of the college, but no one could predict the aftermath. After one trustee is lost overboard in a storm, everyone aboard wonders if it was really an accident.

As a series of apparently unrelated accidents and attacks plague the college, professors Nora Perry and Hendrick van Pelt, along with several of the trustees, suddenly find their lives threatened. As decades of passions, infidelities, and obsessions are unveiled, Nora insists the events must be connected. But without a motive and no clear suspect to question, Nora and Van have no choice but to partner once again with Captain Frank Pierce to find the connections and reveal the twisted motives hidden in human hearts.

In this continuing mystery saga, a sleuthing trio must grapple with deceit, murder, decades-long grudges, and love in the beautiful setting of the Chesapeake Bay.

Jason Shaw is a police officer in Huntsville, California. A former US Marine, he is a happy father and husband who takes his job seriously and has just been transferred from narcotics and vice to the Huntsville Gang Task Force Unit. A month after the transfer, mysterious attacks begin one night when a criminal sets a trap outside the Shaw home.

Although the Shaws escape the clumsy attempt, there are no suspects, and Shaw believes the amateurish trap might have been a juvenile prank. As time passes, however, the attacks escalate. Who is trying to terrorize the cop and his family? Is it an ex-con Shaw put away or gang member with a beef?

Someone is desperately trying to put Shaw in the ground, but the police have no leads. As a media frenzy ensues after every attack, a community once thought to be safe falls further into the grip of panic and terror. Meanwhile, Shaw will do what it takes to keep his family safe, even if it means taking matters into his own hands and letting the attackers know that no one messes with a cop on his own beat.

Jason Shaw is a police officer in Huntsville, California. A former US Marine, he is a happy father and husband who takes his job seriously and has just been transferred from narcotics and vice to the Huntsville Gang Task Force Unit. A month after the transfer, mysterious attacks begin one night when a criminal sets a trap outside the Shaw home.

Although the Shaws escape the clumsy attempt, there are no suspects, and Shaw believes the amateurish trap might have been a juvenile prank. As time passes, however, the attacks escalate. Who is trying to terrorize the cop and his family? Is it an ex-con Shaw put away or gang member with a beef?

Someone is desperately trying to put Shaw in the ground, but the police have no leads. As a media frenzy ensues after every attack, a community once thought to be safe falls further into the grip of panic and terror. Meanwhile, Shaw will do what it takes to keep his family safe, even if it means taking matters into his own hands and letting the attackers know that no one messes with a cop on his own beat.

Seven years ago, psychiatrist Ellen Smith interviewed vicious serial killer Roger Taut. Now retired, Ellen is horrified to learn that Roger has escaped. The local police force enlists her help and asks her to join the homicide task force on Roger’s tail. Ellen knows Roger must be caught before he has a chance to kill again.

Detectives Dan Kape and Jim Masker are also part of the task force, and they’re beginning to believe there’s a link between Roger’s victims and the River Edge Mental Institution from where he escaped. The entire police department is horrified when Ellen goes missing, apparently taken by the serial killer.

As she is held hostage, the case unravels when she looks into the cold eyes of the person that assisted this killing machine to freedom. While the police desperately search for the good doctor, Ellen learns more and more about the killer who holds her life in his hands. But Roger’s not finished; Ellen is just the beginning of his horrific plan.

Seven years ago, psychiatrist Ellen Smith interviewed vicious serial killer Roger Taut. Now retired, Ellen is horrified to learn that Roger has escaped. The local police force enlists her help and asks her to join the homicide task force on Roger’s tail. Ellen knows Roger must be caught before he has a chance to kill again.

Detectives Dan Kape and Jim Masker are also part of the task force, and they’re beginning to believe there’s a link between Roger’s victims and the River Edge Mental Institution from where he escaped. The entire police department is horrified when Ellen goes missing, apparently taken by the serial killer.

As she is held hostage, the case unravels when she looks into the cold eyes of the person that assisted this killing machine to freedom. While the police desperately search for the good doctor, Ellen learns more and more about the killer who holds her life in his hands. But Roger’s not finished; Ellen is just the beginning of his horrific plan.

“Whitt ducked under the lintel and stepped down onto a brick floor.  The door was a good six inches lower than the door’s threshold—but he had known it would be so—and that realization stopped him dead in his tracks, just as the sense of déjà-vu struck.  He had ducked under the lintel, and his step down had been fluid, almost practiced.  He recalled a warning: ‘Watch your step.  The floor is a goodly step down inside.’ Or did he imagine that?

The story of the Fo’c’sle Door begins in present day Canada with a very unusual crime scene but quickly takes you to the 1700’s and the little fishing village of Ryeport on the coast of England.  Here the tale unfolds around Roddy McDowd, who has been unwillingly relegated to what he sees as a ‘God forsaken place’, as a punishment for his transgressions and a mysterious, striking figure from Haiti – Paul Latour, whose fate becomes entwined with that of the villagers as he tries to save his child from a violent sea captain.

This compelling tale transports the reader over hundreds of years, and interesting vibrant characters, who through adventures with smuggling, murder and the supernatural, play a part in one man’s attempt to fix a ‘deal made with the devil’.  The outcome will keep you guessing right until the end.

“Whitt ducked under the lintel and stepped down onto a brick floor.  The door was a good six inches lower than the door’s threshold—but he had known it would be so—and that realization stopped him dead in his tracks, just as the sense of déjà-vu struck.  He had ducked under the lintel, and his step down had been fluid, almost practiced.  He recalled a warning: ‘Watch your step.  The floor is a goodly step down inside.’ Or did he imagine that?

The story of the Fo’c’sle Door begins in present day Canada with a very unusual crime scene but quickly takes you to the 1700’s and the little fishing village of Ryeport on the coast of England.  Here the tale unfolds around Roddy McDowd, who has been unwillingly relegated to what he sees as a ‘God forsaken place’, as a punishment for his transgressions and a mysterious, striking figure from Haiti – Paul Latour, whose fate becomes entwined with that of the villagers as he tries to save his child from a violent sea captain.

This compelling tale transports the reader over hundreds of years, and interesting vibrant characters, who through adventures with smuggling, murder and the supernatural, play a part in one man’s attempt to fix a ‘deal made with the devil’.  The outcome will keep you guessing right until the end.

Sandra Cobb was an extraordinarily beautiful young woman who escaped a childhood filled with poverty and alcoholism when she married Lester Cobb. Lester showed her a whole new world, where she could enjoy nice things and feel a strong love from a husband who vowed to make the rest of her life as happy as the day they were married.

Unfortunately, their happiness was short-lived when Lester was convicted of a crime that he didn’t commit and sentenced to prison only a year after they were married.

At age nineteen, Sandra suddenly found herself alone and unhappy, and she turned to alcohol to help her cope with the long days. Even though she witnessed the misery that alcohol caused her parents, she was a helpless victim to the addiction, which fueled her hatred toward the individuals whom she held responsible for wrongly convicting her husband of murder. Sandra’s life took a dark turn when the alcohol gave her the courage to seek vengeance on the powerful people who put him there. Even though she makes them pay dearly for their mistakes, she feels little satisfaction because of the overpowering guilt over what she has done. Her pain becomes even more unbearable after a series of more bad decisions and then a life-altering accident, but her husband’s early release from prison offers some consolation.

Sandra soon discovers that Lester is not the same man that she married. After his release from prison, he embarked on a new life of drinking, gambling and cheating. Sandra soon realizes that their life can’t return to the way that it was during that first wonderful year, and her need for vengeance is now directed at her husband. The last three years of her life, she focused on nothing but helping him and punishing those people who wronged him, and he has no idea of the sacrifices made and sins committed. As her burdens become too much to bear, Sandra devises a plan that will end her suffering and also make her cheating husband pay for what he has done.

Sandra will ultimately get her revenge on everyone who has wronged her by way of a newly discovered diary that has documented all of her sins, as well as those sins of other people in the small town. As her full story is uncovered, the overzealous prosecutor and many other powerful citizens of the town will finally get what is coming to them as Sandra’s diary exposes dark secrets.