This short story is about Greed, Blackmail, and Murder. Beatrice is missing and seems to have vanished into thin air. What could have happened to this forty year old woman and why doesn't anybody seem to care?

Sun filled Sarasota, Florida is up to its lovely hips in murder. Not the run of the mill household variety, these are vicious. Attorney David Winter receives a phone call in the middle of the night from a distraught woman worried about her missing son. He takes the case and he soon finds himself up to his ears in sex-trafficking, kidnapping, and hunted by the Arab Mafia. To top it off a drug that wipes out a portion of memory threatens his gal Linda and soon will eat her mind away driving her insane. He would ask Floyd for help but he isn't sure if the old war hound can be trusted. His only...

Tommy Hampton and his friend Cody, decided it was time to do some fishin' up near the spring, where tales of a witch haunted his memory and black bears roamed. After running out of daylight they headed home but met a neighbor boy on the road with a bloody cut on his face. He claimed Ellsinore the witch did it. Cody didn't believe him. Tommy wasn't sure. In the next few hours the truth would be known and the Missouri Ozark community of Ellsinore Springs would never be the same.

When a very rich and powerful man is murdered in Wayton, N.Y. Detective Frank Barns and Paula Cruz are called to solve the homicide. The problem is they can't stand each other. Their investigation leads them to Gloria Storm, an extremely successful VP of Barrington Inc, who wants it all and will do anything to get it. Her desires go beyond corporate greed for money and power. She wants to marry the company's owner and founder, Ronnie Mann. And if she can't have him-no one will.