Someone is trying to kill Caressa Cruel. The television newscaster returns to historic Charleston, SC to comfort her dying father only to have him reveal a shocking secret. A confession that not only verifies her life is in danger, but also rouses agonizing memories of her troubled past. When her father dies before revealing a vital piece of information, he leaves Caressa to search for the answers that would reveal the identity of a killer. Caressa's dilemma intensifies when she discovers the body of a loved one, murdered. Now she is left heartbroken and without answers. Will she be able to...

THE DEVIL'S PAWN A Novelist discovers that a stranger who has learned her secret is stalking her. A journalist plans to destroy a man's life to find his own in danger. A coed waits in a seedy motel room fearing for her life, while a language professor fights to keep her sanity. What do these four people have in common? Each is a pawn in an egotistical killer's game. Robin Wilder struggles to heal from a tragedy that traumatized her life and compelled her to flee her hometown. She settles in the quaint town of Heritage, South Carolina, and spends the next four years living the pretense of an...

What would you do if while living under the Witness Security Program you realized your new identity was no longer safe? Then after years of running, you decided to settle down only to discover the enemies you thought you had eluded were close to finding you? What would you do if they began killing the people you care about? Moreover, what if when you sought aid you discovered the only person who could help you, the link between your former identity and your new, was dead? Anne Corey finds herself alone, unable to share her secret, and too frightened to trust anyone. Now she must either flee...

Professional blogger and amateur sleuth, Hattie Blitch along with her husband, Skyler, the sheriff of Cyprus Hollow, SC, investigate a body found floating in the waters of Carolina Carlyle's nineteenth-century plantation. The couple returns to the plantation after Carolina's employee finds a three hundred year old pirate flag and treasure map, then vanishes. Carolina's discovery of her employee's body in the plantation woods, in addition to the first body having been found on her property, reignites the town's rejection of her pirate ancestry. The double murders compel Hattie to use her...