This collection includes novellas four through six in the Madison Keith Suburban Noir Ghost Story series: Stone Cold, Deadly Streets, Lonely Ghosts. In the fourth novella of this Suburban Noir Ghost Story series, Madison Keith visits her best friend on the Oregon coast. While staying in an unusual stone house, she meets two disturbing women who harbor a shocking secret. As Madison seeks to uncover the reasons for their cruel and aggressive behavior, she has a supernatural encounter, and stumbles across the body of someone who has been dead for some time. Escaping from the others for a few...

Fanatical dedication to her career, an MBA degree, and a savvy awareness of workplace politics are all Laura Bachman needs to take the next step up the corporate ladder. She knows the job is hers for the taking, but an administrative assistant who behaves like a femme fatale, and a sinister jogger at the track where she runs, threaten to derail her. Vanessa Hillman isn't quite sure what she wants, although she knows it's something different, something more, something she can't put into words. She loves her fiance and they have a good life together. She's great at her job and her boss values...

This collection includes novellas seven through nine in the Madison Keith Suburban Noir Ghost Story series: Last Chance, Eaten Alive, Empty Home. Even though she doesn't believe in them, Pastor Kate believes she's been assaulted by a ghost in the novella, Last Chance. She asks Madison to spend a few nights at the home where she's helping one of the church deacons and his wife with their new baby. Not only does Madison encounter a ghost who is bloody with pain, she alienates her hosts with her constant questions about the history of the quirky, moldy house. When Madison encounters the ghost...

In the heart of Silicon Valley, a group of longtime friends present their idealized lives on social media, while their true selves remain masked. Battling feelings of betrayal, envy, and lust, their addiction to an endless stream of updates is silently eating at the foundation of their relationships. One of them is not feeling the love. One of them is isolated and jealous, and considers murder worth the price to gain a life that matches the glittering world displayed online. Faceless is a gripping suburban noir novel that explores the dark side of social media, and leads us to ask whether...

When everyone claims to speak for God, it's hard to find the truth. Vain, sensuous, jealous, and idealistic, Gabrielle Atwater is a devoted mother and madly in love with her husband, Mark. As the minister of Grace Lutheran Church, Mark's devotion to the members of his church drains his time and energy, leaving nothing for Gabrielle. But Gabrielle is convinced that something more sinister is out to destroy the passion in their marriage. A mysterious woman from a pentecostal church convinces Gabrielle she can expect miracles. Now, Gabrielle is confident nothing will stand in the way of her...

This collection includes the final two novellas in the Madison Keith Suburban Noir Ghost Story series: Ugly Truth and Beloved Ghosts. In Ugly Truth, Madison is confronted by an entity whose message could destroy the pastor of the church where she works. Still trying to reconcile her parents' murders, she's forced to expose her past in order to deal with this spirit haunting the church basement. While wanting to know the truth about her parents, it is truth that may bring devastation to this small church. Putting her job on the line, she must decide whether or not she can be true to herself....

A ghost that haunts the human mind is the most terrifying of all.

Corrine Dunning loves living by the ocean, and her life is getting even better now that shes falling in love with Andy Johnson. When Corrine meets a blind old woman who insists the concrete ship in Monterey Bay is haunted, she doesnt believe it. Although Mary Carmichael is blind now, shes seen a lot of love affairs bloom and die near Seacliff Beach. She was a child when the concrete SS Palo Alto was pulled up to the pier at Seacliff - shes always known it was haunted, and she knows the ghost will weave itself into Corrines...

A ghost that haunts the human mind is the most terrifying of all. It's 1930 and the concrete ship is towed to its final resting place at Seacliff Beach. The town of Aptos is buzzing with anticipation for the grand opening of the restaurant and dance hall built inside the ship. Everyone has a dream for the promise of a night on the ship. Mary fights to convince her parents the "adults only" rule is unfair. Her mother, Lorene King, anticipates a final chance to rekindle her marriage and her husband's colleague, Jacob Archer, knows it's the perfect setting to win the woman he adores. The...

Everyone knows someone who deserves to die. Noreen Palmer describes herself as sweet and responsible, but she can't stop lying - about why she destroyed the mirror, about her broken love affair, about the things that happened in her bungalow perched on a cliff above the ocean. When Alexandra Mallory and Jared Brady rent rooms in her precariously situated home, the danger of falling over the cliff is the least of their fears. Alex is drawn to both Jared and a strange man lurking around the bungalow, but determined to steer a wide path around her unstable landlord. Soon, Noreen's escalating...