"It's hard to stop reading...fasten your seat belt for an enjoyable flight." -Kirkus Reviews What if the cavalier decision you made about your child the day she was born had the power to reverberate for more than thirty years, dividing the nation, costing three people their lives, and destroying your family? Homeless teen Allison Fitzgerald believes the two tiny membranes on her baby's back are not, as the doctors claim, a surgically correctable birth defect, but a pair of wings. And after having a vision of her child flying, she even names her Angel. The "wings" will never flap, fly or lift...

2014 FIRST PLACE WINNER for MYSTERY/SUSPENSE - KINDLE BOOK PROMO / INTERNATIONAL BOOK CONTEST. Det. Blake Ervansky is first on the scene when an Oscar-winning star is shot by his ex-lover. As lead cop on the case, Ervansky has everything he needs to put away Ali Garland: motive, weapon, videos of the murder and a dozen eyewitnesses, one of whom is his partner of less than 24 hours, Sgt. Maureen O'Brien. This is LA, the beating heart of show biz, though, so nothing is as it seems, even Ervansky's new partner. Ali Garland appears to have been justified in defending herself with lethal force,...

Social marketing trailblazer, April Kelly, dishes up time-tested advice and practical tools that will help you build a personal brand and real networking connections that deliver results.

-- LEARN HOW TO --
Identify key strengths, unique values, and passions
Create realistic, specific goals
Enhance and define a personal brand
Apply the four paramount rules of networking
Use social networking sites to build a valuable network
Taking control of your career now is essential, and the advice Kelly shares in Spaghetti on the Wall will help you effectively manage and...

2014 Shamus Award Nominee for Best Indie P.I. Novel. When movie action hero Micah Deifenschlictor is accused of murdering his longtime agent, private investigators Maureen O'Brien and Blake Ervansky are offered a small fortune by Micah's attorney to prove her client's innocence. Blake and Maureen uncover evidence that eliminates Micah as a suspect in less than a day, earning the huge paycheck for very little work. When the case boomerangs back to them, however, the detectives realize they may have been duped into participating in a cover-up. After secretly reopening their investigation,...

"Trust me, I'm almost a detective." The ink is barely dry on Richard Valentine's private investigator's license before his very first client frames him for a homicide, forcing Rick to accept help from ex-boss and top LA sleuth Dako Farona to get himself out of trouble. Rick has no love for Farona, who paid him only slave wages during three years of legwork, but he gets caught up in one of Dako's cases after learning it links back to his own father, a police officer killed in the line of duty while Rick was still in kindergarten. When someone sabotages the case by shooting Farona, Rick steps...

What has six legs, black stripes and kills people? A homicidal magician and the biggest tiger in his world-famous show. Murder will be hard to prove, though, because the dead guy never existed, all the evidence seems to have been eaten, and the victim's corpse isn't the only thing that has disappeared. When Maureen O'Brien suddenly vanishes, P.I. Blake Ervansky learns about her shocking former life, a past he doesn't think he can live with. Then, before he can tell her their partnership is over, a call from a client in hysterics reveals that a recently solved case has come messily unsolved....