Annalisa's Highway Blues opens on a day that Annalisa Rochon would like to forget. On that one miserable Friday, her career plans fall through, she breaks up with her boyfriend, and the family business suffers a major setback. Since the Rochons have a history of self-reliance, not self-pity, Annalisa enters a profession that can provide the kind of income her family will need in order to get through the crisis. She reluctantly enters the male-dominated world of long-haul trucking, where she finds danger, hard work, loneliness, and something completely unexpected out on the road-the kind of...

It's 1943, and Mobile, Alabama, is a wartime boomtown filled with bedlam and intrigue. The Old South coastal city is under siege by thousands who have left the backwoods and overworked cotton fields to seek their fortune in the city's new Army air field and its bustling shipyards. Shantytowns and tent cities are erected to shelter those who aren't crammed into every available room and boarding house. Schools work in shifts but can't meet the demand; garbage and sewage problems trigger rumors of typhoid, and out on the streets, young women are disappearing. In the absence of success by the...

After a Jesse Yates "Terror in the Tunnel" news video goes viral (Death's Door, Book 1), the Palm Court Detectives are hired to take on a brutal organized crime family that has gained control of a small Alabama town. Too bad the agents from Mobile aren't familiar with the local lore; Rome City is no ordinary town. Many of its inhabitants carry malevolent genes of an inbred clan of swamp dwellers who began to merge with society only three generations ago. Ancil Gagnon considers himself the last of the breed and still lives in a remote swamp in the vast Mobile-Tensaw Delta wilderness. He only...