Fantasy and reality clash when the members of an online group meet in person. Behind the glitter of the profiles, true identities are entwined with deadly secrets. "You can't tell him." Sarah's pretty face hardens, the dimples fading like a whimsical daydream. Her fingers claw Marisa's arm. Marisa is furious. "I won't let you get away with it. You're trying to trick my friend into a relationship." Marisa's gaze rakes the bulky sweatshirt and boxy jeans camouflaging the lush figure. "You're a stripper with a volatile boyfriend. You're not a high school teacher looking for love." Later, Sarah...

"I've gotten myself in too deep-" Jonah's last words are an epitaph to a life spent on the wrong side of the law. Marisa Adair is shocked when Jonah, a former friend from her chaotic past of drinking and partying, surfaces only to be murdered. She must solve the crime before the killer destroys her new life. To find the murderer, Marisa partners with unusual collaborators. Dithering Russell is focused on ferreting out secrets, including her colorful past. Childhood friend Alex is a chief financial officer and the chief pain in her . . . neck. Esther is the daughter of a former agent in the...

Desperate to locate a missing person, Constance Twist decides to call a detective agency. Waiting for directory assistance while muttering to herself about karma, Constance jots down the address for the Carr-Maah Consulting Agency. On the way to the agency, Constance is shoved into traffic and nearly killed. Celeste Carr is shocked when Constance storms into the office, demanding help. Celeste tries to explain that Carr-Maah is a human resources consulting company, not a detective agency. Celeste grits her teeth when her mysterious business partner, Ericka Maah, overrules Celeste and forces...

From the Author:

I spent Christmas Week 2013 with my daughter in Florida. She had volunteered to type my handwritten poems, spanning fifty years.

We laughed. I had written a poem about her father. He had persistent and constant flatulence and smelly feet. Yes, we are divorced. No, I can't say if those were contributing factors.

We cried. I had written poems about my darling sister. She had beat breast cancer only to have it come back with a vengeance that killed her. And I had written about my brave son, who lost his battle with his demons and died young.

It...

Anthropologist Olivia West is determined to find her missing best friend. As children, she and Emma Martin wandered into Heaven's Bottom, an isolated Kentucky community cut off by the Ohio River and mountainous terrain. The two women share strange memories of the traumatic experience. Emma is convinced they witnessed a blood sacrifice and moon magic, surrounded by zombies. As a scientist, Olivia believes there's a logical explanation.

Detective Steven Lewis pursues his own investigation of the mysterious town. A social worker, his wife fought her way into The Bottom to investigate...

An obscenely rich lottery winner tricks Marisa Adair into joining forces with a famous Florida private detective to investigate her daughter's twenty-year-old murder. During a serial arsonist's reign of terror, Mayla died in a fiery inferno. The newly wealthy mother wants to dedicate her considerable resources to finding her daughter's killer and bringing him to justice. Marisa is busy with problems of her own. After the death of her troubled brother, she discovers he was stalked online. The stalker is the vicious bully who had made their childhood a living hell. Marisa decides to track down...

* Kindle Scout Winner * Macey's first day in the college employee relations department ends with a knife at her throat. Macey is certain things can't get any worse. She's wrong. An angry employee vows to put her on an online hit list. When he turns up dead, she's a suspect-and on the hit list. To keep her secrets and her life, Macey partners with two unexpected allies who cause her pulse to race with steamy attraction-and exasperating annoyance. Vince, a handsome, driven lawman, digs up more than just clues to the brutal murder. Brett, a fun-loving pathologist with a deadly sense of humor,...

* Take a Walk on the Dead Side is the exciting and hilarious sequel to the Kindle Scout winner and goofy thriller Take the Body and Run * Macey Malloy and Wikket, her cantankerous cat with a nose for crime, plunge headlong into danger when a stalker targets an innocent college student. Terrified for the girl, Macey tries to help her, only to be trapped in the web of deceit with tangled links to missing women. Dodging stalkers and investigating disappearances doesn't allow Macey much time for her love life . . . which is a hot mess. With good intentions, her detective boyfriend crosses the...