Three love affairs enveloped in mystery and intrigue, intertwine with one common thread-Black Magic. Jerry Stevens embraces Black Magic as a member of the family. The stallion wins regional honors qualifying him for national completion and catapulting Stevens' farm into a multi-million dollar business-selling the stallion's stud rights around the world. But Stevens' luck falters when a prize Arabian mare is stolen and turmoil besets his Ocala, Florida farm. He hires Elizabeth Stitchway, a private investigator. Stitchway bumps up against Ocala's lead detective, David Milhous. They soon become...

Nine-year-old Rawly Scott pokes a message into a wine bottle sealing the cork with wax melting on his grandmother's stove. The next morning he tosses the bottle into the outgoing tide off Newburyport, Massachusetts, watching until it disappears in the sparkling surf. One year later a young French girl, Leigh Dobrev, finds Rawly's bottle while on the beach south west of Paris. Leigh did as Rawly's message in the bottle requested-Call me Coincidences abound: both are with their grandmothers on the beach-the toss, the discovery; same age; same first name Rawleigh-nicknamed Rawly and Leigh....

Dr. Maria Grayson, a respected surgeon, witnesses a murder. Realizing the killer is closing in on her and anyone close to her, she makes a tough decision--accepting protection. Suddenly, Maria is plucked from a life she worked hard for-friends, family, and people close to her-for a life ahead that is unknown. Under witness protection she becomes Morgan Grant-new name, new city, new job, surrounded by people she doesn't know. She's torn from a man, a fisherman, and their growing love. The killer hears she died in a crash but he doesn't buy the story. He must find her. Silence her before she...

MELANIE BECKETT has a fear of being abandoned-her mother was killed by a hit-and-run driver and her father disappeared on the same day. She was left at the age of two months in the care of a family friend. Now a successful real-estate broker, she finds satisfaction helping others find a house to make a home. Suddenly Melanie's world turns upside down. She accidentally finds a foreclosed house that matches the only material object from her past-a photograph of her mother and father standing in front of this house holding a baby wrapped in a quilt made of pastel cotton scraps-she is that baby....

War-veteran Daytona Pete intercepts a mayday call on his ham radio at 5:30 p.m. amidst a raging storm off Florida's east coast. The skipper of the forty-four-foot Molly C requests assistance. The fierce storm prevents immediate rescue. When the yacht is located the next day on New Smyrna Beach, the skipper is dead from a gunshot wound to the head. As Captain Manny Salinas from the Daytona Beach Police Department and his black Labrador retriever, Peaches, search the Molly C for clues, they discover a hidden cache of cocaine worth $3 million and one cup of ricin, a poison toxic enough to...

From the stark surroundings of Folsom State Prison in Sacramento to the lush green Palm trees of Daytona Beach emerges a love affair between two people, both prisoners from vastly different worlds. Walking into the sunlight after eleven years in prison, Robert Steele needs a big score in order to retire from a life of crime. He is ready for his target-Victoria Brookfield, a prisoner in a marriage gone bad. Steele befriends her on FaceBook, but when they meet for coffee in the bookstore their worlds collide. They find themselves caught in a web of longing, passion, love, and deceit as their...

Brenda Kittles has just left her rookie job with Homeland Security for Daytona Beach, Florida, to head up computer security for Stone & Associates, a prestigious architectural firm that recently won a coveted contract for an oceanfront multiplex development. S&A's long-awaited groundbreaking ceremony for the development abruptly ends when a group of demonstrators interrupt the festivities and a storage shed explodes. A short time later, S&A's employees learn that a body has been discovered behind a dumpster near their building. S&A's President, Russell Stone, is a tough businessman still...

Agent Hutchinson, recovering from near fatal wounds, finds himself once again battling terrorists threatening the security of the United States. This time, he is inserted deep undercover into an identity theft ring. His mission is to infiltrate, identify the leaders, and destroy the ring. The thieves must test their scheme-the scanning of information on RFID chips embedded in passports, credit cards, and driver's licenses of unsuspecting citizens. With the successful completion of their test including the manipulation and printing of duplicate documents, they are ready to build their...