Jacob van Willingen arrives in a remote Romanian village aiming for a short visit. A member of the highly secretive Society for Psychical Research, Jacob has been charged with exterminating Caleb Donnithorn--but the society's intelligence about the reclusive nobleman is less than complete. As he studies his target, Van Willingen is drawn to Donnithorn, enthralled with the nobleman's alluring brides, three of society's most luminous geniuses gathered from the corners of Europe to create a fantastical machine: a resurrection engine that can capture a human soul at the moment of death....

"Heartache Cafe: Books One and Two "

The Second World War touches Newfoundland in unprecedented ways, throwing spies and patriots together inside Jack Stolyes s Heartache Cafe.

Heartache Cafe

American expatriate Jack Stoyles embarks on a self-imposed exile to St. John s, Newfoundland. With good reason, Jack calls his place Heartache Cafe. He's content until Samual Halim walks into his life.

When a constable goes missing, Jack finds himself caught between a manipulative woman, a corrupt cop, and a sabotaged work site.

Valley of the Dead

When Egyptian diplomat Samuel Halim...

Billionaire inventor Chase Gordon has just turned forty and everything in his ordered little world is going to hell in an Hermes bag. His acerbic English butler Juliet Lavish has decided to retire. The humanitarian church founded by his late parents has suddenly gone broke in the middle of the jungle in Honduras. Lastly, NYPD detective Brian Schrade wants to use Chase s palatial mansion to hide Walter Godfrey, a newspaper reporter who might know something about a recent rash of mob-related business deals. Part of the deal is the conniving, misanthropic Alec Pratt, son of a local newspaper...