Taylor Wilson owns her own landscaping business and is filling a wheel barrow with pumpkins in her own backyard in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she lives quite happily with artist/sculptor husband Phil. Phil has driven away from the house after answering the telephone. His instructions...

Aimee Reardon is just eight years old when she witnesses the brutal murder and burial of her mother by her father, Luther. She has the presence to telephone for help from the police as her father digs her mother's grave while demanding that Aimee play...

Sean Reilly, FBI agent, only wants to enjoy a short respite from an exasperating case over the July Fourth holiday. He can try to recharge from some emotional stress in his relationship with his girlfriend, Tess Chaykin, former archaeologist, with whom he’s had a few...

Patrick M. Garry poses a powerful ethical dilemma in "The Price of Guilt". At age 13, Thomas Walsh plays a small role in a prank that goes horribly wrong, leaving a classmate blinded and orphaned. Now, with his daughter away at college and his marriage...

Ben has morphed into a safe person after a violent crime takes his family from him. Reserved, quiet and so in tune with safety that he sells his service as a safety consultant to businesses and corporations. He has settled into a vanilla life, marries...

Ward McNulty's family lived for years on Timuqua Island near Jacksonville, Florida. Ward's father led a citizen's revolt against the financial backers who wanted to buy out the residents, knock down their modest homes, and build an exclusive resort called the North Beach Project on...

David Heart, a young stockbroker analyst, naïve and inexperienced, is thrust into the harsh reality of share trading. The floor dealer despises him, and Sandy Allen, with an agenda of her own, takes him under his wing and gives him a few hard truths about...

Former military intelligence operative, now small town lawyer James Becker, and his ex-CIA wife, Beth, have retired to Beck's hometown of Red Wing, Minnesota. Their retirement hasn't been exactly what they'd expected. Now, a new source of crime and intrigue has settled in their small...

That Certain Summer by Mary Verdick is a light springy romance with a suspenseful undertone to it. Sally Grimes from Winner, Iowa, wants to be a writer but so far has not progressed past writing for the local newspaper. Now she has a chance to...