A medical thriller about a fertility counselor who goes on a killing spree of barren women in the warped belief that this "act of mercy" will save them - her "sisters" - from a life of suffering. The serial killer, who hides her crimes by making them appear to be accidents or suicides, is uncovered by a suspicious and persistent clinic RN and her reluctant-but-efficient deputy sheriff roommate. In the process, the female nurse/deputy team also exposes unethical practices by the fertility clinic's MD founder-operator.

It's RN Gina Mazzio's wedding eve. As she takes the week's final Ob/Gyn telephone advice call, a deadly serious voice says, "She's all cut up." The police, the hospital administrator, and even her fiance insist it was a crank call, some sicko. Gina doesn't buy it. She pursues the source of the call, and a second one to her home, linking the caller to a series of nurse disappearances. Instead of a wedding and honeymoon, Gina is drawn into the illicit and dangerous trade in human body parts.

When a Northern California Indian tribe's plan to create an oceanfront casino-resort is stymied by murder, a tribal leader seeks help from a friend, Las Vegas-based private investigator Zachariah Tobias Rolfe III, who specializes in solving gaming-related crimes ... on either side of the tables. Rolfe immediately becomes embroiled with two murders, attempts on his life, a dishonest Washington lobbyist, a number of underhanded locals, and a pair of beautiful women before solving the case. The book further contrasts the devastating experience of a single Northern California Native American tribe, from its first conflict with the white man in 1776, to its heroic return from near extinction through casino ownership. Past or present, it's the land; it's always been about the land.

How far would you go to retrieve a quarter-million dollar inheritance? Investigative journalists Paige and Max Alper drop everything, including their jobs, to hopscotch from San Francisco to San Diego to New York to Hong Kong to take up the paper chase. Along the way they are pursued, trapped, stripped naked, kidnapped, and set afire while trying to find the inheritance from her sea captain uncle. A seemingly simple treasure hunt turns into an international adventure of intrigue, courage, revenge, and death.

You have cancer. You've been blasted and wasted with chemotherapy, along with every other poison the doctors could find to kill malignant cells. Most days you're more dead than alive. Tomorrow you will be infused with your own, treated bone marrow - frozen, stored, and safe in one of Cal, ifornia's most prestigious hospitals. Then comes the note: "We have yur marrow...pay or die.