Set in the aftermath of Bordering On Hatred, John Overland has been hired by the Tohono O'odham Reservation outside of Tucson, Arizona, for one reason: find the person that tried to smuggle a bomb across its borders. It doesn't matter that he knows he will be fired as soon as he has that answer. John isn't Native American and that alone is enough for the tribe to fire him once he does what they ask of him.

It starts innocently enough with a dead duck jammed into the window of John's pickup one morning in October. That leads him to a man who lives in Tucson, a man who is pimping his wife's niece. Going to talk to the man, John discovers him dead. That death will lead him to answers about himself, his country and the reservation he has sworn to protect.

They are all here: John, Kathy-his pregnant wife, Speaker and Dorinda-his daughters, plus his son, Josh and his wife, Simone. They are his reason for doing this. In the end, he will find there are other reasons for loyalty. Those reasons will propel him to find the answers for the O'odham and for himself.

Morgahna Hamilton was arrogant, presumptuous and had a career built upon those things as a reporter for "The Savannah Morning News." She was talented, ambitious and the world seemed to be at her feet. Then her husband, Evan Hamilton, committed suicide in her office and her world disintegrated.

Her job began to suffer and her friends began to worry when her phone rang not two months later. A woman uses his name and then hangs up. So starts the journey that will change the direction of her life when she is kidnapped.

Join Morgahna as she discovers why Evan committed suicide. Join her as her best friend, Debbie Jenson, is taken just like she was. Only this time, the killer will not fail. Join Morgahna as she races against time to save the life of her only friend and to put back together the pieces of her own.

John Overland is an ex-combat engineer with a unique gift. He can see graves whether freshly dug or not. That gift has driven him to Tucson, Arizona, where he works a menial job as a security guard on a construction site. Walking through a dry lakebed that is under construction, he spots a grave in that dry lakebed. He returns to that spot accompanied by his neighbor, an Indian woman named Kathy Hancock. He digs up the grave as she watches and is shocked to find his daughter, Carly, buried there.

Who killed her and why? His ex-wife? Someone she knows? Who? Was Carly doing drugs and did she cross the wrong man? John dedicates himself to finding out who killed his daughter. Along the way, his dormant soul reopens and he finds answers for his life in the most unexpected places. Join John Overland as he remembers his daughter.

In this sequel to The End Of Time, Brian Sixkiller has died and his widow, Melodie, is trying to come to terms with his death. Her journey takes her to Ireland where she meets two very special people who put her back together and send her home.

Her father, Jack Collins, has his own problems. He has become a target of someone with an old agenda, as old as his adoption of Melodie almost twenty years ago. That agenda will make Jack the target of a very specific sort of vengeance.

All Melodie has to do is beat down her demons long enough to save his life and convince everyone back home that she is sane enough and coherent enough to do what she believes needs to be done.

Dora O'Leary finds a young woman hiding behind a dumpster. The woman has been badly beaten and is absolutely terrified to step out and allow Dora to help her. Her left eye is swollen shut and her lip is badly puffed. She's covered with dirt, mud, filth and when Dora offers her a candy bar the woman actually eats crumbs fallen in the muck with her mouth.

Bradley Chang and his mother, Mae Lin, arrive in Portland, Maine and he meets Dora's sister, Melodie Sixkiller-Collins, a widow of fourteen months. Melodie is a private investigator and despite their mutual attraction, she finds that Bradley and his mother have an agenda of their own, one that does not include her.

Rick Carlton, a partner of Melodie's, is brought to a crime scene where he is shown a body in a shallow grave, a woman with a hole in her forehead. He is told that unless his firm, Melodie's, doesn't find that her husband killed her, that the police will shut down their company.

What do all three of these cases have in common? "Sibling Rivalr" pits Dora against Melodie. Read "Sibling Rivalry" to find out why.

Morgahna Hamilton's life is returning to normal after her husband committed suicide when she gets a tip on an old story. A shipping container that arrived in the Port of Savannah with twenty-seven dead Africans in it four months ago is rumored to have contained at least one American who was murdered. The rumor comes from anonymously rumbling police officers who were there that day. That rumor leads her to a lawyer named Thomas Conley. Who is he and what terribly dark secret is pushing him to commit a series of murders? What could be so heinous that it is pushing him to the brink of madness?

Join Morgahna Hamilton as she beats down the ghosts from own recent past and confronts those thrown at her by a madman who is struggling to eliminate those from his own. Join Morgahna Hamilton as she becomes the one thing that Thomas Conley is fighting.

Her name is Cassidy Goode, she's twenty-five and has been in prison twice when she buries her brother one morning in Oceanside, California. She's heartbroken because the verdict on his death was suicide and she just doesn't understand it. Brock, her late brother, was the only one of her family that seemed to have a future at all.

The trouble that will unravel the knotted cords of her life begins when she goes to Brock's house to get pictures of him for her mother. Her ex-boyfriend shows up with another man and it becomes obvious that they're going to kill her. She manages to hide and then witnesses the ex's death at the hands of the mysterious man who accompanied him.

The only person she can trust to help her survive another attempt on her life is her grandfather, Professor Jason Bell. Together, they will uncover why her own past was so unendurably hard.

The answers will push Cassidy's life in a new direction, one that will make everyone proud of her and the way she handles it. Read "The Goode Girl" to find out what secrets are buried in her past, who tried to bury them and why.

Melodie Chang's life has been peaceful ever since she cut off the head of Dennis Van Landingham. Then Dexter McGuire, a sixteen-year-old rich kid, enters her life one morning as she's jogging around Back Cove. He's crude, irreverent and his first words to her are typically teenage coarse. What could he possibly say to her in order to help him beat a murder rap, one that accuses him of killing his own father? Read "Lacy's Eyes" to learn what it is that he says to her.

What compels Ruth McCain to commit suicide by putting a gun in her mouth inside the lobby of the "Savannah Morning News" as reporter Morgahna Hamilton watched? The answer to those question will lead Morgahna to the Bahamas, to danger and back.
Everything that will happen to Morgahna results from two things Ruth gave her before she committed suicide - an envelope and a question, "Do you consider yourself to be a good reporter?" She does and will discover where that talent will lead and why.
It begins in the McCain home when Morgahna discovers the three McCain children dead in their beds. That Ruth killed them before committing suicide is obvious. But why? What could compel their mother to kill them? What Morgahna discovers is that Ruth McCain was protecting a child - and not one of her own.
In "Ministering To The Innocent," Morgahna Hamilton learns precisely what that means.

Speaker Hawke wants things to be better for her than they were for her mother when she grew up on the Tohono Oodham Reservation outside Tucson. That wish leads her to take John Overland for a short walk early one Saturday morning. She smokes a joint just as two pickups race across the valley below them. And that starts everything that follows.

The next morning, she goes to visit her friend and discovers a blood bath. Dorinda's parents are gruesomely dead and her friend is missing. That spurs John Overland into action, into a mystery where he will meet FBI agents, crooked cops, drug dealers from Nogales, Mexico, and old Indians who live in hovels dug out of hillsides.

It all leads to something he suspects might be a drug hit on Dorinda's parents. The deeper he digs into the death of her parents, however, the more he is convinced that something hideously heinous is about to happen in southern Arizona. Though it is difficult to accept, he does believe one thing: he will not live through it.

Read "Bordering On Hatred" to discover what John Overland is fighting. Join John as he is shown how to prevent a holocaust that would pit race-against-race, brother-against-brother and friend-against-friend.

What do these disparate cases have in common? A cold case A mysterious car accident at two-thirty in the morning An office employee threatening suicide because her lawyer boyfriend moved out of their apartment A new thug in town running hookers ands whores.

As these cases unfold, Jack Collins' oldest daughter, Melodie, is being slowly driven to distraction by demands of a new boyfriend, her children and her new job as President of her father's investigative firm when someone tries to kill her daughter.

A Chinese girl comes to private investigator Doug Vance's office and asks him to find her grandmother. But the clues Doug is given lead him to believe that the girl, who he comes to know as April fu-Wang, is part of the problem. That feeling is confirmed when they are the targets in a drive-by. Things begin to escalate when Doug discovers that April works for and lives with a gangster named Ginger Lee. Since Doug's father-in-law is mobster Nick Mercanti, Doug begins to wonder who was behind the hits on April and him. It could be either Nick or Ginger. It leads Doug and April to Oceanside where they view a video of the attack on them. Spliced onto the end of the video are the execution of a man and a woman. But who are they and why were their deaths spliced onto an attack on Greg and April? As events unfold, Doug begin to sense that he is being led to an answer that that he finds despicable. It can only mean that Nick is going to kill Ginger and that Doug's efforts to stop the murder will involve him either in their deaths or as the person who stopped it. If there is another answer, he doesn't see it. But there is. Discover why Nick Mercanti leads his son-in-law to a point in time that will change his life. Read The Woman Behind His Eyes.

Marcus Dent will meet Gracie Wallace somewhere. That much seems certain. Whether or not they will meet in time to stop whatever is being planned is another question. Dent is an operative of the US government. Wallace is the property of CS Senator Sam Buford. Their meeting becomes imperative when Buford decides to kill her because he has no further use for her. Before he does, he tells her about plans he has for relations between the USA and the CSA. It is done in gloating terms, but he dies of a massive heart attack before he can kill her. That leaves Gracie Wallace with a secret she cannot keep. She needs to tell someone and Marcus Dent will be that person. What is the secret? Read "Blood, Brother" to learn what some people will do to put their stamp on America.

Set in the aftermath of Bordering On Hatred, John Overland has been hired by the Tohono O'odham Reservation outside of Tucson, Arizona, for one reason: find the person that tried to smuggle a bomb across its borders. It doesn't matter that he knows he will be fired as soon as he has that answer. John isn't Native American and that alone is enough for the tribe to fire him once he does what they ask of him.

It starts innocently enough with a dead duck jammed into the window of John's pickup one morning in October. That leads him to a man who lives in Tucson, a man who is pimping his wife's niece. Going to talk to the man, John discovers him dead. That death will lead him to answers about himself, his country and the reservation he has sworn to protect.

They are all here: John, Kathy-his pregnant wife, Speaker and Dorinda-his daughters, plus his son, Josh and his wife, Simone. They are his reason for doing this. In the end, he will find there are other reasons for loyalty. Those reasons will propel him to find the answers for the O'odham and for himself.

What compels Ruth McCain to commit suicide by putting a gun in her mouth inside the lobby of the "Savannah Morning News" as reporter Morgahna Hamilton watched? The answer to those question will lead Morgahna to the Bahamas, to danger and back.
Everything that will happen to Morgahna results from two things Ruth gave her before she committed suicide - an envelope and a question, "Do you consider yourself to be a good reporter?" She does and will discover where that talent will lead and why.
It begins in the McCain home when Morgahna discovers the three McCain children dead in their beds. That Ruth killed them before committing suicide is obvious. But why? What could compel their mother to kill them? What Morgahna discovers is that Ruth McCain was protecting a child - and not one of her own.
In "Ministering To The Innocent," Morgahna Hamilton learns precisely what that means.

Her name is Cassidy Goode, she's twenty-five and has been in prison twice when she buries her brother one morning in Oceanside, California. She's heartbroken because the verdict on his death was suicide and she just doesn't understand it. Brock, her late brother, was the only one of her family that seemed to have a future at all.

The trouble that will unravel the knotted cords of her life begins when she goes to Brock's house to get pictures of him for her mother. Her ex-boyfriend shows up with another man and it becomes obvious that they're going to kill her. She manages to hide and then witnesses the ex's death at the hands of the mysterious man who accompanied him.

The only person she can trust to help her survive another attempt on her life is her grandfather, Professor Jason Bell. Together, they will uncover why her own past was so unendurably hard.

The answers will push Cassidy's life in a new direction, one that will make everyone proud of her and the way she handles it. Read "The Goode Girl" to find out what secrets are buried in her past, who tried to bury them and why.

Speaker Hawke wants things to be better for her than they were for her mother when she grew up on the Tohono Oodham Reservation outside Tucson. That wish leads her to take John Overland for a short walk early one Saturday morning. She smokes a joint just as two pickups race across the valley below them. And that starts everything that follows.

The next morning, she goes to visit her friend and discovers a blood bath. Dorinda's parents are gruesomely dead and her friend is missing. That spurs John Overland into action, into a mystery where he will meet FBI agents, crooked cops, drug dealers from Nogales, Mexico, and old Indians who live in hovels dug out of hillsides.

It all leads to something he suspects might be a drug hit on Dorinda's parents. The deeper he digs into the death of her parents, however, the more he is convinced that something hideously heinous is about to happen in southern Arizona. Though it is difficult to accept, he does believe one thing: he will not live through it.

Read "Bordering On Hatred" to discover what John Overland is fighting. Join John as he is shown how to prevent a holocaust that would pit race-against-race, brother-against-brother and friend-against-friend.

Morgahna Hamilton's life is returning to normal after her husband committed suicide when she gets a tip on an old story. A shipping container that arrived in the Port of Savannah with twenty-seven dead Africans in it four months ago is rumored to have contained at least one American who was murdered. The rumor comes from anonymously rumbling police officers who were there that day. That rumor leads her to a lawyer named Thomas Conley. Who is he and what terribly dark secret is pushing him to commit a series of murders? What could be so heinous that it is pushing him to the brink of madness?

Join Morgahna Hamilton as she beats down the ghosts from own recent past and confronts those thrown at her by a madman who is struggling to eliminate those from his own. Join Morgahna Hamilton as she becomes the one thing that Thomas Conley is fighting.

John Overland is an ex-combat engineer with a unique gift. He can see graves whether freshly dug or not. That gift has driven him to Tucson, Arizona, where he works a menial job as a security guard on a construction site. Walking through a dry lakebed that is under construction, he spots a grave in that dry lakebed. He returns to that spot accompanied by his neighbor, an Indian woman named Kathy Hancock. He digs up the grave as she watches and is shocked to find his daughter, Carly, buried there.

Who killed her and why? His ex-wife? Someone she knows? Who? Was Carly doing drugs and did she cross the wrong man? John dedicates himself to finding out who killed his daughter. Along the way, his dormant soul reopens and he finds answers for his life in the most unexpected places. Join John Overland as he remembers his daughter.

"My mother has cancer."

So starts "Echoes Of A Distant Past."

Melodie Chang's life is perfect and then her mother tells her she has cancer plus a son from long ago. She wants her to find him before she dies.

The search for Michael Campbell will uncover some old truths that Melodie's mother thought she left in the past. Will those truths be enough to scatter their family and break up Melodie's perfect life?

"Echoes Of A Distant Past" will answer every question Melodie has ever had about her family and her own position within it.

Of course, she has to live through the search first. It seems that an old lover, Peter Campbell, remembers Nikki Swanson, the girl who is now Melodie's mother, and remembers her quite differently than Melodie does.

One will win and one will lose and Michael will be between them when that day comes. Who will win and who will die? Someone will.

Is it Melodie?

Tong War describes feuds between Chinese gangs that ended in the 1920s. However, one threatens to break out in Portland, Maine, and PI Melodie Chang is dragged into the middle of it. It doesn't help that she's five months pregnant and that her husband, Brad, is one of the targets of this new feud. Mike Wei is beating up people around town. Melodie will discover that every preconceived notion she has about tong wars will be wrong. She will discover things about her husband that might threaten her marriage. Mostly, she will need to discover the true reason that war has broken out in Portland before it threatens the life of her unborn baby. Into Melodie's world comes a girl named Sylvia and her baby, Johnny. Can Melodie save them before Wei kills both of them? Who is she and what does she have to do with everything that is happening? And why does she insist that Melodie's friend, Candy Howard, needs her? The case will end only when Melodie can answer all these questions. Still, one of them will die before she does and that death will transform not just Melodie but all of them.

Dora O'Leary finds a young woman hiding behind a dumpster. The woman has been badly beaten and is absolutely terrified to step out and allow Dora to help her. Her left eye is swollen shut and her lip is badly puffed. She's covered with dirt, mud, filth and when Dora offers her a candy bar the woman actually eats crumbs fallen in the muck with her mouth.

Bradley Chang and his mother, Mae Lin, arrive in Portland, Maine and he meets Dora's sister, Melodie Sixkiller-Collins, a widow of fourteen months. Melodie is a private investigator and despite their mutual attraction, she finds that Bradley and his mother have an agenda of their own, one that does not include her.

Rick Carlton, a partner of Melodie's, is brought to a crime scene where he is shown a body in a shallow grave, a woman with a hole in her forehead. He is told that unless his firm, Melodie's, doesn't find that her husband killed her, that the police will shut down their company.

What do all three of these cases have in common? "Sibling Rivalr" pits Dora against Melodie. Read "Sibling Rivalry" to find out why.

What do these disparate cases have in common? A cold case A mysterious car accident at two-thirty in the morning An office employee threatening suicide because her lawyer boyfriend moved out of their apartment A new thug in town running hookers ands whores.

As these cases unfold, Jack Collins' oldest daughter, Melodie, is being slowly driven to distraction by demands of a new boyfriend, her children and her new job as President of her father's investigative firm when someone tries to kill her daughter.

Morgahna Hamilton was arrogant, presumptuous and had a career built upon those things as a reporter for "The Savannah Morning News." She was talented, ambitious and the world seemed to be at her feet. Then her husband, Evan Hamilton, committed suicide in her office and her world disintegrated.

Her job began to suffer and her friends began to worry when her phone rang not two months later. A woman uses his name and then hangs up. So starts the journey that will change the direction of her life when she is kidnapped.

Join Morgahna as she discovers why Evan committed suicide. Join her as her best friend, Debbie Jenson, is taken just like she was. Only this time, the killer will not fail. Join Morgahna as she races against time to save the life of her only friend and to put back together the pieces of her own.