What would you do if the woman of your dreams disappeared? Peter Davies is mad about his neighbor Angie, but too shy to tell her of his feelings. When she goes missing, he begins a journey that takes him deep into the brutal world of sex trafficking, brothels and forced prostitution. Along the way Peter encounters a radical feminist group that liberates captive young women by force, smuggling them along an underground railroad to freedom. Peter wants to join the group, but they reject him for being a romantic dreamer. They need hard-nosed fighters who can handle danger and violence. Peter realizes that in order to save his beloved, he must not only prove himself to their leader, but must face the Black Pearl, the cold-hearted madam in charge of the most violent brothel in the city.

A professional killer haunting the divorce courts offers the spouse with the weakest morals and the most to lose a simple proposition: hire me to fake an accidental death for your mate and your troubles will be over. It's a perfect profitable business plan, with just one little problem. The killer doesn't realize that the New York City Department of Health keeps death statistics. And Doctor Nicholas Andreas, who likes to read the obituaries, becomes curious when he notes several accidental deaths among people in high profile divorces. Dr. Andreas investigates with the help of a police detective on medical disability for World Trade Center lung disease. Their search leads them into a dangerous cat and mouse game with the killer, who is not about to let a nosey physician wreck his business. Will the good doctor become yet another death statistic? Find out in the exciting new crime novel from acclaimed author Tim Sheard.

After a midnight phone call pulls Lenny Moss into another murder investigation, the wily hospital custodian-shop steward must confront the darkest hour of his life when he realizes that even a life long friend may turn out to be his mortal enemy.

Hospital shop steward Lenny Moss is pulled into a new murder investigation when a practical joke he initiated backfires. A beautiful pharmaceutical sales rep has been found murdered in the hospital, and Lenny and his co-workers are implicated. His only chance of saving them all from termination is to organize the workers to find the killer. Suspicions fall on an ego-maniacal transplant surgeon demanding a million dollars for an unproven procedure and on a GI physician involved in a suspicious drug study. Meanwhile, a brutal heat wave is sending laundry workers to the Emergency Room with heat stroke, but the administration resists Lenny's demand that they cool the laundry down. With emotions and bodies heating up, Lenny finds himself boxed in a dangerous corner with no way out but for the help of his many friends throughout the hospital.