The spooks arrived before Jack and Tessa opened the doors of their new paranormal security agency.Ghosts, Serial Killers, and a Mesopotamian Curse.Never mind unresolved emotions between the two partners.Adding to the list both international antiquities smugglers and terrorists does nothing to endear them with the FBI or a secret gang of paramilitary soldiers.Jack de Sombras is wondering if he was better off dead.Tessa Lancing is becoming Death.

Agent Tessa Lancing believed she knew all about death – until she met Death itself.Tessa has one last chance to prove herself to her employer, a disavowed secretive agency, or face literal termination, and she's desperate to do what she must to succeed. When assigned to a doomed mission already littered with dead bodies, she drags Jack de Sombras, an accused traitor who's also her old partner and unrequited love, out of his self-ma...

Lady Shamus – Gumshoe in High Heels!Dead broke. Hunted by the police.San Francisco's Most Unwanted. She could lose it all.For Lady detective Lou Tanner, one case could fix everything.In a world on the brink of war, will her sharp tongue and cunning wits save her from a web of murder and political intrigue?Hard-boiled Pulp Fiction meets Dieselpunk in this twisted Tale of a Retro-Futuristic 1935 San Francisco.From the chaos of ...

A Place of Fog and Murder -- Second EditionA Gumshoe in High Heels -- Lady detective Lou Tanner needs to cement her reputation to survive in a man's job, but the gorgeous client offering her a new case has brought her more than his tales of woe. Ruthless gangsters, suspicious cops, and a desperate blackmailer all manage to gum up the works at every turn. Gun in hand and wits at the ready, Lou is in a fight for her life.

Injustice for the living. A reckoning for the dead. A bitter payment is overdue.In the storm-battered New Mexico town of Benedición, three strangers discover that survival is not a matter of innocence - but of endurance.An unnatural storm has swallowed the settlement whole. Floodwaters are rising. Escape routes are gone. And the law - what's left of it - has revealed its ugliest face.Eli Mercer is only passing through. He's a man with a vio...

The truth is out there. So are the lies.Cowboy & cool detective, Jack de Sombras, scoffs at Little Green Men. He's too busy protecting people from the things they should fear — violent cults, creepy hauntings, and treasonous politicians. But when a dead woman and a pair of mummified aliens turn up, even Jack wants to believe.Someone in the mountain is watching him.Whatever's out there won't leave his valley alone.

1884: Europe is on the brink of war!Riots blaze in the streets of London!Scientists are murdered and their laboratories destroyed!An ancient relic is discovered with horrible, dangerous secrets!In the center of it all: lady geologist Professor Lettie Gantry and the enigmatic Commander Tom Turner. The target of foreign powers and insane geniuses, Gantry must believe in the unbelievable if she is to save those sh...

Some evils never die — they are reborn in unwilling flesh.*"*A potent fusion of intelligent horror and thrilling mystery. Guaranteed to captivate readers who crave atmospheric chills and cerebral scares." ~The Prairies Book Review, 2025"The Vesselis ... a book that will appeal to fans of dark fantasy and supernatural thrillers who enjoy complex characters and intricate plot twists." ~ Literary Titan, 2025

Beneath the quiet deserts, bustling cities, and lonely stretches of highway, something ancient stirs—an evil that blends supernatural horror with human corruption.It's the kind of danger that doesn't show up in police reports.The kind you call the Praetorius Agency to stop.Jack de Sombras is a rugged ex-intelligence operative—equal parts cowboy investigator and reluctant hero. His past is a locked v...

The Wild American West was a dream and hope for many— for some it was a place to die.Lucky Tom Turner has finally run out of the good fortune that kept him alive for so long.Rescue the brilliant scientist, elude the New Confederacy, and escape the Prussians determined to torture him for secrets only he has – that's all his country asked of him.Ghost trains, evil agents, flooded mines, and a gunfight in the streets of Tombstone all await the no-so-lucky Turner. Befor...

There's something nasty lurking in the thick fog of San Francisco,roaring in the dark, waiting to be unleashed.Leave it to lucky Tom Turner to have to find out,but first he must evade being shanghaied in the Barbary Coast, destroyed by the murderous ambitions of former Confederate "gentlemen," or punished as a consequence of his own past. Mechanical monstrosities show up on every gaslit street corner and in every suspicious warehouse, threatening the very fabric of ...

In August of 1883, the volcano Krakatoa catastrophically exploded, few survived.Lucky Tom Turner was one of those few.A Civil War veteran, intelligencer, and first mate aboard Robur the Conqueror's magnificent airship, Turner was a reluctant Devil. His luck has finally run out. Now he'll have to confront the consequences of his past and those who want the secrets he alone holds. Murderous pirates, ruthless French scientists...