Short story. Sheila and Ryan were lovers until one day Sheila abruptly disappears, leaving Ryan a cryptic note.Six months later, Sheila surprises Ryan by showing up at his apartment and pretending nothing had happened. Over a long weekend, Sheila dazzles Ryan with grandiose stories of her new life, hinting that they can be lovers again. But something isn't right. Sheila's stories change and she starts acting bizarrely. She has several cell phone calls that she hides from Ryan....

Former high school football teammates meet at a wedding ten years after a violent tackle on the football field crippled one.The crippled teammate, whose promising tennis career was ruined, is a bartender at the wedding reception. His former teammate is the arrogant, drunken groom. Revenge becomes a deadly wedding present.

Milan's elite antiterrorism DIGOS police receive a tip that a sleeper cell of Muslim terrorists have received toxic chemicals from Pakistan to make deadly sarin gas. The cell leader, a highly educated Italian-Pakistani engineer, has access to Milan's centers of finance, technology, commerce, and entertainment -- all high profile targets with hundreds of casualties in a terrorist attack.But the police have no names or leads to identify the terrorists. After months of investigation t...

Sylvia de Matteo, an American single mother, is taken hostage by terrorists during a political assassination at Stazione Centrale, Milan's train station. She is seized at gunpoint and thrown into the back of a van.Moments later, a Paris-bound train with Sylvia's fiancé and ten-year old daughter aboard departs Centrale without Sylvia. The terrorists drive Sylvia to a warehouse where she is imprisoned in a cell.When the terrorists discover Sylvia's father is a wealthy Wall St...

A San Francisco wife plots A Perfect Crime to murder her pilandering husband by being in two places at the same time.

A school boy is bullied by a classmate to follow a beautiful young woman when she gets off a bus. He follows her home and becomes fascinated about her private life. Six year later when he's in college, he sees her in in an office. He returns secretly at night, finds her desk, learns her name, and sees family photos.Years later, he meets her professionally and she shares her personal information applying for a mortgage. He knows her address and has keys to her home. His curiosity be...

A Russian banker embezzles millions laundering money in Switzerland for Russian oligarchs. He flees with his Italian wife to a remote location on Lake Como near Milan, where their daughter lives.Putin wants him dead and sends a GRU assassin to Milan to find and poison the banker.But Milan's antiterrorism police cannot locate the assassin, Vasily Egorov, who is traveling with phony documents, carrying a vial of poison, and speaking Italian. Unexpectedly, Egorov meets an intr...

Dane and BJ witness a double meteor streak across the sky the night they begin a summer love affair. They agree to meet the next summer with one condition; no contact over the winter. One harbors a dark secret.They renew their affair next summer and vow to meet the third summer and never part. But the condition remains; no contact over the winter.The third summer arrives . . .

True crime.When Brad Baker met Andrea Currier, it was classic middle America meets old money. Brad was from Indiana and dabbled in politics; Andrea was the great-granddaughter of Andrew Mellon, former Secretary of Treasury for three Republican presidents. Andrea's net worth was in the range of $500 million.It started out like a romance novel and ended with a shotgun blast New Years Eve.

A married couple is enjoying a Saturday night at their remote home in Central California while the husband's parents take care of their young boys in town. Drinking vino, eating pizza, smoking joints in their hot tub, they witness strange lights in the night sky, lights like at the end of a commercial jet's wings, but no plane, only lights, many, many lights.

A San Francisco wife plots to murder her philandering husband by being in two places at one time.She commits the Perfect Crime -- and starts an exciting life with a sexy new boyfriend, living off her dead husband's generous life insurance policy.Until her doorbell rings one night . . . .

Sylvia de Matteo, an American single mother, is taken hostage by terrorists during a political assassination at Stazione Centrale, Milan's train station. She is seized at gunpoint and thrown into the back of a van.Moments later, a Paris-bound train with Sylvia's fiancé and ten-year-old daughter aboard departs Centrale without Sylvia. The terrorists drive Sylvia to a warehouse where she is imprisoned in a cell.When the terrorists discover Sylvia's father is a wealthy Wall St...