This is a re-release of a previously published book. With updated material, re-edited and a new cover.Walt Thompson had started training for the Olympics when he was just in grade school. Skiing was like second nature to him. It was all he had ever dreamed of. A great coach and a fabulous sponsor and he was on his way.Until a freak accident on the slopes at the winter try outs, left him with a broken leg and a very dark future. On top of all that, the man he thought he was ...

Gar Lancaster wasn't depressed, no matter what his sister, Nellie, said. He didn't need a trip to a tropical island to meet some guy for a vacation romance. Sex was, he could get that. Love and commitment, those were two entirely other things. But when Mike Peters kissed him on the balcony under a sea of star with the pounding waves hitting the shore below them, things changed.Maybe, he didn't need a happily ever after. Maybe happily for right now was okay. Whatever happened, Gar w...

When the past and present collide:Craig Waterson fell down a coal mine air shaft and woke up in 1932. He couldn't speak or do anything to change the outcome of what he was seeing. His great uncle, Tucker Winchester and a miner named Boone Douglas met fell in love but were doomed. Craig could do nothing to stop it.When he awoke back in his own time, his injuries kept in the hospital and led him to meet Douglas Harper, a relative of Boone Douglas. The sparks between them igni...

1862 –Maxwell Ryder refused to honor a prearranged marriage with Penelope Walker. Instead, he fell madly in love with her younger brother, Jeremiah. When Maxwell returned to his regiment, Penelope planned the murder of her brother. Hiding his body where no one would ever find it. Maxwell died during a Civil War battle never knowing what happened to his love.Present –Luke Ryder was the last descendant of the Ryder family. It was on his watch that the family's great h...

Stiles finds himself torn between his loyalty to his agency director and friend, James McCullough, and his loyalty to friend Lizzie Ferguson and his lover Michael O'Leary. He can't explain the overwhelming feelings of darkness that he feels.When the new director of the St. Louis Pinkerton Agency, fires Lizzie and Michael, then pairs Stiles up with a new agent, things begin to unravel all around Stiles.Lying to everyone, he heads to Chicago where James McCullough and other ag...

Justin Warfield ran away to Italy to put the events of last summer and a certain dark-haired private eye behind him, to no avail. If anything, he can't help but rehash what happened over and over. When he finally returns to South Carolina, the hotel he runs with his brother has suffered a series of incidents that are starting to look less accidental after a death threat is receivedNot satisifed that Moses lee and his local police will find the culprit, Peter Warfield calls in the s...

Drifting SandsThe Warfield Hotel Mysteries Bk 1As he approaches his fortieth birthday, Justin Warfield feels alone, drifting like the sand that blows along the beach near his family's hotel. He has done exactly as his father wanted. Married the right girl and carried on the family tradition of running the Warfield Hotel. On paperthings seem perfect, but happiness hasn't been a part of his life for a very long time.Marcus Drummond once spent a summe...

Jesse Lawson was never afraid of the strange and unusual dreams he had. But lately, they were becoming darker leaving him with a need to discover why he was having them. He believed he would find answers at the site of logging camps in The Great Smoky Mountains. His great grandfather had lived and died there, and Jesse was sure it was Jackson Douglas haunting him.Carter Thompson never knew his great great uncle George Thompson, but he inherited his land, home, and money. George had...

Stiles Long emphatically did not want his lover, Michael O'Leary to go on the assignment he had been given. He didn't care that Michael was an amazing poker player or that his commander thought Michael was the perfect man for the job. He almost lost Michael once. He couldn't go through that again.Michael needed this. He needed to prove that he was able to take care of himself. He didn't need Stiles to take care of him. He needed to be Stiles' equal. The poker game in Durango, Color...

Michael O'Leary is devestated by the lost of his beloved Stiles Long. The thought of returning to their home in St. Louis is more than he can bear. Having received the news that, he has inherited a Manor in England, he decides to go there. Hoping that he can find a way to begin his life anew.What he finds are secrets. So many secrets, he can't determine who is friend and who is foe. He is now Lord Whit. The owner of a vast amount of land, a village, named Whitcomb, employees on gro...

THE PINKERTON MAN SERIESC.J. BATYBOOK ONE:THE PINKERTON MANStiles Langberry leaves England under the dark cloud of blackmail.He resettles in America with a new name, becoming a Pinkerton Agent.His new employer sends him undercover to a brothel that serves homosexual men, where prostitutes are being murdered. In the course of his investigation, he becomes involved with Paul, o...

What started as a vacation for Stiles Long, Michael O'Leary, and Lizzie Ferguson, soon turns to murder?Aboard the ocean liner, the Mauretania, every luxury is at their fingertips. Sumptuous food, comfortable staterooms, dancing, card games, and anything else your first class heart can expire too. What the trio did not expect was a face from a past assignment to follow them on their cruise.James Stark was the lowest of men. A blackmailer with a heart of ice. But who hated hi...