After fifteen years at sea, First Mate Rhys Taylor walks away from the only life he has ever known. With his final payout in his pocket and no fixed destination, he sets out across America in a weathered camper van—searching not just for adventure, but for something he can't quite name.When he rescues an abandoned Labrador he calls Ted, the journey becomes a partnership forged in loyalty. Together they traverse small towns and big cities, deserts and coastlines, facing down bullies...

Cold PursuitWinter in Lake Tahoe is supposed to be quiet.But when Rhys Taylor discovers the body of a former shipmate buried in a snowbank, the frozen mountains suddenly become the scene of a brutal murder—and a trail that leads straight into a ruthless fentanyl empire.With his loyal Labrador Ted at his side and his old friend Harold "Digger" Graves backing him up, Taylor begins a relentless hunt for the man responsible. Their search leads through d...

Lessons of the RoadAfter years at sea, Rhys Taylor thought life on the open road would be simpler.With his partner Kat and his loyal Labrador Ted, Taylor sets out from Lake Tahoe in a battered camper van to explore the vast spine of America—the Rocky Mountains and the Continental Divide. But what begins as a journey of freedom and discovery quickly turns into something far more dangerous.A chance meeting in Colorado reveals a disturbing secret: a br...

A desert vacation was supposed to be simple.A little rock hunting.A little peace.A few quiet days under a wide Arizona sky.But when Rhys "Taylor" Taylor and his family stumble across a sealed railroad spur buried deep in the Sonoran Desert, they uncover something far older—and far more dangerous—than forgotten copper ore.Hidden beneath the sand lies a wartime secret: a vanished Japanese submarine mission, a clandestine American cover-up, and a cache of...

An insightful music writer brilliantly reinterprets the lives of three pop geniuses and the soul revolution they launched.Soul music is one of America's greatest cultural achievements, and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Curtis Mayfield are three of its most inspired practitioners. In midcentury America it was soul music—particularly the dazzling stream of recordings made by these three stars—that helped bring the gospel vision of the black church into the main...

A quiet morning in the Tahoe pines turns into a nightmare when Rhys Taylor's chainsaw hits something that shouldn't be there.A steel spike—buried decades ago—explodes the chain in a spray of metal and blood, leaving Taylor fighting for his life in a Reno ICU. But the sabotage doesn't end in the woods.Minutes after surgery, the hospital goes dark. Monitors fail. Ventilators flicker. Patient records vanish behind a skull-and-crossbones ransom screen. A voice over the...

A One and Attu!A Rhys Taylor StoryA mysterious encrypted computer drive arrives at Rhys Taylor's Lake Tahoe cabin—brought by Kat's father, a former NSA analyst who fears the device contains something far more dangerous than stolen data.Kat soon confirms the worst: the drive holds plans for a coordinated cyberattack on the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet. The mastermind appears to be Robert Fetterman, a brilliant but disgraced former NSA cyber-warf...

Lost CargoA Rhys Taylor StoryWhen two massive container ships disappear on the same route to South Africa, the shipping world is left with nothing but questions—no distress calls, no wreckage, no survivors.World Trade Logistics turns to former merchant mariner Rhys Taylor, asking him to take command of a third vessel and deliver a replacement cargo while secretly investigating what happened to the missing ships.Reluctantly leaving h...

THE COLD CASE FILES: A Taylor & Carter InvestigationRhys Taylor was starting to believe the quiet might kill him.Six months after a blood-soaked takedown in California wine country, life at his Lake Tahoe cabin feels almost…normal. Too normal. Then Annabelle Carter shows up with a grin, a proposition, and the kind of restless energy that only comes from a retired New Orleans detective who misses the hunt.Together, they hang out a shingle—Tay...

On a quiet spring afternoon in Lake Tahoe, Rhys "Taylor" Taylor is repairing a warped porch rail while his son plays nearby. It's the kind of peaceful moment he fought to earn—after years of maritime danger, covert operations, and enemies made in dark corners of the world.Then the phone rings.An attempted abduction.A professional hit on his closest friend.A warning carved in blood and smoke.What begins as a targeted strike against Taylor's family quick...

In 1968, a Soviet ballistic-missile submarine vanished into the Pacific with nuclear weapons still aboard. Officially, the wreck of K-129 became another Cold War ghost story—until someone starts killing ships in the same waters, with no distress calls and no survivors.When a U.S. Navy research vessel is destroyed near the long-lost wreck site, Rhys Taylor is pulled from his hard-won quiet life into an operation that feels bigger—and darker—than anything he's faced. Alongside his tr...

Taylor Carter InvestigationsWhen former merchant seaman Rhys Taylor and retired New Orleans detective Annabelle Carter launch a new private investigation firm, they expect their first case to be a quiet one.Instead, they inherit a ghost from the Cold War.A long-dead double agent named Emil Varga has suddenly resurfaced—triggering a series of brutal assassinations targeting former intelligence operatives connected to a shadow operation known...