13-year-old Mabel Stewart always dreamed of adventure; she just didn't expect it to involve ghosts, rival secret societies, and a book powerful enough to change the world.In the series opener, when her parents are called away on mysterious business, Mabel and her brother Izzy are sent to their grandfather's eerie Wisconsin mansion. There, she discovers a hidden book that pulls her into a century‑long conflict between The Protectors, her family's secret supernatural...

Based on a sensational 1928 true crime mystery that gripped the nation, an unidentified, alluring woman has been found murdered, a victim of being casually connected to a powerful Wall St. tycoon with ties to the rising danger in Germany. As the two fun-loving agents assigned to the case discover, nothing is what it seems.Charlie Postlethwaite and Gretchen Retrum are co-workers and an occasional bickering couple at a clandestine federal agency charged with investig...

The Roaring Twenties. A decade freed from the horrors of the Great War. A time of economic prosperity, technological advances, jazz music, wild youth, and Prohibition. A time where vast fortunes were made and a new sense of entitlement arose among the elite of society. And with that entitlement, a thirst for more power.A federal agent working for an agency tasked with investigating financial crimes has been found brutally murdered in a Washington. D.C. hotel. His mistake? Investiga...

Would you like to know the day you die?Harmony Binger is the beautiful, mysterious CEO of a secretive research firm that has developed a ground-breaking algorithm. She offers five specially chosen college students a deal: a life-changing sum of money in exchange for knowing their death dates. Four say yes. Lucas Green believes it to be unnatural and refuses.When the predicted deaths unfold with terrifying accuracy, Lucas realizes the research study is far f...

Finally!The world's first practical self-help guide on how to successfully navigate any interaction you may have with a police officer. Written by a 30-year veteran officer, it's chock-full of real-life examples of incorrect assumptions, people not knowing how to approach the police and others just doing incredibly stupid things to get themselves arrested.But this is no ordinary dumb criminal book. Sprinkled throughout the book are useful tips that point ou...

An ancient talisman has been discovered. Well, sort of. Because other than its name, the Wolf's Cane, no one knows what it looks like, where it's located or what its powers are. One thing that is for certain is that both the living and the dead are worried the Wolf's Cane will fall into the wrong hands.Mabel Stewart and the Wolf's Cane is the second book in the Mabel Stewart series where she returns for another thrilling adventure when she makes her now an...

Germany is in chaos! The Weimar Republic instituted after the Great War has made things worse with several dangerous political parties vying for control of the ineffective government. And an opportunistic man with ties to Germany's glorious past has taken it upon himself to change Germany's future.In the thrilling sequel to Murder Made Casual, U.S. government agents Charlie Postlethwaite and Gretchen Retrum return and find themselves caught up in the chase...

What happens when you die?15-year-old Mabel Stewart had always wondered that until she took her first trip into the afterlife. Now a veteran traveler between life and death, she's learned that the creators of an ancient talisman, designed to allow one person to control the worlds of the living and the dead, want it completed. And they've upped the stakes.Mabel Stewart returns for another exciting adventure in the thrilling third novel of th...

A popular businessman with a non-existent past. A secret society looking to change the American political landscape from within. A bitter assassin with a score to settle. These are just some of the things awaiting government agents Charlie and Gretchen Postlethwaite who return for another thrilling adventure in Murder Made Political, the third entry of the Murder Made series. A series in which a real-life unsolved murder mystery is woven into each of the historical fiction...

Parks are many things to different people. A playground, picnic spot, an area to relax. And sometimes they're a perfect place for a murder.16-year-old Gretchen Retrum is a New York City girl born and bred. Fiercely independent, she's not like most girls her age and likes to spend time alone. Central Park's newest attraction, the Shakespeare Garden, opened earlier in the spring of 1916 and she went there whenever she could when she needed to unwind.But another relaxing trip ...

Mysterious woods are always full of adventures for the average kid. But for one boy, death has a way of changing that.Before he became a clandestine government agent, Charlie Postlethwaite was an ordinary 11-year-old kid growing up in a small southern Wisconsin town where nothing ever exciting happened. At least it had always been that way until he found the body of the man in the woods. And not just any old dead man, but a murdered one.Their game of hide a...