The last thing she wants is to dig up the past . . .When the body of a celebrated journalist is fished from the Edgartown Harbor, the official report rules his death accidental. But why was he alone on a senator's yacht during a nor'easter? That's only the first question London-based lawyer Kyra Gibson has when she arrives on the idyllic island of Martha's Vineyard to settle her estranged father's affairs.She's not looking for closure. She's not se...

Dark devils lead blind disciples…Summer on Martha’s Vineyard is ending and newly hired investigative consultant Kyra Gibson is still healing from injuries that nearly killed her in July. She’s determined to pass her field test and prove she belongs with her partner, Tarek Collins, and his team at Greyscale Security. But when the butchered bodies of two beautiful young women are found in the shallows of Sengekontacket, the island’s reputation and peace are ...

Murder’s on the menu…Attorney Kyra Gibson has a lot on her mind this Thanksgiving. She’s been working long hours on a multi-billion dollar corporate merger, her family is visiting from London, and her relationship with former police detective Tarek Collins is heating up. When she and her companions are invited by her aristocrat client to attend a formal gala at a historic mansion on Chappaquiddick, Kyra reluctantly agrees.But Chappy is more than just a playground for the we...

Some secrets are safer lost at sea…London based lawyer Kyra Gibson returns to Martha’s Vineyard and the beach house she inherited for an extended summer holiday. Still reeling from her father’s brutal murder and the role she and the handsome detective, Tarek Collins played in uncovering it, Kyra is hopeful for some peace and quiet. But when a summer squall reveals the wreckage of the pirate ship, Keres, rich with rumored treasure, all hopes of peace are dashed. Conservationists and...

His buried past is the key to finding a killer, but it may destroy them first…Kyra Gibson, former London lawyer turned columnist, is having a tough summer. Her partner, forensic profiler Tarek Collins, barely survived his last case. He’s home and healing but is a ghost of the man he was.When the mutilated body of a local hero is discovered in a Martha’s Vineyard lighthouse, the island turns to Tarek and Kyra for help. With Tarek pulling back, Kyra attempts to assis...

The last thing she wants is to dig up the past…When the body of a celebrated journalist is fished from the Edgartown Harbor, the official report rules his death accidental. But why was he alone on a senator’s yacht during a nor’easter? That’s only the first question London-based lawyer Kyra Gibson has when she arrives on the idyllic island of Martha’s Vineyard to settle her estranged father’s affairs.She’s not looking for closure. She’s not seen him in decades since he left...

A society where murder has become entertainment, robots programmed to protect humanity at any cost, mysterious passages into other worlds, and astronauts discovering that the darkness may not be empty await in Lost Sci-Fi Books 121 thru 140, featuring twenty vintage science fiction stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s.Robert Sheckley opens the collection with Seventh Victim, a future where legalized hunting has transformed killing into a carefully regu...

War is never confined to one world in Battlefronts Beyond Earth. This gripping collection of nine vintage science fiction stories thrusts you into alien invasions, desperate last stands, interstellar conflicts, and battlefields where courage, ingenuity, and survival are tested against impossible odds.Featuring unforgettable stories by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Algis Budrys, George Whittington, and Richard ...

Careful what you wish for…Winter has settled over the island of Martha’s Vineyard, and newspaper columnist Kyra Gibson is relieved when her partner, forensic profiler Tarek Collins, returns home. As a birthday surprise, she arranges a meet and greet with the hosts of his favorite true-crime podcast while they’re on island to investigate a notorious cold case.Forty years ago, a beautiful young actress was brutally murdered and her enigmatic bunkmate disappeared from the pres...

About the BookAfter hearing tell of a man being ganged up on, roped, dragged to a tree and tied to it with barbed wire, and left out in the wilderness to die at the behest of a rival rancher, Clint Bishop intervenes in a moment of spontaneous kindness, saving the man’s life and returning him to his homestead.But upon returning the man, Marvin Higgins, to his family, Clint finds himself unable to leave Higgins’s wife Sarah and her two children to fend for themselves while Higg...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 151 thru 160 - Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sThe Thing Behind Hell's Door by Robert SilverbergThe Gregory Circle Chapter by Murray LeinsterThe Shape of Things by Ray BradburyNo Morning After by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Cosmic Express by Jack WilliamsonThe Voice in the Night by William Hope HodgsonThe World That Couldn't Be by Clifford D. SimakThe Elephant Circuit...

Irene Polson was born and raised on and around Western American racetracks. Both her deceased parents had been track followers. When she was old enough, she became a jockey. A bad fall and the resulting injury caused her to lose her nerve, so now she was just a groom. She cared for racehorses, cleaning them and their stalls and seeing to their well-being. One of her charges was cruelly overworked earlier one morning, and it took hours to get IM Do N My Best to recover. When the owner showe...