A saintly Hispanic girl must be protected from a ruthless drug cartel in this borderland thriller featuring Arizona deputies and the Apache Tribal Police.A religious sensation is sweeping Northwestern Mexico thanks to seventeen-year-old Mariana Villalobos's mystic gift. With a cascade of spiritual epiphanies, even gangsters reject crime, which spells disaster for those who profit most from the drug trade. After their revenues tumble, the Liones cartel issues a hit ...

A genetically engineered agent finds danger, intrigue, and desire on an alien planet in this science fiction romance.Kiera Smith is not like ordinary Genetically Engineered Persons . . .The Bureau of Alien Affairs needed a special GEP agent with empathic abilities to handle their most extraordinary assignments—and a rogue geneticist saw to it that Kiera fit their specifications. But she turned out stronger, faster, smarter, and more impervious to harm than ...

GEPs just want to have fun . . .A Genetically Engineered Person and self-proclaimed "party girl," Echo Adams loves her diplomatic job entertaining alien bigwigs for the Galactic Federation. But the Bureau of Alien Affairs has discovered she's much more than she thinks—that a rogue scientist endowed her with skills and psi abilities dwarfing those of common GEPs. And suddenly Echo's luxury life is over, replaced with a far more dangerous one: a special agent expected to not only cha...

A legendary cold case from Arizona history may help solve the suspicious death of an Apache boy in this mystery series debut.More than a century ago, Maj. Joseph Wham was killed during a payroll robbery in Arizona Territory. The case was never solved, leaving behind a legacy of death and distrust. Now the mysterious killing of a young Apache boy has local law enforcement wondering if the tragic incident might be connected to the curse of Major Wham's lost payroll.

The murder of an archeology student draws an Apache policeman into a web of deadly intrigue in this Southwestern thriller by the author of The Wham Curse.The lands of southern Arizona hold many secrets, some of which are worth killing for. When an archeology student is found dead, it seems like a tragic case of senseless violence. But when a second victim is targeted, Apache Tribal Policeman Al Victor realizes something far more sinister is afoot.T...

A copper theft investigation puts Arizona and the Apache Tribal Police on the trail of a deadly conspiracy in this borderland mystery thriller.Sgt. Bren Allred has seen all manner of criminality in beautiful Graham County, Arizona. He has managed to keep the worst of it from his wife, Monica, who is having a troubled pregnancy. But it will be difficult to keep the devils at bay as a new kind of trouble erupts across the region . . .When deputies Sanchez and...

An Apache Tribal sergeant must enforce the law on sacred ground as southern Arizona faces murder and mayhem in this crime thriller.As a sergeant for the Apache Tribal police, Al Victor considers it his responsibility to protect traditional Apache culture while enforcing the law. But now those two duties are coming into direct conflict as he tracks a vagrant medicine man onto sacred ground.Meanwhile, Dep. Manny Sanchez has come under attack from a drug smugg...

Earth has a new world order after the Climate Wars.As close to utopia as a human population can achieve.For Sergeant Rowan Lockwood, the future isn't as bright after a single mistake shatters her world.Yet, she is the only one who can save the future from those who wish to remake the past.Sergeant Rowan Lockwood isn’t anyone’s first pick to save the world. She can barely save herself. After ...

When a fisherman receives a mysterious letter about his beloved’s demise, he sets off in his skiff to find her on the Isle of the Dead. The Alehouse at the End of the World is an epic comedy set in the sixteenth century, where bawdy Shakespearean love triangles play out with shapeshifting avian demigods and a fertility goddess, drunken revelry, bio-dynamic gardening, and a narcissistic, bullying crow, who may have colluded with a foreign power.A raucous, aw-aw-aw-awe-inspi...

Sweet tea, corn bread, and soup beans; everyday fare for eight-year-old Alix French, the precocious darling of a respected southern family. But nothing was ordinary about the day she met ten-year-old Nick Anderson, a boy from the wrong side of town. Armed with only a tin of bee balm and steely determination, Alix treats the raw evidence of a recent beating that mars his back, an act that changes both their lives forever. Through childhood disasters and teenage woes, they cling together as ...

Fifteen linked stories chart a true course through the lives of families, farmers, loggers, former classmates, and the occasional stripper. In the richly imagined town of Renata, Oregon, a man watches his neighbor’s big-screen TV through binoculars, an errant son paints himself silver, mysterious electrical humming emanates from an enormous barn. In A Simplified Map of the Real World, intimate boundaries are loosened by history—and high above the strife and the hope and the often ...

Some lessons don't come until everything else fades.Jolene Rivera thought she had it all mapped out, a band scholarship, a strong faith, and the promise of a bright future. College was supposed to be a launchpad, not a spiritual detour. But the pace is faster than she expected, the nights longer, the voices louder. Before she realizes it, the quiet rhythms of prayer and reflection are drowned out by the clamor of campus life and curated perfection.When news comes that her c...