In 1868 two friends, Nicole Stuart and Mercedes LaFitte, reunite in San Francisco after eighteen years. One lives in Boston. One in San Francisco. Their journeys bring them together again over the women's rights movement after fighting for the abolition of slavery. Mercedes, accompanied by her husband Andre, comes to San Francisco not only to see her old friend again, but also to see her brother, Jamie, who now manages the family shipping business on the west coast. Mercedes, a prominent l...

Claudie Lowell is sucked into the sinister world of antiquities thieves in the course of trying to clear her eccentric aunt from charges of masterminding an international smuggling ring on the island of Cyprus. Zach Lamont, posing as an undercover agent, comes to Claudie's aide but turns out to be part of the ring of thieves himself -- or so it seems. The further Claudie digs into this murky world the more she finds she can trust no one, not even the aunt she is trying to help -- and espec...

Nicole Duval is a high-class lady with a past. She is octaroon – a woman of one eighth negro blood – in New Orleans of 1853. She gains her freedom from slavery, sells out, and heads west to escape her past and the threat of being re-enslaved. In Independence, Missouri she meets up with her cousin Magdalena. Together they outfit wagons, engage drivers, and start the two-thousand-mile journey to California, admitted to the Union as a free state in 1850. Both cousins try to pass for white. Th...

Rodan, former misguided pirate, leads an expedition from planet Earth back to the Deovolante Galaxy to re-establish contact with the Oversee, the Deovolante ruling entity, who have disappeared. The return trip is plagued with problems. First and foremost, they discover a mysterious being in the ship's freezer, who shouldn't be there. She is Freya from a Holy Planet that disappeared eons ago. When the expedition arrives back in Deovolante, they discover there is a strange entity pursing the...

Travel on a spoofy, romantic romp from the far out Deovolante Galaxy to the Milky Way with mismatched mission commanders, Will and Vita, who are trying to save renegade planet Earth from itself. Will, a warrior king, likes to be in charge but so does Vita, queen of info tech for Deovolante, making for a rocky start to the mission. Our commanders are charged with calming the endless wars on planet Earth. But the well-intentioned mission is plagued with a series of untoward events that threa...

In Earth Rising Eloise Bright, well-known physicist, again encounters the strange alien known as Mur Ray, who she met in Hoo Doo Canyon and who has decided he wants her for his mate. He is on Earth to assemble the team of aliens from the Deovolante Galaxy who are helping with the Rising, which will move Earth to a higher plane of existence. Eloise is pulled into the Rising and is exposed to technology she never dreamed of and to the mysterious allure of Mur Ray. She meets the Rising team a...

In the third book of the Fiona Marlowe novels, the mystery of the bones in the hot spring surfaces again. DNA evidence suggests that the bones are Jake's ex-wife, and he is a suspect in her demise. This time Fiona is determined to solve the mystery of whose bones those really are, once and for all. At the same time Jake's troublesome older brother, Ross, contacts Jake to bail him out of jail in Nevada and thinks he may have seen Jake's daughter, who Jake hasn't seen in fifteen years. Fiona...

Mercedes Lawless is the prosperous owner of the Lavender Dry Goods Emporium in Galveston, Texas in 1850. A man walks in one day and says his employer, a clipper ship captain, has won her store in a card game from an uncle she didn't know she had. Mercedes won't let her store be taken without a fight. She confronts Captain Andre Lafitte on his clipper ship, Wings of the Wind, which brings on a series of mishaps. Captain and shopkeeper match wits over who has rightful claim to her s...

Elena Palomares's summer archaeological project in Copan, Honduras turns into a nightmare when she discovers someone has been stealing stones from the Hieroglyphic Staircase, she finds a stranger dead at her work site, and she's a suspect. She meets Dominic Harte, an ex-priest haunted by his own past, who offers to help clear her good name. In the course of their investigation, they discover that a local homeless boy is key to solving the mystery. But there is a price to pay for disturbing...

Designer Fiona Marlowe and cowboy buckaroo Jake Manyhorses meet up again in the high desert of southeast Oregon when she goes west to take possession her bunkhouse on Opal Crawford's ranch. She doesn't bargain for the claim the land makes upon her city slicker heart or her increasing attraction to Jake. Mysterious bones in a hot spring pique her detective instincts. Cattle are disappearing from Opal's ranch, and Jake has to determine if friend, foe or relatives are involved. In helping Jak...

Eloise Bright, renowned theoretical physicist, finds it odd that a top-secret physics conference will be held at a remote backcountry campsite in Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park. Curiosity overcomes reason, and she agrees to go, not knowing who will attend. When the conference organizer doesn't show, the attending physicists team up to try to find him. One of them takes extraordinary interest in Eloise and, in an aside to her, confesses he is from another galaxy, which she laughs off at ...

Fiona Marlowe, interior designer to the rich and powerful, finds her wealthy old client, Albert Lodge, dead on the floor of his library in the posh McLean suburb of Washington, D.C. As the investigation unfolds, Fiona discovers she has detective talent, and her innate curiosity spurs her into sticking her nose where it does not belong. Albert's eccentric sister, Opal, arrives from her ranch in southeastern Oregon to settle the estate. She has talked her ranch hand, Jake Manyhorses, into th...