A Restoration-era caper, shielding the innocent.The Thames is frozen solid in January 1686. But Lizzie Foxe is in a white-hot rage after rescuing escapees from a slave ship. To punish the investors in the illegal slave ship, she sets out to execute a momentous heist. She intends to take what they value most: their money. Her goal: recompense for the rescued innocents.But she must tread carefully. The king of England holds a strict monopoly for carrying slav...

A drawing-room courtship on motorcycles in sage country…A second chance at love? Or a soggy motorcycle journey from Tumalo to Denio to Winnemucca to Zion, while the White-Bone Demon seeks to destroy hope?Eliot Arden is a Seattle artisan and handywoman. Her put-together life worked well until she met Destiny, a teenage orphan who needs stability and mentoring as an artist. Eliot needs cash, right now, to secure Destiny's future. A short-term job slams Eliot b...

The nicest highwaymen you'll ever meet, the Foxe cousins now must fight a truly bad man.In London, 1685, the Foxes of Cambridgeshire no longer need petty highwayman tactics to save their village. But one cousin, Tom Foxe—bound by past promises and his own honor—must launch a fever-paced heist to rescue old friends from dire jeopardy.That danger comes from a disreputable lord who's short on funds and long on villainy. Further, the marquess's henchman roams L...

Dreams trammeled by whims of the Heavenly Immortals, Rik Eliot perseveres.Rik controls daily chaos for his nieces and ailing mother. He's a math teacher, handyman, and landlord of Chaos House, an aging mansion in 1983 Ashland, Oregon. Late at night, lonely, Rik finds solace finishing his dissertation on friendships in Hong Kong fight movies.Then a renowned artist from Rik's academic past arrives in town. Threads of Rik's tautly organized life begin to unrav...

A Restoration-era caper, a heist in search of justice.To survive in Cambridgeshire, 1685, Tamsin Foxe leads the once noble Foxe family in genteel highway robbery. Disguised as her bedridden twin brother, Tamsin endeavors to fulfill their dying uncle's wish: "Find who cheated us. And restore the Marborne title." But she's distracted: the woman she loves is in grave danger.Masquerading as a Catalan noble, Lieutenant Rowland Foxe hunts the financial supporters ...

Samsara Ada Byron, world's best cybersecurity sleuth!Or a postpunk math dweeb lost in a darknet web of deceit?Sam has a new security forensics business. No more national security contracting! But Tony, the infamous Pirate King of the dark alleys of the Internet, begs Sam's help to expose a conspiracy. He says rogue agents are selling national security secrets—but can you trust a pirate?Worse, Sam is being stalked and harassed by blac...

He said, "I love you." She said, "You don't even know the real me." He said, "Great title for a song. Key of G? Can you sing the high parts? Close harmony?"Two musicians meet by accident in Seattle. Jason, the infamous singer-songwriter, is a victim of falsehoods spread on the Internet. Susi, a classical musician whose previous career came off the rails, is building a new life as a music teacher. Their professional yearnings quickly become entwined in unexpected way...

They say you can't go home again—not when chaos reigns …A murder in a Seattle coffee house. A murder on a decaying boat dock. Samsara Byron, the security expert, insists this has nothing to do with her. She's busy fending off an attack on the world's cyber infrastructure—if only she could get a cell signal.After escaping exurban life on Puget Sound a decade earlier, Sam became a rockstar among anti-hacker security programmers: appearing at BlackHat conferenc...

How do you see love? Do you believe that you are worthy of the love of another and deserve it? Or do you see it as something that happens to someone else?It is unlikely that many of us have never experienced any form of love in our lives. As human beings, we are naturally loving and caring. Of course, there are those few individuals who seem to have no love to show or share, but even the worst of us have had someone we cared about. In the latest in his series of books, A Journey of...