The snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard...Nothing is more mysterious than footsteps in the dark. Are those approaching steps that of friend or enemy? Lover or killer?Authors L.B. Gregg, Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon, Dal MacLean, Z.A. Maxfield, Meg Perry, C.S. Poe and S.C. Wynne join forces for Footsteps in the Dark, eight sexy and suspenseful novellas of Male/Male Mystery and Romance.

Angeles Investigations is nearly ready for its opening day on Tuesday, August 1. Rob Jones, Kevin Brodie, and Jamilah Daly have worked for weeks to make their vision come to life. Jamie Brodie is on board to resume his career as a professional researcher. All they need to do now is hire an administrative assistant. How hard could that be?Meanwhile, Jon Eckhoff and Susan Portman are tracking a serial killer preying on real estate agents in the Valley. When interior decorator Paul Tha...

It's 1997 in Oceanside, California. Jamie Brodie is turning seventeen. His grandfather hasn't spoken to him for nearly two years, ever since Jamie came out to his family. But Jamie's concerns are mostly centered on his grades, because it will take a near-perfect GPA to get into Berkeley. He's busy with Advanced Placement classes; spending time with his "friend with benefits," Robbie Harrison; and his weekend landscaping job with his best friend, Ali Fortner.

Who killed Norman Ellis?Dr. Norman Ellis is a plastic surgeon--the kind that will do any procedure his patients ask for. And the results aren't always pretty. One of his victims, actor Jonah Gentry, hires Angeles Investigations to find others with disastrous surgical outcomes. But Angeles has just started searching for Ellis's other mistakes when the doctor is found dead in his office, stabbed and mutilated. It looks like the work of an unhappy patient, and...

Next season, on Two Days to Solve…Miranda Abbott is an influencer superstar. With 32 million followers on TikTok, she has built a business empire on filming her shopping hauls, bath routines, and cooking adventures. But when her body double, Emily Fairborn, is found dead in Miranda's pool, Miranda's empire is thrown into chaos. Was Miranda the target, or was Emily? Was it even a murder, or just a terrible accident? Miranda doesn't have tim...

Academic librarian Jamie Brodie hasn't seen old boyfriend Dan Christensen in years. When Jamie reads Dan's obituary in the paper, he's surprised. When he receives a letter from Dan, written just before his death, Jamie is shocked. Dan's letter suggests that Dan was in danger, lists two article citations from medical journals, and asks Jamie to look into the citations. When Jamie requests the articles, strange things begin to happen. His computer is hacked, his tires are slashed, he thinks ...

A sniper? In Bel Air?The peace of wealthy Bel Air is shattered on a Friday night by a rifle shot. Anyone who's outdoors in the neighborhood hears the shot, including Kevin Brodie and Kristen Beach, but no one knows where the shot came from or the identity of the intended target…until the next day, when Jamie Brodie brings his dog, Ammo, to Kevin's house.Ammo, a trained cadaver dog, drags Jamie and Kevin up the street about a half-mile then alerts on a house. The officers wh...

Two missing persons. Two wildly differing circumstances.Juliette Page, an elderly lady with Alzheimer's, disappeared in the company of her caretaker twelve hours ago. Her daughter, Cynthia Hayes, is frantic and flies from Florida to LA to find her mother. Cynthia's stepdaughter, Melanie Hayes, enlists the aid of her friends at Angeles Investigations to find Juliette.While helping Alison Fortner on a landscaping job, Kristen Beach is digging a hole to plant a tree when she u...

LAPD detective Jon Eckhoff is jolted awake in the wee hours by a call from his union rep. A video is circulating on social media that supposedly shows Jon shooting a young man to death in a mostly-deserted warehouse.Jon has never shot anyone, in the line of duty or otherwise. To anyone who knows him, the video is clearly a deepfake. But who would do such a thing? Jon doesn't have any enemies.Or does he?Jon is suspended for the duration of the investigation. He can't...

Bashed with a bust of Bach.Brenda Gillette was the most annoying person that everyone who knew her had ever met. She made up arbitrary and absurd rules and regulations then imposed them upon both her husband and her fellow choir members at St. Stephen's United Methodist Church in Santa Monica. But whose annoyance would have turned to anger? Was it her husband, who spent every day on the golf course to avoid her? Was it the choir director, who battled Brenda...

It's been exactly six months since space reporter Justin Harris and AFOSI agent Greg Marcotte met, and they have plans for their anniversary weekend. But those plans go badly awry when they receive word that Capt. Melissa Cross, an Air Force officer and former astronaut, has been murdered in her Merritt Island home. While the investigation sends Greg across the country, Justin works his contacts to find out why Capt. Cross was bumped from a mission to the International Space Station. As a ...

Federal agent Greg Marcotte and space reporter Justin Harris are counting on a relaxing Sunday to discuss their upcoming fourth anniversary and prepare for the hurricane that's bearing down on them from the east. But their plans are interrupted when Greg's boss calls. A construction crew at Cape Canaveral has uncovered a set of old bones, and it's up to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations to--well, investigate. Greg, his partner Mindy Leonard, and the rest of the team are removi...