Francis M. Franco. Shot for three bucks and change. The only witness, his ten-year-old daughter.Thirty-five years later, that daughter is LAPD Lieutenant L.A. Franco. Tired of running, Frank realizes it’s time to either face the past or die by its long hand. In an effort to quiet her demons she returns home, to New York’s Lower East Side. But the journey intended to rest old ghosts only resurrects them.While visiting her mother’s grave Frank is stunned to discover a lead in...

Meet Lieutenant L.A. Franco—better known as Frank—who commands Homicide Squad #93 in the gang-ravaged central Los Angeles area.Described by one of her detectives as “Dirty Harry’s personality stuffed into Martina Navratilova’s body,” Frank allows nothing into her bruised personal life except music, football, booze and exercise—all her drugs of choice. And just when she needs them the most, they are all about to fail her…The first book in the critically acclaimed L.A. Franco...

LAPD Homicide Lieutenant L. A. “Frank” Franco is back in the latest installment of the popular Detective Franco Mystery series.Six years ago, Lieutenant L. A. Franco’s partner, Detective Noah Jantzen, investigated the case of a double homicide of two innocent children. Unable to close the case, the two murdered children haunted Noah for years…Now that case is haunting Frank, who must cope with the loss of her dear friend and right-hand man. Unwilling to deal with her grief,...

Lieutenant Franco faces a psychotic killer.Case closures are up and homicide rates are down for LAPD’s 93rd Homicide Squad. ” Frank” , Lieutenant L.A. Franco, is revitalizing her depleted detective crew while quietly mending private scars. And Frank is about to need all the back she can muster as she faces her own personal demons while trying not to jeopardize her developing relationship with Gail.When a corner hustler turns up dead with a headless rooster in his lap, Frank...

Detective L. A. Franco is back!For Frank, L.A.P.D. Homicide Lieutenant L. A. Franco and her homicide squad, it’s business as usual—a multiple murder, ugly as it is, at least seems to have an easy explanation. Until it coincides with an untimely drive-by shooting.The drive-by victim is Placa Estrella, a rising young Chicana gang-banger. Placa was a toddler on the streets when Franco was just a rookie, and for her Placa’s death is personal. The murder appears to be a routine ...

Following the death of “Sal” Saladino, a recluse and mentor with uncanny healing abilities, Frank is busy sloughing off her old identity as a cop and reluctantly growing into the new skin of a healer. She doesn’t understand her newfound abilities, but the patients she sees believe in them.When a ranch hand brings her an old journal of Sal’s, Frank’s world begins to shift uncomfortably. The pages of the journal describe an injustice Sal was too cowardly to confront. And as Frank beg...

Things are great for LAPD Lieutenant Franco; she’s sober, loved, eligible for retirement – and bored absolutely out of her mind. When her squad is called out to investigate a decades old homicide Frank happily volunteers to “get out of Dodge” and follow the clues north to a small town in the Salinas Valley. There, the evidence unexpectedly leads Frank into the untamed wilderness of the Santa Lucia Mountains where she confronts the victim’s daughter, “Sal” Saladino. A recluse with uncanny h...

It doesnt take San Francisco detective Del Mason long to realize that her new neighbor, Lola Bannon, has more baggage than a cruise ship. Shes seen too many victims of domestic violence not to recognize all the signs. Their mutual spark of attraction is compelling, but she knows that for now Lola needs friends, not lovers. When Lola is mugged and then her home vandalized, Del cant help but take a personal interest though other detectives are on the case. Vandalism escalates to vicious...

Deep in her drunken , womanizing past , Peg Ryan made a terrible mistake. Eighteen years later , she’s sober , a respected lawyer , and in love for the first time. When she takes a call from a former colleague , the distance collapses between her ugly past and her hopeful present. Suddenly , everything she values is under attack. When Allison Mitchell meets Peg , she knows what she wants right away. She breaks up with the woman she’s dating to be with her only to discover Camille won’t go ...

The past keeps Kendra McKenna in torment. Her first love is dead and haunts her while the murderer walks free. Kendra might be able to avenge her, but only if she can play a dangerous deception with old enemies. She has no room in her life for distractions.When reporter Robin Slusher recognizes Kendra among a militia’s ranks she can only guess at her motives. Their surprising, passionate affair ended by Kendra’s choice, leaving Robin badly bruised. Determined to remain professional...

Cassidy “Cazz” Warner, a smart, sporty, reticent newcomer to the senior class at Claiborne High, unwittingly attracts the attention of its most popular girl: Sarah Perkins, a bright, athletic, charismatic beauty. Just as the two begin to understand how extraordinary their friendship is, another cross-country move wrests Cazz away.Ten years later, Cazz unexpectedly runs into Sarah during a fraud investigation at Sarah’s charitable foundation. The women are inexorably drawn to each o...

Shade Stewart is a member of the Sisters of Spirits paranormal investigative group and a self-proclaimed necromancer. Renowned for leaving a trail of broken hearts, she walks between darkness and the light, searching to ease the emptiness in her spirit with women and whatever else might ease the pain. After an explosion leaves her in a coma, Shade is trapped in a place between this reality and her nightmares, fighting for her life and her soul.Raven Sanchez, a fiery generational wi...