Florida-based ex-mercenary and private investigator Cord MacIntosh is hired to bodyguard the author of a book critical of Islam who has been asked to speak at a writing festival in Key West.Can Cord protect his client against some Muslim fanatics? When the bombs and bullets start flying he wonders if he can even save himself.

Mangrove Bayou is a small gulfcoast Florida town located someplace south of Naples and east of the Moon and in the midst of the Ten Thousand Islands / Everglades National Park region. The town council of Mangrove Bayou hires Troy Adam, on probation, as their new police chief, mainly because there weren't any other serious candidates and despite the fact that Troy had just been fired from his previous police job. No sooner does he arrive than a prominent citizen is found dead. The medical e...

When Tachi and Caitlin fall through a West Virginia cave 'portal' and into a hive of stingers on the world of Tessene, they think they are in big trouble, but that's only because they have not yet met Sorcet, a deru of the Gray Guild who needs two more taidar to protect — and die for — her.Sorcet conducts dangerous missions for the Gray Guild library and is determined to close the portals to stop anything or anyone else from arriving in Tessene to disrupt that world.Sorcet,...

Sorcet and her faithful taidar Tachi travel to the hostile southern mountains to close the Waterstone Portal. Tachi finally meets the mysterious Earther who has been trying to kill him ever since Tachi came to the planet Tessene. Tachi and Sorcet and Tachi's friend Leafe then encounter the Other, the brutal out-worlder who is creating the portals. Finally, Sorcet and Tachi set out across the Great Sea to close the final portal and we close with Tachi's future on Tessene.

Cord MacIntosh, ex-Army and ex-mercenary, has retired to Florida where he now lives aboard a sailboat and has settled into a job as a private investigator. Life seems peaceful enough and he's even rediscovered religion — but some cases are more dangerous than others."Sword" is the first book in the Cord MacIntosh private investigator mystery series.Cord MacIntosh, private investigator, is hired to find a stolen sword that once belonged to a Spanish conquistador.Soon, ...

"The Emeraldstone" is the second novel in the Sorcet Chronicles series. Sorcet and Tachi, joined by Tachi's sylphen friend Leafe Willowsdottor, set out to stop a war. Once they have that under control they turn to closing the Emeraldstone Portal which, unfortunately, is beneath the palace of a mad ruler who not only likes to torture and kill anyone who disagrees with him but also wants Sorcet to give him her sword.

When a college student on vacation goes missing in the small gulf coast Florida town of Mangrove Bayou, police chief Troy Adam has to deal with overwhelming press attention, a town council doubtful that he can solve the crime, and a powerful judge. Toss in the usual lesser crimes that keep on coming, and he and his small police force are stretched to their limits. Accused early on of being 'soft and squishy on the inside' Troy proves in the end to be capable of utter ruthlessness. Life is ...

When a skeleton turns up in a car long-submerged in a drainage canal, Troy Adam, multi-ethnic northern-born police chief for the seaside town of Mangrove Bayou, Florida, finds himself entagled with wealth, politics, and a governor's race.As usual, on his way to solving the murder, Troy has to take care of a few side-problems as well, including encounters with a military school that looks like a Mussolini pep rally, and a gang leader with a degree in Shakespearean drama. Life is nev...

"The Sandstone" is the third novel in the Sorcet Chronicles series. Sorcet and Tachi, joined by Tachi's sylphen friend Leafe Willowsdottor and the droichen Dag, set out to close a portal located in the hostile and arid Eastern Desert. To complicate matters, the portal contains the radioactive makings of a "dirty" bomb and Sorcet is also charged with supervising a spoiled desert sylphen who is in line to succeed the local tribal chief. The climactic battle brings both great joy and great so...

When Mangrove Bayou mayor Lester Groud finds an amputated hand in the Florida coastal mangroves, multi-ethnic, northern-born Chief Troy Adams tries to find the owner. Instead, he stumbles into a cocaine-smuggling operation gone bad, and some very annoyed drug trafficers.Add in a loner teenager with a gun, a feral child in a house filled with cockroaches, a whorehouse with standards and a mailing list, and a salesman with machineguns and tanks to sell, and Troy and his officers are ...

When day workers start vanishing from assembly places near home repair stores, multi-ethnic, northern-born Troy Adam, police chief of the seaside town of Mangrove Bayou, Florida smells a serial killer. Then he learns the killers are living in Mangrove Bayou. Last, he learns just how perverted they can be.Along the way Troy deals with a rape, online and real-life protestors, a wandering ambassador's wife, a Hollywood actor he uses as bait, and, of course, Martha Sizemore's prized pl...

Multi-ethnic, northern-born police chief Troy Adam of the small coastal town of Mangrove Bayou, Florida investigates vampire murders. No, the vampires aren't killing people; someone is killing the vampires and draining away their blood. (And they're not your usual fictional vampires, Troy discovers that there really are people like that.)Along the way Troy has to deal with the usual mix of policing issues, including a Muslim teenage girl converting to Christianity, a homeless veter...