A moving and hopeful novel about a grieving widower who discovers that second chances can grow among tomato plants, good tilled earth, and people who refuse to let him face life—and weeds—alone.After thirty-one years of marriage, Bill “Scotty” Scotsford knew exactly what his life was supposed to look like. The death of his wife threw it all on the compost heap.Taking a plot at the community garden across the street from his new condo seemed like a ...

One split-second decision can change the rest of your life. Sometimes it takes decades to find out how.Detective Sergeant Michael O’Halloran has spent twenty-seven years with the Baltimore Police Department without ever firing his weapon in the line of duty.Then he walks into a bank robbery.His response is fast, instinctive—and deadly. While the department investigates the shooting, Michael is left at a desk with far too much time to think ...

BRUSH CONTACTOne family’s life is changed beyond anything they could ever imagine.A major foreign power has been funneling key intelligence personnel into the United States for nearly a year, hiding them as embassy and consulate staffers, students, and plain immigrants. In response, the FBI activates its Domestic Sleeper program.Scattered across the country as architects, cab drivers, and other innocuous roles, failsafe age...

Time Travel Rule #1: Don’t interact with anyone for any reason.Yeah, right.CIA field agent Ryan Cochrane thought testing an experimental time machine would be just another assignment. Then a police dog damaged the activation switch on his arm and stranded him twenty years in the past.Getting home should be simple: find the theoretical physicist who helped make time travel possible and get him to repair the switch.There's ju...

Hero worship is dangerous when the hero knows she doesn't deserve it.Sister Jacobine has served the Catholic Church for centuries. She looks twenty-five, heals from any wound, and carries out the Pope’s most final assignments with a gun in her Gucci handbag.Her latest target is Bishop McGinty in Philadelphia. The execution itself is routine. Getting arrested for murder before she reaches her rental car is not.Detective Rafferty has video of...

The Establishment: the wealthy, elite power mongers who run the country from the shadows, with eyes and ears everywhere. They are spoken of only in whispers.When the President-elect and the Vice-President-elect arrive in Rome to visit the Pope, CIA Station Chief Thomas Billings knows it’s not the only reason they’re in town. In the Presidential Suite of the swankiest hotel in Rome, Billings is confronted by Establishment heavyweight Marjorie McBain, who wants him d...

This Omnibus Edition collects the six Nun With A Gun stories into a single volume, The Book of Jacobine.The Pope calls Alice Fisher—Sister Jacobine—his giusta mano destra or “righteous right hand.” At his behest, she deals with those who step outside of the Church’s doctrines and, through their actions, dishonor His Holiness. Alice’s unique skillset and God-given gifts make her particularly well-suited as the Pope’s enforcer.Powerful force...

They have her attention, but they may not live to regret it.To flush Sister Jacobine out of hiding, the Vatican’s Black Ops team shoot Detective Rafferty. While he clings to life, they kidnap Geraldine Rafferty and her daughters. The Black Ops team will stop at nothing to ensure Sister Jacobine returns to Rome with them.Will she surrender or will the Black Ops team face Excommunication?A Nun With A Gun is a series of short stories a...

Taking refuge turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse…In an attempt to shift the base of power in the church, the Pope’s trusted advisors have convinced him that Sister Jacobine has to go.On the run from a Vatican hit team, Sister Jacobine seeks a safe haven with the only people she can trust. That trust nearly gets them all killed, when the ruthless killers from Rome finally track her down.With an army of trained killers closing in, Sister Jacobi...

You’re not back on the job, are you, Alice?Detective Rafferty catches a new case: a priest shot through the forehead, a bloody cross drawn over the wound.When Alice’s alibi checks out, she and Rafferty draw the only possible conclusion: someone is committing copycat murders. But who? And why?The answers will change Alice’s and her friends’ lives forever...A Nun With A Gun is a series of short stories and novelettes about Sis...

Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?How do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Going to a parade? Cashing in your four-leaf clovers? A glass of green beer?How about a romantic dinner? A pulse pounding adventure?We're thrilled to bring you this anthology: A Gathering of Stories: St. Patrick's Day. Five St. Patrick's Day-themed stories by five gifted storytellers. Tales that will warm the cockles of your heart...and get it pounding....

One family’s life is changed beyond anything they could ever imagine.A major foreign power has been funneling key intelligence personnel into the United States for nearly a year, hiding them as embassy and consulate staffers, students, and plain immigrants. In response, the FBI activates its Domestic Sleeper program.Scattered across the country as architects, cab drivers, and other innocuous roles, failsafe agents in the Domestic Sleeper program ar...