A Farewell To Clouds

Sun, Sand and… Murder?

Downsized from the FBI’s human resources department on the Virginia mainland, Patience Price is setting up shop as a Counselor at Large in her quirky island town. And she’s making the best of her reinvention, until a high school boyfriend is accused of murder, and his determined mama wants Patience to save his hide.

Local golden boy, Adrian Davis, once crushed Patience’s teenage heart, and now he needed her help? She can’t help offering a chef’s kiss to Karma.

Not that Patience holds a grudge.

Reluctantly, she agrees to look into the case, with the help of a hunky former coworker, but what she finds will rock their coastal community to its core, and put Patience on a lurking killer’s hitlist.

“It’s a tale of survival, sacrifice and love between two teenagers with an uncertain future.” – The Book Sirens

Some wounds never heal…

She’s stuck in another foster home. He’s the new boy with a bad reputation.

Falling in love in the wrong place and the wrong time never felt so good.

NOTE: This novella is a prequel to the full-length standalone novel BETTER WHEN IT HURTS from New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren available now.

In a post-apocolyptic world torn apart by war, 50 isolated underground Silos have been built to protect the last remaining humans.

But Silo 42 is different – a society that embraces Native American values and thrives in secrecy. However, their prosperity may be short-lived as Silo 1 becomes suspicious of their success and threatens to expose them. With the fate of his Silo and its inhabitants in his hands, Ahotay Lathrop must navigate a delicate balance to protect his people. But will they be able to maintain their deception and avoid annihilation?

When young Emil Garrett heads west in search of a new work opportunity, he lands a position that suits him perfectly, hiring on as a shotgun messenger with a small stagecoach operation in central Kansas. But Garrett, a hired gun with a growing reputation, does the job his own way, using an approach many view as unconventional.

The company Garrett works for, Walker & Creed, has a competitor in the region: Stavin Brothers Stage Lines. Unfortunately, Stavin Brothers’ owner, Max Stavin, doesn’t play by the regular rules of business. Rather than compete fairly, Stavin seeks to gain the upper hand through shady and violent means. Stavin’s ultimate goal is to bankrupt Walker & Creed — a move that would give Stavin Brothers a monopoly in the region.

If Garrett is going to succeed in his new role, he’ll have to battle Stavin’s minions while keeping his cargo and his passengers safe. He’ll also need to protect the Walker family… especially Allie Walker, a bright, vivacious young woman Garrett hopes to get to know better.

Will Emil Garrett be able to keep everyone safe, despite his youthful age, his lack of experience in the industry, and his unconventional techniques? Or will Max Stavin and his chief enforcer, Ike McGrath, beat him in a game that was rigged long before Garrett ever signed up for the job?

ESCAPE FROM DONETSK is a story of love, loyalty, sacrifice, deception, betrayal, vengeance, and tons of action. CIA Paramilitary Officer Jon Smith is at his core a good and honorable man. He is also a highly trained warrior with an overly zealous desire to protect those he cares about. If that means leaving a trail of death and destruction in his wake, so be it. On this occasion, he is flying back to Poland from Dnipro, Ukraine in an Agency Black Hawk helicopter after abducting a Russian SVR officer with his CIA team when he receives a satellite phone call. His best friend’s widow informs him that her daughter, Jon’s goddaughter, Sister Joan is trapped behind the lines in Russian-occupied Donetsk. She has just witnessed Chechen soldiers beat her priest to death in front of their church. Jon immediately agrees to retrieve her from the hellish war zone with the help of his loyal teammate, Angie Hawkins. How does the relatively simple rescue mission of a young nun in Russian-occupied Donetsk, Ukraine escalate in less than two days to a point where Russia is on the verge of launching a tactical nuclear strike on Ukraine’s capital? Jon’s mission is simple. The execution is not.

Alexander Mathanach is a Scottish knight; a man of noble birth haunted by a tragic event in his past. Those he loved betrayed him and almost destroyed his faith. Yet, despite his bitterness, he fulfilled the vow he made. As promised, he took the orphaned child from the abbey and raised her as his own, choosing to live a quiet life in the depths of a remote, northern forest.But Alexander is guardian to more than a young girl. He is also the keeper of a divine artifact, one that draws a terrible evil to his secluded doorstep. When his peaceful life is destroyed, he is forced to seek help from a powerful group of knights, who join his fight to save those he loves. But in doing so, Alexander is obliged to revisit his past and face a possibility he has long denied.What if he wasn’t betrayed? What if those he loved had not lied?It would mean that a miracle occurred on a starry night, long ago. Which would also mean that Alexander made a dreadful mistake. If so, then how, by all things sacred under Heaven, can he ever hope to make amends?