Nine Other Toes

When an oddball billionaire sets his eye on the local songstress and single mom, they’re Almost Sure.

I want Quinn Darling with an intensity I’ve never felt, but she won’t have me. So what do I do? I make a move she can’t ignore.

Sure, it may seem like I hold the cards, but she has all the power. The reality is, I’ve fallen for the one woman I can’t charm with money or material things. The more I learn about her, the more I admire her. And the more I try to buy her affection, the faster I seem to fall from her grace.

She says she wants to know the real me — the man behind the billions. But I know better. For a woman like her, I’ll never be enough.

In the aftermath of a battle a ship drifts helplessly in space. Is the strange new warship they were fighting still out there? Will it come back for them? Commander Johnson faces a desperate race to get her destroyer back into action and save her crew.

She watched six women wear the crown. Five of them died for it.

Elizabeth Tudor grew up in the shadow of her father’s queens – women who lost everything to ambition, passion, trust, or simply being born female in a world designed to destroy them.

Her mother, Anne Boleyn: executed for daring too much.
Jane Seymour: dead twelve days after giving life to the son Elizabeth could never be.
Anne of Cleves: survived only by surrendering.
Catherine Howard: beheaded for alleged desire.
Katherine Parr: gone after chasing love.
Her sister, Mary Tudor: crushed by a loveless marriage.

Each lesson became armor. Each mistake forged vigilance, strategy, and restraint – the tools Elizabeth would need to survive. By the time she inherited the throne, Elizabeth understood what her father’s wives could not: power and passion cannot coexist. Marriage is subordination. Love is dangerous.

For over four decades, Elizabeth ruled alone – never marrying and never giving a man control over her crown. She presided over a golden age of culture, exploration, and triumph, but every victory came at a cost. Everything soft, everything human, everything love could offer was surrendered to the crown.

When Pat Curzon’s doppelgänger is shot dead outside the Rio cafe, the DCI is convinced the bullet was meant for him. His fears are heightened when he suffers a series of violent attacks on the streets of Glasgow and has his Gardner Street flat ransacked. As if all this isn’t bad enough, the detective’s paranoia levels shoot through the stratosphere when several people from his past die in suspicious circumstances.

Constantly looking over the shoulder of his Burberry mac and peeping round every sandstone corner before going round it, Curzon tries to catch the person or people who are trying to kill him. To make matters even worse, the policeman is under constant pressure from his superiors to drop a prosecution he’s pursuing against Thomas Maker, the dissolute scion of a major Scottish banking family. After a six-year struggle to get Maker into the dock for running down and killing two schoolboys in his red Porsche, will Curzon survive long enough to finally see justice done?

Would you kill for your freedom?

Would you die for it?

Maeve was six when they took her mother away, and left her in the care of her Uncle Lou: a drunk, a misogynist, a fraud.

For eleven years she’s lived with him in Falside’s slums, deep in the silt of the Falwere River. She bottles his miracle medicine, stocks his apothecary shop, and endures his savage temper.

But as his violence escalates, and his lies come undone, she devises a plan to escape him forever. Even if it means people have to die.

Deputy U.S. Marshal murdered. Killer loose. U.S. Marshal coming.

A federal lawman is gunned down. An eighteen-year-old U.S. Marshal is assigned to the case. He has one month to find the killer.

Ordered to a town over two hundred miles away, alone in a strange place with no help, the task is nearly impossible. Three years below the minimum age requirement for a U.S. Marshal, Zeke Halstead fears Washington wants him to fail so they can get rid of him now that his grandfather, a legendary U.S. Marshal, is dead.

Desperate to keep his job and wishing he didn’t have to go, Zeke boards the stage the next morning determined to catch the killer and return home to Sinclair.

But as the stage rolls west and miles pass by, Zeke, who is not a trained investigator, realizes his days as a U.S. Marshal are likely coming to an end. Will Zeke lose his job, and leave Sinclair in disgrace, never to see Preacher or Emma again?