The Dragonflies Have Moved In

The skeletons in her closet are twitching…
Genius chessmaster and FBI consultant Artemis Blythe swore she’d never return to the misty Cascade Mountains.
Her father — a notorious serial killer, responsible for the deaths of seven women — is now imprisoned, in no small part due to a clue she provided nearly fifteen years ago.

And now her father wants his vengeance.

A new serial killer is hunting the wealthy and the elite in the town of Pinelake. Artemis’ father claims he knows the identity of the killer, but he’ll only tell daughter dearest. Against her will, she finds herself forced back to her old stomping grounds.
Once known as a child chess prodigy, now the locals only think of her as ‘The Ghostkiller’s’ daughter.

In the face of a shamed family name and a brother involved with the Seattle mob, Artemis endeavors to use her tactical genius to solve the baffling case.

Hunting a murderer who strikes without a trace, if she fails, the next skeleton in her closet will be her own.

Over 20% of the documented serial killers in the world have come from a 200-mile radius around Seattle, Washington

The Secret of the Manuscript is Only the Beginning… The Truth Could Cost Her Life.

Calla Cress has spent her entire life searching for her missing parents, thinking the mystery was long buried. But when a two-thousand-year-old manuscript with an unbreakable code lands in her hands, she is thrust into a desperate race against time.

As the British Museum curator deciphers the cryptic message, she becomes the target of a secret government agency determined to keep the truth hidden at all costs. When the manuscript vanishes in Berlin, Calla realizes that the key to her family’s disappearance may be encoded in the ancient text.

With no time to lose, Calla, NSA security advisor Nash Shields, and tech entrepreneur Jack Kleve embark on a globe-trotting mission to decode the riddle and uncover a shocking technological breakthrough. Battling skilled assassins and unraveling layers of deceit, Calla discovers that nothing in the modern or ancient world is as it seems.

As the clock ticks down, Calla must risk everything to solve the mystery of her missing parents and prevent a dangerous new world from being unleashed. This is a race against time that she cannot afford to lose.

Can a grumpy former Ranger find lasting happiness in a marriage of convenience with a sunny single mom?

After losing his leg, former Army Ranger Holt Steele is building a new life and a new business with his friends. Sure, he never expected to put small-town baker on his resume, but he finds he likes the quiet, simple life. If only he didn’t like the sunny single mom who works across the street–or her adorable kid–quite so much.

After escaping a controlling husband, event planner Cayla Black has one focus–growing her business and maintaining a safe, happy home for her daughter. She has no time or interest in a man. Not even one who charms her child with Disney songs and keeps turning up like a mind-reader to help without being asked.

But when her ex’s conviction is overturned on a technicality, and he shows up intending to reclaim his wife and child, Holt intervenes with an outrageous lie. The only way to fix it is to make his falsehood the truth. As they struggle to convince everyone that their marriage of protection is real, these two reluctant hearts fall deeper, until the lines between the fiction and the dream begin to blur, and they have to risk it all to protect the family they didn’t know they wanted.

THIS BOOK IS PART OF A SHARED HORROR UNIVERSE BUT CAN BE READ ALONE WITH NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF PREVIOUS BOOKS.

How much bad luck can one person survive?

Emily Carlton is desperate for a break.

Stuck in a dead-end job, drowning in bills, and watching life pass her by, she’s counting on one perfect night with old friends to forget her troubles.

But after a violent confrontation on a lonely beach, somebody places a curse upon them.

At first, it seems ridiculous.

Then the accidents begin.

A shattered bottle. A near miss on the road. A freak injury that should never have happened.

Bad luck is following them.

Watching them.

Hunting them.

And with each passing day, the curse grows stronger, twisting coincidence into catastrophe and turning ordinary moments into deadly traps.

Now Emily and her friends are trapped in a waking nightmare where death can strike anywhere, at any time, and no amount of running can save them.

Because some curses don’t want revenge.

They want bodies.

She’s pursued the most dangerous news stories around the world. But can she survive going home?

Injured in a bombing, war correspondent Kate Tessler returns to her hometown in Arizona to recover. For the first time in her life, she’s starting to feel her age of nearly fifty despite living like a teenager again: staying in her childhood bedroom with only a cat for company, trying to understand why her sister resents her so much, and running into people who still refer to her as Kitty. The hardest part? Seeing her once-sharp and witty mother stuck in an Alzheimer’s unit.

When an old friend asks her to investigate suspicious deaths at the nursing home, Kate limps into action. Is a self-appointed “Angel of Mercy” killing patients to end their suffering? Are family members hastening their inheritance? Is an employee extorting money and removing the witnesses? Kate uses her journalism skills to track clues, but the puzzle pieces simply won’t fit.

If Kate can’t uncover the truth quickly, her mother could be next on the killer’s list.

The war was already lost — but no one was allowed to stop fighting.

Germany, 1945: The Red Army is closing in on Silesia, and the regime is running out of soldiers.

Anton Köhler is a watchmaker’s apprentice. He is fifteen, in love with the girl next door, sole breadwinner for his seven siblings. Then the regime comes for the Hitler Youth boys of his town. Including Anton and his best friend Gerhard.

As they are drilled, marched, and pushed toward a front that no longer exists, Anton makes himself two promises. To survive this war with his conscience intact, and to bring Gerhard home alongside him — because he can’t bear to lose anyone again.

But the war is not done with the boys of 1929 yet. And some promises can’t be kept, no matter how hard you try.

When the War is Over is a coming-of-age novel about friendship, conscience, and the impossible weight a war places on the young — drawn from the real wartime memories of the author’s grandfather.