The Good Old Days

“Company policy forbids me from exchanging my blood, my soul, or my firstborn child with customers… “

When Ross starts working third-shift at a gas station, he doesn’t think anything extraordinary will happen. He expects a lot of quiet shifts.

Well, you know what they say about assumptions.

One explosion later and he’s the personal assistant to a vampire — who he admits is not only sexy, but the sane one — in charge of his supernatural clan’s paperwork, and managing any trouble the members get into.

Spoiler alert: the clan can get into quite a bit of trouble.

Ross is definitely not paid enough for this.

A short murder mystery story

It’s always been a dream of Connie Butterworth’s to be a private investigator. Now that she’s retired, she makes that dream a reality and sets herself up as an investigator. With reluctant help from her sister-in-law, Sable, Connie takes on her first client. What starts out as a simple case of tracking down a missing person soon turns into an intriguing case of deception, phone hacking and murder.

Are they one late-night hayride away from tumbling back into a very bad idea?

Olivia Minelli needs a one-way ticket out of Pine Harbour. It’s too small for both her and her ex-husband. So when a new job falls into her lap, she grabs it with both hands. When this contract is complete, she’ll have enough money saved up to leave town for good. Which means settling some unresolved business with the only man she’s ever truly loved, once and for all.

Rafe Minelli knows he won’t get a second chance at what he once had with his ex-wife. The demands of his double career — as a police officer and military reservist — were a dealbreaker when they were together. And he’s thrilled for her new opportunity. But with it comes a ticking clock that forces both of them to address the smouldering embers of a connection that just won’t go away.

They aren’t the same young kids who rushed into marriage the first time. But as summer slides into fall, Rafe sets out to prove he’s a changed man before he loses her forever. One hayride at a time.

They’re telling me that I murdered my sister.

That can’t be true.

I was in a horrible accident, and my memory is gone. All of it. I don’t remember my sister, my family, or anything about myself. My name. Where I live. Who I love.

Whether I killed her.

But they have evidence. And as my memories slowly return, they’re… not good.

I’m an addict. I did things that were not nice. I definitely hurt people.

I just don’t think I could’ve murdered anyone.

Or did I?

One rogue engineer. Two unlikely allies. Three chances to stop a nuclear disaster.

In the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse, a brilliant Russian engineer vanishes into the irradiated ruins of the Polygon — once the Soviet’s nuclear testing ground. Decades later, CIA operative Bill Estes and FBI agent Michelle Marsh uncover evidence of stolen nuclear material and the missing Russian bomb maker who may have resurfaced.

Then a U.S. warship is destroyed in a nuclear blast. Washington scrambles for answers.

As Estes tracks leads across the globe, he suspects a far-reaching conspiracy — one that implicates more than just Iran. Meanwhile, Marsh, digging into the Russian’s past, reaches an unsettling conclusion: the very man they’re hunting may be the only one who can stop the next attack, this time on American soil.

“From Moscow to Kazakhstan to the White House, State of Matter blends espionage, nuclear tech, and geopolitical brinkmanship into a timely and chillingly plausible thriller.”