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Bridgette Connor is a woman on the edge. A career as a rising young journalist in New Mexico, shattered, a broken relationship, and the weight of a devastating loss have driven her to do what she’s always done when life spirals out of control.

She runs. She runs — until a violent car crash near a rural Kentucky town leaves her battered and alone, stranded at the end of the line.

Alexis Parker is a woman in control. A fiercely loyal friend, an unstoppable force in business, and a devoted mother to the daughter she never gave up on, Alexis thrives in a world she built from perseverance, hope and love. But when Bridgette collapses on her doorstep one rain-driven night, bloodied and broken, Alexis faces a choice that will alter both their lives forever.

Last Things is an unflinching exploration of two women whose paths collide in a twist of fate. It’s a story of resilience and healing, of love and forgiveness — and, above all, it is a story of a friendship that defies every expectation.

One of Tennessee’s top detectives leaves the violent streets of Memphis expecting a quieter life in a small Southern town.

He’s wrong.

Beneath the town’s peaceful surface, Detective Danny Acuff uncovers signs of corruption, buried secrets, and people willing to kill to protect both.

A former Force Recon Marine, Danny knows how to survive a fight. But this isn’t Afghanistan. In this town, enemies wear badges, loyalties shift fast, and trusting the wrong person can get you killed.

As the body count rises and two former Special Forces soldiers begin hunting him down, Danny realizes he didn’t leave the war behind after all.

He just brought it with him.

Take Down is a gritty Southern crime thriller packed with suspense, corruption, violence, and hard-edged realism.

A wealthy entrepreneur with a dark past, Gavin Graystone is not looking for love. But he does need a wife. Setting his sights on Charlotte Vanderley, a lady of impeccable breeding – albeit questionable temperament – he makes it clear from the very beginning that emotion will have no place in their relationship. As far as he is concerned marriage is a business contract. Nothing more and nothing less.

Desperate to escape her engagement to the lecherous old Duke of Tarrow, feisty, free-spirited Charlotte jumps at the opportunity to marry Gavin. Running away with him will mean defying one of the most powerful men in all of England, but Charlotte has never let a little adversity – or a surly rogue – stand in her way. Gavin may not be a fairy-tale prince, but he’s certainly better than a man three times her age. And he’s an excellent kisser.

But marriages of convenience rarely go as planned, and as Charlotte and Gavin embark on a journey that will take them from Gretna Green to the rolling hills of Southampton and the crowded streets of London, they find themselves doing the one thing they both vowed they would never do.

Falling in love.

When pastries turn deadly, it takes more than flour and sugar to uncover the truth…

Maggie Harper’s dream of opening a bakery in her hometown of Maple Creek is finally coming true. With her loyal golden retriever Max by her side, she’s ready to delight the town with her delectable creations at The Sweet Pawtisserie.

But her grand opening turns bitter when renowned food critic Harold Winters samples her signature danish — and promptly drops dead in front of the horrified customers. With her bakery shut down and the town whispering about poisoned pastries, Maggie must prove her innocence before her dream crumbles like day-old cookies.

As she digs into Harold’s past, Maggie discovers a web of corruption, blackmail, and small-town secrets that someone wants to keep buried. The suspect list grows faster than rising dough: a restaurant owner with fake family recipes, a bitter ex-wife with a grudge, and an ambitious councilwoman with something to hide.

With Max’s uncanny ability to sniff out trouble and the reluctant help of her childhood friend Tom Walker (the town’s handsome veterinarian), Maggie sifts through lies and half-baked alibis. But when threatening notes appear and her recipe files are ransacked, it’s clear someone is willing to do anything to stop her investigation.

Can Maggie uncover the culprit before they strike again? Or will The Sweet Pawtisserie’s promising future be permanently closed for business?

PAST IS PRESENT, a standalone thriller, is a heady mix of mystery, music, mirth, the missing–and melancholy. Not to mention time-travel with a twist, and how a single event can echo down the decades. Ready?

One quarter of the adult Western population believe they have had an out-of-body experience. Linda Mitchell, a young, Vietnam War widow living with her 3-year-old daughter in 1968, has an OBE while meditating. She “wakes” on a couch, wearing a T-shirt with an odd word (Reebok), and sees a local newspaper with today’s date, October 8. The year? 1993. She repeats the meditative steps and “returns” home. Anxiety begets curiosity. Can consciousness travel through time, and briefly inhabit another body? The next night…
October 1993. Lately, Sally Mitchell, age 28, wakes each morning exhausted. Her clothes closet seems, well, whatever. Even her cat avoids her. Perhaps she’s a sleepwalker. Must be stress: job, grad school, persistent ex-boyfriend, etc.

October 1993. Vintage rock deejay, “Jurassic Jim” Fleetwood, is heading in the wrong direction. As the world rolls forward to the 21st century, Jim is stuck in reverse, a connoisseur of the dusty past. One night he hears his friend, Sally, talk in her sleep—and the past darkens his life in an unforeseen way. He soon learns that her mother disappeared when Sally was three.

What began a quarter century ago is coming full circle.

Timeless advice for temporal travelers: discard your clocks and calendars. When the past is present… the present is past.