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TIN GOD, book one in the Delta Crossroads Series

Getting pregnant as a teenager and being coerced into giving her baby up for adoption left a festering scar on Jaymee Ballard’s life. Trapped by poverty and without many allies, Jaymee nearly gives up hope of getting her daughter back after her best friend is murdered. Now, four years later, a wealthy woman with legal connections hires her as a housekeeper, and Jaymee gathers the courage to seek her help. But Jaymee’s last chance ends up in a puddle of blood in one of the historic antebellum mansions in Roselea, Mississippi.

I just murdered your wife…again.

An unsigned letter consisting of six horrifying words turns Nick Samuels stagnant life upside down. Stuck in emotional purgatory since his wife’s unsolved murder four years ago, Nick is about to self-destruct. The arrival of the letter claiming credit for his wife’s murder and boasting of a new kill sends Nick to Roselea, where he and Jaymee’s worlds collide.

Jaymee and Nick realize exposing the truth about her daughter’s adoption is the only way to solve the murders. Up against years of deception, they rush to identify the killer before the evidence–and Jaymee’s daughter–are lost.

But the truth doesn’t always set the guilt-ridden free. Sometimes, it destroys them.

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Into The Dark  

IT’S THE MOMENTS FROM OUR PAST THAT BIND US.

Branch Manager Emilie Davis is having a day like any other–until two masked men storm into WestOne Bank demanding cash. Her hopes of a quick end to her terror are dashed when she realizes one of the men

has no interest in the bank’s money. Emilie is his prize, and he’s come to claim her.

When hostage negotiator Nathan Madigan and Las Vegas SWAT enter the bank on a rescue mission, Emilie’s captor makes a shocking escape into the abyss that lies beneath the city: the Las Vegas storm drains, a refuge for the downtrodden and the desperate.

HOW WILL IT END?

Who is the man the media has dubbed the “Taker?” Why is he after Emilie, and what is the connection he’s convinced they share?

Emilie can’t run from the Taker, and she can’t escape her own past. As her life closes in on her, she has nowhere to turn but to Nathan. The lines of professionalism blur as Nathan becomes determined to save

Emilie. Together they venture into the depths beneath Las Vegas and discover a shocking piece of the puzzle.

But the Taker remains one step ahead. Desperate for the threat to emerge from the shadows, Emilie makes a bold move to reclaim her life, and it may cost her everything.

Welcome To Las Vegas (short story)

Tate is afraid of the dark. But his junkie sister has disappeared into the terrifying storm drains below Las Vegas. The tunnels stretch hundreds of miles beneath the city, housing the city’s homeless and criminal

element. Armed with only his flashlight, Tate wades into the gritty depths of the storm drains to rescue his sister from her demons.

Every step into the smothering darkness challenges Tate’s resolve. With his sister’s life and his own sanity at stake, Tate must face his fears or risk fading into the dank oblivion of the Las Vegas tunnels.

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Tin God
March 2013

HE JUST MURDERED THE MAN’S WIFE…AGAIN.

Jaymee Ballard thought she had survived the worst kind of heartache, but discovering her employer’s body dismantles any hope Jaymee had of gaining control over her life. Thrust into a mystery that reaches far beyond her hometown of Roselea, Mississippi, Jaymee will have to join forces with the one man she wishes she never had to see again.

Widower Nick Samuels is determined to tie the murder of Jaymee’s boss to the slaying of his dead wife four years ago. As he and Jaymee search for answers, she realizes the secret she’d harbored for years may be the connection.

Up against a beloved minister and years of lies, she and Nick race to find justice. The truth doesn’t always set the miserable free. Sometimes, it destroys them.

Born Evil Trilogy
Fall 2013

ARE SOME PEOPLE TRULY BORN EVIL?

That’s the question forensic psychologist Cate Blackwood is up against in the Born Evil Trilogy. In the hopes of tracking down a cunning serial killer, Cate is tasked with unraveling the mind of a long-tortured victim. Her training has taught her psychopaths are born, not made.

Real life is about to teach her something very different.

Look for the first book in the Born Evil series in fall 2013.