Prologue Hundreds of mourners swarmed the gravesite, descending on the blue canopy like ants at a picnic. Despite the numbers, silence tautened as an acoustic duo committed a folk song to the air. From somewhere over his left shoulder, James […]
Chapter One Mondays sucked enough without the grim implications of Valentine’s Day. Byron Strong thought seriously about calling in sick. Then he remembered what had happened the last time he’d done just that. Not a half hour after he’d vetoed […]
Prologue The night Adrian Carlton first saw James Bracken naked, he was bloodied and bruised. He’d gone several rounds with a bottle of Wild Turkey 101, then crawled behind the wheel of his father’s old Mustang convertible. The joyride ended […]
Chapter One Cole Savitt had made a deal with the devil. He did so willingly because the prize far outweighed the cost. That is, if the devil stuck to her end of the deal. The devil, in this case, […]
In Madame Rebelle, the true events and landscape of World War II play a significant role in the story. It can be difficult to know what is going on in the real-life backdrop of the war and France’s resistance movements. The different […]
Chapter One Champagne, FranceSeptember 1943 Anyone caught out after curfew was either brave or foolish. Dark was coming on swiftly, and the handbag under her arm was filled with smuggled papers. If caught with them, Edmée Guillon knew exactly […]