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Matt and his wife LeAnn are confronted by a terrible murder on the eve of the ARW going online in New Chicago. Hours later, more murders occur. Matt must discover the connection between the brutal crimes being committed in New Chicago and Maria's disappearance in Rio de Janeiro. As great changes begin to take place in Matt's life and the lives of his friends, he must travel from New Chicago to West Palm Beach, Florida, and finally South Carolina in this swiftly moving tale of murder and madness with startling revelations. A beautiful but amoral CR and a sexy Cherry 6 both play roles in this...

A young man made good returns to the small town where he grew up and his life changes forever in this emotionally naked and beautiful story of going home again. Darcy Kendrick, the nicest girl in town and once the head cheerleader in high school, is no longer the pride of Shafter, but its greatest disappointment and shame. But to Billy Ballard, who sees beyond the surface down into Darcy's lovely heart, she is still the same wonderful girl he adored from afar all those years ago. Seeking her out as the small town around him shuns her, Billy will have to love Darcy more completely than most ...

Nautica City is an idyllic beachfront town along the California coast during the 1960s. The laid-back lifestyle of surfing, fast cars, girls in bikinis and music leads Sheriff Jack Riker to believe he has the best job in the world. With no crime to speak of and a girl he's just met on the beach who may be the love of his life, life couldn't be sweeter. But then the owner of the Nautica Beach Gazette is murdered. With no official deputies in the small seaside town, Jack enlists the aid of locals Boogie, Davy, Mike and Cassie to help search for a supposedly dead hot-rodder. But Jack and the ...

Civil Regulator Matt Ransom and his wife LeAnn are years removed from the world-changing revelations of The Velvet Sea. Those events tested their love and made it stronger than before. But not everyone involved in the unraveling of the crime at the heart of The Velvet Sea has fared as well. The Tender Shore finds Stacy adrift when her world is shattered by an assassin while on vacation in Mexico with Matt and LeAnn. Matt's investigation into what's really behind it all will take him from Mexico to Miami, and finally Brazil, as he discovers the fallout from the conspiracy uncovered in Paris ...

Down every rural road and in every small country town there is an old-fashioned noir story waiting to take place. Whether it’s California, Oklahoma, Texas, Illinois, or lonely eastern Nebraska, peril paints these byways. Down Every Road contains State Route 43, Last Semester, Nebraska, Galveston and Endless Night for five gritty and unforgettable tales of old-fashioned noir.

The morally complex and emotionally beautiful Sapphire Sea took the Matt Ransom series to new frontiers, reshaping the sensual and complex world while fulfilling all the promise suggested in the series’ lean and sexy inaugural entry, The Velvet Sea. If readers were expecting the follow-up to The Sapphire Sea to be a letdown after the series’ most emotionally powerful entry, they can be forgiven. It was difficult to imagine where this series could go from where we last left our favorite bio-organic and his sensually close group of friends, especially after such devastating losses. Yet ...

With its sexy mix of thrilling action and tangible sensuality, and a willingness to tackle subjects such as abuse and incest, suicide and faith within an entertaining sci-fi/mystery series often focused on global conspiracies in a world devoid of real love, The Sapphire Sea might just be the finest and most entertaining entry yet in the Matt Ransom canon. Big and sprawling — there are over thirty pivotal and recurring characters — yet almost uncomfortably intimate at times, the world of Matt Ransom is both intoxicating and addictive. By the seventh entry the world of Matt Ransom had ...

The Gentle Tide is a pivotal moment in this most unique series. While its riveting mix of sensuality, mystery and dystopia pulled readers into this world in enthralling fashion, The Gentle Tide began widening in scope the mythology of the series. Matt has regained the part of himself lost after Rio, but then he sees a ghost from Paris in the rain. He begins searching for answers as to how a woman who died in a way which haunts his dreams could actually be alive. What Matt and his new friends uncover is a perversion so twisted, that even the dead are not safe. For someone Matt loves very ...

Blending the atmosphere of 1940s crime and noir films with an era when spicy pulp magazines of crime and mystery were so full of innuendo and suggestion, they were kept under the counter for public safety, Lucky Penny pays homage to both mediums for a deliciously spicy and nostalgic cocktail. Lucky Penny takes the reader on a hot ride through 1948 Los Angeles as a man who may be more than he seems picks up a beautiful girl as sweet as she is wanton. What he’s involved in is not made clear until it explodes in violence. As the newly formed couple set their sights on Florida, this final job...

Along the lonely backroads of Kentucky, a trucker deliberately flying under the radar and a beautiful woman stranded in the rain come together. Whether they’ve met by chance, or design becomes murkier as their tragic and dangerous secrets are slowly revealed to one another. Even as a tender romance takes wing, those secrets bring the possibility of violence that threaten not only their lives, but their very souls. One final secret leads to a romantically haunting sacrifice which culminates in inescapable violence, in this tender and mysterious Noir Shot entry. * Contains mature themes and...

Two 1940s romantic noir stories of suspense! In I WON'T FORGET YOU, a young woman is left rudderless when the local soldier boy she'd planned to marry sends her a Dear Jane letter. Spring returns to her heart when a second chance at love unexpectedly comes her way. She soon finds herself in a nightmare, however, when he disappears just as they are to be married. The police are convinced the man existed only in the woman's mind. Vowing to never forget him, she finds herself in a sanitarium, where only one man can help her. In THE UNLOCKED WINDOW, a woman who lost her husband during the war ...

Christmas was fast approaching at the conclusion of Eight Blonde Dolls, and A Candy Red Christmas finds Seth and Caroline off to South America for a holiday both love. However, with Harry’s time possibly running short, and Candy in need of the forgiveness she cannot find within herself, neither has ever seen a Christmas more in need of miracles.

Two years have passed since the shattering climax of The Gentle Tide. Matt and his wife LeAnn, blessed with a young daughter who has made them a family, are on the Amalfi Coast of Italy to attend a wedding. Earth is finally beginning to recover, and the future seems bright. Matt becomes fast friends with a backpacker from Mars he meets on the beach. She brings into his life a special light at exactly the right time. But when he discovers she is being watched, and then someone attempts to kidnap her, he knows he must keep this gentle soul from harm. Matt's search for answers as to why ...

In SLOW HOT WIND, Beautiful Hollywood star Lila Chantry walks into gumshoe Sam Barlow's office with a sad story of a husband gone astray. Barlow quickly discovers that he's strayed much further than Lila understands. Blackmail, gangsters, a big Hollywood studio and a race to Mexico in a slow hot wind all come into play for a whiz-bang 1940s detective story in the grand pulp tradition. In GLASS ALIBI, Mike walks into a diner on a rainy San Francisco night, but inside is a different kind of storm. Nora is a luscious brunette with a black eye and a husband sucking the life out of her. As if ...

Six stories of love found in those intoxicating hours after midnight where lonely lives. Imbued with a tangible ache for love felt by those who walk those lonely streets, and the quiet disconnect between the spotlight of day and the sanctuary of night, each of these six stories is touched in some manner by the supernatural. Collection contains: Night Run, City of Angels, Christmas Eve, Requiem, Gypsy Summer, and Night Cry. Come walk these lonely streets for a journey into night you will never forget…

A tragic accident in the distant past that led to a heartbreaking decision, a great love Matt can’t remember, and a girl about to die who will use her final days to give Matt the life that was stolen from him, collide with two unsolved murders in the present in The Romantic Shore. Sprawling across worlds, aching with romantic longing and sensuality, and filled with some of the most beautiful moments of the entire series, The Romantic Shore begins Act II for Matt Ransom, when the truth is finally revealed, and Heaven sets right Matt’s destiny…

This beautiful otherworldy romance set in San Francisco and Australia explores the possibility that love truly is all that matters. Tom Archer is a writer whose gentle fantasies of love assisted from above have garnered him a large following. But he has lost faith in those things about which he renders so beautifully for others to enjoy. When a lovely woman named Arianne passes away without the experience of being loved, heaven intervenes, setting in motion events which will change Tom Archer's life forever. Chance at Heaven is a magical novelette which reminds us of the importance of faith...

In CITY OF ANGELS, a reporter walking home in the wee small hours of morning meets a charming girl in a park many in the City of Angels believe is haunted. She is attempting to break free from the shackles of wealth and the stuffy conventions of the upper crust. Beguiled, he decides to write a human interest story about Sarah. But when he runs into one mysterious contradiction after another, he begins to suspect the impossible has happened. In CHRISTMAS EVE, a delivery man prevents a lovely young girl from harming herself at his first stop on Christmas Eve morning. Then he begins to see her...

Return to the days when names like Woolrich and Chandler, Cain and Gardner filled book racks across America, and radio shows such as the Shadow and Suspense ruled the airwaves in this anthology of stories sure to keep you glued to the edge of your seat. Old-fashioned mystery and suspense in the grand tradition return in nine original stories you'll never forget. The Day Kathy Died, Johnny's Girl, Dark Corridor, Slow Hot Wind, No Holiday From Murder, I Won't Forget You, Glass Alibi, Voodoo Road, and the title story, The Unlocked Window, are sure to keep readers up late, turning pages, and ...

From the Amalfi Coast of Italy to the Twenty-Second-Century Dead Zones of Brazil, the Matt Ransom saga continues in Harbors & Shores. Containing books four and five of the series, The Lovely Harbor and The Sandy Shore, this special edition of Matt Ransom encapsulates an exciting and complex new story-line within the greater saga, and contains some of the most romantic, action-filled, and thrilling moments of the entire series.