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Colleen is married to handsome and successful Jacob Kessler. Things are wonderful for about nine months.  She then detects changes in his behavior.  Her mom explains away these changes as her husband's work ambitions, but are they?

Ryan Mallardi is a young private investigator trying to get his relationship with Angelica on track for marriage, but things keep going awry. Unexpected truths begin to seep out during his counseling sessions with Fr. Liam.  Will Ryan be able to save the relationship and get it back on track to marriage?

Fr. Liam and Mike Mullens, his brother, are scheming to convince his wife Maria to move up north so the brother's can be together again.  Will the guys be successful in their secret campaign?

Will they all get what they want?  Or will the Hand of Fate enter the scene and rearrange things?

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Fr. Liam's brother Mike finally moves up to Ocala so the brothers can now be together again. Colleen is now facing a bankruptcy and divorce, thanks to her gambling husband. She still hopes, however, to find true love.

Ryan tries again to get his relationship with the beautiful Angelica back on track.   He gets pulled into a missing person's case and this time it's personal.

Will Ryan find the missing person? Will he and Angelica finally resolve their problems?  Will Colleen find a new love?

Read Beware - Things Are Not Always as They Seem

Two young beautiful women go missing. One of them, everyone seems to be looking for and the other one is reported missing by someone
she just met.

Ryan Mallardi, Private Investigator, is hired to search for both women by different people and for different reasons. His personal life with his girlfriend Angelica has gone upside down again and a new woman has entered the scene, captured his attentions but only complicated all matters of his heart.

Going on instinct alone, Ryan sets off to unravel the mystery of both women's disappearance. Will he find one or both of the missing women? Will his secret plan to entrap a murderer work?

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Ryan Mallardi's premonitions about his friend and client Jean-Francois Lenoir, unfortunately, came true. JF, as his family called him, is the wealthy patriarch of an international tire conglomerate, recently widowed, but more recently remarried to a woman 30 years his junior, who seemed to make him very happy. Some would say he was over the moon about his beautiful wife Tara, and some others would say he was obsessed with her.

If he was deliriously happy or obsessed, why would JF commit suicide only a few days before his 75th birthday party? Did JF, in a moment of despair, kill himself? After all, his oldest son, Francois, identified the writing in the suicide note as his father's handwriting. Or were Tara and her boyfriend-on-the-side, Anthony, guilty of murder?

Will Ryan finally get his romantic life straightened out? Will he finally find love and marriage, which have been eluding him for all this time?

Read Forewarned but Unheeded

Captain Salvo assigns Jack and Fiona as temporary partners to solve a local homicide. By the end of the first day, Fiona is wondering how temporary the assignment will be as she is having murderous thoughts of her own. But Fiona has six brothers, a psych degree, and knows how to handle difficult men.

Detective Jack Nolan thought marrying in the Catholic Church would protect him from divorce but it hasn't. His wife left him eight months ago and he's not adjusting well to that or the new awakened world around him. Detective Fiona has moved her whole life up to central Florida to be with Gustav, so they can prepare for marriage and a life together.

Will Fiona be able to solve the crime in spite of Jack? Will they be able to do it before the mayor's re-election? Will things work out with Fiona and her boyfriend?

Read a Sample of Murder in the Sanctuary

Maribel Bovine thinks she saw her missing daughter.  An investigation is opened to see if this is Rebecca or Rena Marie, who the woman claims to be. Will Jack and Fiona be able to confirm her identity after all these years?

Fiona and Gus are moving towards marriage until Gus reveals a change of heart. Her brother, Fr. Matthew, is not happy about it.  Will Fiona & Gus make it to the altar?

Jack's wife left over eight months ago and now he's dating again. Will he be able to find a new love or wind up with more female enemies?

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Jack and Fiona are working the murder that occurred at the Big Splash Car Wash. Was the victim, Manuel Sanchez, murdered for the insurance monies? Was he murdered for the bag of cash he had in his trunk? Or was this another in a string of drug-related crimes that occurred over the last two weeks in their town? Or was it the alleged mistress who lashed out in revenge?

Fingers are pointing everywhere – and that’s before the DEA enters the scene and complicates things even more.

Jack and Fiona both have personal changes in their lives on top of the pressure to solve this case. Will they solve it in time for the DEA to get the drug cartel member and his lawyer?

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Daniel Webb's mother is convinced that her son's death was no accident. She has filed a complaint against the police department, alleging a shoddy investigation. Chief Salvo assigns Detectives Jack and Fiona to the case, but their mission is clear: to placate Mrs. Webb and get her to withdraw the complaint.

Jack and Fiona go through the motions of a deeper investigation, but all clues still point to an unfortunate overdose. Fiona digs deeper and uncovers evidence of a bit of smoke and mirrors that may be going on just below the surface.

Will Jack and Fiona be able to find out what really happened? Will Rosina Webb's motherly instinct turn out to be true? Or will Rosina be shocked a second time when she finds out the ultimate truth?

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A missing housewife. A web of secrets. It's one half-truth after another until Fiona uncovers the real truth.

Ride along with Detective Jack & Fiona as they investigate a missing person's case.  Lucia Newman has allegedly gone missing and her best friend thinks something sinister has happened. Lucia's husband said his wife left him again and his story about her leaving once before checks out.  One clue after another thickens the plot but not about Lucia's whereabouts, more about Lucia's best friend and her alleged soulmate named Dom.

Jack and Fiona are trying to move forward with their separate lives and remain partners, but it's turning out to be harder than expected -- especially when the hand of fate enters the scene and turns everything upside down.

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True Love was only a distant memory for Darius. He has been carrying a broken heart since the Victorian era . . . until his eyes landed on her. She ignited his heart and soul. Will he be able to capture her?

The Regans are a wealthy and powerful family of blue bloods in modern day Newport, Rhode Island. Elizabeth Regan, a fourth generation socialite, is grooming her two daughters to find the right husbands. Translation? She is shopping them around the social registry and their local Catholic church. Mom comes close enough with her scheming to hear distant wedding bells for both daughters.

Will Darius be able to possess Ciara with her family and the monks working against him? And what will happen to the mobster from NY who shows up asking too many questions?

Read Darius - A Vampire Story

 

What happens when a funeral-home-owning vampire falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy and powerful Newport Rhode Island family who disapprove of him? And their disdain is not about the whole vampiric thing.

Through some unfortunate circumstances, Ciara winds up separated from Darius and she now believes that he never really loved her -- especially when she sees Darius with another woman.  She is determined to forget him, but will she?

Darius, who was on the run with a new set of problems, is determined to repossess Ciara at any cost.  Will he be able to protect his secrets and be able to recapture his one true love? Or will Ciara fall in love with someone else before he can get out of his present jam?

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After possessing Ciara, the great love of his life, Darius settles down into a calm state of happiness.  Then Ciara's parents begin asking too many questions, threatening Darius' secrets.  Too many strange things are happening.  Elizabeth Regan can't fathom why her daughter has gone through so many sudden changes now that Darius is back in her life.  There are suspicions everywhere her mother looks.

This new pressure on Darius and Ciara was bad enough, but then Uncle Michael, a Newport cop, and Abbot Rene, from the local monastery, start putting different pressures on Darius and his staff, about what is really going on with him and his funeral home.

Can Darius manage all of these busybody family members without revealing any of his secrets?  Or will his vampiric identity and power be revealed, causing Darius to go on the run again?

Read The Art of Sabotage

Darius has built his life now around Ciara. He needs to know if Ciara truly loves him and the only way he can find out is to withdraw his possessive power over her. Will she wake up and realize she has been his possession or will she maintain her loving feelings for him? Or will her meddling and menacing family members interfere with Darius’ plans? Only giving Ciara freedom will allow true love to happen. It is a risk he now wants to take.

Dr. Rodriguez, a local blood scientist, falls prey to Darius in his plan to manage his blood needs. Will the changes that she brings change Darius' heart and soul? Will these changes make facing the truth about Ciara's love easier or harder?

Read Distrust - A Vampire Story of Love & Freedom