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Mac Davis is like a dog with a bone when he's after a story. And this story bugs him. How can a woman be found guilty and sentenced to prison for accessory after the fact, when the District Attorney decides no crime has been committed?It starts out as a favor to his aunt who's concerned about an old friend. But the more questions Mac asks, the more he doesn't like the answers he's getting.A short story in the series of Mac Davis thrillers.

Yes, you can go home again. But will you leave it alive? Paul Kitka hasn't returned to Sitka, Alaska in 18 years -- not since a cop shot and killed his father. Now he's a cop himself, a lieutenant in the Alaska State Troopers. When his brother is arrested for the murder of the cop who killed their father, Paul heads back to Sitka. It's time to unravel the secrets that have haunted him and his family for decades. Candace Marshal has just gotten her pilot's license, and she's happy to fly him there on her maiden voyage. Sitka, she hears, is a beautiful city. What could go wrong?This is the second book in the Talkeetna series.

SOMETIMES THE PAST WON'T STAY BURIED Janet Andrews is a respected journalist and editor. But once, she was someone else. Now, they're coming for her, and this time? They aren't going to let her go.Mac Davis isn't sure how he ended up being a cop reporter. But he's pretty sure he wouldn't still be a reporter if it wasn't for Janet Andrews. He probably would be in jail, if not dead. So he owes her. And he knows it.Now, she's in trouble. She's being hunted. Mac doesn't plan to let her get hurt. So he's going after them, hunting the hunters.And he's a very good hunter. Book 2 in the Mac Davis thrillers featuring a Marine turned cop reporter in Seattle.

She Won't Let Her People Down People's lives are on the line, and Katy Williams can't even pick up the phone. She's learning how to edit without using her hands. Her wrists are still damaged from the arson fire last month. It's left her in pain and cranky. Although her reporters at the Plains City Gazette swear they can't tell the difference — she's always been cranky. Funny. She thinks the arson fire may have damaged her sense of humor too. It's Texas, 1988. The arson fire has exposed a white militia compound that's growing out in the east Texas pine country. The FBI want in to take a look. And the agent they're sending in? John Williams, her brother. It's not just her staff who are depending on her now. Book 4 in the historical mystery series, A Newspaper in Texas.

Talkeetna, the seriesPaul Kitka likes women, fast cars, and his job as a lieutenant in Alaska State Patrol. Unfortunately, life isn't quite that simple. Candace Marshall isn't sure what she likes. Years married to an abusive husband does that. She likes Alaska, though, so that's a start — a rocky start.The set includes the first two books of Talkeetna and a bonus short story. Book 1: Everybody LiesCandace Marshall came to Alaska to escape her abusive husband. Then her abusive husband ends up dead on her cabin floor. Paul Kitka seems to believe her when she says she didn't do it. But then, who did? When your ex happens to be a lobbyist hated by everyone in Alaska, it turns out there is no end of suspects. Book 2: Somebody's SecretsPaul Kitka is headed home to Sitka, Alaska, for the first time in 18 years. His brother is accused of murder, and his mother needs him home. To save his brother, he may have to expose the secrets that have haunted him since childhood — secrets people have killed to protect.Candace Marshall, with a brand new pilot's license, is happy to fly Paul home. Sitka is supposed to be beautiful. It'll be fun, she thinks.And deadly. Someone forgot to tell her that. Dead Tourist(A bonus short story.)It's Candace's first winter in Alaska. When her cabin fever makes Paul crazy, he suggests she needs a railroad trip to Seward. It's a beautiful train ride to a beautiful coastal port. How much trouble can she get into? He forgot who he was talking to.

She's Going to Get Married Katy Williams proposed to her football coach in the newsroom — and he said yes. But then things got difficult. The only pastor who speaks to her can't marry them unless they're willing to publicly confess their sin and live apart until the ceremony. He's apologetic, but the deacons said no exceptions, not even for the football coach.So Katy turns to her former landlord, her source for all things Texan. Get the judge to do it, Carolyn says. Say what? Have a former lover perform the ceremony? Carolyn shrugs. In a small town, these things happen.But then Katy lists the women she wants for her bridesmaids, and Carolyn is silent. Apparently integrated wedding parties don't happen?And the dates came came out for the state playoff games — and everyone says Coach Parker will be taking his team to state this year — and the final game conflicts with their wedding date.And then it got political. Of course it did, this is Texas, the 1980s and Katy Williams is the news editor of the Plains City Gazette. Book 5 in the historical mystery series, A Newspaper in Texas.

Dace Marshall has cabin fever. It's February in Alaska. Go somewhere, her housemate advises. Take the train to Seward.What could go wrong? A short story in the Talkeetna series.

IT'S EVERY COP'S WORST NIGHTMARESeattle Police Detective Joe Dunbar knew he'd screwed up big time, maybe even fatally. He swallowed hard, followed by a deep breath to steady himself. He'd managed to dodge the gunfire coming from the dark and nearly derelict house on Queen Anne. But he was trapped, now. He had already called for dispatch for backup. Shouldn't they should be here by now?Something cold settled in his stomach.They weren't coming, he thought. He had nightmares like this. They weren't coming.He considered his options, and then he sighed: hell of a thing, when a cop had to call a reporter for backup because his own had abandoned him."e;Mac,"e; he said softly into his phone. "e;It's Joe Dunbar. I need help."e;Book 4 in the series of Mac Davis thrillers, featuring a Marine turned cop reporter in Seattle.

When You Come for the Wrong Man Howard Parker wants to be Secretary of Homeland Security. And he isn't going to let a bunch of Marines who were in the wrong place at the wrong time stand in his way — even if one of them is now a reporter in Seattle, his home town. What are the odds?Former Marine Mac Davis likes being a cop reporter. He gets a regular paycheck, and no one is shooting at him. What's not to like? Then someone tries to kill him. Roughs up his aunt. Kidnaps an old Marine buddy. And Mac is going to find out why. And then? He'll put a stop to it. One way or another. If the tools of a reporter won't get the job done? Well then, he's got other tools to use. Book 1 in the Mac Davis thrillers featuring a Marine turned cop reporter in Seattle.

What would you do to keep a secret? Bob Anderson ­­— local banker, city council member, and now murder victim — had the goods on a bunch of people in Plains City, Texas. Everybody wants those files; no one can find them. Katy Williams was hired to make the Plains City Gazette into a modern newspaper. She's got enough on her plate with the newspaper, a Texan boyfriend, and Texas in general — she tells her friends back home these are her foreign correspondent years. She's understaffed, overworked and just grateful to get the newspaper out every day.Someone wants Bob Anderson's files bad enough to kill. He's killed once, and he's willing to do it again to keep his sins hidden. Unfortunately for Katy, the murderer and half the town want those files, for all kinds of reasons. And they all think she has them. How do you prove a negative? Katy needs to find the files and publish. People are dying, and Katy is afraid she's next.Book one in the mystery series, A Newspaper in Texas. Somewhere deep in the heart of Texas, an editor is doing the best she can.

She fled her abuser, but a killer followed her Paul Kitka likes fast cars, women and his job as a lieutenant in the Alaska State Troopers. He likes living in Talkeetna, a small town full of quirky people he's happy to call friends and neighbors. Life is good. Candace Marshall doesn't know what she likes — being married to an abusive husband had stripped her of all personal preferences. She likes good coffee. She likes her landlord's kids. She even likes her new job as office manager for Purdue Flight Service. And to her surprise, she likes Alaska. She came to Alaska to disappear. She chose Talkeetna, a small, remote town at the base of Mount Denali, to start over with a different name — in a state her husband hates, and the state hates him back. It was her best chance. When Candace finds him dead in her cabin, her first thought is to run again. Who would believe she didn't kill him? When Lt. Paul Kitka sees a murdered abusive husband, he assumes the wife killed him — and in Alaska? No one's going to convict her. But Candace Marshall insists she didn't do it, and reluctantly, he believes her. So then, who did kill the lobbyist in Alaska everyone hates so much?Turns out half of Talkeetna had a reason to kill the man, and everyone is lying to him: Candace, the victim's family and co-workers, even Paul's friends and neighbors. And his investigation is exposing all of their secrets. Now his job is on the line, his town is angry at him, and his partner wants to arrest Candace for murder. But what worries Paul the most, is that in a town full of unstable and angry people, the murderer isn't done. Get started now with book one in Talkeetna, a crime mystery series full of people who aren't what they seem to be, set in an isolated Alaskan town where a cat was elected mayor for a decade.

Football and the Flag It's Texas in the 1980s. Football is king. A gifted Black high school quarterback says he won't play varsity football because they carry the Confederate flag. The town's reaction stuns Katy Williams, news editor at the local newspaper. And that of her staff as well. It ranges from indifference to the flag to outrage that anyone would challenge it at all. When five of the starting line follow Clay Peabody off the team, the situation turns explosive. And then, the police find a body hanging from the goal posts at South Plains City High School. It's one of the players, and a note says, one down and six to go.... The sixth? Katy's newest reporter, Abe Law. Book 2 in A Newspaper in Texas, a historical mystery series set in the 1980s.

A Woman's Place?Ruthie Brewster was on a mission to make sure every abused woman in Plains City, Texas, has a safe place to go.Until someone killed her.Plains City Gazette news editor Katy Williams admired Ruthie a lot. She's appalled: The police seem less than committed to finding her killer. A local minister thinks what she was doing was of the devil and that she got what was due to her. Even her own brother seems unmoved by her death.Then someone kills another woman on the board of the Women's Shelter. It looks like the killer has a list. And Katy's name is on it.Book 3 in A Newspaper in Texas, a mystery series set in the 1980s when hair was big, skirts were short, and newspapers were booming.

Even Heroes Make Mistakes Lanky Purdue is an Alaskan icon. He's been there forever — the dashing Air Force pilot, the man who flew medicines into villages in dark winters, the man who has rescued more stranded climbers than anyone can count. If you need help, Lanky Purdue is the man you go to.So when Belle Robards shows up at Purdue Flight Service in the dead of winter looking for help, it's no great surprise to Dace Marshall, his office manager. So yes, she's wearing a skirt, high-heeled boots, and a fur jacket — in Talkeetna at 10 below — and she won't tell Dace what the problem is. But Lanky wouldn't fall for a pretty face and a bogus sob story.Would he? Book 4 in the Talkeetna series featuring Candace Marshall and Police Lt. Paul Kitka.

When You Can't Trust Your Own MemoriesRyan Matthews has a memory problem. Some memories just don't exist — nothing before age 10, really.Some memories conflict.If you asked him a year ago about his home life, he would have said his adoptive parents loved him, and he loved them, and they probably didn't deserve the wild teen he became.So what about the scars on his arm? Or his stomach? What about the images that haunt his nightmares?If you can't trust your own memories, what can you trust? Book 11 in the Newsroom PDX suspense series, set in a college newsroom in downtown Portland.Foul language. Some sex. Lots of politics. Just like Portland.

Someone is Hunting ThemNine-year-old Jazzy needs the Video Man, her own private superhero, because Ms.Carroll has gone missing. Cage Washington doesn't think he's a superhero at all, but he's got friends, and they'll do their best to rescue Carroll. But it isn't just Carroll they're hunting. There is a forced conversion therapy camp operating somewhere outside of Portland. And for a price, they'll kidnap your LGBTQIA kid and 'fix' them.And they want Carroll Gilligan. With Carroll, it's not about family, or fixing her.It's about revenge.Book 12 in the political suspense series Newsroom PDX.Foul language, some sex, lots of politics. Because it's Portland.

A Fitness Spa Like You've Never Experienced BeforeProfessor Abby Stafford was burned out. She was overweight, middle-aged, and tired. She'd even thought about suicide, but there were her dogs. Who would care for them? So she kept trudging on.A summer as a test subject for a supplement that was designed to help her feel better and look younger, sounded just like what the doctor ordered. What did she have to lose?But Wolf Harbor Resort may have left out a few of the side effects....First in a new paranormal romance series, Wolf Harbor — a feminist werewolf story.

Weathering the Winds of Change Yui Ito Yoshida had always lived on Hat Island. She didn't think she could live anywhere else. She'd faced trauma as a child, more trauma as an adult, but now? Now she had a mate, two children, and she was happy. Safe. She laughed when they called her the Woman of Hat Island, but she had to acknowledge she was deeply rooted here. It was her refuge. Then Stefan Lebenev showed up to reopen the Wolf Harbor Resort. And she wasn't sure even the island she loved could keep her safe from the storm he was bringing to Hat Island. When Stefan Lebenev thought he might be able to keep girl shifters alive during first shift, he needed a place for a research lab. He returned to the only place he'd ever felt safe — Wolf Harbor on Hat Island — and to the only person he ever felt loved him, Yui Ito, now Yui Oshida. The fact that Yui had married Okami Oshida, one of the most feared warriors in the Northwest, wouldn't hurt. Because if Stefan could do what he thought he could? He would change the shifter world forever. Okami Oshida didn't want Stefan here. He represented change. And change, in his experience — centuries of experience—meant the risk of danger to the people he loved. But as he listened to the man, he knew two things: One, Stefan's prototype serum could mean his own daughter would live through first shift. He'd do whatever he had to for her to live. And two? The Woman of Hat Island was calling her boys home. That had far-reaching implications, and might be as dangerous as the serum itself. The prequel to Alpha Female, book 1 in the series, Wolf Harbor.