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The Army doesn’t want them, they’re too much trouble!
MI6 does, they’re the best at what they do, and they need the best.
MI6 have a problem.

A missing agent kidnapped and taken to hostile territory for interrogation.
Only one option is open, and that’s a high-risk rescue operation over two hundred miles into hostile territory with no support.

A ‘do or die mission’ where the stakes are high and failure isn’t an option.

One buried body. Many hidden secrets.

When the body of an unknown teenage girl is discovered following a storm, the community of Birkbury closes ranks to protect their secrets.
As a seasoned detective, DCI Peter Hatherall’s expectation of solving the historic case is low. No local girls were reported missing twenty years ago, and she was buried in a field easily accessible from a major road. Beneath the villagers’ good manners and polite smiles, he discovers deep-seated resentments and family feuds spanning decades, but little interest in what happened to the girl. With only two initials engraved on the girl’s jewellery as a clue, he fears her death will remain a mystery.
But the possibility of a chance encounter at a race meeting and a baffling car accident leads Hatherall to believe there may be a local connection. He relentlessly chips away, pushing buttons until it becomes clear that the girl may not have been local, but the killer was. And they’re prepared to kill again to hide their identity.
If you enjoy mysteries in a rural setting with unpredictable twists, this book is for you.

Latin was a dead language — until the aliens arrived.

Out-of-work Latin teacher and borderline alcoholic Austin DeSantis is determined to spend his final days in the arms of a prostitute — that is if the aliens don’t exterminate humanity first.

But when the aliens land at the Vatican, begin speaking Latin, and reveal themselves to be Catholic, the world turns upside down.

Pressed into service as a translator and thrust into the center of humanity’s first contact with a cryptic alien race, Austin must uncover their true intentions before religious turmoil rips the planet apart. But with Austin caught between the Catholic Church, the US military, and an enigmatic alien AI, he’ll have to decide where his loyalties lie as the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

PILGRIMS is a sci-fi retelling of Augustine’s Confessions, mixing a high-concept premise à la Children of Time with the ceaseless pacing and rich characterization of Red Rising.

When Rome transgresses upon his father’s domain that lays between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Pacorus, a prince of the Parthian Empire, is sent to exact revenge. After a string of victories Pacorus and his men are captured in Cappadocia, clapped in chains and sent to Italy to live out the rest of their days as slaves. But fate intervenes and Pacorus and his companions are saved from a living hell by a renegade gladiator named Spartacus. In gratitude, Pacorus agrees to help Spartacus build his army as Rome musters its legions to crush the slave uprising. And so begins an epic adventure of glory and savagery played out across the length and breadth of Italy, as Spartacus defeats the armies of Rome and Pacorus leads his horsemen to victory after victory. But will Pacorous and the slave army escape from Italy, and will he win the love of the fierce and proud Gallia before the most powerful man in Rome, Marcus Licinius Crassus, takes the field against Spartacus?

In a world of wedding dresses and heartfelt vows, a dressmaker discovers a secret of the past – and a sisterhood to help her start over.

For generations, the women in Hazel’s family ran a wedding dress atelier on beautiful Mendocino Island, where dreams are woven into each stitch and love stories are crafted one gown at a time.

A twist of fate brings Jenny and Faye into the store, each hoping to find the perfect dress for her second chance at love and happiness. But when one bride-to-be falls head over heels for a gown tailored for another woman many decades ago, life takes an unexpected turn.

Soon, dressmaker Hazel finds herself in a dilemma: should she stay loyal to her family legacy or cater to her new friends? When a handsome young doctor visits the romantic cove, even more hearts become entangled in the wedding drama. As the coastal breeze carries the scent of blooming roses and the salty tang of the sea, Hazel realizes that navigating matters of the heart is never as straightforward as the tides that ebb and flow along the shore…

Tig isn’t a detective. She just played one on TV. Will that be enough to help her find the killer?

Acting jobs are scarce now for former TV teen detective Antigone Alden. So when a teaching position opens up at Southern Coastal University, Tig packs up her teenage daughter and heads home to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

But the house she inherited from her mother isn’t entirely empty. Her mom seems stuck between this life and the next, and now Tig is a local reporter’s prime suspect in the murder of the former theater professor. Given his reputation as a ladies’ man, however, there are plenty of people with a motive.

CURTAINS FOR ROMEO is the first book in the Coastal Playhouse Mystery Series and can be read as a standalone. Clean read: contains no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.