As If I Were Five

Two women looking for a fresh start. An escape to a Scottish island. A summer of sisterhood and second chances…
When single mum Kitty is given the chance to house-sit pretty Lilybank Cottage on Arran, she jumps at it. What could be better than a summer on a gorgeous Scottish island?

Except when Kitty arrives, the cottage she has been promised is already occupied by dancer Olivia.

Both have reasons for wanting to stay. Kitty is desperate to find herself again, now that her only son has flown the nest. Meanwhile, Olivia is picking up the pieces of her former life in New York.

The two women agree to share the little cottage and so begins a summer of rediscovery, friendship and laughter that soon brings together a community of women across the island.

Kitty finds herself embracing life again — but could that also be thanks to handsome Logan, aka the Tartan Wanderer? His intense dark eyes and broad shoulders make her weak at the knees.

But then Olivia’s toxic ex-boyfriend arrives on Arran and threatens their summer of sisterhood.

Can this band of women come together to reclaim their summer bliss?

Kill a man and you’re a murderer. Kill a million and you’re a statesman. Dirk should have killed more people.

Dirriken Friedel used his aristocratic connections to rescue his troops. He didn’t plan on starting a war or killing them himself. Now he spends his days in jail, waiting for an assassin sent by his dead officers families to end his misery.

When he’s broken out by off-duty marines he has a chance to start over, if he’s worthy. During his ramshackle escape he collects a broken-down trading ship, a bitter former army officer, a genetically altered religious fanatic, a runaway ingenue, a sham engineer, and a murderous femme fatal. Pursed by a fanatical imperial tribune bent on bloody justice, can he keep the crew from killing each other, the ship from exploding, and himself from the bottom of a bottle. Or would it be easier just to give up?

If you like Galactic Empires, honorable enemies, and snappy dialog, this one’s for you.

What would you do if you won the lottery? Would you spend it all, or would you be like Mr. Jones’s late wife, and ask him to “Help as many people as you can” with the money? That was her final request, but Mr. Jones’s retired mechanic skills weren’t built to solve it. So he hires Linda, his server at the local diner and recent returnee to Miltonsville. She’s a single mother with one lonely, basketball obsessed kid, who needs money to get them back out of Miltonsville, a place that never accepted her or her parents for being Asian-American.

The project is already hard enough, but everything’s complicated when Linda is confronted by someone she had long hoped to forget, and he makes sure they don’t forget about Miltonsville.

A woman escapes from the clutches of a serial killer in a small, mountain town, and Deputy Sheriff Tara Strong must race to decode the incoherent victim’s report and save the next one before it’s too late. But in a shocking twist, Tara realizes she is up against a killer more diabolical than she could imagine — and that, with her own life at stake, some of a town’s secrets are best left buried.

Tara Strong has risen to become her county’s Deputy Sheriff through her bravery and her brilliant capacity to enter killer’s minds. Small-town life in the mountains, centered around their picturesque lake, should be idyllic. But Tara has already seen enough to know that there is a dark side to everything, that small towns hide secrets, that everyone has something in their past — and that a killer may just be lurking right next door.

Tara remains haunted by her own past, by her missing sister, by her guilt over the unsolved case. She must battle the demons of her own past, while trying to get ahead in a male-dominated police force.

Can Tara keep it together long enough to catch a killer?

A cat-and-mouse thriller with harrowing twists and turns and filled with heart-pounding suspense, the TARA STRONG mystery series offers a fresh twist on the genre as it introduces two brilliant protagonists who will make you fall in love and keep you turning pages late into the night.

Deputy Marshal Zeb Clemens can’t die.

After the Civil War came to a close, Zeb decided to head west to raise cattle and a family if he could manage it.

No sooner did he step off the train in Texas, a stray bullet knocked him senseless. Believing he’d somehow cheated death, he gave up on his peaceful plans and became a lawman.

A lawman with a secret. And an edge.

After migrating farther west into the New Mexico Territory, he expected to find the usual run-of-the-mill outlaws?not a strange woman watching him from the edge of his dreams.

Meanwhile, stories of an inhuman monster attacking people in the nearby town of Devil’s Creek begin making their rounds.

Even crazier, Zeb feels compelled to hunt it?all while dealing with a murderous gang of outlaws and the missing boy of a waitress Zeb has taken a shine to.

It’s a good thing Zeb Clemens can’t die — because this job would definitely kill him.