The Bookshelf

Let Sleeping Dogs Die

August, 2009

Skye Donovan just got a great contract—shooting the calendar photos for The Pet Place, a national chain of pet stores. Okay, it’s not the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, but for a new photographer, it’s definitely a coup.

But when the owner of the doggie talent, Frank Johnson, is killed, Skye’s life is thrown into chaos. The investigating detective is her on-again off-again lover, Scott Madison, and he’s threatening to close down her shoot until he finds the killer.

Skye isn’t about to lose her biggest job ever and dives into the investigation only to learn that a lot of people had reason to want the man dead. And most of them are right around her.

A Parker Investigations Book

February 2009

Zoe Alexander trained with her father from the age of eight to be a world class thief. She left that life several years ago and now she works for Parker Security and Investigation. Finally, she has an opportunity to prove herself to Shelby Parker. All she has to do is what comes naturally—for the enemy—and report back to the CIA. Before she finishes the job, she'll have to reconcile her feelings about the mother she thought dead and the father she was never good enough for. She'll have to terms with who she is and what she wants out of life. And in the end her skill as a thief is the only thing that can prevent an attack during the presidential inauguration.

Paige Blackwell needs a vacation. She's been working hard as a partner in Shelby Parker's PI agency. When she's offered a chance to be on a survival type reality television show that takes place on a tropical island, she jumps at the opportunity.

On the island Paige meets her fellow competitors, including one it might be fun to share a sleeping bag with, should things work out. It looks like the week is going to be even more enjoyable than she had thought. And then the first shots are fired. At them.

There's no reality TV show. Just reality. They're being hunted. Survival takes on a whole new meaning. But Paige and her companions are not the only ones in jeopardy.

Back home, Shelby and new associate Zoe are racing against the clock to stop a plot by the shadowy and sinister Dominion Order to control the U.S. guided missile system.

Who wants the carefully selected contestants on the island dead? What do they all have in common? And why are Shelby and Zoe now targets, too?

Clearly, only the fittest will survive.

Someone is breeding superhumans...

...beings who possess extreme psychic abilities. Now they have implanted the ultimate seed in the perfect womb. They are a heartbeat away from successfully breeding a species of meta-humans, who will be raised in laboratories and conditioned to obey the orders of their owners - governments and large multi-national corporations.

Then, Shelby Parker, a former black ops agent for the government is asked to locate a missing woman. Her quest takes her to The Center for Bio-Psychological Research. Masquerading as a computer programmer, she gets inside The Center's inner workings. What she discovers is almost too horrible to comprehend.

Dr. Mac McRae, working for The Center, administers a lie-detector test to the prospective employee for his very cautious employers. Although Shelby passes, the handsome Australian suspects Shelby is not what she appears. But then, neither is he.

Caught up in a nightmare of unspeakable malevolence, the unlikely duo is forced to team up to save a young woman and her very special child. And destroy a program that could change the face of nations.

But first they must unmask the mole that has infiltrated Shelby's agency and stalks their every move. They must stay alive and keep one step ahead of the pernicious forces who are intent on...BREEDING EVIL

Coming August, 2008

from Medallion Press

A Skye Donovan Photographic Mystery

Twenty-two years of marriage have given Sky Donovan a life of structure and predictability. When she discovers some women's underwear—not hers—however, she begins to suspect her husband is fooling around. And she's right, he is. But she's wrong about who the underwear belongs to. Not her husband's girlfriend, but her husband. And then she walks in on her husband…and his boyfriend.

Sky finds herself confronting another new reality. She needs to start life over. She needs to find a job, a place to live, break the news to her teenaged daughter and—yikes—start dating again. At least she has her best friend to help her through it all.

Not.

Corpses are turning up. And her best friend is the prime suspect.

As Skye tries to prove her friend's innocence, her own life is further complicated by a handsome detective, a sexy writer, a pagan wedding, her friend's unexpected pregnancy, and a new career. Could it get any crazier? In a word, yes. She not only must exonerate her friend, but do so before the murderer strikes even closer to home