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It’s been a month of living rent free, and it’s time to visit the apartment supervisor again. But this time he’s got more to offer than last time, so much that Missy really wants to repay him. It’s a tall order, but she has some ideas.

These women are hot. These women will do anything to win. The husbands will watch. Can Kendra make it through another round? Will Caleb be pleased?

When Eva decides to investigate the secrets of her family tree on Halloween, she has no idea what she will discover. What is the secret of the large Oak tree with the lightning bolt scar. What happened at the Dunstable Hospital in the late 1960's that caused it to vanish forever.

Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. Blue needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking—each believes he is the true color of the sun.

When Will returns home from university, he discovers that everything has changed—except for his feelings for his brother's best friend, Marcus. Recently, Marcus has come out as bisexual, and with this newfound confidence, he is starting to see Will in a different light. However, Oliver, Marcus's best friend, believes Will should be off-limits by default.

Missy, a young woman of average intelligence, wants to keep her new home in a community of geeky geniuses. But with a high-school education and no work skills to speak of, what could she possibly offer this population?

She teaches math. He enforces the law. Neither expected to fall for someone so wildly out of sync. Officer Caleb Ward thrives on structure, silence, and neatly filed reports. His small-town routine is steady and predictable until a break-in at Monroe High leads him straight into the most chaotic classroom he’s ever seen... and the path of one infuriatingly brilliant math teacher. Tessa Monroe doesn’t do distractions. Especially not the brooding kind with a badge and a suspiciously dry sense of humor.

The wives in the third round are more out to please, and thus more out to win. The Centurion men will be expecting more from them. How will Kendra do against all of this? And how will her husband, Caleb, react?

Harper Lane is a top-tier realtor who knows every corner of her small-town market, but nothing could’ve prepared her for the crime scene hidden behind the garden walls of her latest listing. Or the brooding detective who shows up with a badge, a scowl, and zero patience for her curiosity. Detective Jace Maddox doesn’t do chatty civilians, and definitely not the ones with camera-ready smiles and cats named after fruit. But Harper’s tangled in something dangerous, and when the bodies start piling up near properties she’s connected to, keeping her at arm’s length stops being an option.

Caleb and Kendra are back for round 2. The competition will do much more to win. And the Centurions expect a lot more skin.

Osman Warning is a gripping, thought-provoking book that explores the chilling consequences of a threat to life and the ripple effect it has on an ordinary family. Inspired by the real-life case of the Osman family, this fictionalized account follows the journey of Yasmin and Ali Osman as they struggle to protect themselves and their loved ones from a seemingly unstoppable danger. As the family grapples with mounting fear, paranoia, and a shattered sense of safety, they must rely on each other and the support of their community.

Lily Morgan is happiest off the grid, with her boots on the trail, a camera in hand, and her fiercely loyal German Shepherd, Finn, by her side. But one wrong step in a restricted zone earns her a citation from the most aggravatingly attractive park ranger she’s ever met. Chase Callahan has a reputation: rule-breaker, risk-taker, and wildly off-limits. As the park’s resident bad boy ranger, he's not looking for complications, especially not in the form of a stubborn, stunning hiker who refuses to stay in her lane.

In the murky depths of the underground silos, a fragile semblance of society clung to life. The surfaces, once vibrant with the colors of nature, now lay beneath a thick blanket of ice, a chilling reminder of humanity's hubris. The cold had crept into every crevice, snuffing out the last embers of hope in the world above. Yet, down below, the remnants of civilization had adapted, crafting a new existence amidst the concrete and steel.

A small group of intelligent but alienated people take over the world. They need to be entertained, so they’ll hold out carrots for the masses, let them compete with each other for their only shot at fortune. What will they make the wives do?

Sometimes a woman likes to play games with the mind of a man. But sometimes those games are fun.

London, 1895. Former Baker Street Irregular Timothy Badger and his partner in detection Benjamin Watson are in a spin: the eminent Dr John H. Watson has been kidnapped! The physician was enjoying a glass of sherry at his Baker Street residence before being bundled away in a barouche coach wearing only one slipper. Did Dr Watson know his captor, and where is he now? Could the mysterious ransom notes arriving in the post hold the answer?

Luke Flynn discovers suddenly, alongside the rest of his classroom, that one of the other, young students in the class filled with five and six-year-olds had gone missing. Two weeks later, the girl returns, yet she's different, her personality having mysteriously flipped, though she has no recollection of how she'd previously acted. Luke, his classmates, the teachers and the parents are put under a lot of strain as they try to prevent the other children from going missing and having the same fate, though as a pattern unfolds, it's proved to be futile.

London, 1308. “All I need is a plan!” So says Oswald of Harlech, a misplaced Welshman in the heart of London. Besides his trade as a tinker, he also robs houses, cuts purses, plays a crooked shell game, and has a way with the ladies. But this time, caught in the act of robbing a house, he is blackmailed by the scheming Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe into stealing the Crown Jewels from the impenetrable Tower of London.

On November 11, 1943, the Nazis invaded Cansano, forcing its two thousand inhabitants to make a tough decision—fight and be killed or sent to a POW camp, stay behind as servants to the Nazis, or move into the unforgiving mountains of Abruzzo while the Nazis used their village as a home base. Giovanni Ruscitti's family chose the latter and spent the next few months living in horrendous winter conditions in the rugged mountains. When the war ended, they returned to a village so ravaged by the Nazis that, today, the town has less than 200 citizens and remains in a dilapidated state.

Cocktales and Nibbles is a collection of 12 stories, ranging from the shortest such as "Lite in the Sky", which was my first story written in 1973, to the lengthy "A Universal Threat", written in 2017.