SWEEPERS: A KISS TO DIE FOR
A prequel short story for the series SWEEPERS available now as a free download on Amazon.

In a prequel to SWEEPERS: DIE ONCE MORE, Dr.Mackenzie Conley, a CIA operative and expert on bioterrorism, is in Morocco working undercover as a visiting professor at the University to investigate rumors of a powerful new nerve gas delivery system being perfected somewhere in the area. With only one week left, Mac can’t wait to get back to the states and the love of her life, the head of the Sweepers team. But someone in Morocco has other plans for her—plans that include kidnapping, drugging, and holding her hostage in a mountain laboratory, totally hidden from satellite coverage. Neither her team nor her handler knows where she is.

Escaping from the mountain prison becomes critical but isn’t the only thing on Mac’s mind, though, as she comes face to face with the man whose latest invention has the potential to bring the world to its knees.

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SWEEPERS: DIE ONCE MORE
Book two of new Military Romantic Thriller Series now available.

When an elite CIA unit goes after a mad scientist believed to have perfected a highly effective delivery system for weapons of mass destruction, they discover the man has ulterior motives. Before it’s all over, one of them must face her deepest fears with the man who nearly destroyed her.

DR. MACKENZIE ‘MAC” CONLEY, a biochemist for the CIA, went deep undercover to investigate a man so evil he was dubbed “Dr. Death”, and not even her handler knew where she was. Six days later, her team traced a satellite call to a laboratory in Morocco and extracted her, killing Dr. Death in the process...or so they thought.

Mac wasn’t the same after that, convinced she was damaged goods, and she transferred to the West Coast without explanation. On a mission in Romania, she’s about to discover the location of the biggest cache of biological weapons in Eastern Europe...until a team of mensteps in and her only lead is killed. Worse, the man responsible for destroying seven months of undercover work is the man she almost married two years earlier. The man she ran from and still loves.

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HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (A Garcia Girls Mystery) #1 Available now in all formats

'Good Morning, Savannah' talk-show host comes to Vineyard, Texas for the funeral of her estranged sister who was killed in a freak accident. But hidden among the vines of the dead sister's multi-million dollar wine-making business lurks a killer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. When the four sisters band together to stop him, they are assisted by the dead woman who has a story she is dying to tell.

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JAIL HOUSE GLOCK (A GARCIA GIRLS MYSTERY) #2
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When the going gets tough, the Garcia girls get tougher

As a rookie cop in Vineyard, Texas, Maddy Castillo—war widow, single mom, and the oldest of the five Garcia girls—is not exactly flush with cash. But her money problems are nothing compared to the trouble that starts when she’s framed for the murder of an obnoxious drunk.

Lucky for Maddy, the ghost of her dead sister and her three living sisters are on the scene to help. And help is exactly what Maddy needs—hardened criminals have descended on Vineyard, and one of them has lost a prized possession that turns out to be a treasure worth killing for.

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MISSION TO KILL (a Garcia Girls Mystery) #3
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After Emily Ruiz Sanchez is killed in a shootout with police during a bank robbery in El Paso, Dr. Kate Garcia gets a call from a Houston lawyer. Seems the woman has left her sizeable inheritance to Kate and family friend, Benny Yates, who runs the Mission of Hope, a soup kitchen for the down and out citizens of Vineyard. The problem is—the Emily they knew lived on the streets of Vineyard and died of a drug overdose three months before. Suspicion falls on Benny when another homeless person drops dead at the Mission and he is listed as the beneficiary of the man’s recent life insurance policy. The Garcia girls go into sleuth mode once again to keep their friend out of jail, before they discover one of their own is also a suspect. But even with the trash-talking ghost of their dead sister Tessa making another appearance from the “other” side, they have their work cut out for them to keep their sibling from wearing an orange jumpsuit.

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ROCK AROUND THE CORPSE (A GARCIA GIRLS MYSTERY) #4
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What should have been a nice, relaxing weekend to celebrate the grand opening of a spa in the middle of the remote Oklahoma backwoods ends up with Deena Rodriguez awakening next to a dead man with her designing scissors protruding from his chest. Once again the Garcia girls, including the ghost of their dead sister Tessa, must band together to prove her innocence. But their job is cut out for them this time as the only suspect other than Deena is a stone clad monster from Cherokee folklore.

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LIVER LET DIE: A JORDAN MCALLISTER MYSTERY
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Jordan McAllister dreams of becoming a popular sports columnist but gets stuck in a po-dunk town writing personal ads for a small time newspaper.  When she's offered a chance to fill in for a local food critic off on sick leave, she jumps at the chance rationalizing that it's one step closer to her dream. However, when a dead body is found underneath her apartment stairwell with her name and number along with it, she becomes the prime suspect, as well as the main course on the murder menu.

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BEEF STOLEN-OFF: A JORDAN MCALLISTER MYSTERY
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Aspiring sportswriter Jordan McAllister never imagined she’d be a food critic. Yet here in Ranchero, Texas, that’s exactly what she is. And while she may not know a flank steak from a filet mignon, she certainly knows how to rustle up trouble…

As the food columnist for The Ranchero Globe, Jordan McAllister catches the eye of cattle baron Lucas Santana, who invites her to the Cattleman’s Ball, hoping a positive review for the ball might boost the county’s sagging beef sales.

To ensure Jordan enjoys herself, Santana sets her up with a prime cowboy companion for the event—Rusty Morales. Jordan’s delighted to go with him and two-step the night away. But instead, she winds up in the emergency room where her date is DOA.

When Rusty’s mother begs her for help, Jordan knows she needs to grab the bull by the horns and get to the bottom of this mystery before she corrals herself into trouble…

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MURDER FOR THE HALIBUT: A JORDAN MCALLISTER MYSTERY
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A sports writing job would have been the perfect catch for Jordan McAllister, but in Ranchero, Texas, all she could reel in was the food column. Though she may not know her way around a kitchen, she has no trouble finding herself in a kettle of fish…

Tempted by the offer of a free Caribbean cruise, Jordan accepts a spot as a judge in a week-long big-time cooking competition aboard the Carnation Queen. She just better hope no one finds out that her famous palate is far from refined.

But there are bigger fish to fry when arrogant chef Stefano Mancini falls face first into his signature halibut dish during the first event. While evidence suggests that the handsome Italian chef’s death was an accident, Jordan thinks otherwise. But she’ll have to keep her wits about her—and the sea sickness pills handy—if she’s going to solve this one…

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CHICKEN CACCIA-KILLER: A JORDAN MCALLISTER MYSTERY
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Forced to fight to keep her job as the culinary reporter at the Ranchero Globe, Jordan  covers the International Italian Festival coming to town. But along with the festivities and great Italian food, she must deal with meeting her boyfriend Alex’s mother and sister for the first time.

When an arrogant Italian playboy falls to his death from a suite at a swanky hotel during a pre-festivities party and Alex’s sister Kate is charged with his murder, Jordan springs into action to find clues that could prove her innocence. But the real killer doesn’t appreciate that she is getting too close. Can Jordan and her motley crew of friends stay one step ahead and catch a killer before she becomes the next victim?

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SMOTHERED, COVERED & DEAD: A JORDAN MCALLISTER MYSTERY Novella
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Aspiring sportswriter Jordan McAllister never imagined she’d end up as a food critic for a small time newspaper. Writing the culinary column for the Ranchero Globe is a challenge, and even though she can’t make a grilled cheese sandwich without burning it, she has no problem finding  trouble wherever she goes.

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ENCHI-LOTTA BODIES: A JORDAN MCALLISTER MYSTERY
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Jordan McAllister’s brother, Danny, is in deep trouble and has been jailed in Amarillo. After a night on the town at the local cowboy bar, Danny had awakened in a seedy motel room next to a naked woman with a steak knife protruding from her chest. Since Danny’s fingerprints are all over the knife, as well as a bar glass with fentanyl crystals around the rim, he’s charged with the murder of Carlita Fontaine, a dancer at a local strip club. Now Jordan, along with her quirky friends and new fiancé, Dallas FBI agent Alex Moreland, race to Amarillo to try to find a way to help her brother out of his dire situation. Meanwhile, Alex, on leave after a near-death experience in the jungles of Mexico, is asked to assist the local FBI in locating the origins of a more dangerous version of fentanyl. A version that’s being laced with an animal tranquilizer and responsible for a large number of drug-related deaths.

As usual, Jordan, along with her sidekick, Victor Rodriquez, can’t help themselves and begin to play sleuth behind Alex’s back. What she and Victor discover is that Carlita had a whole lot more going on than just dancing half-naked at a strip club, and their list of suspects with valid motives to want her dead increases by the day. It doesn’t take long for Jordan to catch the attention of someone in the shadows who doesn’t want her snooping around, and the “stakes” become real as she finds herself in a fight for her life.

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STEAK THROUGH THE HEART: A JORDAN MCALLISTER MYSTERY

Coming November 2023. Preorder now

Jordan McAllister’s brother, Danny, is in deep trouble and has been jailed in Amarillo. After a night on the town at the local cowboy bar, Danny had awakened in a seedy motel room next to a naked woman with a steak knife protruding from her chest. Since Danny’s fingerprints are all over the knife, as well as a bar glass with fentanyl crystals around the rim, he’s charged with the murder of Carlita Fontaine, a dancer at a local strip club. Now Jordan, along with her quirky friends and new fiancé, Dallas FBI agent Alex Moreland, race to Amarillo to try to find a way to help her brother out of his dire situation. Meanwhile, Alex, on leave after a near-death experience in the jungles of Mexico, is asked to assist the local FBI in locating the origins of a more dangerous version of fentanyl. A version that’s being laced with an animal tranquilizer and responsible for a large number of drug-related deaths.

As usual, Jordan, along with her sidekick, Victor Rodriquez, can’t help themselves and begin to play sleuth behind Alex’s back. What she and Victor discover is that Carlita had a whole lot more going on than just dancing half-naked at a strip club, and their list of suspects with valid motives to want her dead increases by the day. It doesn’t take long for Jordan to catch the attention of someone in the shadows who doesn’t want her snooping around, and the “stakes” become real as she finds herself in a fight for her life.

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CAN’T BUY ME LOVE
A Romantic Short Story Available now

A feisty young nurse participates in an auction to benefit breast cancer research and finds herself locked into a dinner date with the same arrogant surgeon who has made her life and job a living hell since a one-nighter weeks before.

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