Genres: Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Before you met them, Katherine and Emily were awesome… Emily Hampstead and her mother Katherine have a reason for their phenomenal athletic ability and their supercharged immune systems. They are the direct descendants of a half-dozen women of the Bear totem who survived the epidemics of the seventeenth century, and hid in the Great Salt Marsh North during the Colonial era. European reporters gave 1633 as the date of the disappearance of the Pawtucket, but the six women organized themselves into an unrecognized band that successfully maintained their culture for four centuries while moving among the general population. // This collection of short stories follows the adventures of generations of brave Pawtucket women who chose not to be recognized and thus avoided having the patriarchal hierarchy of the English and the Americans imposed upon them. // Originally published between 2014 and 2023, the stories are arranged chronologically, which makes for...

Genres: Adventure, Contemporary Fiction, Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Before you met her, she was awesome… Hilda Paisley comes from two long lines of warriors, healers, rulers, Vikings, and singers. She could be a famous soprano or play pro basketball. But she wants to be a soldier, like her Bantu father and grandfather. And she does, so well that her fellow soldiers call her the Black Amazon. // Twenty-one short stories trace the history of her family, from the queens who raised leopard cubs, to the combat medic and then Army nurse saving lives in the Middle East. The collection ends with the first chapter of Emily & Hilda, the lead novel of the trilogy. // Originally published between 2014 and 2023, the stories are arranged chronologically, which makes for an entertaining read even for those who saw the stories come out individually.

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Before you met them, they were awesome… Sandra skips two years in school, and the bullies make her pay for it in middle school. That just makes her tougher in high school and college. Growing up surrounded by art and music, she finds herself the main (and only) assistant of the FBI Liaison Officer in Rome, Italy, during the years of terrorism, coups, and dramatic Mafia trials. A crash course in life, and an entrée into the world of international intrigue. // Joe's mother smashes glass ceilings; his war hero father saves lives. But Joe himself only remembers nightmares and grief after a mysterious disease kills his father. That, and growing up as an expatriate American in the Eternal City. // Fifteen short stories, arranged chronologically, provide a delightful prequel to the novels of the Lockhart trilogy. Sandra and Joe find new meaning in the idea of home as they...

Genres: Adventure, Crime, New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Love lost, found, and lost again, while people are trying to kill her. // After escaping her kidnappers and would-be murderers, Emily Hampstead is called to Québec with her friends Jack Rathburn and Hilda Paisley to testify in the trial of a terrorist bomber. There, she is reunited with her lover, Jean-Pierre. Friends of the bomber attack Emily and Jean-Pierre in the woods. The terrorists die, but so does he. As COVID begins closing borders, the three friends fly to Germany in time to wait out the pandemic. Jack and Hilda are recalled to active duty, and Emily is hired as an ambulance driver and EMT. She resumes her studies at UVA online, relieved to hide her grief in the lockdown. After vaccines come out and the pandemic eases off, Emily returns to the US to attend the National Park Service Law Enforcement Academy in Flagstaff, Arizona. She hopes to...

Genres: Adventure, Crime, New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

As political violence continues to roil Italy and racial violence grows in the USA, Sandra and Joe come back to the US to attend different schools. In Italy, a vicious public hate campaign targets Joe's mother, Nancy. In Virginia, Joe is learning brutal lessons about race relations in the United States, having grown up in Italy. In Washington DC, Sandra uncovers an international art forgery scheme. The two lovers meet again in Rome, where they discover that they and Nancy have a common enemy. Working with the FBI and the Italian police, they might be able to stop him, if they can stay alive that long...

Genres: Adventure, Crime, New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Emily Hampstead is a teenage phenom on the American bicycle road racing circuit, and a first-year student at the University of Virginia. Emily's mother, Katherine, has become a popular teacher at the university in her first full year on board. They hope that Emily's adventures touring in Canada the summer before are behind them, but there are still enemies out there… After a terrorist bombing decimates the USA under-twenty-three racing team, Emily takes a year from school to determine her future. Meanwhile, Katherine survives an assassination attempt and joins her daughter traveling off the grid. They hope to give the FBI time to find and arrest the man behind the violence over the last two years. If they can stay alive that long…

Genres: Adventure, Crime, New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

What if Mom is a spy—or worse? // Young Joe Lockhart can barely remember a time before his mother, Nancy, a drug company executive, brought him to Italy to escape her grief after the death of Joe's father. Now, against a background of escalating political violence and Nancy’s concerns for his safety, Joe wants to finish high school before returning to the US. He begins translating confidential company files for his mother and Luke, her colleague. Except for the confidentiality of the material, the work seems straightforward and harmless. While Nancy and Luke are in Germany on business, Joe uncovers a plot to overthrow the Italian government. Soon, he finds himself kidnapped, wanted by the military police, and racing to help head off a coup d'état. // Lockhart is a tale of personal and political conflict, of recovery from grief, and finding new meaning in the idea of home.

Genres: Adventure, Crime, New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Teenage bicycle racing phenom Emily Hampstead is training for a major race. Retired Army nurse Hilda Paisley is traveling the USA on her bicycle. They meet by chance on a deserted road in Kansas, not expecting to ever cross paths again. // Emily continues to win races to the delight and surprise of bicycle racing fans in the US and abroad. Her family moves to Virginia, where she attracts unexpected and deadly attention. // Meanwhile, after witnessing a terrorist attack, Hilda helps the police make arrests – and the terrorists add her name to their hit list. She escapes the immediate threat and takes a temporary nursing job in a Southern hospital. // Emily accepts Hilda's offer to ride to Canada, with Hilda's friend Jack. It promises to be a fun adventure — If they can survive it.