Looking in from the outside, Eve Ryan’s twenty-eight year old life appears successful. She owns her own home, holds a prestigious position at Hanson Advertising in Los Angeles, drives an eye-catching vintage Mustang, and wears business suits extraordinaire.

 Unfortunately, she is involved with Michael Beckard, a handsome and charismatic gemstone dealer. Eve carefully turns her head to his obvious personality flaws. She hopes, that he will likewise, ignore hers. Not knowing whom you are involved with is dangerous; not wanting to know can be deadly. Eve is unaware of his plans to use her as a participant to his diamond smuggling scheme.

 Steven Malloy is the special agent assigned to investigate Eve. How involved is she with a suspect who has been under surveillance for some time? The last thing Steven needs is to develop feelings for a smuggler’s girlfriend. But he would have to be blind, not to fall for the sexy-as-sin, Eve Ryan.

 Steven soon finds himself tangled up with Judd Raymond, a seasoned FBI agent with questionable tactics. Now Steven must deal with the sabotage of a dirty agent and prove to the Bureau that he and Eve are being used to carry out the plans of a diamond smuggling ring.

 When the forbidden plan is set into motion, Steven dutifully follows Eve into the Mohave Desert. He is drawn helplessly, by his growing attraction to her, and an intense desire to protect her from a maniacal truck driver. She appears grateful to Steven, at first. But did she have to pull a gun on him? After being stranded in the desert, they are faced with insurmountable odds, close brushes with death, and rescuing a child from the clutches of an abusive, stepfather. Funny, what a few diamonds will cause you to do. ..

In The Rough.

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Frank felt an apologetic grin tug the corner of his mouth. “You know what I mean,” he whispered as he closed the space between them and continued to plant hot kisses down her throat. “Frank, do you think I’m old?” He kissed his way up to her ear knowing when he arrived he had to be very careful with his words. But he didn’t want to use words. He wanted to show her that she excited him just as much now as she did eighteen years ago when they were making out at the drive in movies. He smiled, cupped her face in his hands and put his mouth on hers. Embers that had merely glowed in his gut jumped into flames. His kisses went from sweet to searing, and he gathered her close hoping to evoke the same feelings in her.

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Dead on the Money, picks up where Initials For Murder, left off, ensnaring Tom and Olivia in yet another dangerous and thrilling adventure.

 Tom Trask is basking in the glow of his recent engagement to H. Olivia Tully, but without warning, his elation turns to shattering danger when a ruthless convict shows up and begins to stalk them. He is believed to be the son of a bank robber who, Uncle Charlie, in his prior police years, sent up the river.

 Olivia has learned just enough about police investigation from Tom, to teeter-totter between being a public nuisance and a threat to herself. She unwittingly sets a series of events into motion, which puts Uncle Charlie in grave danger.  Now it is up to Tom to untangle the mystery surrounding this shadowy stalker, and he is forced to set out on an unplanned trip up to Half-Moon Bay.

 Why does Tom’s heart clench at the thought of leaving Olivia alone in Los Angeles? It could be that he is well aware of Olivia’s tendency to dabble in her own brand of investigation. A tendency that always leads her to trouble with a capital T.

 Tom must race to find the ruthless adversary before he can silence Uncle Charlie, and return to Los Angeles before Olivia’s overblown curiosity kills the proverbial cat.

 *Bonus! The novella, Initials For Murder, which is no longer available in electronic format, will be included with Dead on the Money, in anthology form.

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