​ "Dreaming of Field Mice"
Political Thriller

It is the mid-1990s in Belfast. The Provisional Irish Republican Army recruits a man to assassinate the general in command of the British military forces in Northern Ireland. The assassin must get close to the general’s daughter to get close to the general. What the assassin doesn’t expect, he will fall in love with her.



"Tangent Lines"
Upmarket Thriller

It is the 1990s, a man seeks his brother riding the rails as a hobo across the western states. From one train switching yard to another, he searches until he finally finds him, to kill him.



"The Girl Without"
Mystery/Thriller

An artist living in a trailer in Tucson who grew up in foster care decides she wants to find her parents who abandoned her on a church doorstep. As her search yields results, she begins to wonder if she should have ever begun her quest as she heads closer and closer to death.



"The Golden Goose"
Political Thriller

It is the 1980s, Los Angeles, an elderly man who has chased escaped Nazis all over the world, requests his grandson check a lead that Martin Borman, Hitler’s head of the chancellery, may be still living in Egypt. Much to the surprise of the grandson, while in Alexandria, Egypt, he meets a wild female Mossad agent pursuing the same lead, and what they find will surprise them both.



"Bray’s House"
Literary Fiction

It is the early 2000s, and Frank Bray lives alone on the Oregon coast. One afternoon he hears a car crash near his house, and upon investigating, finds a woman still alive at the bottom of a bridge. Meeting her will change his life when he realizes she is not just anyone. She is the daughter of a famous actor and a media favorite for getting into trouble. Bray’s house becomes a place she wishes to retreat from her life, much to his alarm, for he hides a secret he wishes no one to know.



"Moth"
Espionage Thriller

It is the early 2000s and Khalil Abadi goes to Yemen to find the leader of Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula. He must do it by joining the local Al Qaeda cell in Sana’a. Little by little, he gets closer to his target. However, the Mossad is watching him, thinking he is an Al Qaeda member that they may need to eliminate. His only hope to stay alive is a spooky CIA operative who goes by the name Collins, a man the CIA has tasked to watch over him.



"Moth - The Hand of God"
Espionage Thriller

Khalil gets closer to his target, but crazy things are happening within the terrorist organization. He ends up being sent to an island in Indonesia where Al Qaeda readies an airliner for a terrorist attack. His spooky counterpart, Collins, helps him thwart it. The Mossad agent, Samarra, learns who he is, and much to both their surprise, they fall in love.



"Moth - The Truth About Lies"
Espionage Thriller

Finally, Khalil directs a drone strike to take out the leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen. However, the next leader is worse than the last and tries to assassinate the American President, while visiting Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Khalil and Collins thwart it, but Al Qaeda takes the Mossad agent, Samarra prisoner, and Khalil leads a rescue attempt in a dangerous climax to the Moth series.



"Pomegranate"
Espionage Thriller

It is 2018, and a freshly graduated operative takes over a post in Aden, Yemen. She receives field training from a wild operative, Collins, who is unknown to all but a few who manage the CIA. Their relationship starts out rocky, but in time they forge a bond as they battle Iranian agents while Yemen is in the throes of a civil war.



"Cuckoo Bird"
Escapist Espionage Thriller

It is the early 2020s and the Director of Intelligence sends Collins to Afghanistan to work with a sniper who is on a one-woman crusade against the Taliban, who occupy her province high in the Hindu Kush. Collins’s mission is to discourage the Chinese from exploiting the mountains for their rare earth minerals but finds to navigate the rough country, he needs to help the Afghan woman, Benazira, fight the Taliban who refer to her as the Devil of the Hindu Kush.



"Cuckoo Bird - Shaitan"
Escapist Espionage Thriller

Collins and Benazira continue to harass the Taliban as Chinese geologists show up looking for minerals. They find out soon they should have stayed at home. Meanwhile, the Taliban, becoming frustrated with the ‘devil’ they cannot seem to find, hire a professional mercenary sniper to track Benazira and in an amazing duel they fight it out with long guns from opposing walls of a canyon. Unknown to the CIA, Collins has fallen in love with Benazira, and he hopes to bring her home with him as his wife. However, getting home isn’t as easy as he hopes.



"Cuckoo Bird - Kukri"
Escapist Espionage Thriller

Collins and Benazira are living in Hamilton, Montana and must deal with local thugs. Next, they go to Ft. Lauderdale when Collins becomes the CEO of a construction company his uncle owned. He wants nothing to do with the company but finds as he tries to dispose of his stock, a Mexican cartel has its tentacles in the corporation. A firefight results. Meanwhile, a new operative living with the resistance in the northern provinces of Afghanistan needs extraction, and his situation becomes so perilous that Collins and Benazira are called upon to help. The race for the border to safety sets up a climax that will keep the reader on the edge of their seats. For once again, Benazira needs her rifle.



"Cuckoo Bird - The Deal"
Escapist Espionage Thriller

After making a deal with the CIA director, Benazira and Collins must go to the foot of K2 to assist an operative bringing a Uyghur female out of China, who will testify to the Chinese slave labor activity. In the dangerous cold, white world of high mountain adventure, they have a terrible battle with Chinese Special forces. However, once the mission is complete, they journey back to Afghanistan to find those responsible for killing Benazira’s uncle and his sons. They get full help from the CIA, who are making good on their deal with Benazira. The most amazing climax takes place in Kabul, as justice is done.



"Cuckoo Bird - The Duel"
Escapist Espionage Thriller

Collins and Benazira are being sought by the FBI. Having moved to Utah, Benazira accidentally gets interviewed by a team doing a documentary on the paranormal while she is getting fuel for her truck. The FBI descends on their house, but CIA management intervenes. However, the Special Agent in Charge tells the Mexican cartel leader where they live. The leader has a bounty on Collins’s head, and a brutal battle happens that eventually climaxes on the Arizona/Mexico border during in a lightning storm. Then Collins and Benazira go to find the informer and serve him justice.



"The Divine Mission"
Literary Historical Fiction

It’s January 1105 a Muslim beggar turned thief, lured into the Order of Assassins with promises of an eternity in paradise, secretly enters the Citadel of Raymond de Saint Gilles. There, he finds Count Raymond in his bedchamber. Much to his surprise, the man is assaulting a young Christian noblewoman who follows the assassin out of the citadel and pleas for his help. The assassin and the woman start their journey over Lebanon’s mountains before daybreak. They will pass through the ancient gates of Damascus, then head to the golden walls of Jerusalem. Their trip will be fraught with danger from Byzantine mercenaries, Syrian thieves, Palestinian bandits, and assassins of the assassin’s own order.



"The Woman of a Thousand Veils"
Literary Historical Fiction

A woman shrouded in obscurity. Hidden by silk splendor in the heart of Cairo in 1260 CE, she must be a soldier’s tale shared at campfires between the slave-warrior of Egypt. The woman of a thousand veils cannot exist, yet as one Mamluk cavalry commander learns, she does. The story begins with the stunning victory over the Mongols in the Springs of Goliath, and the momentous change of sultans after a suspicious hunting accident. Yet for a military man who finds it easier to face a dangerous enemy than to confront the truth of his loneliness, the enigma of the woman who hides away within her silk cocoon becomes his quest to understand. Yet, he cannot become so distracted as to forget he serves the sultan above all else. Therefore, he must find clever ways to solve the riddle of the woman of a thousand veils. And if he does, he might gain freedom from his life of loneliness.
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"Topaz-Spotted Blue"
Literary Historical Fiction

The principal characters from The Woman of a Thousand Veils become targets of unknown assassins. Around every bend is danger and mystery until in the climax, the truth of who’s behind the murderous attempts comes to light in a brutal battle for survival. In the vein of the classic mysteries, the path is full of clues and false leads in figuring out who is behind the murderous plot, designedto tantalize the reader’s imagination.


 

"The Painted"

Romantic Historical Fiction

(In Work)

 

The Romans are building forts across the land of the Picts. Previous direct combat with the Romans led to devastating defeat. Darmac, son of the chief of the Calaidon forest tribe, begins a guerilla war against the Romans. Using advice from Kellith, the high priestess of the cat tribe, who speaks to the gods through her dreams, she gives him the way to force the Romans out of the northern lands. She has also dreamed of Darmac, her future, as she calls him, even though everyone knows he’s meant to marry another. Kellith has other ideas.

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