Huntsville, Ohio is the kind of place young boys dream of growing up. A small town where football players are the top of the social hierarchy and heroes are held in high esteem long after their final game is played. For the past three years, Clay Hen...
For Xavier Thomas, it was supposed to have been the perfect Spring Break to wrap up his undergraduate years before heading off to law school in the fall. Just him, his girlfriend, his best friend and his brother, all loaded up and headed out for a ro...
Fresh from a summer legal internship in a windowless office on the east coast, all Drake Bell wants is get back to Montana, reunite with his friends, catch some fish, and mayb...
Bargain Mart, a fixture in the Missoula economic structure, has fallen on hard times. The situation is dire, they’re on the phone daily with corporate, and if a financial windfall doesn’t arr...
In occupied Germany in 1942, the young son of a Russian diplomat is picked up by the SS police, never to be seen again. In present day Washington, D.C., an employee stands before the controlling board of his company and makes a pitch that will either...
.A boy of just six years old, Austin Roberts found himself perpetually in the way at the post-funeral gathering of his great uncle Jack. Frustrated and alone, he wandered out onto the front porch to find his great uncle Cat, Jack's brother, sitting a...
College phenom running back Tyler Bentley is the ultimate success story.The son of a single mother from a wayward stretch of highway in Western Wyoming, he heads to Midwestern football powerhouse Ohio Tech and becomes a star, MVP of the Centennial Bo...
Most nineteen-year-olds believe they are invincible. They wake up each day thinking they have all the time in the world to travel, to get an education, to fall in love.Ruby Sewell isn’t most nineteen year olds. She wakes up every morning unable...
Fifty-four minutes after Kris Hopkins was born, his father snuck into the hospital nursery and slid a miniature football into his hands. It has been there ever since, helping him through the death of his mother, through a childhood with a single pare...
Three years ago, Charles Doyle was an average American millennial.At twenty-eight years old he was content to still live in the bedroom he grew up in, working as a manager at the fast food chain he first joined in high school. Upon the death of his f...
Deep in the heart of winter, things are shifting for the Zoo Crew. Drake Bell is wrapping up his last days in law school and preparing to take the bar exam.
Kade Keuhl finall...
Staked out in the Anza-Borrego Desert in the dead of night, young photographer Lake Pawlak is awoken by a clandestine meeting, bearing witness to something she never should have seen. Barely escaping, she turns to the authorities for help, bouncing t...
Six months have passed since the first murder investigation Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner worked together, finding them in the throes of a steamy Midwestern summer.Working in The Bottoms, a notorious neighborhood on the west side of Colum...
Detective Reed Mattox, just three months removed from the death of his partner, has turned invisibility into an art form. Switching to the K-9, taking over the graveyard shift, moving to a farmhouse miles outside of Columbus, his every move has becom...
In the middle of a rare mid-April blizzard in eastern Montana, young emergency room doctor Yvonne Endicott steps outside to help a truck that arrives in the middle of night, the occupants appearing desperate, in dire need of aid. Only once she is too...
Less than a week before Christmas, Columbus Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner receive a call from dispatch.The body of a young woman has been found floating in the Olentangy River, her teeth forcibly removed, her fingerprints obliterated, any...
“Six years ago, you voted to send troops into Afghanistan. One of those soldiers was my son, who never made it back. Now, I'm here to ask you, was it worth it?”The gathering was supposed to have been a perfunctory media exercise on retiri...
I go to trial in two days and my star witness is nowhere to be found!When Joe Don Burrell shows up at the front door of Peeping Thoms Investigations, he reeks of fear and desperation, two things Kerrin Thoms has made a career out of avoiding in her c...
Because forever is a really long time...For the last six years, Tim Scarberry called Portland, Oregon home. Placed there by the Witness Protection Program, he assimilated into his new existence, trying to gain some level of enjoyment from the life he...
I don’t even know if the call is real. All I know is there is some girl on the line saying her name is Della Snow and that she is trapped inside a box right now.It started as a quiet night, a much needed reprieve for the overworked team of Dete...
NOTHING MORE THAN A WALK IN THE PARK...It was supposed to have been a celebration. A night out among friends. A chance to celebrate the culmination of ten long years.For the last decade, Kyle Clady has served as a Navy SEAL. He endured sleepless nigh...
“You think this is about you?”Just six simple words, they comprised the last sentence ever uttered by the man that killed Kyle Clady’s wife. A sentence he is unable to get out of his head, the possibilities it contains keep him awak...
“Who the hell are you two?”Nothing in Kyle Clady’s world is as it should be. His wife is gone. He can’t bear to set foot in his home. He’s back sitting vigil at the hospital, hoping his brother-in-law will survive the ni...
Battered physically and psychologically in the wake of a horrific car accident, Erika Wernick takes a leave from her post as a reporter at the Seattle Times to return home to Big Bear Lake to recover. Intent on nothing more than holing up in the moun...
“You’ve started something you can’t finish.”Little more than a week ago, Kyle Clady’s life made sense. In the waning days of a decade spent as a Navy SEAL, he and his wife were about to embark on an adventure together. T...
“There was somebody else there tonight. They got at least two of the Wolves, and they also got the same thing I was after.”In the wake of his most recent encounter with the Wolves, Kyle Clady decides a new tact is needed. For as satisfyin...
Five years ago, Remy Bomar found himself on the wrong end of a military operation in Syria that went terribly wrong, the results catastrophic, his reaction to walk away just years short of his pension and return to his family in Oregon.There he stays...
“I know you and I have been through some things,” Reed whispered. “Some crazy, crazy stuff. But we have never - and will never - work a case as important as this one.”Eighteen months ago, Detective Reed Mattox didn’t jus...
“The money’s in the treatment, not the cure…”On the brink of the first official weekend of summer, Drake Bell’s agenda was set: Join his friends, The Zoo Crew, for a birthday celebration of one of their own. Take ad...
“Kyle Clady, you are under-”The rest of his sentence never makes it out.Or rather, if it does, I never hear it, the words drowned out by what I mistakenly thought was thunder.On the south end of town, Detective Malcolm Marsh is called to ...
Seven dead Wolves. A detective fighting for his life. A host of associated players all fighting to make sense of what happened and how they can move forward.Kyle Clady, continually pushing forward, knowing there is no way he can possibly stop. Not no...
Two weeks, Kyle Clady has been propelling himself forward. Fourteen days of trying to unravel the people and reasons behind the senseless murder of his wife in Balboa Park.A desperate search that pushed him harder than any he experienced as a Navy SE...
Knife fights are never what they look like in the movies. They aren't a match between two men both lowered into crouches, each jabbing tentatively at the other.In an actual confrontation, people get cut. There was no way to avoid it. A war of attriti...
I don't have long now. But I wanted to say goodbye and tell you this was no accident. It was a big black truck that ran me off the road...on purpose...Call Rem...find truck...promise me...love you guys.The last words Courtland Alder ever heard from h...
You want to go to the Zone of Death? Now? I asked, my brows rising in disbelief. Agent Rowe, I don't care if the damn president is holed up in that cabin, you're not getting there tonight.Two years ago, rookie ATF agent Harper Rowe witnessed the deat...
For a moment, she looked as if she had turned to stone. Any slight twitches of her facial muscles ceased. Even her chest stopped rising and falling as she took in air.Everything went completely still, her eyes glazing as she stared down at the mug in...
Tell me, Ms. Wernick, are you familiar with the term Badger Games?Months after returning home to the mountain community of Big Bear Lake to heal after suffering through a terrible car accident, Erika Wernick is settling back into small town life. Her...