When her husband comes home from work one day to announce he’s moving out, Samantha Rutgers thinks it’s a joke. She hopes it’s a joke. It's not. He packs his suitcase and moves out. For twenty-five years, Sam was a corporate wife, a stay-at-hom...
A novel of suspense, first published in hardback by Five Star Cengage/Gale. Life can change in just an instant. That's the harsh reality that Jenny Jasik faces when her son is killed in an automobile accident, but never in her wildest dreams did she ...
Set against a backdrop of racial tension and deadly force controversy in Dallas, Open Season introduces Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson, homicide detectives who are unlikely and unwilling partners. When people start dying in area shopping malls, the ...
Debbie Webly is terrified that she will lose Laura to the influence of Angie who is rich, beautiful, and the most popular girl in school. There’s not much Debbie won’t do to hang on to her friend, but will she cross some line that she can never c...
A short story that brings the message that home is where ever you make it. Previously published in Lady's Circle Magazine under the title "A String of Pearls." This new e-book edition has been completely revised and updated....
A retelling of the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears in modern day. A camping trip becomes most interesting when a stranger shows up and the Cantrell family has to find out who has been sneaking into their cabin....
Three stories; four men whose lives take unexpected turns. Meet Samson who wonders what is down that country road that draws people so. Should he get in that old truck and go see? Mel and Rube have been having dinner at the Leavenworth Grill every We...
A feel-good holiday short story that can be enjoyed year round. There is something especially magical about the Holiday Season. Find out how the magic touches Kate and her family in this story of giving and receiving....
Stalking Season is a police procedural in the vein of the acclaimed 87th Precinct Series by Ed McBain, (Evan Hunter) and has been called "Lethal Weapon" with female leads set in Dallas. In this second book of The Seasons Series, Homicide Detectiv...
In this historical mystery, set in Arkansas in 1961 when the mob still ruled Hot Springs, babies are being kidnapped, and the local sheriff has to put this case to bed before the bosses come down from Chicago. They don't need the heat, and they have ...
Death sneaks in the back door of the peaceful town of Twin Lakes, Texas and nothing is ever the same again. Homicide detective, Barbara Hobkins, is thrust headlong into the investigation. A product of the "new direction" in law enforcement, her stren...
Two years after Jenny and Steve worked together to bring down a major drug supplier in their little town in Texas, fate has brought them back together. Is this the time they can finally act on the electricity that sizzled between them before? Too man...
A Quest For Love At just 4 years old, Evelyn Gundrum's happy world is turned upside down. Abandoned by her mother, she is shipped to an orphanage run by the terrifying Sister Honora. Evelyn grows up amidst hardship and heartbreak, plagued by unresolv...
The long-anticipated third book in the Seasons Mystery Series from award-winning author Maryann Miller.Children dying is a cop's worst nightmare. Throw drugs in the mix, and the nightmare gets worse. Dallas Homicide Detectives, Angel Johnson and Sara...
The short stories in 'Beyond The Crack In The Sidewalk' explore aspects of living, loving and dying: the main elements that define our human existence. Included is also a lighter story: a mystery written in the vein of The Twilight Zone. The characte...
Young Jamel Frederickson is taken down by a bullet fired by a white, rookie Dallas police officer.Jamel's crime? Being black and mentally ill.In the midst of street protests, Detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson are thrust into the investigatio...