A Seattle Noir Cyber Mysteries Story Computer forensics detective Dag Hamar is on the loose again. This time FinCEN has contracted him to find a computer hacker creating havoc with national security and eliminate the threat. The guy is so good, he's even claimed credit for a hack Dag committed! Dag simply must meet Hacker X. Wherever in the world the chase takes him. Sequel of For Money or Mayhem.
To study four years at an ancient seminary with the promise of a secure career in a turbulent kingdom was an unbelievable boon to Zuri, a kid from the docks. All of it was a lie, a terrible soul-crushing lie. The only choice was to run, to live to fight another day. Kids from the docks know how to fight. (Whatever you think the categories typically mean, they are not typical in this tale.)
Bobby Washington got hit by a drunk driver while he was riding his bike and all the doctors thought he was a gonner. He lived, but he was in a coma for three years, and he had epilepsy. When he finally woke up his mom's dreams seemed to have come true. But there were still issues. An Asian physical therapist came to live with them and, together, they tried to bring Bobby back to a normal life.
Minara is an ex solider turned bounty hunter earning a living catching human survivors from the Human, Grojan war. She stumbles across a large enemy fleet and is shot down. She crashes on a primitive planet where Minara quickly establishes herself as a bodyguard to a princess of a small kingdom. Unbeknown to her a powerful general from a rival kingdom is a genetically modified human. By chance and political events, they meet and sparks fly.
A Dulcie Story Helen has been 'traded in for a younger model'. A chance encounter in a diner with a man young enough to be her son changes her life. This story is the result of a suggestion from a reader that I should reverse my usual pattern!
Sometimes our desires to be accepted, to be beautiful to be wanted can have dire consequences. But what lengths would you go to have exactly what you want?
Deniece runs a strict house: her table, her hours, zero complications. Then Tim moves upstairs—the boy who’s wanted her for a decade. He thinks she’s finally relaxing around him. No bra at breakfast. Smaller swimsuits. He has no idea his arousal is being engineered. His friend Emma caught Deniece in an explicit public moment, photos lethal enough to destroy her. Emma doesn’t want money; she wants control. Now Deniece must perform for Tim’s gaze on command. A blackmailed woman, an oblivious tenan