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Secret Men in Pre-order
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Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead ...
Powerful men determined to keep their secrets. Detective Lieutenant Hunter Dane, determined to know it all.
Hunt and his team struggle with two cases—chasing one suspect cloaked in wealth, the other in superstition.
"The farmhouse has been sealed up since the last murder. Almost twenty years. Doors and windows intact. No sign of entry, forced or otherwise," Hunter said.
"But we're searching it, anyway?" Merisi peered across the dying orchard at the two-story, clapboard structure.
“You ain’t gonna find it.”
Merisi whirled around. In the railroad ditch, a boy on a bicycle eyed him boldly. His Black Ops 4 cap came down to his ears. He looked about ten years old.
“You don’t think so?” Merisi jumped down beside the boy and held out his hand. “Detective Mike Merisi.”
The boy took his hand. “I’m Bernard.”
“Why won’t we find him?”
“They live in mirrors. We can't get in, but they get out.”
“They?” Merisi asked.
“Demons."
Book 6 of the Hunt&Cam4Ever series. Cam's moved up the hall to his new office and new career. But Hunt without Cam? Not happening.
Hunt walked straight into his office and slumped back on the edge of his desk.
Cam followed. He shut the door before he kicked Hunt’s feet apart and moved in between his legs,strong arms circling Hunt’s shoulders.
“We're at work,” Hunter said, but he didn’t pull away.
“You’re at work. I’m visiting.” Cam rubbed his cheek against Hunter’s ear.
Hunt’s arms went around Cam’s waist. “I’m still at work.”
“You’re on a break.” Cam’s arms tightened and Hunter’s head dropped to his shoulder with a deep sigh.
After a minute, Hunt stood, hugged Cam tightly and pushed him firmly away. “You suck at being a good influence.”
Cam grinned. "You're welcome."
Fractured Men in Pre-order
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Sometimes what you never thought would happen, does. All at once. A furnace explodes taking your house with it. A cop at the door says your father’s dead. Or lightning strikes from the ice-blue eyes of a much-too-young-for-you man you pass in a doorway.
One year to the day later, the young man was my husband.
I slid onto a counter stool and Cam handed me a mug of coffee. A big slice of his grandmother Dee’s apple pie waited on a brick red ceramic dish. Our cell phones lay on Cam’s side of the breakfast bar.
He made quite the ceremony of turning my phone off and dropping it into the silverware drawer. “For the seven days of our honeymoon, you are not a homicide detective.”
Somebody should've told the killer.
Only then it started raining. ... And something popped up.
For adults who like puzzles and power dynamics.
On His Knees Unpublished from Amazon
On Sept 26th, 2019, On His Knees was unpublished from Amazon as a single title.
It now makes up Part 1 of the newly designated Book One of the Hunt&Cam4Ever series, Matchstick Men. It's the same book (well, I found more typos and fixed them) it is just where I would have put it if I had known at the time I wrote it, it would spark the series.
I'm very proud of the new Matchstick, of the seamless narrative it always should have been, of adding back some material I had taken out of the first draft.
ALSO IN PAPERBACK.
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HUNT&CAM#7 IN PREORDER
LAUNCHES SEPT 7TH ~ A Number 1 new release on Amazon
preorder here
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“I said, no.”
“I’m sorry, I can’t accept that.”
Hunter gave Ben Hart an incredulous look. “Accept it or don’t Hart, I’m not leaving Cam right now.”
The billionaire put his hands into his pockets and looked around Cam’s unimproved yard—a clearing to the edge of the woods. Above the jagged line of the canyon rim, a lone raptor circled lazily. “I don’t like calling in favors, but if that’s what it takes…”
“If you ‘call them in’ they aren’t favors. And why do you need me? If it’s a police matter, Hawaii has police departments. The locals aren’t meeting your high expectations?”
Hart’s indigo eyes flashed fire. “Remember who you’re talking to, Detective.”
“Remember I don’t work for you, Hart.”
Benedict Hart and Hunter Dane faced-off. They were both big men, both men who had killed, and both motivated by the same thing.
“Don’t fight me on this, Hunter, I'm protecting my family.”
“So am I, Ben. Either tell me what the hell is going on or leave. Cam and I are still on our honeymoon.”
Something desperate flickered across Ben Hart’s face. “I’ve done a lot for you, Hunter. And for Cam. You think I can’t hurt you? And hi—”
WHAM!
One billionaire facedown on the redwood table.
“Hunter!” Cam was on the patio, in sweatpants and nothing else. He crossed swiftly to the table. “Let him go before one of his bodyguards takes you out from the woods.”
Hunter didn’t move. “He threatened you.”
“Then he’s scared shitless about something money can’t fix."
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A 72k word novel, the seventh in the Hunt&Cam4Ever BDSM-MYSTERY series. This is the book the author calls "The hardest book I ever wrote."
Will be available on Kindle Unlimited on launch day September 7th.
