In this quick-hitting thriller set in Baltimore, during the waning years of the Cold War, Lussi Sim, a Norwegian physician, is the medical director of a newborn intensive care unit.
Lussi had practiced pediatrics near her parents in Oslo until her father suffered a stroke. Growing up, Lussi experienced chronic mental trauma in the self-assigned role of her mother’s bodyguard. Ironically, her father’s stroke removed the physical threat to her mother and enabled Lussi to pursue her long-suppressed goal to train as a newborn intensive care subspecialist in the United States.
An excellent physician, Lussi copes with the stress of treating sick infants by entering the “rescuer” role she adopted to protect her mother. However, her fight v. flight response to threat defaults to the fight mode and she frequently fails to control her anger when negotiating with hospital managers she believes value profit over optimal patient care. Stumbling upon a deadly medical conspiracy, evolving from a US government-approved financial agreement between the CIA and the Saudi Royal family, Lussi must now use her well-honed fighting instincts to overcome lethal obstacles, rescue victims, and bring the perpetrators to justice.
A famous 18-year-old fiddle player, Beau, is abducted from her parents’ huge Sierra home at a birthday folk jam in her honor one summer in the early part of the 21st century. As a fire burns up the mountain while she is buried on the land under a pile of brush, she is found just in time.
A month later, much to her horror, she is abducted again, this time from a Berkeley music jam. The culprit – a crazy but brilliant classical violinist only known for his expert folk guitar playing – hides her away in an underground room in the Sierras so he can compel her to learn classical violin.
Pale, gaunt and shattered, can she escape?
2024 Best Book Awards Winner in Best New Fiction
2024 American Fiction Awards Winner in Mystery/Suspense: General
2024 Zibby Awards Winner: Best Family Drama Category Called a “sensational debut” by Rea Frey, this psychological thriller delves into themes of reproductive rights and healthcare, confronting the complexities that define family—or the risks that lose it all.
Billie Campbell, a Massachusetts adoption specialist grappling with fertility issues, dreams of adopting a baby, but not just any baby—her pregnant client’s baby. While her longing threatens to send her down a dark path, her husband, Tyler, is keeping secrets: he’s full of doubts about becoming a father, and he’s also trying to figure out who is sending him upsetting anonymous texts and photos. On the other side of town, Anne, a woman scarred by childhood abuse, obsesses with a second chance at becoming a family with the two people she regrets ever having let go of: the baby she gave up for adoption twenty years ago, and the man of her dreams. Their lives get tangled when the client’s newborn is abducted, and Billie becomes a prime suspect. Amid the chaos unleashed by the abduction, Tyler uncovers a link between the person tormenting him and the abduction—but now Billie has disappeared too. The race to find both her and the baby is on; but will they find them before it’s too late?
Murders overshadow botanist Millie Whitehall’s peaceful summer surveying endangered plants in northwest New Mexico. When autopsy reports show two seemingly unrelated deaths involve plants, Millie must use her knowledge of ecology as she races to identify the murderer – before she becomes the next victim.
Slay the Dragon: An Adam Weldon ThrillerAn ex-Navy SEAL battles the full might of a rogue gangster nation while the very survival of American democracy hangs in the balance.
A white-knuckle, upbeat, rip-roaring story packed with suspense, ingenious escapes, and plot twists for fans of Lee Child, Vince Flynn/Kyle Mills, Mark Greaney, James Patterson, David Baldacci, A.J. Tata, Brad Thor, and Elmore Leonard.
A police officer is brutally murdered in an Oakland protest. City hall shuts down any serious investigation. Ex-Navy SEAL Adam Weldon and his cop buddy BC take up the search for the killers only to find themselves hunted, outmatched, and at risk of being killed at any moment.
Fighting for their lives, they discover the murder is part of a relentless, 40-year, “unrestricted warfare” assault on America by an implacable, seemingly all powerful foe determined to dominate the world. A sovereign state with database files on everyone and the ability to track—and kill—anyone, anywhere, at any time. Can Adam and his team—and American democracy itself—survive?
Gold Bay: An Adam Weldon Mystery Thriller
Ex-Navy SEAL Adam Weldon tracks down kidnappers who have the San Francisco Bay Area teetering on the brink of societal collapse. In this wild, irresistible, white-knuckled ride - much of it via sailboat - through not only the Bay’s world-famous watery landscape but also its unique subcultures and quirky neighborhoods, Adam allies with a tech savvy Oakland cop, child sicario hitmen, and undercover FBI agent Tripnee to battle an out-of-control Silicon Valley billionaire, a charismatic cult with dark secrets, Bay pirates, an apparently unstoppable cartel well on its way to achieving the total and absolute corruption of the Bay Area, and moral rot extending into the highest reaches of the US government.
In the course of this gripping, life-and-death race against time, Adam comes to understand his extraordinary uncle - and himself - as never before. Could his Uncle Peace, a cantankerous ex-Zen monk, be the key not only to saving the Bay Area - and America - but also to sparking a civilizing cultural and spiritual renaissance?
Military superpowers want
the next-gen communications. A surprise breakthrough comes from a university
professor. Keith Avery and Eilla-Zan are piecing the answers together when they
are nabbed by a powerful terrorist group. Now the R-Group must find the
terrorists and free the captives to rescue all.
Two Darknet shadowy
types have launched the Ghost Code computer virus to hold Banks, hydro-electric
dams, and even aircraft hostage. The
R-Group is brought in to trap the destructive, vanishing virus and put an end
to the reign of terror from its handlers.
Too many lives are at stake if they fail.
The R-Group is hunting evil supercomputers
that are manipulating the future. It’s up to Jacob, Quip, EZ, and other members
of the R-Group to neutralize these threats, even as they navigate their own
romances and complex relationships. A difficult task when a traitor lurks among
them.
The race is on to
finish decoding the DNA secret to a longer human life. The R-Group is
psychologically challenged when they take on a rich, evil genius using advanced
DNA mapping with supercomputers to re-engineer humans to live forever.
The world is descending
into chaos as commodity prices are inexplicable forced downwards. Can Jacob,
Petra, Quip, EZ and others of the R-Group find and stop this Dark Matter
Organization led by a sinister computer genius who wields a samurai sword in
heated discussions?
Running illegal operations, leaving no digital
footprint. The Cyber Assassin Technology Services (CATS) team are hunting for
the Analog Information Mules used to communicate off the GRID. But are they
working together or at each other’s throats?
