Sergeant Frank Hardy, a battle-hardened veteran of British Colonial wars in India and Crimea, is looking for work as an investigator while driving a mail coach through the dangerous New Zealand bush. When two settlers disappear, he is hired to find them, living or dead. But when he and a young Danish woman are targeted by a ferocious killer with a deadly tomahawk he begins to wonder if his presence at a wartime atrocity eight years earlier has resurfaced. Can he find the bodies? And can he stop more killings, including his own? "Superb debut book!" Amazon Top 500 Reviewer "Great adventure story about New Zealand." Amazon Revewer "Hooked me right from the opening scene about a brutal murder..." Read this book if you love exploring new countries while you are engrossed in a gripping, suspenseful thriller with heart.

Book Two in the TITANS Series. An exclusive private society of the world’s most powerful, ambitious gentlemen Sex, Secrets, and Intrigue. Hope Malloy is not intimidated by rich, powerful men. So when she’s hired to find a bride for billionaire Rafe Sterling, she’s certain the assignment will be easy. Not only is he sexy and a renowned philanthropist, the man is heir to one of the country’s largest hotel fortunes. Who wouldn’t want to marry him? Rafe Sterling does not want a wife. Too bad it’s the one thing he desperately needs. His father ran off with a woman half his age, and Rafe can’t become permanent CEO of Sterling Worldwide unless he’s married. When he’s ambushed by the competent matchmaker, he’s captivated by her intelligence and seductive innocence. All of a sudden, he is thinking about a future and having her under his complete and total command. Will she run when she discovers his deepest, darkest secrets and shocking, sensual demands?

The boy she tried to forget...Now the boss her heart won't let goNeve Wilder's past suddenly comes flooding back when she meets her boss, Davide Cortese. Can he really be that boy who stole her heart and then disappeared all those years ago? The intensity of their attraction hasn't changed, but everything else has... With so much at stake, can Neve allow herself to be captivated by her gorgeous Italian all over again?

The family she's always wanted...Becoming a mother means everything to Grace Fellowes. She and her husband, Aidan, are ready to adopt when they learn that Aidan is a father already. A tragic accident has left five-year-old Emma motherless and Grace with the devastating knowledge that her husband had an affair. Her heart and her trust are broken.Smart, loving and full of life, redheaded Emma is perfectly charming. She's everything Grace has longed for—and a constant reminder of Aidan's infidelity. But Emma needs a family and Aidan can't abandon his daughter. This child could be the best thing that ever happened to her marriage—if Grace can learn to forgive.

Mara Hale is a bored little, rich girl living in a fancy mansion in Upstate New York. She mourns the loss of her mother, the neglect of her high-class entrepreneur father and longs to escape the suffocating limos and bodyguards. An albino who is frequently bullied over her strangeness, she finds solace and freedom in guitar playing and song writing. Kyle Thayer is an ex-soldier with no family and very few friends. His dishonourable discharge has left him few options and he spends his nights dodging knives and fists while working as a doorman at Cielo, a has-been nightclub, and dreaming of something better. These two people have nothing in common and may never have even met if they hadn't both made a very strange discovery in a cave beneath Thompkins Park: the Rage of Winter, an extremely advanced fighter aircraft unlike anything ever seen before. It is capable of invisibility, crossing oceans in minutes, has mounted guns, missiles, medical supplies, an armoury and can even leave...

One of the more underappreciated aspects of Archibald Rutledge's varied and prolific literary efforts focuses on the way he could weave stories involving danger in the wilds. What he frequently described as chimeras—great sharks, alligators, rattlesnakes, and cottonmouths of incredible and often embellished dimensions, wild hogs with razor-sharp tusks, and more—clearly fascinated him. Similarly, he exhibited a knack for twists and turns in his tales reminiscent of O. Henry at his best. The Ocean's Menace offers a fine example of this aspect of Rutledge as a creative writer. The title is misleading, because it immediately conjures images of something massive, such as a white shark, devilfish, whale, or other leviathan. Instead, "The Ocean" is a remote, treacherous tract of land near Hampton where hunters dared not venture and which locals viewed with a mixture of awe and alarm. It provides an ideal setting for this tale. Rutledge was at his best when writing of...