Excerpts

Tuyet   The girl called Worm wrapped her arms around her knees and shivered, listening to the storm. Wind shuddered the walls of the shed and whistled through the cracks. Rain hammered on the metal roof and seeped in through the seams...

A Fire in the Darkness Monday, 2:16 a.m.The woman woke to the screams of horses. A surge of adrenaline pulsed through her, and before she was even fully awake, Carlin had swung her legs over the edge of the bed, run her fingers through her blonde...

Chapter 1  THE CALL CAME three hours into the stakeout, just as the man in the cowboy hat pulled up to the curb in a red Lexus so polished it looked like it had been dipped in molten glass. It was a wet winter afternoon, and a flat gray sky...

Chapter 1  EVEN IN THE DIM light of the bar, I could see the bruises.Beginning just below one eye, they spread down the side of her face and neck, tinged the blue rose tattoo above the swell of her left breast, and seeped beneath the ...