Lisa Manifold

Iraq War veteran Kelton Jager and his ex-military working dog Azrael feel detached from American mainstream society and wander the roadways where they assertively set wrong to right. When Kelton falls ill, they sneak into a barn for shelter and rest. They are discovered by a teenage girl and in exchange for her silence, agree to help her and her friends with an upcoming Euclidean geometry test at their elite preparatory boarding academy, Fox Ridge School. Kelton's time on and around campus has him suspecting a vulnerable student is at risk. He decides to stick around for a few days to make ...

Ken Bishop needed to kill his siblings. Well, not all five of them. But at least three. Maybe four. He needed the money from his mother's estate to pay off his gambling debts, and he needed it in a hurry. So, he killed a sister. Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Danny Carlisle investigates the murder, a woman at a nursing home with only days to live. A woman suffering from dementia. The family said the death was a blessing and the police wanted Carlisle to let it go, but Carlisle just could not let someone get away with murder. It just wasn’t right. Bishop knows it wasn’t ...

In the middle of an awful divorce, 53-year-old Georgia Carpenter finds herself out of luck, time, and money. Then her phone rings with the news that her great aunt has died and left her a cottage in the Gulf Coast town of Blackbird Beach. Georgia has no idea what awaits her on the other coast of Florida. All she knows is that she has nowhere else to go. And no reason to stay where she is.