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Down every rural road and in every small country town there is an old-fashioned noir story waiting to take place. Whether it’s California, Oklahoma, Texas, Illinois, or lonely eastern Nebraska, peril paints these byways. Down Every Road contains State Route 43, Last Semester, Nebraska, Galveston and Endless Night for five gritty and unforgettable tales of old-fashioned noir.

The morally complex and emotionally beautiful Sapphire Sea took the Matt Ransom series to new frontiers, reshaping the sensual and complex world while fulfilling all the promise suggested in the series’ lean and sexy inaugural entry, The Velvet Sea. If readers were expecting the follow-up to The Sapphire Sea to be a letdown after the series’ most emotionally powerful entry, they can be forgiven. It was difficult to imagine where this series could go from where we last left our favorite bio-organic and his sensually close group of friends, especially after such devastating losses. Yet ...

With its sexy mix of thrilling action and tangible sensuality, and a willingness to tackle subjects such as abuse and incest, suicide and faith within an entertaining sci-fi/mystery series often focused on global conspiracies in a world devoid of real love, The Sapphire Sea might just be the finest and most entertaining entry yet in the Matt Ransom canon. Big and sprawling — there are over thirty pivotal and recurring characters — yet almost uncomfortably intimate at times, the world of Matt Ransom is both intoxicating and addictive. By the seventh entry the world of Matt Ransom had ...

The Gentle Tide is a pivotal moment in this most unique series. While its riveting mix of sensuality, mystery and dystopia pulled readers into this world in enthralling fashion, The Gentle Tide began widening in scope the mythology of the series. Matt has regained the part of himself lost after Rio, but then he sees a ghost from Paris in the rain. He begins searching for answers as to how a woman who died in a way which haunts his dreams could actually be alive. What Matt and his new friends uncover is a perversion so twisted, that even the dead are not safe. For someone Matt loves very ...

Blending the atmosphere of 1940s crime and noir films with an era when spicy pulp magazines of crime and mystery were so full of innuendo and suggestion, they were kept under the counter for public safety, Lucky Penny pays homage to both mediums for a deliciously spicy and nostalgic cocktail. Lucky Penny takes the reader on a hot ride through 1948 Los Angeles as a man who may be more than he seems picks up a beautiful girl as sweet as she is wanton. What he’s involved in is not made clear until it explodes in violence. As the newly formed couple set their sights on Florida, this final job...

Along the lonely backroads of Kentucky, a trucker deliberately flying under the radar and a beautiful woman stranded in the rain come together. Whether they’ve met by chance, or design becomes murkier as their tragic and dangerous secrets are slowly revealed to one another. Even as a tender romance takes wing, those secrets bring the possibility of violence that threaten not only their lives, but their very souls. One final secret leads to a romantically haunting sacrifice which culminates in inescapable violence, in this tender and mysterious Noir Shot entry. * Contains mature themes and...

Two 1940s romantic noir stories of suspense! In I WON'T FORGET YOU, a young woman is left rudderless when the local soldier boy she'd planned to marry sends her a Dear Jane letter. Spring returns to her heart when a second chance at love unexpectedly comes her way. She soon finds herself in a nightmare, however, when he disappears just as they are to be married. The police are convinced the man existed only in the woman's mind. Vowing to never forget him, she finds herself in a sanitarium, where only one man can help her. In THE UNLOCKED WINDOW, a woman who lost her husband during the war ...

Christmas was fast approaching at the conclusion of Eight Blonde Dolls, and A Candy Red Christmas finds Seth and Caroline off to South America for a holiday both love. However, with Harry’s time possibly running short, and Candy in need of the forgiveness she cannot find within herself, neither has ever seen a Christmas more in need of miracles.

Two years have passed since the shattering climax of The Gentle Tide. Matt and his wife LeAnn, blessed with a young daughter who has made them a family, are on the Amalfi Coast of Italy to attend a wedding. Earth is finally beginning to recover, and the future seems bright. Matt becomes fast friends with a backpacker from Mars he meets on the beach. She brings into his life a special light at exactly the right time. But when he discovers she is being watched, and then someone attempts to kidnap her, he knows he must keep this gentle soul from harm. Matt's search for answers as to why ...

In SLOW HOT WIND, Beautiful Hollywood star Lila Chantry walks into gumshoe Sam Barlow's office with a sad story of a husband gone astray. Barlow quickly discovers that he's strayed much further than Lila understands. Blackmail, gangsters, a big Hollywood studio and a race to Mexico in a slow hot wind all come into play for a whiz-bang 1940s detective story in the grand pulp tradition. In GLASS ALIBI, Mike walks into a diner on a rainy San Francisco night, but inside is a different kind of storm. Nora is a luscious brunette with a black eye and a husband sucking the life out of her. As if ...

Six stories of love found in those intoxicating hours after midnight where lonely lives. Imbued with a tangible ache for love felt by those who walk those lonely streets, and the quiet disconnect between the spotlight of day and the sanctuary of night, each of these six stories is touched in some manner by the supernatural. Collection contains: Night Run, City of Angels, Christmas Eve, Requiem, Gypsy Summer, and Night Cry. Come walk these lonely streets for a journey into night you will never forget…

A tragic accident in the distant past that led to a heartbreaking decision, a great love Matt can’t remember, and a girl about to die who will use her final days to give Matt the life that was stolen from him, collide with two unsolved murders in the present in The Romantic Shore. Sprawling across worlds, aching with romantic longing and sensuality, and filled with some of the most beautiful moments of the entire series, The Romantic Shore begins Act II for Matt Ransom, when the truth is finally revealed, and Heaven sets right Matt’s destiny…

This beautiful otherworldy romance set in San Francisco and Australia explores the possibility that love truly is all that matters. Tom Archer is a writer whose gentle fantasies of love assisted from above have garnered him a large following. But he has lost faith in those things about which he renders so beautifully for others to enjoy. When a lovely woman named Arianne passes away without the experience of being loved, heaven intervenes, setting in motion events which will change Tom Archer's life forever. Chance at Heaven is a magical novelette which reminds us of the importance of faith...

In CITY OF ANGELS, a reporter walking home in the wee small hours of morning meets a charming girl in a park many in the City of Angels believe is haunted. She is attempting to break free from the shackles of wealth and the stuffy conventions of the upper crust. Beguiled, he decides to write a human interest story about Sarah. But when he runs into one mysterious contradiction after another, he begins to suspect the impossible has happened. In CHRISTMAS EVE, a delivery man prevents a lovely young girl from harming herself at his first stop on Christmas Eve morning. Then he begins to see her...

Return to the days when names like Woolrich and Chandler, Cain and Gardner filled book racks across America, and radio shows such as the Shadow and Suspense ruled the airwaves in this anthology of stories sure to keep you glued to the edge of your seat. Old-fashioned mystery and suspense in the grand tradition return in nine original stories you'll never forget. The Day Kathy Died, Johnny's Girl, Dark Corridor, Slow Hot Wind, No Holiday From Murder, I Won't Forget You, Glass Alibi, Voodoo Road, and the title story, The Unlocked Window, are sure to keep readers up late, turning pages, and ...

From the Amalfi Coast of Italy to the Twenty-Second-Century Dead Zones of Brazil, the Matt Ransom saga continues in Harbors & Shores. Containing books four and five of the series, The Lovely Harbor and The Sandy Shore, this special edition of Matt Ransom encapsulates an exciting and complex new story-line within the greater saga, and contains some of the most romantic, action-filled, and thrilling moments of the entire series.

The seventh entry in one of the most unique series in fiction has Matt in a melancholy mood as his first Christmas without Annette and Teagan approaches. A shocking crime eerily reminiscent of the Red Robin Diner slayings of The Velvet Sea pulls him from his home in West Palm Beach back to snowy New Chicago, where Brooke has seen the dead come back to life. Matt soon discovers a grisly murder spree aimed at enticing him into a deadly spider's web. When all leads point to ancient voodoo, Matt realizes no one he loves is safe. While he teams with a lovely CR in Nice, France, LeAnn and the ...

In NO HOLIDAY FROM MURDER, Richard and Mary write the Dan Justice mystery show for radio. Sent by their sponsor on a lavish Hawaiian vacation during the San Francisco show's summer break, they walk smack-dab into a real-life murder on the tropical island. They must use all their mystery-writing skills to solve it before it's their turn!

In this poignant testament to love, an ambulance arrives on a stormy night at one of the city's oldest apartment complexes, a landmark many believe is haunted. What follows is a moving story of four lonely people searching for love, two of whom will pass together into the lonely night.

A lovely young woman must finally leave the orphanage which has been the only home, and family she has ever known. Traveling to Palm Beach, Florida by train, Anne meets the man of her innocent dreams, and is quickly drawn into an old-fashioned noir vortex of love, wealth, and murder. Reminiscent of black and white noir melodramas of yesteryear, I Died Twice is a romantic and involving tale of noir suspense set during the 1940s. Re-proofed, Edited and Revised 9-30-2022