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The first three stories in the Matt Ransom series have been gathered together for the first time in this exciting and explosive collection. The Velvet Sea, The Tender Shore, and the powerful The Gentle Tide await readers just past the shore…

A crew of three, led by Captain Jack Spender, have been searching the galaxy for an inhabitable home for the remaining population of their own dying planet. After more than one disappointment, they discover a lush and lovely planet that appears to be the answer to all their hopes. But the planet is mysteriously empty of life, save one vibrant and lovely girl. Young Jack Spender is immediately taken with young Chloe, and she with him. Slowly the reason for her survival emerges, and the hatred which once destroyed all life on her planet threatens the lives of the crew. Spender must race ...

A young man made good returns to the small town where he grew up and his life changes forever in this emotionally naked and beautiful story of going home again. Darcy Kendrick, the nicest girl in town and once the head cheerleader in high school, is no longer the pride of Shafter, but its greatest disappointment and shame. But to Billy Ballard, who sees beyond the surface down into Darcy's lovely heart, she is still the same wonderful girl he adored from afar all those years ago. Seeking her out as the small town around him shuns her, Billy will have to love Darcy more completely than most ...

Sportswriter Mike Lassiter is working on a book about baseball players over the decades who had enormous talent, but for one reason or another had very brief careers. No story is more mysterious than that of Jack Williams from the 1940s. Those still alive who saw him play maintain that he was the greatest ballplayer there ever was. But after two phenomenal seasons, Jack Williams walked away, never to he seen or heard from again. One man who might know what happened is legendary scout Dix Lang, who discovered Williams and brought him to the big leagues. Lassiter has an ace in the hole which ...

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…

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...

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...

Laura Langdon is a woman whose only escape from her humdrum existence is the romantic pulp magazines she hides from her unimaginative and penny-pinching husband. Then a flat tire leads to her being picked up by a charismatic gangster on the lam. Appalled initially at his brazen manner, she is soon forced to acknowledge how his attentions and praise make her feel. When things take a dangerous turn, she has to choose between safety and home, or living a life she's only read about in the pulps. A story set during the 1930s, and harkening back to pulp stories of yesteryear.

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 ...

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 ...

A young writer down on his luck, wins a dream vacation to the California coast. Though he can't recall entering any contest, the opportunity is too good to pass up. Soon after his arrival, he meets a pretty surfer girl too wonderful to leave behind. But all may not be as it seems in this ethereal fantasy.

In GYPSY SUMMER, a young man working in a fabled San Francisco movie house meets a lovely gypsy girl in the park. She claims she is living under a gypsy curse. Observing firsthand the effects of the spell, he falls deeply in love with her. But when the final facet of the spell rips the young lovers apart, he must decide what price is too high for love. In NIGHT CRY, a struggling young writer in San Francisco thinks his luck has changed when he meets a sensual girl named Calina. But after meeting her, the old-fashioned horror story he's writing begins to intrude on reality, as a sleek black ...

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 ...

Mike walks into a diner on a rainy 1940s San Francisco night only to discover a different kind of storm waiting for him inside. Nora is a luscious brunette with a black eye and a husband sucking the life out of her. As if drawn together by fate, they quickly embark on a romantic and heated affair. But when her husband gets what's coming to him, they'll have to take it on the lam to discover who did the deed, because all they have in this sixth entry in the Noir Shot series, is each other, and a glass alibi.

Traveling late at night on an abandoned Illinois backroad during a terrible storm, a man has a close brush with tragedy. Relief turns to fear when hours later, morning doesn't arrive. Trapped in an endless night he travels on these lonely stormy backroads recalling the betrayal which sent him cross-country, and wondering if the girl in the rain who saved him from a certain death was actually real...

A darkly sensual and deeply romantic mystery set in the latter half of the 22nd century. New Chicago's Civil Regulator Matt Ransom begins an investigation into the brutal murder of a bio-organic Cherry 6. The clues will lead Matt and his Cherry 6 wife, LeAnn, from New Chicago to Paris as a conspiracy affecting all mankind is unraveled. The sensual love between Matt and LeAnn is intertwined with the case more than either of them realize, and once the reason for the murder is discovered, this inaugural entry in a spectacular series becomes an exploration of what it truly means to be human. ...

Matt and LeAnn are in Hawaii for Maria's wedding to Lucas. Matt has been having dreams about the day he rescued LeAnn as they arrive in Kauai, while great changes have been taking place in the lives of those he loves. Leaving Hawaii briefly to fly with Meagan to Paris, and share in her exciting news, Matt discovers that not all is as it seems with someone very dear to him. Once he discovers the reason, his world will never be the same. Meanwhile in Portugal, a beautiful Italian girl with whom Matt has only a passing acquaintance is having one last fling at living while she still can. When ...

A young pretty teacher hiding a terrible secret, a young man grieving the loss of his parents, and an appointment with fate all collide in a small Oklahoma town during the 1970s. The tender, sweet and forbidden is sensitively dealt with in this atmospheric rural noir which will inevitably explode in violence, and require a miracle for anyone at all to survive…

A WWII soldier returns to his small town in Upstate New York with no memory of his past. Someone is following him and he doesn't know why. Once he arrives at a home he can't remember, he discovers two very different women appear to have designs on him. Shadowed by a mysterious stranger, and romantically confused, he must make his way through the dark corridors in his mind and remember, before it's too late...

Tom and Karen become separated on a Saturday morning in the park when mankind is conquered by an alien race of unknown origin. In the harrowing aftermath, Tom at first believes he is the only survivor. He soon discovers he is not, and Saturday's Children becomes a tender tale of love and family. When the time comes to go searching for Karen, what he discovers changes the history of humankind. Saturday's Children truly is a moving story of humanity, an exciting yet poignant look at what we are, and what we might become one day, if given the chance.