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Her Dream Gig: Write an article about a haunted campground. Pitfall: Killer wants her dead. As a freelance journalist, the assignment to write an article about a haunted campground in Arizona is Wren’s dream come true. It combines her love of traveling and camping with her loyal Labrador Retriever, Rascal, and the intrigue of investigating haunted locations. The Old West-style Arizona campground, Forgotten Oasis, has a picturesque setting, but a deadly threat looms beneath the surface. While Wren digs into the mysteries of the Forgotten Oasis, she finds herself at odds with the young, ...

Wren’s fourth and final writing assignment: a haunted campground near a Florida beach. Wren and Rascal, her protective Labrador Retriever, arrive at a nearly abandoned, neglected campground. Wren discovers clues to a cold case in old letters. Are the new murders related? The ghostly pirate Captain warns Wren of danger; the killer plans Wren’s untimely demise.

Wren and Rascal arrive at her third haunted campground writing assignment in the mountains of Tennessee and disturb the lair of a killer. Wren and Rascal check in at the Tennessee campground that has no history of being haunted except for the ghostly sounds of stock car races at night. As the feelings deepen between Wren and Justin, the town marshal who waits for her in Arizona, she’s tempted to write a quick summary then leave Tennessee until she stumbles across a body. While she pieces together fragments of old and new clues that reveal an ongoing crime, a ghost warns her of danger. The...

Wren and Rascal leave Arizona for her second writing assignment: a haunted campground in Texas. A killer wants her dead. Wren has never left a project unfinished, so she reluctantly leaves Arizona and the cute town marshal for her next assignment: a haunted campground in Texas. After she and Rascal discover a body in the woods, it’s obvious who the killer is, isn’t it? Even the ghost tells her not everyone is who they seem.

Has Maggie finally met her match? A serial killer leaves a grisly message for Maggie: she’s next. She does not intend to die. Maggie and her Gray Flanagan Agency staff, Paul and Heather, have their first case: investigate the grisly murders of young women. They discover the killer tracks the order of the murders with crude, deep slices on the young women’s bodies. When the team doubles-down to find the killer, Maggie gets too close, and the killer gives Maggie the next number in line to die.

Librarian with the soul of a warrior. Maggie Sloan survives an explosion and begins the slow healing process with the help of her unusual team. When a heart-wrenching murder shatters her world, Maggie’s team trains her to fight to win, whatever the cost. Her grief and rage transform her from prey to relentless hunter, and her brilliant observational talents threaten a complex criminal scheme. As Maggie closes in on the truth, she realizes she’s on the trail of a mastermind, a dark puppeteer of serial killers, whose intellect threatens to match her own. This gripping psychological ...

A deranged serial killer targets the vulnerable Maggie. Her life depends on seeing what no one else does. Maggie navigates through the clues behind twenty years of suspicious deaths at the hand of the legendary Ghost of Wicked Hollow. Even though she has tragically lost her eyesight, she sees beyond the fog that has shrouded a serial killer from discovery for years. The murder targets her to die.

A deadly attack on Maggie leaves her maimed, but the killer wants her dead. Maggie uses her uncanny skills and talents to navigate through the conflicting lies, half-truths, and clues to piece together the seemingly unrelated deaths at a senior center’s staff and residents, real and fake jewelry, a fire, and a near-fatal attack on her. Maggie counts on the killer to underestimate her skills as she narrows her suspect list. The killer intends for her to die.

Only Riley, vet tech and dog whisperer, can stop the mastermind who murders farmers for their land; killer’s plan: Riley dies. Riley is offered a part time position with a vet who visits farms. Her dream job! But a killer turns her dream into a nightmare when farmers who are desperate to use their equity to save their farms are murdered, and friends are left for dead. Riley’s on the killer’s list: next to die.

Just one more haunted campground... Wren reluctantly agrees to write a bonus article for the travel magazine about a haunted campground that is on the way to Arizona. The campground is beautiful, and the people are welcoming. Is this last campground in Louisiana finally the only one with no ghosts or murderers?

Only a trap with the right bait will stop a crazed killer. Major is the bait; he sets the trap. Failure means death. Major’s farm in Florida is no longer safe after all the neighbors leave to escape from the murdering bands of raiders. An organized army led by one of Major’s most vicious enemies follows the random attacks of small gangs and sweeps north as Major and his family move to join Aimee Louise and Stuart in Georgia. While Major and his Georgia farm neighbors prepare to defend their homes and families, Major knows who is behind the destruction and bloodshed and prepares to stop ...

Power grid collapses after a cyberattack; only Major can stop the conspiracy to overthrow the US government. The price of failure is death. Major’s farm family grows when the sheriff’s family and others seek refuge at the farm when the terrorists’ success in seizing control of the US strengthens. After his granddaughter’s uncanny gift to see danger where no one else does thwarts a deadly assault and solves the mystery of the coveted object the serial killer is so desperate to find, Major launches an attack to unmask the traitor and stop his crimes. Major's longtime and formidable ...

Runaway girls. Calculating charmers. Human trafficking. Maggie sees the link; the kingpin sees her as an easy kill. Maggie’s on the trail of a human trafficking organization that she believes includes a ring of kidnappers and charismatic men that lure vulnerable women to a remote “resort.” When friends die in their efforts to uncover the criminals, Maggie steps up her game; as the young, one-eyed Maggie closes in, the mastermind is confident she’ll step into his trap and die.

Only Riley, vet tech and dog whisperer, can identify the serial killer. The obsessed killer stalks her; Riley must die. Riley has a gift: she talks to and understand animals. After her employer abruptly closes the clinic where she has always worked, Riley and Toby, her rescued German Shepherd, move to her hometown for a new job. Did we mention the cute deputy? It's awkward. As one murder follows another, she discovers her unique connection with the seemingly unrelated deaths can lead her to expose the murderer’s scheme. When she gets too close, the desperate killer escalates his attempts ...

MAGGIE SLOAN travels to Galveston, Texas. Nice change until she is shot and friends die. She is determined to stop the vicious leader; he has her in the crosshairs. Red is the New Gray when Gray Lady goes undercover. Our Gray Lady accepts a two-week assignment to find a missing spy who trusts only her. Larry, her original police officer protector and “cousin” from her hometown, is her backup. The Gray Lady is rocking her new red boots as the fill-in cook at a diner, but before the end of her first week, she is shot. The attacks escalate and so does Maggie’s determination to solve the ...

Sudden attacks on Maggie escalate. Someone wants her dead. Maggie, Larry, and her team investigate the puzzling clues that point to a long ago, unsolved theft of famous works of art from an art museum, but how is an old theft related to the attacks and a series of fires? Maggie intends to discover the truth. Her unknown enemy intends for her to die.

Riley Malloy, vet tech and dog whisperer, stands in the way of a desperate criminal. Easy fix. Kill Riley. After a former coworker dumps a feral cat inside a carrier on Riley’s porch with only a cryptic note attached, the coworker is murdered. Riley is the last person alive who can identify the criminal. Riley is attacked, kidnapped, and left for dead. Ben, the cute deputy, and Toby, her rescued German Shepherd, are desperate to find her. Riley clings to life: she does not intend to die.

Donut Lady’s life depends on her memories of her conniving ex-husband. The silent stalker intends for her to die. The past haunts the Donut Lady when her dead husband’s sketchy brother arrives in town after he blocked her appeal to overturn her wrongful conviction. What’s he doing in her hometown? To add to her troubles, her self-designated protector, Jack, is arrested for assault on the taunting, no-good ex-brother-in-law who is later found dead in Jack’s yard. Where does a counterfeiter fit in the puzzle? Only the dead husband knows.

Riley, vet tech and dog whisperer, races with death to save a friend’s husband, but is she racing to her own death? The killer waits: Riley must die. As Riley searches for her friend's husband after he disappears, one of his coworkers is murdered, and Ben's former girlfriend gives Riley the reports she stole from her boss before he was killed. After Riley receives a text from a previously unreliable source warning her to be careful, she is the only one who can puts together all the pieces, if she can survive. The murderer closes in for the kill.

Riley Malloy, vet tech and dog whisperer, suspects her father’s death seven years ago was not an accident. Her enemy waits for an opening to kill Riley. Riley Malloy is the only person alive who can solve long-ago murders and expose the crimes of an international ring. Complication: Riley doesn’t realize the significance of her grandmother’s letter or the documents she finds or how desperately her unknown enemy watches and waits for an opportunity to destroy the evidence and kill Riley.