Thriller

Secrets weigh on you, no matter if you are a psychopathic killer or a seasoned homicide detective with trauma in your past. This debut novel by Tracey S. Phillips deserves high praise for its ability to show how we all share the same complicated needs and emotions, whether we end...

A missing informant. A fragile undercover operation. A detective one misstep from losing control.
Detective Morgan Jewell is sent undercover to Pine Bluff, Wisconsin to investigate the disappearance of Jake Verninac—an informant who vanished days before delivering critical evidence. His last known contacts tie him to a local drug...

What if the dead aren't haunting you? What if they've come back to save you from the living? 
Since the accident that killed her husband, Quinn Saunders has been seeing things. A barn owl studying her from the yard. A photo falling with no one there to bump...

Forensic scientist Sean McKinney hunts a serial killer who is targeting senior citizens associated with the 1930s era Barker-Karpis gang. But, getting justice for a wrongfully accused man means bucking the system and putting his life on the line. Will the trail of corpses left by the real killer include...

In "The Blue Silence," forensic scientist Sean McKinney faces one of his toughest challenges yet when he's called upon to help find his daughter's missing college roommate. Struggling to adjust to being an empty nester, McKinney travels to New Orleans to investigate, but when his own daughter is kidnapped, he'll...

Book #2 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series:

Annabelle Giordano, a troubled fourteen-year-old, becomes an important person in handwriting expert Claudia Rose’s life, and the chief suspect in a horrific crime.

Book #2 - A Gabriel McRay Novel:

"Stevens has once again brought us to the edge of our seats with her gift for psychological suspense" -Suspense Magazine

From the enclaves of the super rich to the kinky underbelly of Los Angeles, women are turning up dead. Detective Gabriel McRay is...

Book #1 - A Gabriel McRay Novel:

High in the Santa Monica Mountains grisly murders are taking place. On each of the victim’s bodies a note is left for Sheriff’s detective Gabriel McRay. The killer’s identity lies in the suppressed memory of a horrific trauma from Gabriel’s childhood.Teamed with his...

Book #4 - A Gabriel McRay Novel:

Los Angeles Detective Gabriel McRay investigates a cold case from 1988 involving a missing teenager named Nancy Lewicki. Evidence is sparse and Gabriel has no leads. Much to his dismay, a celebrity psychic, Carmen Jenette, hypes the unsolved case on her television show....

Book #3 - A Gabriel McRay Novel:

"A taut thriller with complex characters and an unforgettable villain" -Kirkus Reviews

Troubled homicide detective Gabriel McRay confronts his nemesis Victor Archwood at the killer's trial. A surprise twist during the proceedings sets a course for Archwood to claim the ultimate revenge on...

Book #1 - A Sean McPherson Novel:

When a sniper killed his partner, Sean McPherson was injured in the ambush. Now an ex-cop, he takes a job at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest. At Pines & Quill, he hopes to heal and put his life back together...

WHEN AN ILLUSIONIST joins the Pines & Quill writing retreat, one of the owners vanishes without a trace in the middle of everyone—but the surrounding would-be witnesses don’t see or hear a thing. That’s when crime boss Georgio Gambino makes a checkmate move against his nemesis, Sean McPherson—he attempts to...

Crime boss Georgio Gambino abducts Sean “Mick” McPherson’s pregnant wife, Emma, and his friend’s two daughters and contracts to sell them and another group of women—some into forced labor, others as sex slaves, and a few for their organs.

Gambino confines three best friends—Mick, a PI; Joe, a homicide detective;...

The bride, the groom, the toast, the explosion… What should be a joyous occasion turns lethal.

In the village of Fairhaven—nestled between Washington state’s Bellingham Bay and the Cascade Mountains, home to writers’ retreat Pines & Quill—friends and family have gathered for the union of Sean McPherson and Emma Benton....

Book #2 - A Sean McPherson Novel:

Burdened by the pressing weight of survivor’s guilt, Sean McPherson, an ex-cop, is desperate for redemption. At Pines & Quill, a writer’s retreat in the Pacific Northwest, he and his fiancée, Emma Benton, are planning their lives together. He wants to go back...

“He gave me more freedom, if that’s possible, to be myself. Yes the world is a crazy place, but I’d finally found a way to fit into it.”

Wilhelmina Green is the lawyer of choice for Chicago's wealthy offenders. Mina’s latest victory, the acquittal of a U.S. senator,...

Chicago’s hottest legal star is the lawyer of choice for wealthy offenders, but Mina’s courtroom victories increasingly conflict with her sense of right and wrong. When she can’t ease her guilt with her self-punishing extreme sport, she seeks to relieve it in other ways. Billionaire Jonathon Thomas Heun is happy...

On her first day as White House Press Secretary, Lark Chadwick is confronted on live television by a reporter with an agenda: “Are you, or are you not, planning to abort your unborn child?” His question puts Lark in the crosshairs of extremists on both sides of the highly fraught...

When popular First Lady Rose Gannon dies suddenly (and mysteriously) during an interview with White House correspondent Lark Chadwick, Lark is thrust into the midst of a media-bashing frenzy. Lark, still reeling from the death of her photographer boyfriend, finds herself covering a grieving president struggling with his pain while...

Just as young journalist Lark Chadwick is about to begin her new job on the cops and courts beat, she discovers the body of a strangled girl - the first victim of a serial killer. Lark's got the inside track, but there are complications: jealous rivals in the newsroom, her...

Orphaned as an infant, sexually assaulted as a naïve college student, strong-willed, impulsive Lark Chadwick is vexed and trying to figure out what to do with her mixed-up life. When she discovers the body of the aunt who raised her, Lark goes on a search for answers.

She is stunned...

Gutsy reporter, Lark Chadwick once again finds herself at the wrong place at the right time: front-row center when the White House press briefing room is suddenly attacked. The president is missing, the first lady's life is at risk, and Lark's personal life is falling apart when the man she...

Despite her PTSD, seasoned photojournalist Annie Hawkins heads back to Afghanistan. The Taliban's takeover of the country is the story of the decade, and Annie is determined to cover it. She's also desperate to keep an eye on her twenty-two-year-old daughter Mel, whose first job out of college has taken...

Seasoned war photojournalist Annie Hawkins returns home after an assignment to find her life falling apart. She's under investigation for an incident that happened six months earlier in Afghanistan. Her best friend's daughter, Seema, is still missing, apparently with her Taliban boyfriend. Her daughter Mel and friends are busy fundraising...

Eight years ago, seasoned photojournalist Annie Hawkins Green barely survived a Taliban ambush that left her military escort dead and a young Afghan girl dying in her arms. Since then, she has managed to suppress her memories of that brutal day-until she returns to Afghanistan to teach a photography workshop...

Julia Wilde is one of the best wildlife cinematographers in the business. But while on location in southern Africa, she finds herself unfairly blamed for an accident that leaves several crew members dead. Blacklisted by the movie industry, she takes a job in the film department at a Midwestern university...

We all make mistakes.
But what if you’d made a mistake that endangered the earth and everyone on it?
How far would you go to fix what you’d done?
In the standalone finale of redemption and technology-gone-wrong, inventor Storm Freeman has one final chance to take back...

Maria Kowalski made a promise to do what Storm Freeman, the inventor of the Gatherer, couldn’t. Destroy the device that brought an energy revolution to the world and stop it from spreading a plague across the globe.

But not everyone wants the Gatherer stopped. The military, and the commander she...

It's been three years since Storm Freeman released the Gatherer, a device that brought free, infinite energy to the world. The initial reverence has receded from the world changing invention as people are afflicted with a strange, inexplicable disease. Afflicted herself, Freeman has retreated to the Yukon, to hide out...

When the FBI can't help, an unassuming banker takes matters into his own hands to bring his son home

Wade, a respected banker in La Jolla, CA, and his estranged wife, Fiona, make the unbearable decision to send their teenage son, Myles, away to an expensive treatment center after...

When you're the son of a serial killer, you can never escape your past.

William MacNary was eight years old when his father went to prison. Since then, he's carefully built a life as a family man and a private banker for the wealthy. He tries to forget that...