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Stuart, Aimee Louise, and Rosalie close in on a human trafficking ring. The obsessed leader plans a slaughter. Stuart, Aimee Louise, and Rosalie peel away the lies to uncover the truth about the seemingly random multistate kidnappings, but the violence of the attacks escalates, and everyone at Stuart’s family farm is in jeopardy. The unstoppable trio may have met their match when their enemy moves in for the kill.

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.

Major and Aimee Louise set a trap for a human trafficking ringleader; their enemy plans an ambush. If Aimee Louise doesn’t stop the killer, Major will die. Major’s old enemy is the mastermind behind the entire conspiracy: the electrical system’s imminent destruction, the scam to steal farms, and kidnapping children of law enforcement officers to force the parents into compliance with his schemes. Major and Aimee Louise set a trap for the egotistical criminal with Major as the bait; his enemy plans a deadly ambush. If Aimee Louise doesn’t stop the criminal, Major will walk into the ...

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.

Donut Lady has a knack for being at the wrong place at the right time. After two murders, the killer targets her. It’s personal. Donut Lady witnesses a friend’s estranged husband in a sketchy incident, then he’s found dead. After a second murder, she falls under suspicion, but is she the target? Donut Lady’s nightmares saved her once, but the murderer takes it to a personal level. She’s on her own. The killer intends to watch her die.

Autistic and orphaned, Aimee Louise sees the world differently. And now, the world is falling apart. She doesn’t see faces...only clouds. Swirls of joy, flickers of sorrow, ominous storms of deception. But the most important cloud of all is the one that signals danger. When a transformer explodes nearby, Aimee Louise senses it’s more than an accident. It’s the first crack in a crumbling world. As the nation’s power grid collapses and chaos spreads, the farm where she has found refuge becomes a battleground. A ruthless criminal, hungry for control, believes the key to stopping him is...

Karen is threatened by a violent man. After he is murdered, the killer stalks her. Karen has to stop the murderer, or she’ll be next to die. Karen O’Brien—retired teacher, convicted felon, and donut shop owner. The terror of nightmares and shadows from her years in prison haunts her. After a violent man who threatened Karen is murdered, her nightmares foretell of a tragic, second murder. The killer stalks the Donut Lady; she does not intend to become victim number three, but can the Donut Lady and her shadows expose what the murderer has concealed for years? She’s fierce, but the ...

Accountant who is a young widow becomes a most unlikely fierce crime fighter When she inherits the Peach Blossom Retreat, a bed-and-breakfast inn that is nestled in the peaceful countryside of Georgia, she sees a path to heal her grief by turning the old inn into a thriving business. But after a decade-old embezzlement at a large bank sparks her curiosity as an accountant, and a guest at the inn with ties to the bank turns up dead on the inn’s property, Jenna is drawn to untangle the web of deceit surrounding the embezzlement. The closer she gets to the truth, the more Jenna realizes she ...

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 ...

Angel and Stuart and their small team rush to rescue two families in Alabama. Will they divert to another critical mission? Timing is everything. Failure means death. Angel and Stuart lead the team to save two families that are endangered by the onslaught of the ruthless cartel but learn of a second critical rescue mission then a third. Do they divert or complete their current mission? The wrong choice leads to certain death.

The power grid and society collapsed years earlier, but spirits are high in the anticipation of a Christmas with snow at the four Georgia farms until impending danger looms. When a cartel leader targets one of their own five days before Christmas, Stuart, Angel, and their team intend to take advantage of the rivalry between the two battalions of killers to pit them against each other. Risky plan, and the stakes are high. If they fail, all the families at the four nearby farms will be slaughtered before Christmas Eve.

A hate-filled killer seeks revenge. As the attacks escalate, Stuart and Aimee Louise prepare for the onslaught. Stuart and Aimee Louise scrap their plans to return to Florida when their neighbors fall victim to home invasions and murder. After the ruthless gang halts all travel with roadblocks and the repeated attacks become even more intense, Stuart and Aimee Louise suspect someone on their team is the target. When the callous enemy closes in, Stuart and Aimee Louise plan their own attack; the killer plans a slaughter.

Extortion. Murder. Arrest. Case (not) Closed. KAREN O’BRIEN, retired teacher, convicted felon, and donut shop owner, has an enemy who also happens to be the killer. Donut Lady is not convinced the right person was arrested in the death of a decorator and furniture store owner, but after she reviews the documents and files that the victim’s parents gave her, Donut Lady still doesn’t know who murdered the decorator. She has four and possibly five highly suspicious suspects, and one of them is a dear friend. As she closes in on the truth, the killer sends her a clear, chilling message: ...

A most unlikely team: a cop, two thugs, and a blind woman band together to find refuge when the US power grid abruptly fails. Lili has no option except to resign when the city mandates double shifts for its dwindling number of police officers as the violence from the large cities reaches smaller towns. Her aunt and uncle want Lili and her young son to leave town with them and her uncle’s friend, who is convinced plans are in place to destroy the US electrical grid. Lili is a target for extortion because she is a police officer; her uncle’s friend is targeted to die because he knows too ...

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.

She's in a race to uncover the secrets and solve the murders before the desperate killer murders her. KAREN O’BRIEN is puzzled by the secrets of a respected, longtime resident of Asbury. How many secret partners can any one person have? And when one of the partners and then another is murdered, Karen is convinced the killer must have been one of the other partners, but which one? And why? The Donut Lady asks too many questions and uncovers too many secrets. She’s in the killer’s crosshairs. A cozy culinary mystery sprinkled with a smidgen of paranormal.