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Trapped together in a remote cabin during a blizzard. One bed. One very enthusiastic dog. And zero escape.

Wildlife biologist Wes Karelian came to the Cascade Mountains to grieve in silence. After losing his husband, he craves nothing but snow, solitude, and the chance to disappear. Instead, he gets August Doyle—broad-shouldered, bearded, and...

Spice Level: ****
Eighteen months ago, rugged bowhunter Augie Vale accidentally shot the silver fox who would steal his heart.
Now, trapped at his lover’s lavish family wedding in Jackson Hole, Augie must protect Wes from a predator far more dangerous than his trigger finger, before the man he loves disappears right in front of him.

Augie and Wes...

The lights of Hollowmere never go out. The great clocktower never stops ticking. But what powers the perfect city is far more sinister than anyone dares to admit.

In the steampunk metropolis of Hollowmere, progress demands sacrifice. The poor are offered a deal: sign their names, surrender their bodies to the Sovereign’s Cradle, and be “...

An empire ran on perfect time. Perfect time ran on something worse.

For sixty years, the great clock of Hollowmere kept perfect time. Trains ran, harbors opened, an empire set its calendar by the city’s bells, and no one asked what the bargain cost.

Six weeks ago, the clock stopped.

Now Hollowmere is dark and cold for the first time in living...

A child is found in the river.

Sheriff Jack Holloway has served Lexingfield, Virginia for fourteen years. He knows this town, its people, its grief. He has always believed that knowing a place this thoroughly means something.

He is wrong.

As the investigation deepens and the losses mount, Jack finds himself drawn to Grace James — the town...

The second novel in the Lexingfield series. Can be read as a standalone.

In Still Water, Jack Holloway raced against time to find a killer. In Reflections, he has to live with what he found.

The investigation is over. The library on the corner of Main and Church is closed. The hand-lettered sign in the window says what the town already knows. What...

Caleb Rourke thought he left the shadows behind. He was wrong.

Ten years ago, Caleb and his partner Daniel Hale walked away from a life of high-stakes heists — and from the man they both loved like a brother: Zane Maddox, who vanished without a word the night everything fell apart. Now Caleb runs a boutique cybersecurity firm and wears tailored...

The Seraph Initiative promised security. What it delivered was the perfect weapon, and the perfect cover‑up. When newly appointed Secretary of State Vivienne Rourke unveils the Seraph Initiative, the world sees a breakthrough in global security. In reality, Seraph is her private empire — a surveillance network built on hidden backdoors,...

Washington has always rewarded the ruthless. But when a former senator is found dead in a high-rise apartment — the case quickly buried beneath a veneer of official sympathy — the carefully constructed world of President Vivienne Rourke begins to fracture at its edges.

Her nephew Caleb knows the machine better than anyone. He helped build it....

Caleb Rourke is getting married.

Fourteen months after the wreckage of Washington, fourteen months of silence and ordinary mornings, he and Zane Maddox are standing in a sunlit courtyard in Marseille. The jasmine is moving in the wind. For the first time in either of their lives, it feels like permission.

It won’t last.

When a stranger appears...

The war is over. The serpent is dead. Caleb Rourke and Zane Maddox are supposed to be free.

They are not free.

The woman who shaped Caleb’s entire life is gone — but the machine she served has been running for two hundred years, and it doesn’t stop for one man’s grief, or his wedding, or his carefully built peace on the Virginia coast. When a...

The serpent is dead. The debt is not.

Six weeks after Ghent, Caleb Rourke is building a house on the Oregon coast. The timber is honest. The work is his. For eleven days, he doesn’t think about the Consilium Umbrae, the kill switch, or the name Rourke.

On the twelfth day, a message arrives through a channel that has been dark for five years.

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