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In this poignant testament to love, an ambulance arrives on a stormy night at one of the city's oldest apartment complexes, a landmark many believe is haunted. What follows is a moving story of four lonely people searching for love, two of whom will pass together into the lonely night.

A private detective in Miami is hired to track down the wife of a powerful gangster. But when he finds her, and they fall in love, only a miracle can help them escape together.

Christmas was fast approaching at the conclusion of Eight Blonde Dolls, and A Candy Red Christmas finds Seth and Caroline off to South America for a holiday both love. However, with Harry’s time possibly running short, and Candy in need of the forgiveness she cannot find within herself, neither has ever seen a Christmas more in need of miracles.

A man devastated by the loss of his wife in a terrible bombing witnesses a strange rain where she appears to still be alive. Holding vigils by his window each night hoping to witness the phenomenon once again only brings him to the verge of mental and physical collapse. When a woman considered an expert in the paranormal, and a man well known for his theories in quantum mechanics not only believe him, but have a theory about what might be happening, the trio embark on a desperate chance that love can shatter all boundaries in this thrilling and moving short story.

A former Arizona State Trooper, living in Galveston, is haunted by a tragic incident in his past. When he meets a pretty, but damaged young girl for whom there appears to be no future, he sees a chance for atonement. But the dangerous plan she has to reshuffle the deck could get them both killed.

Just outside San Francisco on a rainy evening, Matthew Saunders is on his way to meet the great love of his life, Evelyn Hollister. They have been meeting twice a year at the same hotel in San Francisco for a decade. Enraptured in their love for each other, a terrible circumstance has forced the couple to grasp at happiness whenever they can. As Matthew nears the beautiful city which holds so many of his most cherished memories, he recalls how he and Evelyn Hollister first met. Set in the 1960s and filled with atmosphere, Soft Winter Light is a tender and poignant story of love being all ...

Four stories of noir told in the old-fashioned tradition of days gone by. Colored by atmosphere, mood, and story rather than expletives, brutality, and graphic violence, and peopled by real human beings rather than unredeemable low-lifes and drunken narrators, the Noir Shots series is a return to the more traditional noir of days past. Gathered here in Silhouettes are the first four entries in the Noir Shots series: Dangerous Crossing, One Good Thing, Where the Busses Don’t Run, and Not Dark Yet. Three long short stories and one novella which turn back the hands of time to another era in ...

Jeopardy lurks around every corner in these three intricately plotted Noir Shot entries. From Kentucky to New York, to the French Riviera, love collides with treachery and madness in a collection of old-fashioned noir stories no reader will ever forget.

Major Johnny Marshall isn't flying planes over the Pacific any longer. On their seventeenth mission, he and his bomber crew ran out of luck. Johnny and his buddies Tag and Rick made it back home, but Tag and Rick are a little worse for the wear. Johnny has set up shop as a detective in 1944 Los Angeles and everyone knows the war is almost over. After splitting a windfall from an insurance job with his pretty Mexican secretary Juanita, he heads to the beach for a little R&R. But there he meets Susan, who may or may not be as wonderful as she seems. With a need to see Susan again, Johnny ...

Seth and Caroline return to Key Largo in search of a home, only to discover the first blonde doll. Soon Seth is embroiled in a search for a killer which will take him from Dubrovnik to Monte Carlo, then back to Miami. Seth's tender connection with a suspect leads him to confront demons from his childhood, in the most powerful Seth Halliday yet. As Sonny contemplates his future with Katarina, and Sanchez awaits his wedding to Anne Marquez, Seth makes a decision which will change his life forever.

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 ...

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...

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.

The inaugural entry in the Matt Ransom series, The Velvet Sea, breathed fresh life into a sub-genre of sci-fi many thought dead. Filled with action and dripping with sensuality, each successive entry has only gotten better, expanding on this unique world while tackling sensitive subjects such as abuse and incest, suicide and faith, and for Matt Ransom, what it truly means to be a bio-organic with a soul. Readers have been guided from a dystopian Earth where love was in short supply and global conspiracies abounded, to a recovered Earth, where the tide against those who would ruin what ...

A detective from Los Angeles who has relocated to lovely Málaga, Spain. An equally breathtaking young woman married to a brutal arms dealer. A suave Interpol agent who makes the detective an offer difficult to refuse. Soon Nick Page and beautiful Alisha Fontaine are on the run as a web of danger and intrigue threatens to trap them forever in this thrilling and romantic noir. Set amidst the Andalusian city so beautiful that Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier chose to stop there on their honeymoon, the exciting second entry in the Romantic Noir series of novelettes is an adventure no reader will...

Seth Halliday and Caroline are honeymooning off the coast of Ecuador when a young girl falls from a gray and rainy sky to her death. Seth's search for her killer will take the couple to Boca Raton, Paris and Mykonos, Greece. A tale of obsession begins to emerge as Seth tries to find the connection between the young girl and a jazz singer who committed suicide a decade earlier. The singer's friendship with the sister of a lovely television star and her relationship with a brutal arms dealer all come into play before Seth returns to Ecuador. A bloody confrontation in the jungles of Tena ...

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 ...

In the first post-Dreamless Sea story, Matt is adjusting to his new life in San Francisco. Beside him is the love of his life, the girl with whom he was always meant to be. An outing to join the gang for a movie turns into a warm reunion Matt did not see coming. The reunion excites Matt with possibilities, and makes him realize he is finally home.

Grover’s Creek is a wonderfully nostalgic and unabashedly sentimental Christmas fantasy. Filled with Americana and imbued with the longing most of us feel for a better time in our shared history, there is something universal in Nick’s story of disillusionment with the present woes of the world. Searching for something more than his life as a crime photographer for a major paper in a metropolitan city has given him, what he finds can only be described as a Christmas miracle. A town steeped in the past, no longer on any map, and barely remembered, may hold the key to his future if he can ...

Glenn Colby’s fishing vacation across the border begins with a wild bang when he picks up a sweet but insatiable little Mexican girl in a cantina on his way to Puerto de Angeles. Once Colby meets Tammy Kanakaredes in Puerto de Angeles, however, his plans change. Her desperate situation coupled with their passionate romantic entanglement leads to thoughts of murder. Looking for another way out, Colby contacts crime boss Don Miguel, and learns information which might give him the leverage he needs to both get the girl, and stay alive while he’s doing it. Filled with innuendo, unabashed ...