Winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Competition, FOAL PLAY is a hilarious debut mystery featuring a fire chief heroine and the Spanish mustangs of North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Colleen McCabe is enjoying an uneventful summer supervising her firefighters, making rounds with her Border collie, Sparky, and keeping an eye on the wild horses that have escaped from the local sanctuary. But when a dead body washes up on shore, she knows trouble has arrived in Corolla.

In this sixth in a series of Napoleonic-era adventures, American Ethan Gage is smuggled onto the French coast determined to thwart Bonaparte, who he vowed to kill at the conclusion of The Emerald Storm. He has joined a royalist conspiracy financed by British gold and has as partner beautiful comtesse Catherine Marceau. But many surprises await him on shore, not the least of which is reunion with his wife Astiza, who readers last saw carried off in a hurricane. Things get tangled from there!

Dead Men Tell No Lies - The Civil War is over, and many a young widow has turned to spiritualism to contact their husbands on "the other side." But Ophelia Wylde won't be fooled twice. After wasting her money on a phoney psychic, she decides if she can't beat 'em, join 'em. She leaves New Orleans and heads West, selling her services as a spiritual medium who speaks to the dead. By the time she reaches Dodge City, business is booming.
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When photojournalist Sophie Medina returns to London from an overseas assignment, she discovers that her husband Nick, a geologist and covert CIA operative, has been abducted. Three months later she is shocked when a friend in the British government says Nick was spotted in Moscow and is now not only a suspect in his boss’s murder, but also potentially involved in illicit Russian oil deals. With her every move now closely watched Sophie moves home to Washington, D.C. where she is drawn deeper into Nick’s shadowy world.
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