"Marie proves a superb hero... With exciting showdowns, D'Amico brings the reader into the vibrant world of New Orleans." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY While trying to make up for her previous life's mistakes, a former intelligence officer - and thorn in Neil's side - changes her name to Marie Perdita. Raised by a Marine, Marie has always been tough and outworked others. But she can't find her edge, battling the fear and guilt surrounding the continuing saga of Jason Gaines and his evil drug company. So she takes the fight to New Orleans - a global port city that's strategic to Gaines's plans. Though she usually works alone, taking down Gaines means working with Christian, a rising star in Neil's private investigation firm. But can Marie and Neil's team put their issues aside to bring down Gaines and his growing empire? "Perdue is a firecracker of a thriller that had me biting fingernails and turning pages so fast-I finished reading in a single day's time." - Saralyn Richard, award-winning author of The Detective Parrott Mystery Series

FINALIST IN THE KILLER NASHVILLE AWARDS IN FANTASY! Ghoul War veteran Zane Vrexon is struggling to make ends meet as a private detective when he gets a cryptic note from an old friend, Dennis, who says his new wife is in danger. Then Dennis turns up dead in his own potion shop and his widow, Vana, is the main suspect. Zane has enough problems - including an addiction to healing elixir and a voice in his head with nothing but bad ideas - but he agrees to investigate with help from Dennis's gnome assistant and a professor from The Institute. But as they dig into the mysterious death, Zane and company find that Dennis had ties to the goblin mob and Vana is being hunted by a being thought either mythical or long extinct. And now they're in the crosshairs with her.

BY AN AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT Adam Craig still has nightmares about the last summer he spent on the shores of northern Wisconsin's Black Bear Lake. The Chicago stock trader thinks he has it under control - until fallout from an explosive August in 1983 threatens his marriage. So Adam returns to remember that month-long family reunion, where he was busy wrestling with developing adolescence, a parent's failing health, and watching his cousin Dannie's desperate cries for help. At 14, Adam's fear and anger were constantly threatening to pull him under while the current running through his family flowed, inevitably, toward tragedy. It was too much to bear back then. But will reliving those painful memories hurt or help Adam as his adult life teeters on the edge of collapse?