Collection: Fiction

A collection of short stories that features such protagonists as a widowed writer who is guided by her late husband's voice and a woman whose genetic abnormality causes her to be mistaken for a vampire.

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart...

A hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Boston P.I. Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible - the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past...

Subject: Matthew Corbett works for the London-based Herrald Agency. He accepts a hazardous commission to escort, together with colleague, Hudson Greathouse, the notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter, from an asylum outside Philadelphia to the New York docks

Six months after the death of her parents in a car crash, Catherine Linton returns to her hometown of Lowfield, Mississippi, unconvinced that it was an accident and looking for answers...

Taylor Whitworth yearns to be like her stockman father, to become a jillaroo. She packs her bags and hits the road, destination unknown until she happens on the country township of Driftwood. There she meets Jay Cooper, a cowboy through and through...

Growing up in the Yorkshire Dales, Maddy Hebditch can't imagine the changes that war will bring when she joins the ATS. Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales...

Explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people of Western Australia and the first European settlers. A young Noongar man named Bobby Wabalanginy befriends the new arrivals. But slowly things begin to change.

Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of, freedom, love, & security in a beautiful French chateau. A tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America to live with her great aunt...

In a New England town, a shadow falls over a boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Decades later, he and Reverend Jacobs meet again in a pact beyond even the Devil's devising.