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Violet Crime
"Imagine an insinuating saxophone and you will know what it was like to meet Violet Harris…" A denizen of jazz clubs and fan-tan parlors in 1935 San Francisco, Violet is a dangerous woman who has a bag of tricks that will make your head spin-twists, surprises and clues that don't make any sense. But she makes one huge mistake when she kidnaps Lady Margaret's beloved Henry. Violet discovers the Countess of Chesterleigh can also be clever - and dangerous.

Merlin's Gate: The Weapon
Merlin's Gate is a dark world where owning book, weapons or products of modern technology will get you a one-way ticket to The Pit - and all tickets to The Pit are one way. Brax is a street rat who has always struggled to survive. His friend Cabe is the son of a Domun, a powerful clergyman. Brax finds a beautiful, silvery cylinder, some kind of mastech - massproduced technology. He knows (hopes) it is a powerful weapon. Brax's desire to own such a deadly thing lands Cabe in the Pit where he will face certain death. This is a science fiction fantasy piece about survival, courage and redemption.

Their Bones Still Bleach
In 1920 jazz musicians, writers and artists, flocked to Paris and came to be known as the Lost Generation. Lady Margaret, Countess of Chesterleigh went to Paris to paint and to heal from the Great War and to grieve the loss of Henry, the love of her life. One morning Hercule, a friend who lives downstairs from her studio, is found desad, slumped over his typewriter. At first it looks like another writer has committed suicide but the police say it's murder and Lady Margaret has the best motive. I wrote this story as a view into Lady Margaret's past. What was she like before she was the famous artist of Murder on the Waterfront?