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Cold As Death

In the aftermath of the category five hurricane that inflicted terrible damage on Tango Key psychic Mira Morales is struggling to put her life, home, and business back together. But during a walk early one morning, a scream for help draws her to a burning house on a hill. What she sees is hard to explain: a ghostly woman running down the driveway, her clothes on fire. A car careening wildly away. A boy’s face pressed to the glass, horrified, his mouth opened in a silent scream. Just like that, the vision and the fire are gone. And so is actress Suki Nichols’s son.

Now, Mira is the only link to a killer’s twisted game of vengeance. As the clock ticks down, and a boy’s life hangs in the balance, Mira’s visions become stronger, uncontrollable—and more terrifying. For with each one, she is playing a dangerous game, opening a connection to a madman who will do anything to find her.

Category Five

Billy Joe Franklin and his girlfriend Crystal DeVries robbed a bank and he absconded with the money, leaving Crystal to take the fall. While waiting to go to trial, she, along with her friend Tia, transferred from the Dade County jail to the one on Tango Key. Billy successfully breaks her and Tia in a daring jailbreak. It looks like his planning will allow them to make a clean getaway until Hurricane Danielle turns into a Category Five storm, worse than even Hurricane Andrew.

Bookstore owner and psychic Mira Morales, her daughter Annie and her grandmother are preparing to survive one of the worst hurricanes on record when the escaped convicts and Billy take over the house and make sure the hostages are subdued. Mira's live-n-lover, Shep, an FBI agent, knows about the danger the women face but he is trapped in a cellar and is unable to get out. Mira has to take charge and see that her family is safe until someone can rescue them but when their situation looks hopeless, help comes from a most unexpected source.

It is a toss up to Mira which is worse the Category Five hurricane or dealing with the unstable Billy Joe. Both could get her killed and even her psychic powers are not strong enough for her foresee what kind of trauma and tragedy will result from the criminals and the storm.

Black Water

Little Horse Key is an uninhabited island in the Gulf of Mexico where psychic Mira Morales and her thirteen-year-old daughter like to picnic. One day a man in a cast lands on the island, claiming his boat is broken. When Mira goes to help him, he knocks her out and takes Annie into a strange black mist in the ocean where anything electrical or magnetic doesn't work.

When they emerge from that mist Anne and her captor Patrick Wheaton are in the year 1968. Patrick has taken other children into the past through the corridor but only Rusty has survived. When Mira regains consciousness, she follows them through her psychic lines with her daughter, into the past. She is determined to find them and Mira and Annie separately leaves clues in the past. Annie's FBI lover in the present comes to realize what happened. The FBI agent and Mira are both trying to find their way to Annie, knowing that a dangerous sociopath stands between her and her loved ones.

The Hanged Man

The novel that introduces psychic bookstore owner Mira Morales, her feisty grandmother Nadine, and precociously impish daughter Annie, The Hanged Man is the story of Fort Lauderdale floating detective Wayne Shepherd, searching for the killer of famed criminologist Andrew Steele and the disappearance of his wife Rae. His search leads him to a tip phoned in by a reluctant Mira, whom he draws into this web of intrigue. Also on the trail of the perpetrator is FBI big-wig Lenora Fletcher, who chaired a covert operation called Delphi with the late Steele. Solving his murder is imperative to her admonition by her superior to erase all traces of Delphi.

The Other Extreme

Jay Hutchin is a circuit court judge assigned to the criminal division of Tango County in the Florida Keys. He dresses right, makes the right kind of marriage, goes to society social events to see and be seen by the elite, and acts like a man who is totally in charge of his life. That is a false image because Jay is totally obsessed by Hollywood actress Diane Jackson, who is buying property in the area.
When he spots her stepping out on him, he becomes so enraged and jealous he strangles her to death. Jay tries to go on his way as if nothing happened, but two things stand in his way. He is on the short list to be the Attorney General of the United States and an innocent man is going to trial for the actress's murder. The defense council is Kit Parish who has only lost one case in her years practicing law. Jay was the one to mentor and train her. In a spooky turn of events, Kit's son seems to know too much about the murder and having killed one person, Jay will not hesitate to do so again if he feels his life is in danger, even Kit's son.

Out of Sight

Ambitious scientist George Nash and Luis Manteles, an Ecuadoran shaman, have finally created the technology to make humans and objects invisible, but their project gets out of hand when an experiment with Tyler and Logan Griffin, their first ever human test subjects, goes awry. Three years later, Logan, who escaped shortly after becoming invisible, sneaks into Nash's Florida compound to free her husband, whom Nash has confined in a glass house. With the help of her visible roommate, Logan shuts down the computer system-at the same time that the Townsends, a family of three, wander into the test site. Consequently, the Townsends, along with a super intelligent Labrador retriever, turn invisible. Now targets of an effort by the National Security Bureau (NSB) to capture them, family and dog are forced on the run. After a plethora of close calls, a killing and a miraculous healing, all characters converge in a heady conclusion that hinges on Nash. Will he end the project or hand the Griffins, the Townsends and his life's work over to the NSB?

The Seventh Sense

A storm lashes South Florida. Frank Benedict, a high-powered attorney with a Miami firm, is driving home from what should have been the biggest night of his career. Instead, the client he's been wooing for months won't commit, threatening to blow his pending partnership. Now, fueled by alcohol and rage, Benedict aims his BMW at the nearest target - an Explorer crawling through the deluge. After slamming the vehicle full force, he backs up and hits it again. He's about to ram it a third time when the passenger door flies open and a pregnant woman stumbles out and collapses on the ground. Deeply shaken, he flees the scene. For FBI veteran Charlie Calloway, the search for the man who killed her husband and unborn child becomes a race against time. She teams up with former agent Doug Logan, a man whose near death experience left him with extraordinary psychic powers - to "read" inanimate objects, to pick up other peoples' pain, even to see visions from a human touch. Together, Charlie and Doug hunt through a maze of evidence that defies logical explanation and leads them into the most frightening place of all...the shadows of the human mind.

Total Silence

She tells fortunes for a living but Mira Morales is a true psychic as is her mother and her daughter Annie. Mother and daughter are vacationing in Asheville, North Carolina with Mira's fiancé FBI Agent Shep. Mira has a cold that stuffs up her psychic senses, which leaves her helpless when a woman carrying a gun kidnaps her and shoots at her when she tries to get away. The killer, Allie Curry, also killed five people who were on the property and could have identified her.

When Shep and Anne come home, they find the dead bodies in the barn and Mira nowhere to be found. Shep immediately realizes that someone kidnapped Mira to get back at him because as a law official he made many enemies. Allie, a doctor by profession, treats Mira because she wants her healthy so she can kill her on a certain day, the one year anniversary of her brother's death. She believes this is payback for Shep arresting her brother years ago.

Vanished

In Upstate New York, veterinarian Max Thorn and Ellen Bradshaw still deeply love each other after living together for seven years without the benefit of marriage. As hundreds of birds for no apparent reason land on their property, Ellen begins her daily jog. Max stunningly watches her vanish into thin air.

Knowing her influential father and the law think he killed Ellen and needing to find his beloved, Max decides to search for her. The Internet describes similar historical events involving birds and vanishing. The weird news includes a story of hundreds of dolphins escorting two teenage girls near Piper Bay, Florida. With nothing else to go by, Max vanishes in a more mundane way than Ellen did, heading to the Florida island in hope of finding clues. On the island are two dolphin research facilities. The Navy runs a weapons research program that abuses its specimens. A civilian runs the other whose daughter has a strange Doolittle affinity with animals. How all this ties together with the mysterious vanishing of Ellen requires reading part two of VANISHED.