It seemed like an easy twelve grand. Each. The heroin would never be detected in the lead-lined bottom of the travel bag. It was supposed to be bye bye Bangkok and in a few hours, Holly and Sam would be back home in Melbourne where they belonged. But that didn't happen. The hotel room robbery was the start of it all. With all their money gone, the couple we...
The morning's paper rustled as my feet moved beneath it, dragging me from a memory, a dream of being sexually worshipped by my husband. I heard Keelan rambling from my room, out to the living room and back, mumbling on her phone. "No. I have no idea how she'll take this news, on top of everything else that's been thrown at her this past few weeks. Well, wha...
A poking and prodding feeling woke me up. At first, I was disoriented and confused. The room I was in was unfamiliar. My room back at home was hewn straight from the trunk, with a floor, ceiling, and walls made of the deep brown wood. The walls and the ceiling of this room was a silvery chrome, and the ground was tile. When I remembered what had happened...
It was starting to get dark on an early May evening. I was driving across Tennessee on my cross country trek to Utah. I had been on the road all day, starting in Jackson, MS where I was attending a conference for my profession. Normally I would have flown back, but a friend asked if I would drive a car back for him that he purchased online from Nashville to...
Author's note: Donna's story is a true one. These are events that happened in my life. For a long time, I wasn't comfortable sharing it, but I feel this is a way to get past the trauma and feel like a normal person again. I still have bouts of depression and anxiety, but right now I'm in a good place. When I came up with the original scenario, I didn't not...
Chapter Thirteen: Soaring free. Note: Takes place at the same time as chapter eleven. Hawk's point of view I slipped my cell into my jacket and revved my hog. With a roar, I shot out of my garage and onto the street in front of my house. Ted and Lisa could find their own way out of the neighborhood, I decided, and I took to the street fast. There was no...
REWRITTEN AND EXTENDED VERSION The story so far: Lisbeth Somerset is a 36-year old English workaholic who teaches human rights at a university in an Arab country. She is caught handing a bomb to the assassin who had plans to kill the children of the local ruler and of other dignitaries. That ruler, Sheikh Fouad, consumed with rage, considers the death pena...
Prologue The rain was blinding and the wind was blowing at near tropical storm strength. Bob, his wife and daughter were returning home from a family weekend at the beach. The Semi tractor-trailer came out of nowhere and t-boned the Ford 150, crashing into the passenger side and sending it tumbling through the air. Bob remembered hearing his daughter and wi...
Sean knew that he had never seen his Grandmother Wallace laugh so much, especially during a formal dinner. She started the meal in exceptionally good spirits, and that made her even more susceptible to the humorous tales that Amanda told about her life in Australia, as well as the anecdotes that Ben Evans shared about dumb criminals. Sean, Kirby, Wendy and M...
In the late 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, the black market thrived. Sex, drugs, guns, illegal goods and people were bought and sold just as easily as going to the mall, as long as you were a member of the Underground. There were three of them. Families. If you weren't relation, then you could pay with money and your loyalty for your place in the...