When the pregnant wife and three year old step-daughter of fading movie star, Tom Travis, disappeared, a massive, fruitless, search was launched. Three months later, the body of Travis's wife was discovered in a shallow grave only a few miles from where Tom had been riding his dune buggy on the day she vanished. Travis is on trail for capital murder. But did he do it?

Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Quinn always gets his man – with one exception. The one fugitive Virgil hasn't yet been able to capture is his unstable ex-wife who's run off with Quinn's ten-year-old daughter. For nine long years, while Quinn is tracking down an on-the-run enforcer for a gang of sex traffickers, a bail jumping kidnapper/rapist, a gang of murdering home-invasion robbers, and an under-the-radar serial killer, Quinn continues his relentless search for his runaway ex-wife and his vanished child.

The federal bureaucrat charged with stopping the importation of dangerous materials vanishes only days before approving a new list of prohibited substances. Homicide detective turned Homeland Security Agent Greg Kane suspects that the HHS employee may have been killed to keep the new list from going into effect, but he has no idea who's behind the crime, which chemical they are so desperate to import, and what they plan to do with it once they've gotten their hands on it. After he dives into the case things quickly get complicated for Kane with twists, turns and the tangled relationships that comprise Greg Kane's life. This is an emotional, exciting, police-procedural novel of approximately 115,000 words.

The world, Fane, lies on the outer reaches of explored space, long forgotten by mankind. The planet's peculiar electromagnetic fields inevitably destroy electronic devices, but in compensation they enhance psychic abilities. In a last ditch effort to salvage something of his family's honor, his uncle gives Grantin a vital task which promptly turns him into the Accidental Magician.