Book Excerpts

Excerpt from Second Chance Family.   “This is not negotiable. My son will attend your school, starting this Thursday.” After dealing with a suicidal teenage girl most of the night, Dr. Shane McCoy didn’t need this. “We aren’t equipped to deal with him. Jason should go to Eisenhower Elementary where there’s a class for children like him,” the principal said in a tight, highly controlled voice. The woman’s last sentence shredded what composure he had. Pacing his bedroom, Shane plowed his fingers through his hair and tried to remain calm. He gripped the phone. “You’ve known he would attend for months.” The rumble of thunder in the distance drew him toward an upstairs window at the front of his...

Excerpt from Poisoned Secrets.   Aloud thud from the apartment above made Kane McDowell flinch and sit straight up in the lounger. “What was that?” Edwina Bacon asked, putting her teacup down on the table next to her. Kane’s gaze riveted to the ceiling of Edwina’s place. “Maybe Henry dropped something.” “I don’t know. He didn’t look well tonight when I saw him go upstairs. That’s the second strange sound I’ve heard coming from the apartment above. What if he fell and hurt himself?” “You worry too much about the tenants, Edwina. Henry’s certainly capable of taking care of himself.” His words didn’t erase the worry on the elderly woman’s face. Kane pushed to...

Excerpt from When Night Falls   Chapter One In the dead of night darkness, closed in on Dr. Jocelyn Gold as she approached her car, parked in the last row in the large lot, full of vehicles but not people. Glancing up at the security light, she couldn’t remember it being out when she arrived at the apartment building earlier. She’d been meeting with Sam Pierce to consult with him and interview a teen in an FBI case. She should have waited for Sam and left with him, but she’d wanted to get home. Usually place was teeming with people. She checked her watch. One in the morning. That would explain the emptiness. She’d been here longer than she thought. She hurried her pace, clicking her remote to unlock her car. She reached for her door handle of her yellow...

Excerpt from What Sarah Saw   Prologue A patrol car was parked on Main Street in front of Farley’s Pawn Shop. Approaching her office across the street, Dr. Jocelyn Gold shivered in the cool January air, remembering the same scene only five days before—when Earl Farley had been found dead, an apparent suicide, in his office right below his apartment on the second floor. Was the sheriff’s department completing its investigation into Earl’s death? Sheriff Bradford Reed hadn’t been very supportive when Earl died, but then the Farley’s didn’t belong to the elite of Loomis. After the deputy left, she’d called Leah, Earl’s wife, to offer to come over if she needed someone to talk to. She pushed her door open and entered, hoping everything was all right with Leah,...