Ryn Davis Mystery Series

Hope. Renewal. Murder. Ryn Davis's widowed mother turned tricks to provide butter for their daily bread. Fans of rock star Stone Wall call Ryn a whore--in a class of her own--for staying with the abusive music legend. Hey, the prime suspect in his murder, she inherited his $250-million-dollar estate. So what if Ryn uses the money to run Esperanza House--a place of hope and renewal? So what if thirteen ex-prostitutes live there with their kids mastering computer skills to stay off the street? So what if a hundred percent of the women are working the program with great success? Once a ho, always a ho. Then, a 3-alarm fire destroys the Esperanza House dorm. The body of a 13-year-old girl is found in the rubble. Brutally murdered. The women rally around the inconsolable mother while fighting their own despair. Who will track the killer of the daughter of a former ho? Old nightmares and current obsessions drive Ryn to undertake a search for justice. One dead end after the other finally brings her face-to-face with the murderer. Her discovery rocks her to the core and threatens to destroy Esperanza House. Can she look the other way?

Burying memories sharp enough to raise a welt on the heart can work. Or not. Ask Ryn Davis. The adult daughter of a former high-class prostitute, she knows chronic, long-term insomnia reduces repression as a preferred coping technique. Still, she relies on denial. A phone call from a stranger claiming her mother was murdered twenty years ago turns her life inside out. The reappearance of a forgotten childhood friend exposes buried and forgotten memories. Lies and half-truths torpedo her shaky world. In this fast-paced psychological thriller, the suspense ratchets up. A psychopath's ever-present memories drive him to exact revenge for Ryn's lies about the past. His terrifying game of cat and mouse pit him against her where she is most vulnerable. His ties to organized crime make him even more dangerous. Who is in control? What really happened to her mother? Why can't Ryn remember? Is facing her past the path to survival or death? If you love Gregg Olsen, A.J. Finn, and T.R. Ragan, read this stay-up-all night novel today.

Does it matter that the man she shot in cold blood was a psychopath? He stalked her. Kidnapped her best friend. Tortured a long-ago ally. Left the two cops helping her for dead. So, she shot him … without a second thought. The disruption to Ryn Davis's life after she shoots a psychopath point blank swells with the impact of a tsunami. Her chronic insomnia intensifies to crippling. Thrown into a twilight zone between the present and past, she struggles with feeling no remorse. Her friends and family insist her action was justified. So why can't she sleep? Forget how much she enjoyed pulling the trigger? Pay more attention to what matters? When a brutal murder occurs under her own roof, she realizes that everything she values is at stake … For fans of A.R. Torres, Kate Hewitt, Gregg Olsen, Lucinda Berry, and authors writing about strong women sleuths.

Demons from the past chase Ryn Davis as she tries to unravel the lies and secrets in her life … Ten days after shooting the psycho who planned to sell Ryn Davis to the highest bidder in a sex trafficking ring, she boards a private jet. The killing rips open thirty-year-old wounds from her former prostitute mother's committed relationship with the jet's billionaire owner. He's dying, and Ryn wants to know why he loved her mother and provided for Ryn—despite her adolescent contempt. Former legendary rock star Bo "Peep" Scott insists on accompanying Ryn. With no living family, he understands her need to dig into her murky past. His teen-age abuse of drugs burned out much of his brains, but he intends to be there with love and support. Halfway over the Rockies, Beau receives a certified letter forwarded to his email. The unknown sender claims he and Beau are twins separated at birth. Now, the surprise brother's teenage daughter needs protection. An international prostitution cartel intends to kill him and ruin her life. Lies, secrets, deceit, and murder collide as this cat and mouse game morphs into a battle for truth that threatens Ryn's and Beau's survival.