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A mysterious woman fleeing an unknown terror boards the wrong plane at San Francisco International and disappears into the heart of the country. Freddy Ferguson, a troubled detective with a violent past, believes she's the only living witness to a crime that has captivated the nation.Sifting through the wreckage of her past, he begins to understand who she's running from, and why. Now he must track her down before her pursuers can silence her for good.

Hannah Sharpe has been written out of all eighteen of Wanda Wiley's romance novels. A runaway heroine who won't conform to the plots laid out for her, Hannah has been consigned to a realm of fog deep in the recesses of the author's imagination.Trevor Dunwoody, the protagonist of a macho action-thriller that Wanda has regrettably agreed to ghostwrite, is single-minded and obtuse, understanding only what he can beat up, shoot, or screw. Like Hannah, he's a character Wanda doesn't know what to do with. When he appears one day in Hannah's fog world, she can't convince him he's in the wrong story.Hannah knows she'll be stuck in the limbo of Wanda's subconscious until the writer can find a suitable story to cast her in. But Wanda, trapped in a disastrous relationship with the philandering narcissist Dirk Jaworski, is sinking into a deep depression. The pot she smokes to self-medicate impairs her ability to write and thickens the fog of Hannah's timeless isolation.As Hannah explains her predicament to the the thick-headed Trevor, she begins to realize that she knows her author better than her author knows herself. If she can only break out of the limbo of Wanda's subconscious and nudge the writer in the right direction, she can free them both.But how can Hannah penetrate the fog of her creator's mind from within? The answer is right in front of her in the form of the big, dumb, action-ready tool, Trevor Dunwoody.

Before she ran away from her life, Claire Chastain made a good living sorting out other people's business. Now it's time to sort her own.Suddenly solo in the city she swore she'd never come back to, she finds someone new has taken an interest in her. He circles her house when she's alone and follows her on errands across town. He tours her home while she's away, leaving little things disturbingly out of place. He may even be involved in the recent death of her childhood friend.But who is he? And what does he want?Claire begins to observe her stalker as closely as he observes her, slowly piecing together the clues to discover she's caught in a deadly web larger and more tangled than she could have imagined. As the strands tighten around her, she must rely on intelligence, will, and determination to survive.A tale of suspense worthy of Hitchcock, The Friday Cage is also a study of character, perseverance, and growth from the award-winning author of Impala and Gate 76.

Not since he saw a woman hurry off of a jetliner shortly before it exploded in mid-air (Gate 76) has detective and former boxer Freddy Ferguson faced such a deadly puzzle as when he comes across the body of a well-dressed young woman, nameless and unidentifiable, deep in the woods of rural Virginia. In her room at the town inn, she left two mysterious notes hinting at a love gone wrong.The trail to her killer leads through organized crime, espionage, and the international race for technological supremacy to a seemingly unremarkable man the FBI and CIA have been trying for years to pin down.Praise for Gate 76 (Freddy Ferguson Series, Book 1)"A consummate thriller with some of the best characterization you'll see all year." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review - named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018)"One of the year's best thrillers." - BestThrillers.com" Freddy Ferguson] doesn't see his own goodness, the spark of caring that sets him apart from his brutal upbringing... Freddy doesn't believe in much of anything, not even justice. He does believe in following his instincts and doing the right thing, even when it may lead to his destruction." - Sharon Vander Meer, One Roof Publishing

A corporate executive vanishes without a trace. His domineering boss wants him back in the office, ASAP.Did Karl Larsson run off with a mistress? Was he kidnapped? Or had he just walked out once and for all on a life of debt and struggle?The deeper Freddy Ferguson digs into this one, the less it makes sense. The statements from Larsson's long-suffering wife, from the stoner security guard who was the last to see the man alive, and from the respected reporter known for having the inside scoop just don't add up.Where is the truth in this most perplexing of cases? Maybe in a slip of the tongue by an arrogant man, or in a dopesick junkie's account of a seemingly random attack. Maybe in the pocket of a man who stalks without fear of being seen, or in the multimillion-dollar transactions of an anonymous shell company.One thing's for sure, Freddie needs to crack this case before he becomes its next victim.

Years of writing thoughtful, heartfelt literary fiction have brought Joe McElwee nothing but poverty and obscurity. Now his blockbuster formulaic thriller, full of mindless action and tired but proven tropes, has him on the verge of wealth and fame.Not everyone is happy though. Joe's friend Veronica, a staunch supporter of his honest early work, criticizes him for selling out. Frustrated at his refusal to hear her concerns, she puts a curse on him, forcing him to live as a character inside the novel of an author he despises, the bestselling hack Niall Turner, who is the undisputed king of the detective-thriller genre.McElwee wakes up in nineteen-forties Los Angeles to discover he's entered The Turnerverse, a world marked by two-dimensional characters, outdated stereotypes, gaping plot holes, and poor editing.Worse yet, he's apparently just committed a murder. In short order, he has to figure out who he is, who his friends and enemies are, and how he fits into a universe that doesn't quite make sense. Along the way, he picks up a beautiful mistress, a femme fatale, an inept assassin, and a sinking sense of shame as he's forced to inhabit the kind of shoddy writing he's now producing."I brought you here," Veronica tells him, "to rub your nose in the Turnerverse, so you can see what you're becoming."Will it be enough to save an honest writer? Or will the lure of wealth and fame be too much for Joe McElwee?