Novels

It's such a cute little bed & breakfast, out there next to the lighthouse on a tiny island in San Francisco Bay. A neat little Victorian house, tidy gardens, and a great view of the shoreline. Nice reviews on all the websites. What a great place to get away from it all! Cody Breen is looking for a quiet place to write. The software development team down the hall needs a place far from WiFi. It's ideal for everyone. But a storm is brewing, the power has been cut, and something is coming up out of the water...something hungry.

On a dark and stormy night in 1816, a teenage girl sat down and invented science fiction. Mary Shelley was no more than 18 years old when she wrote Frankenstein. From the moment of its publication 200 years ago, readers have been wondering, as Mary put it, “How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?” Outcasts takes readers behind the scenes, to reveal the surprisingly contemporary thoughts and feelings of Mary, an unmarried mother and the lover of radical poet Percy Shelley, their friend Lord Byron, and the other guests at the “most famous literary party in history”. What led the daughter of two of the most radical philosophers in England to turn her hand to horror?

Sophia Abenezra arrives in the Arctic Circle searching for extreme forms of life -- and finds more than she expected. Her Inuit guide Nick Tonarak and his pet wolf guard an ancient family secret, one that will change her view of the world and the universe. Even as they are drawn to one another, an intruder from another world hunts them through the icy waste, seeking to end an ancient war.

When disaster traps the adults of LunaBase without air or power, only young Kaho and his friends are left to rescue them. Using the ancient Apollo 17 Moon Rover, the group races against the clock to Farside--and in doing so, makes a discovery that changes the future of the colony.

Private investigator Claire Turnbull meets the ghost of Old West lawman Wyatt Earp over a cooling corpse in San Francisco, and is dismayed to discover that only she can see or hear him. Reluctantly, she teams with the ghost to solve a murder mystery that threatens her own life: who killed a bigamous thief and stole a 150-year-old ship's log? Was it just another in a long string of cons, or is there really a hoard of gold hidden in San Francisco? The hunt takes Claire and Wyatt from the high rises of the modern city into a murky past buried under San Francisco.

The San Francisco police think Allison Farley drowned during the Alcatraz Triathlon. Her boyfriend doesn't agree, and hires private eye Claire Turnbull to find out what happened. What he doesn't know is that Claire has a secret partner, the ghost of Old West lawman Wyatt Earp. They dig into a case that gets more tangled with every new clue. The final answers may be hidden on Alcatraz, the infamous prison in San Francisco Bay.