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Ragged in the Rain is book five in the Lyle Dahms mystery series. Dahms and his good friend Stephen Edgerton travel from Minneapolis to Seattle to find Edgerton’s sister who has vanished into a world of addiction and homelessness. Dahms and Edgerton also face eviction from their long-time Minneapolis boardinghouse as gentrification claims their neighborhood. Against the backdrop of the Public Market and other Seattle landmarks, Dahms navigates the heartbreak of displacement—both the threat...

This novel is set in the Georgian era in England. Harassed by his parents to secure a new wife, widower Cyprian Law, Earl of Basildon, is desperate to escape. Rosamund Fortescue, cast out by a callous husband who left her with nothing but an annulled marriage, is navigating the wreckage of her own life. When their paths collide, Cyprian’s simple act of chivalry—escorting her to the safety of her godmother’s London home—is the start of an unlikely friendship. As Rosamund fights to carve out a...

Andromache's Story is a retelling of the Greek mythology. Helen was the most beautiful woman in the world, causing the ten-year Trojan War that ended with the Trojan Horse being brought into the city of Troy, causing its collapse. The perspective is from Andromache, Andromache being the wife of Hector, the heir to the Trojan throne. There are quite a few twists to the story that are not found in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey! It’s entertaining, told in modern day language…and who knows? Maybe it...