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Tai Randolph is no stranger to solving mysteries. With a taste for danger and a talent for amateur sleuthing, she has helped put an assortment of murderers behind bars, much to the displeasure of Trey Seaver, her partner in both romance and crime solving. A former SWAT officer with the Atlanta police department, Trey believes in letting the authorities handle complex matters like homicide.

But then the Talbot case flares back to life.

It was the crime that rocked Atlanta—actress Jessica Talbot shot dead in her Buckhead mansion and her husband, movie producer Nick Talbot, accused of the murder. It seemed an open-and-shut case…until a dirty cop's secret forced prosecutors to set Talbot free. Now, four years later, someone wants him dead, and the evidence points to the man most convinced of Talbot's guilt—Trey.

It's a situation fraught with potential disaster, the kind of case Tai relishes. With Trey by her side—and both of them in a killer's crosshairs—Tai vows to use every trick in her slightly sketchy playbook to stop a vigilante murderer from claiming a fresh victim.

Old Ghosts and Older Secrets — Reckoning and Ruin Ebook Available Now!

Tai Randolph has several anniversaries under her belt. A year running the Civil War gun shop she inherited with its busy schedule of reenactments. A year together with Trey, her sexy if somewhat challenging ex-SWAT lover. A year of confronting a checkered list of ruffians and outright villains, mostly now put behind bars, including her estranged cousin Jasper, the leader of a white militia splinter group too violent for even the Klan.

Tai is determined to keep her amateur sleuthing in the past, not just for her sake, but for Trey's. But before she can pop the champagne, Jasper’s back, and he’s got a fancy new lawyer and a diabolical scheme sure to ruin both her and Trey.

Soon she’s deep in familiar troubles—a missing ex-boyfriend, a creepily literate stalker, a passel of stolen money—and back in Savannah, the hometown she’d hoped to keep forever in her rear-view mirror. She's forced to confront her messily unresolved past, including an uncomfortable reunion with her Uncle Boone, who's keeping secrets he'd rather take to his grave than reveal.

As a killer closes in, Tai has to decide if discovering the truth will be her redemption or her ruin. And she gets one chance to get it right.

Tornadoes. Skeletons. Murder — Deeper Than the Grave Ebook Available Now!

It’s taken almost a year, but Tai Randolph finally has her new life together. She’s running a semi-successful Atlanta gun shop catering to Civil War re-enactors. Her relationship with the sexy if somewhat security-obsessed Trey Seaver is going smoothly. Most importantly, there’s not a single corpse on her horizon, and her previously haphazard existence is finally stable.

But not for long.

When a tornado scatters the skeletal remains of a Confederate soldier, Tai is asked to assist with the recovery effort. It’s a job her late Uncle Dexter would have relished, as does Tai, especially when she discovers a jumble of bones in the Kennesaw Mountain underbrush.

Her problem? The skeleton isn’t the one she’s looking for.

Her search reveals a more recent murder, with her deceased uncle at the top of the suspect list. As Tai struggles to clear Dexter’s name—and save the shop he left her—she digs up more than old bones. Deadly secrets also lie buried in the red Georgia clay.

Tai realizes there’s a murderer on the loose, a clever one who has tried to conceal the crimes of the present in the stories of the past. And when the killer’s crosshairs center on her, Tai must risk her own life to unravel two mysteries—one from a previous century, one literally at her doorstep.

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Blood, Ash & Bone Second Edition E-Book Available Now!

Tai Randolph doesn’t want to hear about homicide. She’s had enough of the dark and the dangerous, and decides some time out of Atlanta is exactly what she needs to put the recent spate of corpses behind her. It‘s an idyllic vision—selling her wares at the Savannah Civil War Expo, attending a few battle re-enactments, perhaps a little romantic rendezvousing with Trey, who has agreed to put aside the corporate security agent routine and join her for a long weekend in her hometown.

But in the South, the past is never past. It tends to rise again.

In Tai’s case, it shows up as her tattooed heartbreaker of an ex-boyfriend, desperate for her help. He spins a tale of betrayal, deceit, and a stolen Civil War artifact that Tai agrees to help him recover. Suddenly Trey’s on the case too, representing a competing—and well-moneyed—client with eyes on the same mythical prize. As the lovers square off against each other, Tai discovers that her complicated boyfriend makes an even more intriguing adversary, revealing a ferociously competitive streak under his cool Armani exterior.

But where there’s money, there’s usually murder, this time involving the KKK and Tai’s unapologetically unreconstructed kinfolk. As she unravels the clues to a 150-year-old mystery, she digs up secrets from her own past—and Trey’s—forcing a confrontation with a ruthless killer, and with her own willingness to do whatever it takes to save everything that matters.

Meet Tai Randolph & Trey Seaver

It all began with The Dangerous Edge of Things, the first book in the Tai Randolph/Trey Seaver series.

Though the six books in the series can be read in any order, readers who enjoy watching characters develop (especially in the romance department) will want to start with the first one. And now here it is, the freshly re-edited second edition of the e-book, including a sneak peek at the first chapter of Darker Than Any Shadow.

I’m super excited about the new covers (by the talented Karen Phillips at Phillips Covers). They really capture Tai’s energy, and the black/white/red/gray color scheme plays right into the thematic color scheming throughout the books.

You can get your copy at Amazon or at the Books2Read storefront featuring Apple, Nook, Kobo, and other outlets. And as always, thanks for being a reader.

“Lockdown Blues”: A Free Story for You

It has been one of the most difficult seasons in my memory—isolating, frustrating, and heartbreaking. What is a fictional story in the face of all this real conflict? A moment of refuge? Maybe. A way to think about hard truths in safety, get our minds and hearts straight with that truth before we wade into the wide and chaotic world? Perhaps. I hope it is also a reminder that we are all connected in ways deep and strange and surprising. All connected. All of us. All.

"Lockdown Blues” is something of a locked room mystery in reverse—instead of the crime taking place in a locked room, the solving of the crime happens within four walls, with Tai and Trey stuck in his apartment on the 35th floor.

This story is available FREE for Kindle and Nook, now through all of 2020, as my summer gift to my newsletter subscribers (and to anyone who subscribes during this time—just follow the instructions when you click the link).

Be well, take care, and look out for each other.

Tai Randolph doesn’t like to be stuck inside. Not even with Trey, who can be distracting in close quarters. And especially not with spring beckoning just outside the window.

But when a simple favor turns into something more mysterious—and more challenging—Tai realizes that crime doesn’t stop during a quarantine . . . and neither does her penchant for sleuthing.

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The Tai Randolph/Trey Seaver Series