A Promise to Keep Abby Stafford promised that all girls would have access to the life-saving serum that would see them through first transition. The first test subjects proved it worked. They had the doses they needed to begin. What they didn't have was access to the girls who needed it. And there were pack Alphas who would rather let them die than allow change to come to the packs. They kept to the old ways, they insisted. And watched their daughters die. Unacceptable, Abby Stafford said. She just needed to figure out what to do about it. Because shifter girls deserved a future. And she was going to give them one. Book 4 in Wolf Harbor, a paranormal suspense series.

Find them. Find the missing women. Paul Kitka, a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol, is half-Tlingit, half white. And when an Inuit elder from Bethel gets the brush-off from the Anchorage police, it's Paul she turns to. Her granddaughter, a student at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, is missing. She thinks there may be more women missing. And the Anchorage police don't seem to care. But Mary Ayek, elder of her village and a director of the Bethel Native Alaskan Corporation, cares. And she has the power and prestige it takes to make others care. Starting with Lt. Paul Kitka. Find them, she orders. What is happening to our women?Third in a series of mysteries featuring Paul Kitka and Dace Marshall in Talkeetna, Alaska.

The kaleidoscope of memories Ryan Matthews said his memories were like a kaleidoscope — all bright shards, that one moment made a bright image, and fell apart the next. And that was before someone hit him over the head with a sap and scrambled his brain.He likened it to a filing cabinet that had been tipped over and now all the papers must be resorted and filed. And as his best friend said, they hadn't been all that well organized to begin with.It felt like there were more than one Ryan Matthews. And at least one of them, wanted to take over and run his life. Ryan remembered that Ryan. He'd been a ruthless little bastard. And if he won — Ryan at 20 — Ryan stood to lose a lot of things he valued about his life now.Starting with his wife and son. A collection of short stories in the Newsroom PDX series that covers the summer between book 11, Memory, and book 12, Hunted. It includes Fire Drill, also available separately. EWN thinks of Ryan as their own private soap opera — and that's what they do know. What they don't know? Well, that's what short stories are for. Look for more of them, for free, if you buy the Newsroom PDX books, in the Postscripts. Enjoy. Caution: The short stories may have more triggers and/or sex than the series itself. You've been warned! 

Even Heroes Make Mistakes Lanky Purdue is an Alaskan icon. He's been there forever — the dashing Air Force pilot, the man who flew medicines into villages in dark winters, the man who has rescued more stranded climbers than anyone can count. If you need help, Lanky Purdue is the man you go to.So when Belle Robards shows up at Purdue Flight Service in the dead of winter looking for help, it's no great surprise to Dace Marshall, his office manager. So yes, she's wearing a skirt, high heeled boots and a fur jacket — in Talkeetna at 10 below — and she won't tell Dace what the problem is. But Lanky wouldn't fall for a pretty face and a bogus sob story. Would he? Book 4 in the Talkeetna series featuring Candace Marshall and Police Lt. Paul Kitka.

Cinderella's Godmother had it EasyAfter all, Cinderella was young, fit from hard labor and lean eating. Clean her up, buy her a fancy dress, and she's fit for a dance with the handsome prince. Any Nordstrom personal shopper could do it.But take a middle-aged, overweight college professor who's only been a wolf shifter for a week? Now that's a challenge, Abby Stafford thought whimsically. But here she was off to the ball, on the arm of Jake Lewis, a banished shifter prince, to dance with the Akihiro Tanaka, Alpha of the largest pack in the world — a shifter king. Jake said she didn't have to choose. She could have both of them if she wanted. But Abby didn't think it worked like that — not even in a fairy tale.A short story in the world of the Wolf Harbor series.

HE HAS A SON. Ryan Matthews is a player. He's also the Editor-in-Chief of Eyewitness News at Portland State University. But for all the women — and even a few men — who have been in and out of his bed (and office, and the green room, and the newsroom couch), part of him has never gotten over the woman who left him three years ago.And then she came back. Teresa Valdez. She came back, gave him his 3-year-old son, and left again. ICE says she's undocumented and want to put her in a camp and send her back to a country she can't remember. She's on the run.If Ryan wants his woman back, if he wants to care for his son, there are big changes ahead. His days as a player are over.

What Do You Do When All Your Choices Suck?Nothing prepared J.J. Jacobs for college life in downtown Portland. And the student media newsroom? The newsroom was full of smart, funny people — black, brown, and white, male, female and fluid, pierced and tattooed — Toto, we're not in Kansa anymore, J.J. thought, because if the Portland had a Kansas it was the suburb he grew up in, and the Eye Witness Newsroom was the Land of Oz in technicolor. He wants them to like him. He wants to be them.Someone is targeting an independent journalist, Carroll Gilligan. They said they were cops when they kidnapped Carroll last summer. They let Carroll go: tortured and concussed. But now they've come back. Again and again. At least Carroll thinks they have, as Carroll struggles with what is real and what is nightmare — a holdover from the summer kidnapping.But Carroll's going to fight back, and Eye Witness News has her back.So does J.J....

She's Not Going to RunBianca Parks is the face of the student-run Eyewitness News in Portland, Oregon. She's the person everyone sees on the nightly newscast, the most recognizable face — more than the editor-in-chief, more than anyone. She describes herself as a Blacktina — both a Black woman and a Latina. And she's been the target of hate and abuse online since she first walked up on the anchor set and smiled at the camera.The online hate has been getting worse. And then? Last night, someone doxed her. They published her personal information online, including her class schedule. Now everyone knows where to find her — not just online but in the real world.But if they think she's going to cower in fear? They're wrong. Bianca Parks is coming for them. And the EWN staff will back her play no matter where it takes them.Book 8 in the Newsroom PDX series pulled from today's headlines. Foul language. Some sex. Lots of...

Problems, But No Solutions Alpha Abby Stafford keeps inheriting messes to clean up, and she feels like she's just scrambling to stay ahead of the crises. And every crisis seems to lead to an even bigger problem. She doesn't have all the pieces she needs to solve them either. It wasn't like her scholarly work. There was a process to that. A literature review of what was already known. Observation, interviews, data collection. A time for reflection and synthesis. And then she produced an article or a book. It might be years before she was ready to write. And even then no one expected her to solve anything. Accurate description was amazing enough. But as pack Alpha? And now Chairman of the Northwest Council of Alphas? She's forced to decide for all the wolves, and she's operating on less information than she needs. A lot less. Book 5 in Wolf Harbor, a paranormal suspense series.

A Fitness Spa Like You've Never Experienced BeforeProfessor Abby Stafford was burned out. She was overweight, middle-aged, and tired. She'd even thought about suicide, but there were her dogs. Who would care for them? So she kept trudging on.A summer as a test subject for a supplement that was designed to help her feel better and look younger, sounded just like what the doctor ordered. What did she have to lose?But Wolf Harbor Resort may have left out a few of the side effects....First in a new paranormal romance series, Wolf Harbor — a feminist werewolf story.

She Has No One Else to Turn toKate Fairchild was waiting in the conference room of the Seattle Examiner when Mac Davis got off deadline. Well, she probably wasn't Fairchild anymore, Mac thought. She'd gotten married, and she was the type of woman who would take her husband's name.Kate was tense, upset about something, nervously twisting her hands together. She'd once been taken hostage by a deranged gunman and never lost her serene poise. He grimaced. It must be bad for her to come here."Kate?" he asked. "What's wrong?""I need your help," she said simply, and she slid a snapshot across the table to him. It was an old photo, taken with a cheap camera, Mac thought, as he looked at it curiously. The photo was of a tall white man, with his arm around a woman — Asian, maybe Cambodian, maybe Vietnamese.A young girl stood in front of them. Their daughter, he guessed.He looked at Kate, and raised his eyebrow."The...

Weathering the Winds of Change Yui Ito Yoshida had always lived on Hat Island. She didn't think she could live anywhere else. She'd faced trauma as a child, more trauma as an adult, but now? Now she had a mate, two children, and she was happy. Safe. She laughed when they called her the Woman of Hat Island, but she had to acknowledge she was deeply rooted here. It was her refuge. Then Stefan Lebenev showed up to reopen the Wolf Harbor Resort. And she wasn't sure even the island she loved could keep her safe from the storm he was bringing to Hat Island. When Stefan Lebenev thought he might be able to keep girl shifters alive during first shift, he needed a place for a research lab. He returned to the only place he'd ever felt safe — Wolf Harbor on Hat Island — and to the only person he ever felt loved him, Yui Ito, now Yui Oshida. The fact that Yui had married Okami Oshida, one of the most feared warriors in...

They Were Promised A HomeBeta wolves. Powerful, dominant wolves banished by their birth packs because they were a threat to their pack Alphas. Cast out as lone wolves, they drifted, solitary yet belonging to a species that yearned to belong. Some found a place in the military. Some found other places. But there was always the danger of the first rule — do nothing that reveals shifters to humans. Betas who did, found an enforcer on their doorstep. And then, a pack rose up on Hat Island, home to Yui Ito, and her mate Okami Yoshida. The pack there had been killed off during World War II, all but Yui. For 80 years there had been no pack on Hat Island. And now there was. A female Alpha had called a pack into being. And the word came. Yui was calling the betas home. They were owed. There was a pack that would accept them — if they wanted one. There was nothing a beta wanted more than that...

A CALL TO ARMSSeattle Police Lieutenant Nick Rodriguez is worried about a growing number of domestic violence calls where the accused is a gun hoarder. Worried enough that he gives Mac Davis a call one morning at 2 a.m. to the house where a man just shot his wife and two children.Mac Davis, a local cop reporter and former Marine who might qualify as a gun hoarder himself, doesn't like 2 a.m. calls to crime scenes. He especially doesn't like it when he watches them haul out body bags that are obviously children.It isn't the first case.It won't be the last.Someone is building a network of white-collar weekend warriors. Someone wants a bunch of angry white men with large arsenals.He's called Sensei. And he wants Mac to join up. If not? Well, then Sensei has other plans for him. Plans Mac won't like.Book 3 in the Mac Davis thrillers featuring a Marine turned cop reporter in Seattle.