Killing the Past, Mystery (2006), Pottersville Press, Panama City, FL, $15.95:

• Won Pottersville Press’s 2^nd Annual Novel Writing Contest 2005

After Maggie O’Brien’s fiancé was killed in Vietnam, she gets on with her life. His death charts her career path as an Army officer. Twenty-three years later when she’s assigned to the Pentagon, she discovers he’s not dead. And he’s not who she thought he was. People he knew begin dying, and Maggie’s not sure whether he’s the killer—or will be the next victim.

Art Attack, Mystery (2007), $16.95:

Artists run amok at the 2006 Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival! The idyllic setting of Seville Square provides a canvas for murder and mayhem. The trouble starts when an obnoxious artist, Manolo Friedman, proves to be a pain in the palette. From there, things go consistently—and literally—down the Port-a-let. And a killer’s painting the park red.

Blood Ties, Mystery (2010), $19.95:

• Finalist in the Mystery Category of the Writers’ League of Texas 2008 Manuscript Contest (as Blood Relations)

After a brutal rape and beating cause Taylor Walker Campbell to miscarry, the fictional panhandle town of Walker, Fla., rallies around her. She learns her retired judge father ordered the attack to “protect” her after he discovered her brief affair with a 14-year-old Black neighbor. Her life begins a downward spiral when those around her prove to be hiding secrets, some of which may be deadly.

Peckerheads, Slightly Off-Kilter Love Story, which one reader dubbed a “trailer trash soap opera” (writing as Erin Jay Lachlan) (2011), Pulpwood Press, Panama City, FL, $19.95:

Cissy Norton comes across a whole passel of peckerheads in the fictional east Texas town of Sweetbriar. Peckerheads spans 26 years of Cissy’s life, starting with her marriage to “worthless as tits on a tomcat” Bobby Ray Riggs to her best friend LaWanda’s brother, Randy Wilkerson. An obstacle to her happily ever after with Randy may well be Cissy’s subject matter in her paintings: naked men.

[Un]Gone, Young Adult (Fantasy) (writing as Jan Hall) (2012), $11.95:

At 13, Polly Cates had a hard time adjusting to her father’s new fiancée. Her mother died when she was a baby, and she’s never had to “share” him before. On her father’s wedding day, he accidentally turns Polly into a polliwog. As everyone (except the wicked bride-to-be and her two brat kids) searches for Polly, neighbors and friends rally in a weird and wonderful way. The neighborhood recluse joins forces with Polly’s artist father and pens The Polliwog Princess, a fairy tale included in the book.

Deadly Ties, Mystery (2014), $21.95:

The sequel to Blood Ties finds Taylor Walker awaiting the trial of the nemesis who tried to kill her. Taylor’s love life gets complicated by the arrival of a Cuban-American architect—who may have strangled his pregnant fiancée in Miami. A crime wave strikes the tiny panhandle town of Walker, Fla., where the crimes are somehow tied to Taylor. One murder mimics the dead socialite’s: This time the murder weapon is Taylor’s red bra. The work of the Miami murderer or a crude copycat? Once again Taylor finds herself in a life-or-death situation with a crazed killer.

Lost & Found, Mystery (2017), $21.95:

A chance encounter at a Pensacola bar starts a deadly chain of events. As the reclusive Rutherford (Ford) Reilly nears his 50^th birthday—and the 40^th anniversary of the shark attack that crumbled a career as a child prodigy pianist—he spills his guts to a stranger. The life-changing event left Ford with a burden of guilt: His younger brother was killed by a second shark; older brother ran away a year later; father committed suicide on the second anniversary of the attack. Ford’s naiveté and social awkwardness expose him to barracudas of the two-legged female variety.

Dawn Breaks, Mystery (2021), $21.95:

After a breakup with Kyle Yates and a miscarriage, Daundre (Dawn) Riley’s life spirals out of control. Dawn visits her Aunt Cleo, whose neighbor Tom Wallace still mourns the drowning of his wife, Holly. As Dawn and Tom unravel facts surrounding the accident, sinister secrets emerge from Holly’s past, threatening Tom’s family—and now Dawn. When Kyle mysteriously disappears, Dawn’s best friend implicates Ajay Khan. As a relationship blossoms between Dawn and Ajay, she realizes she must address unresolved feelings for Tom. Then a serious misunderstanding plunges Dawn into danger—with Ajay on the other side of the world.

Sins of Our Mothers, Mystery (2023), $22.95:

Mel Preston never knew the inextricable nexus between her and glamorous socialite Lolly Dolly. Twenty-three years after her husband’s death, Sierra Seals summons Mel to Milledge, Florida, where Mel discovers Blake’s hidden past. She and Sierra stumble upon a dead body, which vanishes—resurfacing in a fiery wreck. Mel’s mother reappears in her life after 55 years, giving Mel the sordid details linking her past and Lolly’s. Mel falls for Sheriff Tink Byrd. When he and Mel find another body—with personal ties to Tink—Mel believes he might be involved in the rash of murders and accidents. Lolly supposedly died, but Mel wonders if Lolly’s erasing the sins of their mothers. A revenge-obsessed killer stalks Mel, finally trapping her and her family in a deadly cat-and-mouse game.

Son Day, Mystery (2025), $22.95:

Amelia Younger buried childhood trauma: her sister’s suicide, her brother Jack’s mysterious disappearance. Because her parents withheld information to spare her, Amelia bore the burden of guilt for the twin tragedies. Two decades later Jack resurfaces in Amelia’s life, resurrecting the trauma. He blames her for his banishment from the family and vows revenge. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Theodore Barr, a tech entrepreneur 22 years older. Amelia’s best friend, Kat Kitt, leaves a bar with a stranger and finds herself entangled in a murder, unwittingly exposing Amelia to collateral damage. When another murder occurs, Amelia quickly connects it to the first one. Theodore’s son, TJ, becomes increasingly obsessed with Amelia; she suspects he’s stalking her. After a tumultuous relationship, Amelia and Theodore wed. Jack shows up unannounced at the reception, which ends in another death. As a result of a traumatic experience, Amelia starts a quest to uncover answers in the past—a decision she soon regrets. Nearly three years after the wedding, Amelia discovers the death at her reception hadn’t been accidental but was meticulously planned by a cunning psycho. Amelia agonizes over who ordered the hit to keep disturbing secrets hidden. Ghosts from Amelia’s and Theodore’s pasts haunt them as trust issues cloud their marriage. Then Amelia rushes into a deadly trap.