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Exit 22 (Book 1, Black Swamp Mysteries Series)
Published by Drake Valley Press, September 2008

Christopher Sandige is a political strategist on his way from Washington to Florida when he is involved in an accident at Exit 22 in North Carolina. Stranded for the weekend, he meets a beautiful but mysterious woman and becomes embroiled in a double homicide. He must decide whether to trust the woman he is falling in love with, even as evidence mounts against her and he is swept into a world of shell corporations, bank fraud and the oil industry. Now he is being pursued by a dogged homicide detective and a hired assassin - one who wants to arrest him and the other wants to kill him. And time is running out. 

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Vicki's Key (Book 2, Black Swamp Mysteries Series)
Released by Drake Valley Press, March 2012
2012 International Book Awards Finalist
2012 USA Best Book Awards Finalist

After a botched CIA mission, Vicki Boyd leaves the CIA, moves to a new town and tries to start over in a new job working for an elderly woman. But when she arrives, she learns Laurel Maguire has suffered a stroke and her nephew Dylan has arrived from Ireland to care for her. Vicki quickly falls in love with Dylan but all is not what it seems to be at Aunt Laurel's house. And when the CIA recruit her for one more mission, her past and her new future are about to collide... in murder.

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Secrets of a Dangerous Woman (Book 3, Black Swamp Mysteries Series)
Released by Drake Valley Press, September 2012

Dylan Maguire is back and his first assignment with the CIA is to interrogate recently captured Brenda Carnegie. But when she escapes again, it's obvious she's had help from within the CIA's own ranks. With Vicki Boyd's help, she's back in his custody--and now he's on a mission to discover why some in the highest offices of government want her killed and others will risk their own lives to ensure her safety. And when he discovers Brenda's true identity, his mission has just become very personal.

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Dylan's Song (Book 4, Black Swamp Mysteries Series)
Released by Drake Valley Press, March 2013

Irishman Dylan Maguire returns in the 4th book in the Black Swamp Mysteries series, this time returning to his native Ireland with psychic spy Vicki Boyd. Their mission: to locate and extract a missing CIA operative whose last known location was Dublin. But when Dylan receives word that his grandmother is dying, it plunges him into a past he thought he'd left behind forever. Now that past is on a collision course with his CIA assignment and he must confront his demons before they endanger his life and Vicki's. And as Vicki is discovering the real reason he left Ireland, she is harboring a secret of her own...

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The Pendulum Files (Book 5, Black Swamp Mysteries Series)
Released by Drake Valley Press, March 2014
2014 Best Cover Design Finalist

In the fifth book in the Black Swamp Mysteries series, CIA operative Dylan Maguire joins forces with psychic spy Vicki Boyd to find out who is bombing merchant vessels bound for the United States from China. Their mission will lead them to Black Sites, the high seas and into covert operations. And when an assassin escapes from prison determined to finish the job he started, they find their personal lives and their missions are about to collide in ways they never could have imagined.

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