Mordant Media: 8 books

As the salt begins to win the battle over pepper, Marsha finds herself, once again, sitting in a hospital with her father. This time is the last. The walls are the same white, but now they begin to reflect on her life. Always the dutiful daughter, and then the supportive wife, she was...

Amanda just wanted to find a stinking dress for a wedding she didn’t want to attend. She wanted to get back on her motorcycle, go home, and get back to welding on the sculpture that had been tormenting her mind for months. A dress was scary territory for a baby dyke who didn’t scare easily. Her...

Thorny Wallace returns to her hometown for the peace and quiet. WWII is distant thunder in the small rural town, but Los Angeles is always a clear and present threat. As she begins to look into an old death, she finds that there is always more going on in the small quiet town. When she thinks she has the players figured out¿the FBI shows up.

Set in current time, about one thousand immortals known as Ever Kind live among us mortals. They identify and locate the others through senses, except for a singular anomaly, whom they call the Black Hole or the Black Sheep. Their immortality derives from their ability to flow into another...

As Los Angeles comes of age in the 1960s, two undercover cops struggle to maintain their balance in the growing drug trade.  Boundaries are broken and borders are crossed in an effort to do good—while doing bad. Newcomer Gabe learns from the masters. “Normal” is a meaningless word civilian...

It wasn't Hooker's first recovery wreck from water. At least this was in the sunny summer instead of winter in freezing water and rain. Everything was routine until the officer pulled a skull out of the water. Someone is killing the street walkers of downtown San Jose. As Hooker investigates, it becomes personal, and dangerous.

“Milpitas was a thug town. Felix hadn’t always been a thug, and he hadn’t grown up in Milpitas. He had found Milpitas because of its reputation, and he had worked hard to fit into the reputation.” Trouble continues to find Hooker and the Squirt. Through the slow drizzle of spring,...

Sometimes it takes radical changes to make a new start. Sometimes moving to a new city is enough; sometimes it takes a new job. When Lorna left Small River and the only boyfriend she had ever had—sex was the last thing on her mind. But, soon, it would become the only thing...