Black Opal Books: 447 books

A year after retiring from the NYPD as a decorated detective, and helping to solve two grisly murders in her home town on Long Island’s north fork, Dana Cohen’s life has settled down. She is trying to decide what she wants to do, now that her Alzheimer’s-stricken father will be in the Island...

Back from destroying the New World Order’s secret lunar facility and rescuing his wife’s hybrid child from the hollow moon, FBI Special Agent Dan Arrow discovers that the NWO leader he killed might not be dead at all. Instead, he appears to be alive and has more up his sleeve—selling opportunities...

The last thing Captain Sirena expected to find on a desolate island was...him! When Carmen Ventura takes up her post as commander of the Strega, she becomes the new Captain Sirena, the legendary pirate most people think is just a myth created to scare children. Her first quest is to search...

Mary Louise, a bookish, redheaded, freckle-faced, eighteen-year-old virgin, who is unaware she has Asperger’s Syndrome, dispenses with Tim, her loving but far too serious and conventional high school boyfriend, then thrusts herself, groin first, into the 1960s sexual revolution, pioneering concepts...

Have you ever thought about the possibility of using single words to spark ideas about managing well, both in the business world and in your personal lives? 300 Dictums lists and defines verbs that describe actions, which can provoke results. Use 300 Dictums to help inspire some of your own thoughts that will make you more effective in managing your business as well as your life.

The second book in the Izzy Walsh Mystery Series! Springtime is beautiful in the cozy town of Twin Oaks, nestled along the New England coastline. It’s 1954, and Izzy Walsh is at The Mariner’s Whisper, Twin Oaks’ most popular dinner club, for a girls’ night out. But the fun is...

When Izzy gets a killer dress for her birthday, she isn’t expecting to accessorize it with murder… It’s 1958 in the cozy coastal town of Twin Oaks and amateur sleuth Isabelle Walsh is armed with a fresh perspective, two years after tragedy strikes. The first stop on her journey back to...

Forty-eight hours ago, a serial murder case that spanned nine years ended. Or did it? Four children intrude upon the scene of the suicide of Henry Slater, claiming he’s their dad. Dr. Frank Khaos and Detective Sam Wright become their temporary guardians. The goal—to find the children’s...

It’s 1975 in the Big Easy where Mardi Gras floats and strangely dressed people are in abundance. Mindy Nichols, an agent of the Inner Space Monitoring Alliance Team “ISMAT,” is about to set the Crescent City on its ear. This special government team protects Earth from the Blink phenomena that...

When two young runaways break into a wealthy man’s home, with horrific consequences, ex-cop and teen shelter counselor, Niki Alexander, comes to their defense. She soon discovers their motive had been to uncover a crime more heinous than two children could handle alone, and she is determined to finish what they started…

Dr. Lydia Giddens has taken an oath to do no harm. But now she stands in the shadows of her success, wondering if honoring her profession is even possible. Surely, her family doesn’t expect her to jeopardize everything she’s worked so hard for all of her life. No matter. Age, death, and declining...

What would happen if a jaded romance writer had the opportunity to create her perfect man, only to find out he wasn’t perfect, and that everything she thought of as romantic was decidedly not? Adam is everything romance writer Joan Richardson could want: handsome, thoughtful, kind, and made...

Theirs is an improbable story. She is a girl from Vermont, purposeful and dedicated to her calling in life. He is a rancher from the high country of Colorado who takes life one day at a time and never plans to be anything but what he is. When they fall in love, their lives change forever. She becomes...

Six friends go camping in the Cotswolds of England, not one of them realizing that death is just around the corner. They end up at an old house, seemingly empty, with a story attached to it—a story of a family’s death. Friends together just having fun…or so they think. One by one, they disappear....