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Copyright © 2025 All Rights Reserved Chapter One I liked his hands. The way he gripped his glass in one, then reached for me across the table with the other. Warm hands. Strong. I traced the lines of the corded veins over his wrist and webbed around his knuckles. “Mara?” he asked. “Did you hear…

Copyright © 2024 All Rights Reserved Chapter One “It’s bad luck!” one of the shower guests shouted. “Every time you break a ribbon it means you’re going to have another baby.” My fingers froze. I balanced the giant gift-wrapped box on my lap, poised to rip the bow off the top. “Having babies isn’t bad…

Copyright © 2024 All Rights Reserved Chapter One “He looks terrible,” I whispered. “Well, I mean…he’s dead,” Eric whispered back. “So, all things considered, I’d say he looks pretty good.” I nudged his elbow as he knelt beside me. I said a quick Hail Mary and made the Sign of the Cross. There were people…

Guilty Acts by Robin James Copyright © 2021 by Robin James All Rights Reserved Chapter One One look at Bryson Ballard and I knew why Jeanie called me in. Young. Skinny. Baggy jeans, a wrinkled tee shirt, and shaggy black hair three weeks overgrown. Someone might have taken care of this kid once but they…

Exclusive Excerpt From Price of Justice – Coming August 2020! Copyright © 2020 – Robin James All Rights Reserved   The Blitz. Across the pond and for another generation, that phrase conjures something far different than it does here in Waynetown, Ohio. Here, it’s what everyone calls Belitzer Quarry. Before it was abandoned fifty years ago,…