Some gambles are worth the risk . . . Trapped in the nightmare of Miami’s illicit underworld, Meg O’Hara has no choice but work for a high-stakes criminal to repay a debt. Freedom is a pipe dream, until FBI agent Christopher Shaunessy offers her a way out. It won’t be easy, especially playing the role […]

When you are married to a monster, there is nothing left in life but darkness. When you live in a nightmare, you would do anything to escape. So that’s what I do. I escape. After fleeing from an abusive husband, taking a summer job as a housekeeper on a horse ranch in Northern Wyoming seems […]

London, Christmas Eve. 1927. Shivering in her wedding dress, Mrs Mortimer’s special day takes a turn for the worse when she embarks on her honeymoon and ends up in prison. There was, on reflection, something decidedly fishy about the wedding – and the funeral that followed, but investigating a murder you’re supposed to have committed, […]

A vigilante cage fighter, with a violent score to settle. A sniper caught in a hellacious ambush, thousands of miles from home. A young woman called in for a stand-in shift at the World Trade Center on 9/11. In these three stories from Tom Barber, familiar characters from the Sam Archer thriller series look Death […]