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After faking his death from an assassination attempt on the president and retiring his first and only alias with the Colony, Daniel Brighton discovers the mandatory sabbatical to be less than exciting. He chooses to do a favor and act as a security guard for a fading pop-singer, Lori Austin, whose career is winding down. He travels across Europe with her and discovers her past to be one of deception and intrigue with a history leading directly back to the Colony itself.

Sammy Lee Gott has been a son, brother, husband, father, soldier, and all around good guy for the last 75 years. During his life's journey, he has learned the power of humor. This is a collection of his personal story and jokes.

While guarding the president at a school event, a vampire Colony agent, William, meets the woman of his dreams - a human woman who is a teacher at the school. Jackie discovers a hidden agenda in the president's school visit and believes William to be a mockery of the American dream of equality for all. Can a past Freedom Rider and racial activist form the 1960s, now a vampire, prove to the love of his life he's not a political puppet?

F.B.I. agent Matthew Montgomery is handed a serial killer case on the same day his worthless cousin files suit for half of the sizable Montgomery Trust. His brothers, fellow retired SEALs, dig in to help find the proof needed to thwart Matt's cousin. Ex-Army Carrie Sullivan is a PI in the brothers' investigative firm. She goes undercover in a missing woman case that collides with the one Matt is investigating. He wants her to back off, as she fits the profile of the serial killer's victims.

Here are five funny, entertaining, delectable mystery stories featuring Peter "Pit Bull" Geller, who may be a bit damaged physically (in an auto accident), but has lost neither his biting wit nor his keen sense of how the upper crust manages their criminal ways. Included are "Pit and the Pendulum", "Pit on the Road to Hell", "A Christmas Pit", "Dog Pit", and "Horse Pit" (winner of the Black Orchid Award from the Nero Wolfe Society and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine). Great story from a master storyteller!

Sterling has a unique ability to glean information from inanimate objects, and his life is like CSI meets the West Wing, where key positions are held by vampires. Vampires can alter their age based on the amount of blood they consume, which should allow Sterling to blend into human society. However, his ability has painful side effects that cause him to live a lonely life down in the evidence room at FBI headquarters. He's a lonely bad-boy looking for love in all the wrong places.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African American men were seldom permitted to join the United States armed forces. There had been times in early US history when Black and White men fought alongside one another; it was not uncommon for integrated units to take to battle in the Revolutionary War.