Russ Hall

Blood-drained bodies with two holes in their necks begin to show up on Austin's night streets and the police seek to keep the murders quiet, because you don't know what the media is going to scream.

Lea Palmer lives alone on a one-house cay in the eastern Abaco Islands of the Bahamas she inherited from her brother. Her days are peaceful and reflective, spent fishing or listening to the warm tropical wind rustle through the coconut fronds. When a small boat comes across the white-capped blue waves toward her island, everything is about to change. Folks have been telling her a woman shouldn't try to live by herself out here, that paradise can have...

Bullets are flying! Justin's Aunt Sara has a tiny Texas homestead place out where they should have a chance to get lonely listening to coyotes howl. But not when greedy cattlemen want to gobble her land, Comanches want her goats, and big hulking Francis, a writer from back east has a whole different fancy for Sara. In the 1870s, when people can still grab their fortunes in the west, several hands are grasping. With a fix in all the way to the most...

Ever go to do something fun only to find yourself in way over your head? Doing a spot of shark and barracuda fishing in the tropical green charm of the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas was meant to be a pleasant diversion for two savvy corporate businessmen. But things have never gone so wrong. Cast ashore by a sea as tempestuous as their professional and personal lives, bad becomes worse when an American ATF patrol stirs up two rival Jamaican gangs....

Walt, 14, and his sister Mindy, 12, are attacked by giant sword-bearing warrior butterflies in their first outing after crash landing inside Jupiter. The only survivors of their ship, they soon learn that all the remaining colonists are nearly their ages as well. All the tension does not stem from an environmental experiment gone wrong, where grasshoppers are the size of camels and praying mantises are as big as giraffes. The children do not get along...

Esbeth Walters is 72, a retired teacher, and shouldn't be messing around with murder, but when Texas Hill Country winemaster Win Castle pits his sons against each other over the inheritence of a 21,000 acre spread, including the winery where Esbeth works part-time, the result is murder, and Esbeth is in the middle of it. Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory and Sheriff Watkins think she knows more than she's telling.

"Hie-eeee." The shout came from above him on the hill. Clay turned just his head, kept the bow pointed down the hill. Behind him, higher up on the hill were three Comanche warriors with guns, the barrels of two of them pointed toward him. In the middle was a white-haired Indian on a paint pony. Four more ponies appeared over the crest of the hill until two more gun barrels and two drawn bows also pointed at him. The older Comanche looked down at him,...

Arthur Sanderson remembers Frankie Lane from their high school days as a pudgy nerd. Forty years later he sure seems lean and fit enough as he runs through an airport to the sound of guns firing. At the speed of a bullet Arthur's reclusive life changes forever and he gets only brief chances to ponder what swept him into the path of action-filled chaos and who to trust... and who not to trust at all as he sorts through a tangle of agendas and romances...

Trouble big as all hell. Retired sheriff's detective Al Quinn hasn't spoken to his brother, Maury, in twenty years. When Maury lands in the hospital under suspicious circumstances, though, Al reluctantly abandons his quiet country seclusion to look into the matter. A second attempt to take Maury out drives the brothers back to Al's lakeside home, where Al knows the territory, but they're not alone for long. ICE agents demand that Maury rat on his...