When You Can't Trust Your Own MemoriesRyan Matthews has a memory problem. Some memories just don't exist — nothing before age 10 really.Some memories conflict.If you asked him a year ago about his home life, he would have said his adoptive parents loved him, and he loved them, and they probably didn't deserve the wild teen he became.So what about the scars on his arm? Or his stomach? What about the images that haunt his nightmares?If you can't trust your own memories, what can you trust? Book 10 in the Newsroom PDX series, set in a college newsroom in downtown Portland.Foul language. Some sex. Lots of politics. Just like Portland.

Nobody Likes a Smart Girl The college newsroom in downtown Portland is home to an eclectic group of students who wrote, filmed, edited and produced the news for a television show, a newspaper, and a website. And oh, the radio station, and the literary magazine. And not just the news, but sports and entertainment too. Blair Williams, the news editor, got tired just thinking of all the spinning plates that made up Eyewitness News. And she was responsible for keeping a lot of those plates spinning.She loved it. For the first time she felt like she belonged, and she didn't have to hide her intelligence. People at EWN respected her. Her boyfriend, Will Bristol, said he admired it — and since he was her boss at EWN as well? That mattered. A lot.Well he said he admired her intelligence until he got a concussion from being hit over the head with a protest sign, and things started leaking out. Disturbing things. Words that hurt. Behavior...

No One Knows Where They Come From The Wolf Harbor Boarding School was mostly just a fantasy, until the students started showing up on their doorstep. First there was Pi, a Cambodian teenager. He joined the three young women who were already there, and no one thought much more about it. There were so many bigger crises to deal with! But then, Pi disappeared for a day and brought back a 13-year-old girl from Thailand. The next week it was two girls from Laos. Benny Garrison, Story Teller and Teacher in the Hat Island pack, began to get alarmed. He figured his father had to be involved — when it came to Southeast Asia, he usually was. But his father isn't answering his calls, and neither is his pack Second. Now, Benny Garrison is really concerned. Where are these girls coming from? And more important, why were they coming here?Book 7 in the series, Wolf Harbor.

Called HomeIt gets messy when your loyalties are split. For all of his life, Ben Waters knew he would grow up, find a woman among his tribe, marry and have children. His grandfather, the chairman of the Yakama Tribal Council, had instilled it into him from day one. It was his duty.But then? He went away to college, because the tribe needed educated members, and he found a woman — and she wasn't Yakama. And he walked away from her.But now, the tribe needs him, his grandfather insists. He must come home. He must leave his life in Portland, leave his job and friends at Eyewitness News, leave the woman he loves and cannot have.And he obeys his grandfather, because he always has.Past mattered. Family mattered. Heritage mattered.But so does his heart. And his heart has other ideas. Book 9 in the Newsroom PDX series. Foul language, some sex, lots of politics, because it's Portland.

Some Things Haunt You Forever There is trouble in the Okanogan.Benny and Ryder Garrison grew up there, a part of their father's shifter pack. But their father has disappeared, and the pack has slowly disintegrated — and it wasn't the most stable of packs to begin with.The neighboring Penticton pack in British Columbia is causing problems — again — and the Penticton Alpha is thought to be a part of the pipeline that allowed Vancouver to amass a young shifter army. That fell apart when Hat Island Alpha Abby Stafford killed the Vancouver Alpha, but there are still all those young shifters, just waiting for a leader. The whole region is about to go up in flames — just days before the big meeting of the World Council of Alphas in Seattle. Fix it, Abby ordered. And really, Benny and Ryder are the only two who probably can. Interlopers to the region aren't welcomed in the best of times....

When They Came for the JournalistsIt has been a rough year for the student-run Eyewitness News. Protests, police brutality, the pandemic, and then white supremacists built a scaffold and hung a noose outside their building. Emily Andersen is the editor, and she'll protect her staff: No matter what. No matter who. Book 6 in the Newsroom PDX suspense series.Foul language. Some sex. Lots of politics. Of course, there is. It's Portland.

Just Do the JobWill Bristol never intended to be editor-in-chief of Eyewitness News in downtown Portland. He had planned to coast through his senior year as an investigative reporter, build his portfolio and go out to a newspaper somewhere to start his career. When there was no one else to do but an unqualified white supremacist who wanted to dismantle the newsroom piece by piece, Will knew he had to step up. He was terrified he wasn't good enough, however. The white supremacists that had infiltrated the university campus security weren't done. Not by a long shot.Book 7 in Newsroom PDX, a new adult suspense series, pulled from today's headlines.Foul language. Some sex. Lots of politics. Just like Portland.

Talkeetna, the seriesPaul Kitka likes women, fast cars, and his job as a lieutenant in Alaska State Patrol. Unfortunately, life isn't quite that simple. Candace Marshall isn't sure what she likes. Years married to an abusive husband does that. She likes Alaska, though, so that's a start — a rocky start.The set includes the first two books of Talkeetna and a bonus short story. Book 1: Everybody LiesCandace Marshall came to Alaska to escape her abusive husband. Then her abusive husband ends up dead on her cabin floor. Paul Kitka seems to believe her when she says she didn't do it. But then, who did? When your ex happens to be a lobbyist hated by everyone in Alaska, it turns out there is no end of suspects. Book 2: Somebody's SecretsPaul Kitka is headed home to Sitka, Alaska, for the first time in 18 years. His brother is accused of murder, and his mother needs...

Promises to Keep Cujo Brown owed no one anything. He had been a lone wolf for 40 plus years, and he liked it that way. No strings attached. Not to a pack. Not to a woman. Not even to his employer — most certainly not to his old employer. He had an NDA that didn't even allow him to speak their name. And he was fine with that. But back before he'd been banished from his home pack in Hayden Lake, Cujo Brown had attended a Boys Scout camp at Hat Island. And there, he'd formed some of the only bonds he has ever really known. When he retired from the agency-not-to-be named, something tugged him back to Wolf Harbor on Hat Island. Dr. Stefan Lebenev, also one of those teen-aged scouts from long ago, had figured out a serum that would help young shifter girls get through their first shift. He had a grant to finish out the details, and he needed a security chief. Well, that was most certainly within Cujo's skill set. And so...

Mayday.When the call came over the radio at Purdue Flight Service, Candace Marshall started making the calls — first to her boss, Lanky Purdue, and to her fiancé, police Lt. Paul Kitka. And then she had a whole list of people to notify.They had a plane down. A pilot in trouble. Passengers in jeopardy. And then she got another message from the pilot just for her: Dace. Someone shot at us. Tell Paul.Book 5 in the Talkeetna, Alaska, series.

She fled her abuser, but a killer followed her Paul Kitka likes fast cars, women and his job as a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol. He likes living in Talkeetna, a small town full of quirky people he's happy to call friends and neighbors. Life is good. Candace Marshall doesn't know what she likes — being married to an abusive husband had stripped her of all personal preferences. She likes good coffee. She likes her landlord's kids. She even likes her new job as office manager for Purdue Flight Service. And to her surprise, she likes Alaska. She came to Alaska to disappear. She chose Talkeetna, a small, remote town at the base of Mount Denali, to start over with a different name — in a state her husband hates, and the state hates him back. It was her best chance. When Candace finds him dead in her cabin, her first thought is to run again. Who would believe she didn't kill him?...

Torn Between Two Lovers, Feeling Like A FoolAbby Stafford, new Alpha of the Hat Island Pack, has a lot to deal with. The serum the Hat Island Pack has developed will save the lives of shifter girls everywhere — and change the world forever — if the Pack can survive long enough to get it into production. And she's been a wolf for all of a month. She's in love with her Second in command. And they're scrambling to make a real shifter community on Hat Island, hopefully with some income-producing businesses. Income would be good. Really good.But someone is gunning for the pack — trying to stop the serum, trying to prevent Abby from being Alpha. In the last month there have been seven attempts on her life.Then someone makes a run at the Tanaka pack Alpha in Seattle — and the only way to save his life is through a mate bond. Abby knows realistically that Hat Island won't last two weeks with Akihiro Tanaka's support...

He Doesn't Feel Like a HeroWhite supremacy groups have targeted the student-run Eyewitness News for their coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests. Protests become riots; death threats become real attempts. And the EWN staff doesn't know who they can trust to protect them — their own campus security seems suspect. Cage Washington knows something has to be done. But what will the solution cost him, his friends, his coworkers, even EWN itself? Book 5 in the new adult suspense series Newsroom PDX set in Portland during the turbulent times of today's headlines.Some sex, foul language, lots of politics — because it is Portland, after all.

A Promise to Keep Abby Stafford promised that all girls would have access to the life-saving serum that would see them through first transition. The first test subjects proved it worked. They had the doses they needed to begin. What they didn't have was access to the girls who needed it. And there were pack Alphas who would rather let them die than allow change to come to the packs. They kept to the old ways, they insisted. And watched their daughters die. Unacceptable, Abby Stafford said. She just needed to figure out what to do about it. Because shifter girls deserved a future. And she was going to give them one. Book 4 in Wolf Harbor, a paranormal suspense series.

Find them. Find the missing women. Paul Kitka, a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol, is half-Tlingit, half white. And when an Inuit elder from Bethel gets the brush-off from the Anchorage police, it's Paul she turns to. Her granddaughter, a student at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, is missing. She thinks there may be more women missing. And the Anchorage police don't seem to care. But Mary Ayek, elder of her village and a director of the Bethel Native Alaskan Corporation, cares. And she has the power and prestige it takes to make others care. Starting with Lt. Paul Kitka. Find them, she orders. What is happening to our women?Third in a series of mysteries featuring Paul Kitka and Dace Marshall in Talkeetna, Alaska.