Commander Celia Kelly is a perceptive Naval Intelligence Officer rebuilding her life after the tragic loss of her husband. Newly assigned a mission planning Intel for a SEAL Team...The suspicious suicide of a fellow Officer has Kelly questioning everything. With the help of a one of a kind secretary, by the book assistant, and a Navy SEAL, Kelly discovers she's been set up. Digging relentlessly, nothing is as it seems. Someone is after twenty million dollars that disappeared when Kelly's husband went MIA and now that someone is after her! With surprises at the turn of every page, the original characters and three dimensional plot lines keep the suspense going until the very end.

JUST HOW DEEP DOES THE LIE GO? A new President. A new team. A scandalous lie. In the latest of the Celia Kelly series, the Naval Commander finds herself caught up in political intrigue as the next mystery has her questioning everything. The President’s inexplicable past brings deception and danger into the White House. Death hits close to home as Celia directs a mission that collapses with the loss of a SEAL. After returning home Kelly discovers the new President may have had something to do with the mission’s failure. As secrets begin to unravel, they run over everyone in their path. The price will be high as Kelly and her teams finally uncover the truth. And just when you think that it’s over… it’s not!

Old wounds surrounding the mysterious disappearance of Commander Kelly's husband resurface as terrorism hits close to home killing the president's wife, youngest daughter, and leaving his oldest daughter paralyzed when a bomb goes off in Washington, D.C. Commander Celia Kelly and the SEAL team are off on a wild goose chase trying to negotiate with terrorist Amar Nycoffi in order to find a second target before it is too late. Everyone is at risk as the hunt begins for the second target... When a Navy SEAL becomes a prisoner, during the rescue, another long forgotten prisoner is discovered in a Middle Eastern prison. Celia finally finds the answers about her husband...Is he alive or was he part of the Pact? In the meantime, the Pact resurfaces and the truth finally comes out. No one is whom Kelly suspected as the suspenseful action unfolds. Where will the truth lead them? Will this mission prove to be too much even for Commander Celia Kelly? The Pact, The Lie, and The Truth: winners of the International Book Award, ABA Literary Excellence Award for Mystery/Suspense, and Wise Bear Books Award for Military/Mystery

The newly settled life of Commander Celia Kelly suffers when a seemingly routine flight out of Nairobi becomes an unlikely catalyst. The Deputy Director of the CIA goes missing in Africa. His bags make the plane and he doesn’t. In the meantime, an imposter with an agenda takes another man’s seat on that same plane for a free trip into the United States.Husband Tom Kelly becomes a NCIS Special Agent looking into Lieutenant Commander Georgie Round’s death. The two investigations separate Celia and Tom as they both go to work to solve the two mysteries.As the mission begins in Africa, the FBI begins an investigation into the mysterious passenger now somewhere in the United States to determine why he is there and what or who his target is. The FBI, NCIS, Commander Kelly, and the Navy SEALs are set on a collision course. With the help of an old opponent from the Pact, CIA operative William Dixon, they come together only to be shocked by what no one sees coming.Distance tests the Kelly’s and they must rely on their faith to see them through. Will their relationship survive what they are about to discover?