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Mingo McCloud
Series · 6 books · 2010-2011

Books in series

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#1

Wanted

2010

This edition is no longer available. Honolulu forensic accountant Mingo McCloud's lover has cheated on him again. To escape his heartbreak, a severely depressed Mingo moves to the North Shore of Oahu. Eager to start a new life and to forget, Mingo soon learns that Turtle Bay might be the home of big surf, but it also has even bigger secrets. He catches the eye of a mysterious stranger, Jason, a sexy lone wolf with a troubled, sketchy past. The two become embroiled in a tempestuous love affair that turns dangerous when Mingo discovers Jason is spying on him. Involved in his first big murder case, Mingo needs all his emotional resources to help find a missing young housewife…yet his private life just turned deadly. He has no idea why Jason would be tracking his every move—or even who hired him. Determined to find the truth, he hires big black, bad French former mercenary, Francois, to help him…and discovers shocking truths…Mingo McCloud has gone from wanting to wanted.
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#2

Needed

2010

This edition is no longer available. Mingo McCloud, Honolulu’s only criminal forensic accountant, has settled into professional and personal bliss on Oahu’s North Shore. His life with his lover, Francois, a security expert with mysterious ties to military and DEA authorities, is on course until Francois accepts an apparently routine case of outfitting a Caribbean billionaire’s luxury holiday home with state of the art security. When their home is ransacked and Mingo’s car is blown up and a tropical storm heads right toward St. Martin, where Francois was last seen, Mingo becomes frantic when his lover vanishes. He heads to the islands even though travelers are being turned away. Nothing will stop him from finding his missing man. Mingo thought he needed Francois, but realizes, as deadly forces try to stop him, that he, himself, is needed.
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#3

Bonded

2010

This edition is no longer available. Mingo and Francois are back! First they were WANTED, then they were NEEDED, now they are BONDED…to each other and to a strange, electrifying case at ‘Iolani Palace. As Honolulu’s dynamic duo wrangles two hot new criminal cases involving a fake king and fake money, Francois’ past catches up with him. Can Mingo handle Francois’ revelations and the huge changes they bring? And what of the king who claims to be the rightful heir to the lost Hawaiian crown? What is his connection to Mingo? What’s Mingo’s mom got to do with it all? And what about hunky FBI agent Sage Brantley who wants to team up with our guys for another scorching threesome? Will they do it? Will Mingo and Francois find the answers to all these questions or will they wind up in the pokey?
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#4

Mated

2010

This edition is no longer available. Mingo McCloud, his lover, Francois, and their son, Ferric, are in Hartford, Connecticut for their best friends’ wedding. Mingo and Ferric are carjacked on the way to picking up the brides’ wedding cake. Francois, furious that he wasn’t there to protect his family, drops the super-secret case he’s been working on to take Mingo and Ferric for a quick, sun-drenched trip to his birthplace of St. Martin in the Caribbean. Unbelievably, Mingo and Ferric encounter the same two men who carjacked them in Hartford…and it soon emerges that they are connected to Francois’ latest security case. Francois is now hell-bent on revenge, whilst Mingo must deal with long-dormant feelings for his ex-lover, Kaolin, who is on vacation in St. Martin. He wants Mingo back and will do anything to win his heart…even to marry him. But there’s another guy hovering, too, hunky FBI agent Sage Brantley, who wants another hot threesome with Mingo and Francois. Who will die? Who will get bedded? Are Mingo and Francois fated to be mated…and were the carjackers’ guns made in Taiwan?
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#5

Fixated

2011

This edition is no longer available. Mingo McCloud has a lot going on. Dealing with his private life just got more complicated now that he and his lover, Francois, have a fulltime teenager in the house. And soon Mingo has a new foe on his hands: the banshee goddess of the Seven Bridges. Yep, only an island guy like Mingo could wind up tangling with an ancient deity in what should be a routine murder investigation. But that’s not all. Hawaii has just passed the same-sex civil union bill. Will Francois give up his resistance to getting hitched and pop the question? And what about their son, Ferric? What does his new obsession with a teenage surfing queen have to do with a shark, bikini workouts, pole dancing and…wedding cake? Note to readers: This title is Number 5 in the Mingo McCloud series, but can easily be read as a stand-alone book.
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#6

Manacled

2011

This edition is no longer available. Mingo McCloud is launching the criminal investigation he never dreamed possible. The perp? Himself. It’s wedding bells in Waikiki! Honolulu’s hottest forensic accountant, Mingo McCloud, is set to marry his lover, Francois. Friends and family are coming from all over the world and just as the intrepid pair gets ready to say “I do”, they don’t. A mysterious woman shows up at the service claiming to be the long lost wife of… not formerly single and straight Francois but Mingo! Mingo is stunned. Not the least because he’s never dated a woman much less married one. The whole family’s now in an uproar, especially when the shady lady produces wedding pictures and love letters allegedly written by Mingo. He and Francois are determined to unravel the plot. For Mingo, the shocks don’t stop coming. Seems he has a trail of busted female hearts behind him, as well as some serious grifting. What the heck is going on? Is he the victim of a conspiracy, or is something else going on? Are parts of him awake when he is sleeping and doing things he knows nothing about?

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