It was just Keira and her little boy, alone against the world. Everyone else had disappointed and deserted them. Jake Dean is a cop; his mission is to serve and protect. With Keira and Daniel, he'd like to do this and more. With her worst fears realized, can Keira let down the barriers and allow someone in? It's a matter of trust. This short story is a prequel to the series, When Bad Things Happen.

A sheltered mother. A medically fragile child. They can’t just disappear. Or can they? A typical day of medical appointments and errands. Elizabeth can handle it, she tells herself. She’ll do it all until her husband returns on the weekend. But someone else has a plan – several someones, throwing Elizabeth’s orderly life into chaos and danger. Now, she’s on her own. Neither her parents nor her husband is there to protect her. No one knows where they are. If her son is to get out of this alive, it’s up to Elizabeth. Ordinary people, thrown into extraordinary circumstances. Read Gone, Book One of the psychological thriller series When Bad Things Happen.

Elizabeth thought that after all they'd been through, the bad parts were over. Guess not. After saving herself and her little boy from abductors, Elizabeth yearns to put the terror behind them, to cocoon with her son, safe and secure at home. Court hearings confirm that they suffered the worst betrayal possible. She never dreamed that she'd have to battle the law to protect her medically fragile little boy when his life and sanity are on the line. When her son is targeted and taken, Elizabeth will do anything to save him. Ordinary people, thrust into extraordinary circumstances.

A child wanders the courthouse hallways alone. She doesn’t speak. No one knows who she is. Anna, the always giving, always caring court social worker agrees to foster the young girl. But danger lurks in Anna’s past. Just when she thinks that all her striving has finally brought her the life she sought, the past launches itself at her and those she’s come to love. Yet other forces are after the child. With lives and freedom on the line, can Anna shake the bonds on the past and stand up for those who mean the world to her? Read SELFISH: A Psychological Thriller, Book 3 in the series When Bad Things Happen.

They sold her to pay her father's debts. For Anna, helping her family was priority one. She was not their priority. When is a sacrifice too much? You met Anna in TRUST. You followed along her journey in SELFISH. Now read about the deeds that shaped her teen years and made her the woman you know now.