Dingbat Publishing

Secrets, secrets… Christmas secrets, that is! Who decorated the Orson's Folly City Hall with thousands of lights? Who's the Secret Santa leaving presents all over town? And who's sneaking out to the barn at three in the morning fetching even more gifts?

Justin McGee might have been able to resist, but with Christmas closing in, his sons Ryan and Sean are off in Jackson on ranch business, leaving Sandy and Mel to worry about their husbands with a major snowstorm brewing. Justin sets out to keep their spirits up… and finds himself contemplating a second chance at love when his childhood friend Charlotte Hains, abandoned by her own adult daughters, comes to spend the holidays with the McGees.

Will all the secrets and surprises work out right? Will everyone make it home for the big day? Who's got the best memory of a Christmas past? And will Justin ever bring himself to pull that little square box out of his pocket long enough to pop the question?

Winner of the 2013 Chaucer Award for Historical Fiction (category: World Wars)

August 1940

He wasn't supposed to be on the plane. Now Major Faust is a prisoner of the English and he must escape before they break him. But every time he gets away, a woman is raped and murdered. The English need someone to hang. He's the hot suspect.

He's got to catch the killer, even though he's helping the enemy. It's collaboration, almost treason. It's making a Deal with the Devil.

War dogs don't retire just because they're home.

Captain Kelly Bonham, a NATO electronics officer and combat zone veteran, adopts a war dog, but when Pojo arrives he's not at all what she expected. This German Shepherd isn't interested in rolling over for a tummy rub; he's a working dog, a retired bomb sniffer who saw his handler cut in half by an anti-personnel mine in Afghanistan. That's serious trauma, and Bonnie wonders if his canine brain is still fully functional.

Now she's shaking down a relationship with a dog that's got more teeth than the law allows, a dog whose behavior is puzzling and maybe even unhinged. And all she can bring to the fight is electronic gadgetry and what's left of her self-confidence.

Can she reach this war dog... or is there more to the situation than she's seeing?