Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister, Kristina, Detective Savannah Dunbar just wants to wrap up paperwork before taking medical leave. But her department's investigation into a brutal double homicide has suddenly become much more complex - and personal. And now there are disturbing rumors about the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets.

A woman's birthright holds the key to a rash of brutal murders.

"On the wild Oregon coast, tucked between the mountains and the sea, stands Siren Song, home to a group of women known as The Colony. But nowhere is safe from the man who has marked them for death. The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge's phone number and the words Next of Kin. Ravinia insists she doesn't recognize the man on the mortuary slab, but she suspects Detective Nev Rhodes doesn't believe...

What You Don't See... The crime scene at an Oregon rest stop is brutal beyond belief--a young man's lifeless body cut to ribbons, and his pregnant girlfriend left alive but comatose... What You Don't Know... Psychologist Claire Norris is assigned to treat the survivor at a private mental hospital. But there are no clues to the identity of the catatonic "Jane Doe." A difficult job only becomes more complicated with the arrival of ex-homicide detective...

Robbie is a prospector, a spy, and a veteran explorer of the deep. When a businessman hires him to search for a lost relative beyond the edge of the solar system, Robbie and his crew embark on a voyage beyond their expectations.

If a utopian colony really exists fathoms below the surface of the Pacific ocean, could it be a place for Cynthia to escape her hellish life in 22nd century America? It's 2130, the air is full of choking smog and radiation, and former solider Cynthia spends her days (and nights) in a lonely office slaving away as a corporate lawyer for the Alliance, a combination government and business organization that runs most of the world. When she stumbles into...

A much hyped television program encourages the world to select volunteers by popular vote to colonize an alien world. A breakneck paced space program will choose a final destination midflight. A miscalculation forces the ship's only conscious crew member to take drastic action to avoid disaster, placing the care for the one thousand human lives in the hands of a machine intelligence not meant for the job. Too far from home for radio contact, with...

Elise is one of the first generation of settlers on humankind's first interstellar colony on Gliese 832(c). Forced evolution has put her society in a place where digital and physical realities are nearly indistinct. Yet, after encountering refugees from another settlement, Elise finds herself questioning the comfort she has known. She sets out on an adventure entangling her with both one of the youngest people in the new world and an old enemy.

In the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay stands a mysterious lodge. Some call it the Colony; others whisper that it's a cult. To the women who live there, it's a refuge. But a killer knows their secrets - and will make sure they never feel safe again . . . WICKED GAME Twenty years after Becca Hudson's friend, Jessie, vanished from St. Elizabeth's high school, a body is unearthed on school grounds. Far from solving the mystery, the discovery...

THEY WERE ON THEIR OWN In September 2245, the artificial intelligence known as Janice Quant dropped 100,000 colonists and their supplies in the subtropical zone of the planet they named Arcadia. One of the colonist groups was the Chen-Jasic group, composed of thirty-one American suburbanites and thirty-one Chinese peasants. They formed an alliance, then solidified it into a family, acting in the best interests of the group. The Chen-Jasic family...