Casey Maldonado survived a flaming car crash. Now she's walking, with Death as her only companion. Yes, THAT Death. Were it not that a few other people -- mostly children -- can see and hear him too, I would have thought that Death was like Ian Rutledge's Hamish in the Charles Todd books - a figu...
Stella Crown has been running her family’s dairy farm, Royalcrest Farm in rural Pennsylvania, since her widowed mother died when Stella was just 16. Life has been hard, and Stella has just been keeping it together wth the help of Howie Archer, a longtime farmhand to the Crown family, when she sud...
It’s almost Christmas in Pennsylvania, which means lots of cold and snow. Stella Crown is nice and warm, enjoying a visit with Mandy and Wolf Ink. Mandy is regaling them with tales of the tattoo trade while Wolf works on a new tattoo for Stella. She’s getting an ID bracelet with Howie’s name ...
If Stella Crown loves anything as much as her farm, her Harley, and her friends, its a good dose of rock-and-roll. But when the chance arrives to see a Philadelphia legend in concert, she gets more than she bargained for. A bomb threat empties out the club, and when the panic subsides, a member o...
Peterson did get Lucy, but it was because she wanted her to wheel me over to the hospital. I looked down at the wheelchair, then up at the doctor. “You’ve got to be kidding.” She wasn’t. She pointed at the chair, and I sat in it. Lucy began pushing me toward the door, but ...
Casey caught Wendell outside on his lunch break and pulled him to the side of the building, where the other guys wouldn’t see her. “If you’re still offering.” “Sure. Here.” He held out a keychain with more keys than Casey could imagine ever needing. “She’s full up on gas, and ready to go.” He gri...
I sat straight up, heard the phone ring again, and snatched the receiver off the cradle. Bart’s frantic voice came on the line. “Stella! The cops are at Lenny’s. I don’t know what’s going on, but his neighbor called me, and I know you know som...