Hartz Island

Retired Navy SEAL Commander "Kip" Hendricks has one mission in life - stop terrorism. Kip and his team, arrive on Hartz Island located in the San Juan Islands in Washington State, to monitor cargo ships arriving from Indonesia, suspected of smuggling young jihad terrorists. All the ships must pass Hartz Island as they head to their Pacific Northwest ports. Holed up at Eagle's Nest Lodge, the joint task force of Americans and Canadians strategize their mission. Out on the waters, tracking the ships, Kip and his team discover unusual activity surrounding the islands and specifically Hartz Island. What appears to be an innocent out-of-the-way island isn't! After the murder of her Seattle police officer husband, Jeannie Rogers followed her dream and opened The Ferry Dock café on Hartz Island. Now she is at a crossroads in her life. Her CPA brother wants her to sell her failing café before she is left with nothing. Trying to make ends meet, Jeannie gladly accepts the week-long catering job at Eagle's Nest Lodge. Unbeknownst to her, this week would be a pivotal point in her life, but also Kip Hendricks. When Jeannie lands in Kip's arms sparks fly. Both Jeannie and Kip must examine their past so they may move into the future. The San Juan Islands melt into the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, attracting eclectic residents, like Montana Worthington, resident psychic and free thinker, but also those who like to live outside the law. SLIP INTO the NIGHT is the first book in the Hartz Island mystery series.

Unsolved mysteries continue in the San Juan Islands in Washington State. Special Investigation Agent Jack Wyatt returns to Hartz Island enlisting the aid of his former Navy SEAL boss, Kip Hendricks and his Canadian counter-part. Jack is convinced the increase in human trafficking in Seattle and on the west coast is being routed through the San Juan Islands from Victoria, British Columbia. But who is responsible? Hiding from her ruthless Russian Mob boyfriend and his associates, actress Cassie Ryan escapes Los Angeles. The only place to hide is her childhood summer home on Hartz Island in Washington State San Juan Islands. Without realizing it Cassie discovers Russian Mob financial accounts that puts her in harms way. The mob is looking for her, and who else? Hartz Island's local psychic, Montana Worthington, continues to interfere with on-going investigations, focusing on the minister's wife and her dalliance, who is supposedly on the island to write the Great American Novel! She is convinced the minister's wife has unwittingly become a part of an evil situation. The Ferry Dock cafe continues to be the beehive of the island, drawing in all the eclectic residents. DEEP INTO the NIGHT is the second mystery featuring Hartz Island, in Washington State's San Juan Islands.