Thomas Holladay

1865 San FranciscoMike Zabel, Count Mike, wants to expand further into his life of service by growing his investment firm, his family, and his fight against crime as Chief Inspector for the California State Police, but the Russian grand duchess oozes up from his past, seeking revenge for her brother’s death. When Mike’s wife and son go missing, fear strikes deep. Mike knows that the Romanov Dynasty will seek revenge for the death of the grand duke, but he doesn’t know when, or from where it will strike, until it unexpectedly slams into him sideways.            After the discovery of a dozen bodies of brutally tortured Chinese boys ...

1855 – Vladivostok, Russia – San Francisco, CaliforniaA Russian Army major and count is viciously attacked and nearly murdered by the Russian Grand Duke. Desperately wanting to know why. He struggles to return home, find the answers, and return to his life of Russian nobility, but poverty and adversity block his path. In San Francisco, Mikhail Diebitsch-Zabalkansky is robbed and left for dead. Struggling for his life, Mikhail crawls from under the docks of the Barbary Coast and finds shelter with a benevolent widow, where he painfully recovers.While still recuperating, Mikhail overhears the three ladies who saved his life complain bitterly about his obnoxious arrogance and churlish deman...

            Financial stress binds a young widow to her lip-licking, ogle-eyed boss, and to urban violence that has taken her husband and might now take her nine-year-old son. After her husband is murdered by carjackers, Carolyn, her son, and their dog are forced to move in with Carolyn’s all-knowing, hate-filled mother, leaving Carolyn desperate to find a safe way out. When her young son inherits her dead husband’s estate, high in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains, Carolyn decides it’s time to make the move onto a yet unseen cattle ranch – BUT - Carolyn Potter never anticipated death rising with the full moon.Carolyn is thrilled by he...