Charles Stanley

When seduction meets science, it's chaos.

Shut up and drink your tea!

Deep in the Southwest, love and heartbreak make death come alive.

A broken heart. A stolen car. An unexpected romance.

A career as an astronaut hasn't prepared Commander Sylvester 'Skinny' Atlas for life back on ground. Can Skinny's girlfriend Rocky Keep him from falling into trouble?

When you are stuck in a small town, you learn more than you want to.

A down on his luck mechanic sets out to publish his first novel with guidance from eccentric friends.

A disgraced soldier returns to his bleak Oklahoma hometown, where wind never stops and hope is gone. Murders feel like old debts. The prairie remembers what he buried, and the past waits for him.

Ruby is having a bad day. If Ruby doesn't come up with $100,000 a crazy cop will rape and kill her. Mix in a rogue government agent stalking her, a crooked lawyer spending all her money, and she can't get her dead husband's ashes out of hock. To solve all her problems Ruby must find a wife beater named Dookie in order to satisfy his millionaire stripper wife. Will Ruby find Dookie before the crazy cop comes calling?

A factory worker, working his way through college, clashes with his obsessive girlfriend while attempting to find out how a beautiful and mysterious woman ended up dead.

Losing his girlfriend and his job in the same day propels Breaker Donovan to Houston to find out why he was named in the will of the recently deceased shoe heiress Mercedes Cosnoski. Along the way Breaker befriends Tiara Jones who decides to come along for the ride. Receiving only a key to a safe deposit box both Mercedes' son Gerald and Tiara want Breaker to find out what mysterious treasure was left to him. Gerald's decides to steal the key while Breaker sleeps. Little does anyone know that Breaker is haunted in his dreams by his demented father. What will Breaker's father tell him to do before he wakes.

An unflattering portrait of Ester Breen is unveiled. Walter, Ester's husband, is pleased with the horror of the guests' responses. Peter, Ester's boyfriend, just wants Ester to leave her husband to be with him. Bluster, the painter, is unhappy he is not revered as an artist. Jonathan Heck, art critic for the city paper, is under pressure to complete a review of the new portrait. No one is happy, someone is going to die. Everyone is enraged, fearful and in love.