The Books

 
A Second Grieving

The sixth book in the Mark Pacer Series.

Who killed the young man in an upscale condo building in Montreal’s historic district? An acquaintance says he was a refugee from the Middle East and had an American passport, now missing. Mark Pacer, the American consul in Montreal, in the Canadian province of Quebec, searches for his true identity. He discovers passport forgers and a human trafficking ring—

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Thy Dross to Consume

The fifth book in the Mark Pacer Series.

An American lies in a coma in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt, after a car plowed into him on a city street. The driver of the car claims someone pushed the seventy-year-old man into his path.

Mark Pacer, an American consular officer from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, is tasked with contacting the man’s next of kin. So far, his efforts have ended in failure. The stateside number listed in the injured man’s U.S. passport has been disconnected.

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A Simple Dying

The fourth book in the Mark Pacer Series.
One spring day in 1985, Thalia al Shamy, an older American woman living in Cairo, Egypt, receives a letter from a long ago lover. Her response to that letter will affect people known and unknown to her, spreading like ripples from a stone tossed into a pond.

Mark Pacer, an American diplomat, is assigned to the U.S. embassy in Cairo shortly after the murder of another diplomat working out of Mark’s office. Was the murder an act of a terrorist? Or something else?
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 Night Watch

The third Book in the Mark Pacer Series.
In the spring of 1983, the U.S. State Department suffered massive loss of life after terrorists smashed a bomb-laden truck into its embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.

Mark Pacer, a young U.S. diplomat in Washington after assignments abroad, was working at the Department’s watch center when the attack happened. The “watch” is a twenty-four hour operations center for analyzing events happening anywhere in the world.
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 If Winter Comes

The second Book in the Mark Pacer Series.
Mark and Reye Pacer, newly married in the late 1970’s, struggle with career assignments to separate countries. Mark heads to a Persian Gulf principality. He visits American children caught in the crossfires of multicultural divorces and is disturbed by hints of human trafficking rings.

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Where I Belong 

The first Book in the Mark Pacer Series.
MARK PACER is an outsider from Mocking Bird, Georgia, when he arrives in Washington, D.C. for diplomatic training in 1976. His fellow Georgian, Jimmy Carter, is running for president, and the Vietnamese conflict has ended, but legacies remain from war protesters and hippies.

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 Tender Shadows

Caught between the guilt of the past and present choices, might they find what they long for most—forgiveness and love?

Experience the power of choices…and real-life love.

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 A Sense of Mission

Kaitlin is driven to succeed in the mission denied her mother.
Can she redeem that mission if she discovers another calling?

A courageous love. A reawakened passion. A vibrant step of faith.

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Distant Thunder

A chance encounter … or their chance for love?

Experience love the second time around: with a twist of mystery, devastating secrets, and international intrigue.

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 Singing in Babylon

Two young Americans, an English teacher and a journalist, meet while working in Saudi Arabia.Two worlds, two hearts in exile, are about to collide. And when they do, might they find a new song to sing … in Babylon?

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Quiet Deception

What really happened the night Dr. Byron White disappeared? Two university professors, boyhood friends, suffer a rift in their relationship. When one of them disappears, a student goes on a quest to uncover the truth.

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Searching for Home

He told her he’d kiss every freckle when he came back from Haiti. But he never returned.

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First Light

Three people come to the dawning of a new way of life: Ward Frazier, a newspaper reporter accustomed to hard living; Jenny Ingalls, a church secretary who was afraid to risk a close relationship; and Kim, Ward’s niece, who had already experienced tragedies in her young life.

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