Florida private investigator Thorn, having inherited a secret family fortune and began a deal with wealthy rancher Earl Hammond which would protect a large area of land, is kidnapped by contract killers after Earl's murder and thrown into a sinkhole in the middle of a game preserve, leaving him to find a way out, while Earl's son begins to connect the murder to Thorn's disappearance and uncovers facts about a sinister plan that dates back to the 1930s....

Thorn discovers that his real parents were killed by a drunken driver when he was a baby. The driver got away with it, but at nineteen Thorn executes his own judgement.

Eighteen years ago, a girl shot down a rapist while her father's lawnmower sputtered in the yard outside. Somewhere in the heat and shadows of that day, Alexandra Rafferty took on the burden of her deed, and forged a bond of silence with her cop father. But now Alexandra's husband has left, her father is clinging to his health, and a Miami serial killer is leaving behind death scenes that go beyond the horrific. For Alexandra, her life and work are...

All kinds of evolved life forms wash up on the beaches of Key West, just waiting for a chance to wreak havoc on the general population. Take Douglas Barnes, president of Barnes Waste Management, who gets his jollies by sending some amazing things into the outer atmosphere; or Dougie Barnes, who has a predilection for poetry, parrots and perversion. Into this haven for the insane waltzes Trula Montoya, a former TV actress with a secret, and Shaw Chandler,...

Novelist Hannah Keller, a former Miami cop, finds a copy of her first book with margin notes that provide clues to the mystery of who killed her parents, but her attempts to investigate put her in the path of FBI agent Frank Sheffield, whose search for a psychopathic hit man seems to mesh with Hannah's case.