Collection of Novels:

Beautiful desolation: Such a lovely place to disappear forever.  The Murder of Rayne McRae is a taut psychological thriller set in the seductive wilderness of British Columbia.  With diversified and unforgettable characters, it pulls you into a story that gives a voice to the lost women of the Highway of Tears.

     There is no exact count of the women missing from the infamous highway in British Columbia, Canada.  Official reports state that nineteen girls have vanished since the first young victim disappeared in 1969 from a motel bar at Williams Lake.  Jack Malchenko, a detective with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Prince Rupert, believes the total could be well over one hundred.  He sees their faces every day on the wall in his office.  The victims haunt his dreams.  It drives Jack to keep searching the secluded logging trails for any evidence that might help give closure to the families who have lost their loved ones.  During an investigation at the farm owned by serial killer Willie Pickton, health issues derailed his career.  As the years pass, Jack continues working the highway cases as a private sleuth for hire until loving pressure from his wife, Angela, reaches a breaking point.  She wants to spend their golden years together without the detective work getting in the way, so Jack finally agrees to hand over all the old case files to his former partner, Sam.

     Everything changes when Rayne McRae, a beautiful high school girl from the Moricetown Reserve, goes missing and her life is put up for auction.  The public cannot turn away from this sensational crime.  They fixate on Rayne's coral-green eyes, along with the tantalizing live video feed of her naked body tied in ropes.  Rayne’s struggle for dignity compels them to vote for her salvation.  As Jack gets pulled into this new mystery, a Cease and Desist order arrives from his former Mountie station, warning him of investigating anything else highway-related.

     With his future with Angela on the line, Jack knows that if he wants to solve this newest abduction, he will have to trust Taima White Elk of the Kyuquot band for help.  Taima was the best tracker available, but also Jack’s estranged father, who abandoned him as a child.  As Jack struggles with a decision until realizing there are hidden clues in the disturbing video of the McRae murder auction.  They all connect back to the place where Jack barely survived; the farm of the most notorious killer in Canada's history.  All of Jack’s past nightmares were coming for him again. 

In 1996, Intersal Inc. made one of the most important maritime discoveries in history when they located the infamous Queen Anne's Revenge buried in shallow water off the coast of North Carolina. While excavating the site, divers with the Underwater Archaeology Branch recovered a bronze bell, cannon and numerous eighteenth century artifacts from the former slave vessel, turned pirate flagship. They also found small amounts of gold dust, but the stolen fortune of Captain Edward Teach; aka, the notorious Blackbeard, remained a mystery. *Rose Rodriquez, a direct descendant of Henri, a former slave aboard the Queen Anne's revenge, is determined to wrap up the loose ends of her life with dignity and repair the severed relationship with her estranged daughter, Isabelle. Rose's latest project includes sorting through an old leather portfolio filled with mementos from her childhood spent searching for Blackbeard's lost treasure with her father. Rose gives the portfolio to her granddaughter, Sophie without knowing the seemingly innocuous gift would set off a chain reaction exposing family secrets of love, betrayal and murder.*As Sophie unravels the tapestry of clues to Blackbeard's real life, she also discovers the truth concerning the disappearance of her father, Alex. Immersed in a maze of adventure shrouded by a deadly curse, Sophie must decide what she is willing to risk for an opportunity at unimaginable wealth by solving the intriguing historic mystery surrounding the lost riches of the Queen Anne's Revenge.

Anthony Motavato’s life was shattered forever on the morning of April 19, 1995 when he lost his beautiful daughter. Unable to cope with his new reality, Anthony left town and has drifted on the lonely fringes of alcoholism in the years since the tragedy. Realizing his time is short, Anthony finally returns home to face the family he left behind. As he tries to regain his faith and make peace with the people that still love him, he is pulled into the tapestry of lies surrounding the deadliest act of domestic terrorism on United States soil. The only way he can find the forgiveness he seeks is by reliving it all over again.

Oklahoma Ghost Dance takes you into the darkest places of imagination. From a plot born within the ashes of the Waco massacre, it slowly untangles historic events surrounding the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing. Jeff Wilson, author of the highly acclaimed novel, Queen Anne’s Revenge, weaves a haunting story of love, heartbreak and redemption.