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Falling asleep at the wheel, Abigail accidentally hits a hitchhiker, Samantha, who may have jumped in front of her car on purpose. Sam is on the run from some pretty weird stuff, including a demonic ex-boyfriend, brain swapping drugs, and a particularly vicious zebra. Together they meet a handful of desert weirdos, get involved in a high-stakes Scrabble tournament, crash a few dozen cars, visit a deadly waterslide theme park, and uncover the terrible cost of obtaining a Philosopher’s Stone. It’s gonna be a looooong drive. The perfect opportunity to become best friends, whether Abigail wants to or not.

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(Book 1) June 25, 1959 was the day Charles Starkweather was executed in the electric chair for the murders of 11 people. Jude Cross raised in the same town as Charlie, Lincoln Nebraska, interrogates Charlie breaking down his defenses with the new science of mirroring and profiling. He would discover the real story of Charlie and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate, whose family was Charlie’s second and third and fourth victims. In a small town in Georgia in 1976, an 18-year-old girl is hunted in the woods for the assault of two prominent boys who tried to molest her. The innocence of the 1950s and a young girl is resilient, not easily defeated by prejudice and darkness.

(This is Book 2) Forced out of town a young girl becomes Big Jen, cruising the biker bars of the south and southwest, picking fights and brawling with her boys. Charles Starkweather is executed, and Jude writes his firs ‘Social Forensics’ report at the request of J Edgar Hoover. Jude’s life is in a shambles with the deaths of those close to him and he breaks away, leaving his wife and home traveling west on a big Harley.

(This is Book 4) Big Jen takes on the Caldiddys (California Devils Diciples) gang. Pro (Jude Cross) is recalled to the FBI to interrogate a young man arrested for an armed attack on a high school and the murder of a security guard. Jude writes his second ‘Social Forensics’ report. Pro disappears and Big Jen tracks him across the nation. Pro’s worlds collide as he is reunited with Christine, his wife. One will rise and one will fall as Strange Compromises defines who we were and who we become.

(This is Book 3) Jude finds a home in the biker world, rising to respect and power as Pro (The Professor) but is still fractured by a life gone wrong and deaths that haunt him. Big Jen and Pro are destined to meet. Would they find the pieces within each other to rebuild two souls? Liz Stitt, first woman hired as an agent for the FBI takes an assignment no one wants, investigating billionaire John Steiner for the disappearances of a girl and a lawyer in small town Georgia.

I am forever grateful for the sacrifice and service of our military troops. I just wanted to tell the story of the individuals who love them. They don't get the intensive and extensive training that military personal receives. Therefore, they may not be as prepared as those who wear the uniform.

A delusional old man awakes alone in a forest with no memories. His lucid path brings him faced with death and the struggle to regain the life he has forgotten. While trying to escape the fury of nature, beast and men, he must also search for the reason he was abandoned in a deadly place.

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