him. Save for a stray dog sniffing through trash, Nasir Street was deserted. American forces had already sliced through Baghdad’s


“arrival did not bode well. “After you.” I ushered him into my office. Once seated at the small conference table, I asked him if he was there to kill me. “Quite the contrary, Hibbsy, ol’ boy, I’m here to save you.” “Hard to believe.” “Ain’t it though?”
― Outmove
― Outmove

“sat up high, oak branch ’tween my knees, and watched the tattooed man stride about in the snow. Pictures all over his face, no skin left no more, just ink and blood. Looking for me, he was. Always looking for me. He left red drops in the white, fallen from his fish knife.”
― The Wolf Road
― The Wolf Road

“before the distinctive sound broke the silence of the blistering Texas afternoon. Turning away from the hundred-year-old stagecoach house, she shielded her eyes against the glare of the June sun. The black pickup sped ominously toward her, dust billowing behind it like a villainous cloak—not at all helping the picture of doom her mind had already conjured up.”
― Treasure Me, Cowboy
― Treasure Me, Cowboy
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