Douglas Pratt

Chase Gordon has the life. The former marine works part-time as a bartender to support his life island-hopping on his 40-foot sailboat. When the pretty young wife of one of his fellow marines shows up looking for her husband, Chase steps in to help her out....

Life at sea isn't always tranquil. Anchored off a small uninhabited cay in the Bahamas, Chase witnesses another boat being boarded. Before he can react, the skipper of the other vessel is kidnapped. Chase rushes over to find the skipper's teenaged daughter hiding in a locker....

Everyone deserves a vacation… even Grant Wolfe. But private investigators don't get to choose when cases come their way, especially this shocking kidnapping in Hawaii… Where Grant is the victim!

Chase wakes up in a hotel room with no memory of how he got there. It takes just a minute to realize he's in the middle of Havana. A minute later, he finds the dead girl, only seconds before the police begin to bang on the hotel door.

Someone needs Chase's help - his lover's husband. When the former marine thwarts an attack, Chase finds himself protecting someone he can't stand: the lawyer husband of his boss, Missy....

In the middle of dead calm seas, Chase witnesses a plane crash. The lone survivor is soon targeted by dangerous foes. Can Chase keep her safe long enough to find who is trying to kill her? Find out....

A sunken U-boat. A lost cache of Hitler's gold. Can Chase beat a band of Nazis to this hidden treasure? Chase's peaceful beach day is disrupted when he rescues the beautiful Rikki Talen from an attempted kidnapping....

Chase is caught in the midst of a cartel war. When Chase first met Esteban Velasquez, the cartel hitman tried to kill him. Now, the man who is second in command of the largest drug cartel in Florida is missing, and a rival drug lord is claiming he's killing his men....

An unexpected visitor shows up at the Manta Club, surprising Chase. His sister is searching for her son who ran away from home. Chase leaps to help only to find the trail for his nephew is littered with dead bodies and a high-powered thug who is hunting the boy as well....

In the heart of the Amazon, the river runs red with greed. When Caleb Saunders—known only as Corsair—agrees to protect a remote village under siege by a brutal guerrilla faction, he expects a simple rescue.

Jay Delp, a veteran Marine, returns to his hometown of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to step into his new role as police chief while caring for his ailing father. On the eve of his first day on the job, two fishermen discover the body of a woman in Biloxi Bay.

It always starts with a girl. She shows up asking Max to help her find her brother who has gone missing on the river. Now Max is lost on an isolated section of the Mississippi River called the Kentucky Bend, and he is being hunted by a small army of drug dealers. Get to know Max Sawyer....

A chance meeting. A murder, he thinks he could have stopped. A horrific past. Now Max finds himself up against a powerful man with perverse passion. He will stop at nothing to find justice for a forgotten girl....

When Max travels to Georgia to visit his grandparents and attend his cousin's wedding, he finds trouble quickly. Max goes with his family to his grandfather's church, where he is soon drawn into intrigue when a teenage girl is found murdered in the church's baptistery....

While reporting on a story involving a string of missing women, Lisa Day vanishes. Following her trail, Max arrives in the small town of Carina, Arkansas. The little town masks a dark and dangerous secret, one that may destroy everything he cares about....

When Max Sawyer found his parents brutally murdered two weeks before he graduated from high school, he decided to leave Hellenston, Arkansas, and planned to never return....

Caleb Saunders, the elusive ex-government assassin known as Corsair, is navigating the shadows, juggling the responsibilities of protecting not only his daughter but also Khloe—a young woman he rescued from the clutches of the mafia and drug cartels.

Charlie Greene's life is unraveling…. Dismissed from Scotland Yard, she's jobless, aimless, and living with her father in London. But as she struggles to get her life in order, he mysteriously disappears while on a business trip to Florida.

After the tragedies befalling their parents… siblings Grant Wolfe and Charlotte Greene prepare to return to their broken lives, a continent apart.

The police are at Max's door, and not for any of the reasons he would have thought. When a college friend is murdered, Max is pulled into the investigation as police flounder to find the real killer....