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After Matt returns from a harrowing deployment in Afghanistan, he and his wife Blair take off around the States in his father’s camping trailer for what they hope will be a tranquil trip. When torrential rain derails their plans, they, along with a handful of other travelers, seek shelter at a remote campground. Things soon take a disturbing turn when they stumble upon a body. And then, the unthinkable happens.

With Shirley’s son Brass kidnapped by Vanko Demyan’s father, a man so ancient everyone’s forgotten his name, Shirley has no choice but to speed to Phoenix, acquire a bunch of AK-47’s, and go toe to toe with the entire Demyan crime family. When Shirley receives a text with a photo showing Brass positioned with his head on a bandsaw table, Shirley wants an Old West showdown. But Viva Shirley offers a better path...Hunt them one by one. It works, until it doesn’t.

Lester Toungate has a six-foot problem named Shirley Lyle. The only way he can return to his drug lord duties with a clear mind: kill her - and Ulyana the Ukrainian stripper....FBI special agent Joe Smith stands to lose his career and his freedom. Joe Smith doesn’t merely have a Shirley Lyle problem. He has a Shirley and Ulyana problem. The solution? Murder both women...Russian mob boss Vanko Demyan, convinced Shirley, Ulyana, and Lester are in cahoots against him, assigns his best assassin a simple task: Execute all three, and do it in the daylight. Make a splash.   

Shirley Lyle hooks for a living. She’s a big girl who keeps her profile low. But when a drug lord and his son toss her trailer, she adds a couple letters to her name. Now, she’s killed the drug lord’s son and two meth zombies. Fed up, ready to set fire to her past, her job - and her trailer - she’s dragged back into the role she’s forsworn by a man who presses her buttons with a hammer. Shirley realizes she’ll never be more than a 400-pound hooker. But when her partner-in-revolution, Ulyana the Ukrainian stripper, disappears, Shirley puts flame to fuse.

Paula offers her second collection of short fiction and poetry.

"Over the course of a single summer Egan Kulwicki turned 15, fell in love, and got his ass kicked, roughly in that order." A fun adventure short story about summer crushes, yard work, and demonic forces.

A year after the tragic loss of his wife, Gillen Rainer is struggling to find closure. Unanswered questions linger even for his thirteen-year-old daughter, who is seeking solace in a memory far beyond her recollection.