Thomas A. Burns

Her dead father once asked, "What did you do to make God sad, Nattie?" Natalie McMasters is a twentysomething college student who just wants to get on with her life, and she's got to wonder. Her dear friend lies dead and the crazed killer responsible now has Nattie on his short list. Her only choice? Cancel him before he cancels her Nattie assembles an unlikely squad to find the killer: her wife Lupe, her husband Danny, an aging FBI agent and an even more ancient Tai Chi master. Jointly and separately, they embark on a totally lit road trip across the Old South, meeting danger and death at every turn. Unexpected help is provided by a voice from the grave. But her adversary has a badass squad too, and friends and loved ones fall along the way. Naked and afraid in a primeval swamp, Nattie must confront her greatest enemy one last time. How will she ever get the W?

A crazed sniper. A loved one wounded, in danger of death. The unforgiving Fake News media. And a hidden villain more loathsome than any that Natalie McMasters has encountered before. Nattie's in the crosshairs as a series of seemingly random shootings terrorizes the city. She must fight to keep her polyamorous family from disintegrating, her emotions from running wild and her personal integrity uncompromised. This would be a formidable task for anyone, much less a twentysomething college student who just wants to graduate and get on with her life. Nattie must rely on old friends and new, but how can she even, when friends can become enemies in the blink of an eye? As Nattie nears an emotional meltdown, society collapses along with her, as the sniper's depredations take their toll on the city. Sniper is a twisted, sexy, absolutely gripping descent into darkness jam packed with nail-biting suspense. Don't miss it

Natalie McMasters is twenty, short and blonde (OK, it's bleached), a way cute former stripper and a pre-law student at State. Nattie also works as a private detective at her uncle's 3M Detective Agency. She's deeply in love with her girlfriend Lupe, also a former stripper and undocumented immigrant, who's now a pole-dancing instructor at a local gym. They've finally gotten Lupe's eight-year-old son Eduardo into public school, and it looks like the American Dream may soon become a reality for their little family. That is until a steamy video of Nattie and Lupe appears on the campus-wide closed-circuit TV system. The video is only the first of a series of distressing events that affects every aspect of Nattie's life and threatens the well-being of her family and friends as well. What could Nattie have possibly done in her short life to deserve the callous revenge her unseen tormentor is so brutally exacting? Revenge is ripped from today's headlines and full of the unexpected plot twists and non-stop action that Nattie's fans have come to expect. It has a shocking ending that you won't see coming, even though all the clues are there.

Natalie McMasters is twenty, short and blonde (OK, it's bleached ), way cute, and a pre-law student at State. She's also straight, or at least she thinks so. To put herself through school, she's moonlighting as a private detective trainee at her uncle Amos Murdoch's 3M Detective Agency, where the most exciting thing she does is sit in a car. After she directly confronts a subject on a stakeout, Amos fires her for taking too many chances. Then she meets another student who bears an uncanny resemblance to her, and everything in her life changes. When her new best friend is brutally murdered and Amos is critically injured, Nattie immerses herself in the seamy world of web cams and strip clubs to hunt the killer. Her investigation forces her to reassess many of the ideas that she's lived by her whole life and do things she's never considered before - strip on a stage, question her sexuality, and rediscover the meaning of love itself. Nattie eventually exposes a drug ring, police corruption, and an assassin-for-hire online. Then she stumbles upon the true face of evil, and her encounter does not leave her unscathed...