Works in Progress

The Devil Passed By

A glimpse into Northern Ireland at the height of The Troubles, when Mai and Alexei try to determine if a covert military unit is back in action and targeting Mai’s distant relative.

Coming 2024.

Secrets

An eBook box set containing three full-length novels initially, Secrets is about three secondary characters in the “Real Spies, Real Lives” canon: Olga Lubova, Grace Lydell, and someone in Mai Fisher’s life.

EBook box set to be released on June 1, 1024. Print editions of the three novels–A Spy’s Legacy, For My Country, and Taking Her Bows–will be released through the summer of 2024.

Enemies Domestic

Sequel to A Perfect Hatred.

Book One

Twenty years after the events in A Perfect Hatred, Mai Fisher has moved into management, and neither she nor Alexei, now retired, give much thought to the mission both of them wanted to forget. A series of terrorist actions at first look like Da’esh–ISIL, ISIS–has set up shop in the United States, but an interview with an inmate serving life in Red Onion Penitentiary sheds a new light on an old mission.

Book Two

As all the pieces come together, Mai Fisher can finally bring that old mission to a conclusion, but the reach of a secret cabal of rich men far exceeds hers.

Book Three, A Squalid Procession of Vain Fools

The Directorate has moved to Geneva, Switzerland, and Alexei Bukharin is content to be a house-husband while Mai continues as the head of The Directorate. Of all places, while in the grocery store, someone approaches him, someone who stirs a vague memory. The woman pops up again and again, and when she confesses who she really is, Alexei ends up in the hospital. Mai deals with this domestic upset while she continues her plan to bring down an American president–only to find out they’re both related.

The series will likely begin some time in 2025.

Mournful Influence of the Unperceived Shadow

Genre: Literary Fiction, with a hint of mystery; sequel to Supreme Madness of the Carnival Season

Now divorced and in a new relationship with private investigator Cody Britto, Marilyn Hendrix is cornered by the brother of a writer friend, who asks her to look into why his girlfriend walked away from their elopement. Neither Marilyn nor Cody wants to get into the business of solving mysteries together, but when their “client” dies in a fire of suspicious origins, they began to look into the history of an unusual family who lives outside Ewington, a family who holds a particularly dark and sordid secret.

Publication date TBD.

Writing, Spies, and Writing About Spies: A Collection of Essays, Blog Posts, and Musings

A nonfiction collection of the author’s most popular blog posts and other nonfiction from between 2016 and the present.

Publication date TBD.