Diamond in the Rough, Book 1

Katrina “Kat” Diamond - private security specialist, investigator and avid kick boxer might be considered a diamond in the rough. With two loving uncles, Uncle Avery, a police captain and Uncle Ernie or “Unc”, her trainer and coach, Del, a young male investigator for a partner, and Martin, a quirky guardian angel sitting on her right shoulder that talks to her in her head, even when Kat is trying to shower. There are too damn many males trying to run her life. For her clients, she has a “Kick-Ass and Take Names” attitude. Did I mention Big Bill, or whom Kat calls, Big Bruiser who she first met in the ring. Then there is Byron, a shy and introverted bestselling author of hard-hitting crime mysteries starring Dash Crabtree. Byron is being stalked by one crazy woman who claims he got her in the family way. Yeah, too many men. Kat has two good friends, though. Jinx is her best friend, sparring partner and confidant. Then there is Buttons is her faithful and loving, four-legged companion and protector who's teeth can intimidate any man.

Charles “Chuck” Needham is an FBI agent, still recovering from the loss of his wife to illness. Their paths cross when Kat as a favor to her Uncle Avery, takes on a seven-year-old missing persons cold case. Through age-progression software and use of other technology, Kat finds Tracy, fourteen now, forced into bondage and married to a monster, forcibly pregnant, tortured and abused, scared to death of any man but willing to risk everything to protect her unborn child. Tracy's single thing that keeps her going is that she remembers the woman that took her from her family. During her tortured captivity, she re-draws that face in her head, over and over, every day and finally commits that drawing to paper after gaining her freedom. She wants Kat to find that woman and see that she is taken down. Kat and Chuck link up in a cross-country race in her pocket-rocket to save another abducted child now linked to that same woman.

Crazy stepbrothers, a gang from Chicago known as the N Street Assassins, Nebraska truck stop shenanigans, a crazy gang leader whose handle is Oswalt, Kat's Mercedes Gull-Wing and all kinds of crazy stuff await the reader. I invite you take the wild ride into Kat's world through these five Storybooks.