Three more awards received in 2017
Gold for Seb Cage Begins His Adventures
Gold for The Time Slipsters
Silver for The Deaduction Agency

He slid her a skeptical look. “What is that?”
She almost laughed at the suspicion in his face. “Food. Real food. Didn’t you eat?”
He frowned. “Not any of that.”
“You’re missing out. You can’t get anything like this out of a replicator.”
“You can get anything out of a replicator.”
She grinned and held up the burger. “Not like this. Not anything this juicy.

Relax,” the woman said. “It’s just me.”

“Just you?” Hale asked with heavy irony, remembering the black leather and predator’s eyes with a stab of heat. Dangerous beauty had always been his downfall.

“I’m watching your back.”

“Sure you are,” he snorted. Beauty or not, he wasn’t stupid enough to trust. Screw, sure. Trust, no way.

She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of the others. “You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core. But I will tell you what I’ve told the others. This is your last chance. You screw up with me and you get shipped up river. I don’t offer second chances—I offer last chances.”

Nope, he didn’t like it. She saw the hand not holding the bottle of beer curl into a fist.

Sin and Del, from Sunscapes Trilogy, Book 1: Last Chance

No matter how advanced the technology, sometimes things just needed a good knock.

Goodnight baby, sleep in peace. After you kill that bitch!"

"Goodnight mom!