Disaster struck when twin sisters Jennifer and Melissa Salazar went hiking with their grandmother on their sixth birthday. Melissa fell off a cliff above Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe and died. Eight years later, 14-year-old Jennifer asks Detective Owen McKenna to investigate. McKenna uncovers a long-buried secret that is still causing murders, and he realizes that Jennifer is to be the next victim...The "HVZA: Hudson Valley Zombie Apocalypse" novels have created a terrifying world where a mysterious parasite has turned ordinary people into killers and cannibals. This short story begins at the onset of the infection, at the region's largest shopping mall, the Palisades Center in West Nyack, NY. Follow the lives of several people as they attend the sale, only to come face to face with their worst nightmares. Some will survive, and some will die, but no one will ever be the same.

A Computer Genius Created A Startup Worth A Billion DollarsTahoe tech guru Yardley LaMotte had a vision for future robots that could transform the world. He started a company called Tahoe Robotics.A Murderous Gang Wanted The SoftwareTwisted killers with ties to a Swedish prison gang figured out how to steal the software. All they needed was the key to unlock the computer code.The Killers Kidnap A Child Who May Know The PasswordA brilliant kid was in the classroom when the Tahoe Robotics founder visited a local school and talked about encryption. When that kid goes missing, the father contacts Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna.McKenna Plans To Attack The Gang From The SkyWhen McKenna learns that the kidnappers are hiding the kid at a mountaintop compound protected by armed guards, he plans to rescue the child by using a paraglider to drop out of the sky at night. But the plan goes horribly wrong. Unless McKenna and his Great Dane Spot...

In 1940, a teenage blind boy named Danny Callahan witnessed the scuttling of the SS Tahoe Steamer, the grandest ship to ever sail Lake Tahoe. Eighty years later, a killer beats up old man Daniel Callahan, demanding to know the truth about a secret that went down with the ship. If Callahan doesn't tell all he knows, the people closest to Callahan will die... **

When a pop star dies in a mountain biking incident on the world-famous Flume Trail high above the East Shore of Lake Tahoe, Detective Owen McKenna is drawn into a dangerous case with a killer who appears to be a twisted psychopath. But as McKenna investigates, it appears that the killings may be cover for a huge money-making scam. McKenna and his Great Dane Spot both become targets of the killer.

Early one frigid morning in January a young man named Thos Kahale walked into Lake Tahoe and died a brutal death. Hired to investigate, Detective McKenna learns of a manuscript that Mark Twain left in Hawaii in 1866. The manuscript turns up in Tahoe with deadly consequences. Only one person knows where it is, and that person will die unless McKenna can find him before a killer learns his identity.