Oregon correctional center inmate Winnie Yates is serving mandatory minimum sentences adding up to nineteen years and two months. Locked up from age twenty until she turns thirty-nine.A harsh punishment when her victim came through the so-called home invasion with only a bruise on her forehead.Winnie's appeal failed but today she has a chance to make a better deal. Her reward will be immediate release, shaving forty months off her sentence.Winnie...

FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd goes undercover in Romania to bust a criminal gang luring impoverished young women into sexual slavery. Posing with Police Cadet Stela Dragomir as penniless sisters seeking hotel-maid jobs in Western Europe, the two law enforcement agents hope to force Vlad, the gang's sleazy recruiter, to expose the organization's bosses. A high-stakes operation with one big risk. Dawna doesn't speak a word of Romanian. Pretending...

Lawyer Nora Dockson swore to tell the truth. But will she stick to her oath when only deception can save her innocent client?An ex-con, Nora pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals attorney. She works only for convicted felons, rescuing innocents trapped by the flawed process that put them behind bars.For seven years, she's tried to convince the court that her client didn't kill the victim. She failed again today.She thinks the real...

Every year, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd gets sucked in by March Madness.The fever strikes harder when the Big Dance is set in Texas. With the Final Four happening on her own turf, Dawna has to take leave from the Bureau and fly home. Lucky for Lupe, her former teammate, now coaching women's basketball at an East Texas college. Lupe's team is headed for the tournament. And Lupe worries a betting scandal is brewing around a key player.Will illegal...

Dawna Shepherd loves her family, working as an FBI Special Agent, and playing basketball. She's celebrating Christmas in her home town when a bounty hunter pursues her college student brother home from Lubbock. Certain that Fugitive Team Leader Tommy O'Brien is chasing the wrong quarry, Dawna stops him cold at the Shepherd front door. But she knows O'Brien won't give up. And all her crime-fighter instincts are screaming that the bounty hunter is...

Her BS detector clicking madly, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd discovers a rat on the Danish ferry sailing from Norway to England. Not a stinky rodent, but a completely odorless Homeland Security Agent with a hidden agenda. Unlike the eighteen East European cops attending the shipboard conference, the agent organizing it has no scent, no humor, and no bling. Not a partner Dawna automatically trusts. The agent deserves her suspicion. Though the conference...

March Madness is a month away. FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd is off-duty from her temp assignment in Seattle. And on board Amtrak's Coast Starlight, headed for Eugene. Tonight, she'll cheer for the Lady Ducks' basketball team, ranked number three in the nation. Fate trumps that plan when her train stops in Portland. The number one criminal on the FBI's most-wanted list boards her double-decker coach and claims the aisle seat three rows in front...

Washington State Trooper Captain Kent Harper desperately needs hands-on experience with Spokane County's updated electronic Pawn Database System.To get it, he'll investigate a minor crime way below his pay grade. The bonus is that he can also do a favor for his long-time lover Nora Dockson. A veteran cop, Kent's sure he'll identify the culprit who stole from LaNoir Kennedy, owner of Nora's favorite hair salon. Unfortunately, LaNoir waited a month...

FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd's training across Siberia with the USA women's junior basketball team. She'll join them on the bench at their next crucial game in the capital of Mongolia. Undercover and unofficial, Dawna acts like a die-hard hoops fan on summer vacation while she tries to solve a big problem for her friend, the team coach.Someone is sending anonymous email threats to Alyssa, the team's powerhouse forward, and Alyssa's not playing...

FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd wants to have a blast-literally. Based at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest, she's exploding a car bomb and blowing up the crumbling pre-War building beside it. The ambo himself will give a press conference as part of the kickoff event for the Academy's new post-blast investigation seminar. A big deal, and if anything goes wrong, her FBI career is toast. But she planned carefully and she's confident...