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Flight Dreams -- Seven years ago, Chicago socialite Helena Carter disappeared from her fashionable North Shore estate. The newspapers have been humming with rumors of foul play--and worse. And now the headlines are blazing even hotter because in three months she will be declared legally dead, and the bulk of her fortune will go to the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.
Investigative journalist Mark Manning may be the only one in Chicago who believes the missing heiress is still alive, taking flight from a secret too terrible to expose. But if the thirty-nine-year-old reporter has dedicated his career to uncovering the truth, his private life has been built on one enormous deception: Manning is gay. When Manning's instincts compel him to follow a trail leading to Arizona, he meets architect Neil Waite—the first man who breaks through his painstakingly built wall of self-denial. And in an unforgettable night of searing honesty and breathtaking beauty, he finally discovers what it means to soar. But just as Manning is beginning to accept and take pride in his homosexuality, a shocking revelation unfolds that will place his own life at grave risk.
More than a tightly-plotted mystery, even more than the moving tale of one man's coming-out, Flight Dreams is a tale of dreams we all share...dreams that transcend our ordinary lives...dreams that can, truly, take flight.

Eye Contact -- Some people play with sex, secrets, or danger. But in every game of cat-and-mouse, there is a fleeting, breathless bond between predator and prey. A connection that can alter your life forever... It begins as a simple assignment for Chicago Journal reporter Mark Manning. He's been hired to replace colleague, Cliff Nolan, on a top story. Renowned astrophysicist, Pavo Zarnick, claims to have discovered a tenth planet, but to the skeptical reporter, there is no story because there is no proof. And without proof, there is no element of mystery...until Manning makes some startling discoveries of his own: Nolan's body with a bullet hole in his back and the last interview with Zarnick is missing. Now the story is no longer a matter of metaphysics, but of murder.
It's not just foul play and a puzzle that capture Manning's imagination. His new assistant, twenty-three-year-old David Bosch, haunts Manning's days and dreams. Working so close to the eager junior reporter, whose sole interest in journalism seems to be Mark, awakens every yearning that Manning has been struggling to keep in check since building his new life with two-year lover Neil Waite.
As the days progress, Manning must shift his attentions from David to finding out who shot Nolan. For the murderer has learned that Manning and David are quickly picking up on his trail, revealing a series of cover-ups and exposing secret after secret, each one more astonishing than the last. And now a desperate predator has marked someone close to Manning. But Manning is driven even more as he soon comes closer to the truth...and to an inevitable, damning piece of evidence the killer will do anything to destroy. Even if it means committing murder again.

Body Language -- The holidays are approaching, but Chicago Journal reporter Mark Manning is anything but joyous. His career at the Journal has maxed out, guilt over the death of a colleague has taken its toll, and another birthday has him contemplating his own mortality. Mark's only emotional bedrock? His lover of three years, handsome architect Neil Waite. But even Neil can't pull Mark out of his midlife slump. What he needs is a major life change.
It's waiting for him in his sleepy hometown of Dumont, Wisconsin, where he's made plans to take over the local paper, purchase the rambling old home where he visited as a child, and reacquaint himself with his cousin Suzanne and her teenage son, Thad. To Mark, it's a dream come true. The old house has been readied for the holidays, the paper's new editor, Milwaukee transplant Parker Trent, is handsome, qualified, and gay, and the Christmas snowfall has taken Mark back to happy times in his childhood, and to the memory that inspired a lifelong erotic fantasy. But as he soon discovers, the promise of a new beginning is shaded in something sinister. It begins with a series of threatening letters. With Thad's violent outbursts. And with murder.
Just days before Christmas, Mark discovers Suzanne lying in a pool of her own blood, felled by a blow to the head a single cryptic message on her lips. It is that dying word that leads Mark into the darkest recesses of Suzanne's life, and the even darker regions of his own past, where the most dangerous of secrets are buried deep in a bitter, and deadly, family plot.
In the words of Mark Manning himself, "this one has it all-deceit, greed, secrets, and lust-not to mention murder." From its provocative beginning to its page-turning climax, BODY LANGUAGE is charged with erotic tension and stunning twists and turns. It is a novel that speaks to the mind, the gut, and the heart, as few thrillers do.