Cheat Codes

Archer has always wanted what he can’t have—Quinn Dawson. Since the moment he saw her, he’s been denying his feelings for her, ignoring the void in his heart he knows only she can fill.
Everything about them was wrong, the kind of wrong that felt so right. But none of it mattered. Not the terrible timing. And definitely not the mess it would create if Archer made a move on his best friend’s baby sister.
It was supposed to be one night, but one night is all it takes to make everything more complicated, and they only have nine short months to sort it all out.
No, none of it mattered. Until it did.
**Cheat Codes is book one in The Dawson Family Series.**

The Inconvenient Duchess

“Merrill deftly delivers a well-crafted, potent and passionate” Victorian romance in her RWA Golden Heart Award–winning debut novel (Romantic Times).Dear Cici and Father,I have come to Devon and married a duke. And I’m more tired and hungry than I have ever been in my life. Please let me come home.Compromised and wedded on the same day, Lady Miranda was fast finding married life not to her taste. A decaying manor and a secretive husband were hardly the stuff of girlish dreams. Yet every time she looked at dark, brooding Marcus Radwell, Duke of Haughleigh, she felt inexplicably compelled—and determined—to make their marriage real!

A Baby for Easter

Alice Grantham lost her fiancé and her job, so she’s had to come home to Willow Park to live with her parents. To recover some sense of independence and security, she’s cobbled together different part-time jobs, including one as assistant to the pastor of her hometown church. Nothing seems to be going right for her. Even Micah, the first boy she ever loved, is standoffish with her now.Micah has always been a prodigal son, but now he’s trying to put that lifestyle behind him. Then a five-month-old daughter he never knew existed is dropped on his doorstep, the result of one of his many one-night stands. He needs help from Alice to care for his daughter, but he can’t let himself hope for a second chance with her. He can’t help but want it, though…

The Wolfgang Pierce Series (Books 1–3)

Three Heart-Pounding Thrillers—One Explosive Price!Wolfgang Pierce doesn’t play by the rules. As a contract espionage specialist, he operates in any time zone, under any conditions. Subterfuge, shootouts, and high-stakes deception? Just another Monday for Wolfgang and his team.But this job is different. Their client? The U.S. government. Their mission? To protect a vulnerable CIA operative code-named Raven.Raven is deep inside a counter-terrorist mission in Paris, and somebody wants him taken out. Wolfgang’s team is hired to run interference—a quick in-and-out job.Or so they think. But someone is lying….And it’s a lie that could cost thousands of lives.From Paris to Cairo to Moscow, these adrenaline-charged thrillers are razor-sharp, relentless, and packed with jaw-dropping twists. If you love Vince Flynn, James Bond, and Mission Impossible, you won’t be able to put these books down!

Desperate Journey

“This is a story of escape; a true account of how a dwindling group of soldiers made their way to safety through nearly a thousand miles of Japanese-occupied territory in the teeth of the monsoon.” On 20th April 1942, Captain Thompson received word that the defensive line held by their Chinese allies had broken; orders or no orders, he knew they had to move.
Separated from the rest of the Burma Army and weary from months of continuous fighting retreats, the survivors of his Karen Company began their long walk northwards. In the suffocating Burmese jungle the days turned to weeks, the weeks into months, and all the while the mental decay kept pace with their physical deterioration.
And yet, with such indomitable men as Subedar-Major Kan Choke and Subedar Ba Gyaw at Thompson’s side, his Company clung to each other and endured. When Fort Hertz finally came into view in August, the journey of nine hundred miles and untold maladies had left many of them little more than walking skeletons.
Written in 1944 but remaining unseen for over thirty years, Desperate Journey is an extraordinary true story of human endeavour, of faith, courage, tenacity and mutual trust in the face of insurmountable odds.
Praise for Francis Clifford: ‘Not since Graham Greene was creating his adventures has there been a writer with such haunting quality, the sweet sound of sad beauty, which Clifford engenders’ – New York Herald Tribune ‘Mr. Clifford constructs an anatomy of fear, drawing in with fine, sharp lines the exposed and shrinking nerves’ – The Times Francis Clifford is a pen name of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson , a British writer of crime and thriller novels. He was born in Bristol, served with great distinction in the Second World War, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.