James Paddock: 17 books

After 8 years Zechariah Price assumes it is all behind him. Nightmares filled with huge sabre-toothed cats and women screaming still leave him in cold sweats, though less often. He had lost an eye the first time around; Tanya had fractured her back; their marriage had petered on the brink. There was...

It’s a day like any other, except for the money, and the hot roast beef with mustard, chocolate shake and hot apple pie at Charlie’s. Naomi Wilcox’s life is in limbo before that Saturday when she finds herself driving too fast on a two lane backtop in Nevada, a bag stuffed with bundles of hundred...

Imagine waking one day with a new face and no memory, an opportunity to pick a new name and start a new life; a clean slate. Orphaned as children, separated for 22 years, Melissa is intent on finding her identical twin, Marissa; however Marissa is now Mariah and not who she used to be. Melissa’s...

One might say that CJ Washburn is obsessed with Stella Summers. After all, common sense all but takes flight when she goes missing for a time. How could he not think to check his email or voice mail or not find the note she had left in his apartment? He runs to the scene of a body dump in fear that...

CJ and Stella are to be married in eight days. Yes, finally, they are doing the deed. They’ve been declining new, involved cases (Stella is now a licensed P.I.) in preparation for the honeymoon to New Zealand, but the call from Parker DuPont in St. Petersburg, Florida has them on a private jet and...

Detective Parker DuPont turned in his letter of resignation (he forgot to tell his wife) and is just weeks away from officially hanging his P.I. shingle, when he catches his first case. At first he thinks it’s a joke being played upon him by a colleague jokester. It is certainly not a joke. Charlie...

What if the World Trade Center and the Pentagon weren't the only targets?Natasha Greene: Sadly single, impulsive, the “Redheaded Blond”Trevor Oitfinger: Sadly divorced, a Montana gentlemanJo’Baer: The leader of a terrorist cellTime: Days leading up to 9/11Place: Helena, Montana,...

The P.I. team, CJ Washburn and his wife, Stella, the former Stella Summers, have been married only a few days when they head out on their honeymoon to New Zealand, the land of sailing, penguins and volcanoes, as well as a bloody bedroom of death. Liam Henwood and two of his young children were brutally...

Lester Winters, in early stages of Alzheimer’s, submits to an experimental procedure (a pacemaker for his brain) to restore his memory. He first recalls a dead woman who, it is assumed by his wife, is his mother from years past. As weeks go by and Lester’s ‘pacemaker’ does its job, he recalls...

Sky Deakins doesn’t believe that her husband committed suicide; however, to get to the truth she may have to reveal a secret that she’s kept close to her heart for twenty-three years, twenty-two of which she has been a widow. It’s a secret that she’s thinking she may not want to take to her...

Book 1 of the Time-Travel Duo, Before Anne After: It’s July, 1987. Through a series of small errors and oversights – a missed phone message, an unlocked high-security door, a lax in protocol, a falling purse – eight-month pregnant Annabelle Waring unknowingly stumbles into her husband’s time-travel...

A collection of short shorts and long shorts, humorous, sad, thought provoking and by all means, interesting. •The attack of the one-eyed killer gator •A South Carolina bride struggles as a Montana wife •What caused the casket lid to slam shut? •A waiting room between heaven and the next life •The...

Rusty loves Ariana, the only person, outside of his maternal grandmother, he has ever had strong feelings for until he finds an 8-year-old girl trapped in a toilet of a crashed airliner in the remote Bob Marshal Wilderness of Montana; the sole survivor. She says her name is Amber. With several days...

Imagine recreating the saber-toothed cat for fun? The possibility sounds exciting, but the reality could be nightmarish. In this trilogy of full-length novels we are drawn into in a world where man becomes the hunted, where cats change the rules and people run for their lives.Book 1 of the...