One Night of GraceIt’s a year after the Summer of Love. Horace Blackthorne was just released from the VA hospital in Westwood, California and on his last night before going home, he abandons the smoky atmosphere of the bar to enjoy the clear beach air.Did he see a mermaid? Or id he hallucinating? Or is she about to commit suicide by drowning? None of the above, he discovers, and spends the night with Grace, sharing dreams, learning things about himself.When Horace Met Grace … Again38 Years LaterHorace Blackthorne now heads the exclusive and prestigious security company, Blackthorne, Inc. What most people don’t know is there’s a private side to the company, a covert ops side, triggered in part by a chance meeting with a young woman on the beach decades ago. Who is the Mrs. Edgar Ellsworth who’s submitted an expense report for seven hundred dollars? When she appears in his office, confessing to her espionage-filled past, he is curious. Why is she carrying around a not-quite-perfect seashell?
Love & Order
A powerful attorney, a woman with a heart too big for her own good, and an instant family neither was