In The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. With double-crosses and double-dealings from the word go, Parker knows the line between success and failure on this score would be exactly the length of the barrel of a .38.

"Every expectant parent insists the same thing: they simply want a healthy baby. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe wanted the same but instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, pity from other parents, and haunting what-ifs. Yet, in other ways, their daughter Willow is a perfect child. Smart as a whip, beautiful, brave, and kind, Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health. Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and Sean to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte had known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more: what constitutes a valuable life?"--from amazon.com

Within a set of inhabited planets in another galaxy, humanity’s most powerful machine has made contact with entities who have granted power to whoever wishes to ally themselves with them. One man wakes up to find himself guilty of serious crimes... but something within his mind won’t let him stop fighting to live until he reaches a mysterious location, said to be a lethal alien artifact. His relentless pursuit to reach to this place leads him to face both his hunters and nature, until he himself encounters a being from another dimension. Join one man’s search and open the door to a new adventure.

Sometimes Fate delivers a left hook. After Fate deals Supreme Battle Challenge (SBC) fighter Harley Handleman a sucker punch, his uncle secretly hires a pretty lifecoach to get Harley back in the ring of life. Anastasia Kelley has actually known Harley for years, but never as well as she's going to now. Hot for his fighter's form, she has trouble keeping it professional, especially since Harley doesn't know she was hired. And when Anastasia turns the tables on him, it's as if he's been hit below the belt. But that's also where is uncontrollable lust for her burns.

SOMETIMES LIFE JUST HURTS.... THIS BOOK IS ABOUT HOW TO COPE AND WHY TO HOPE. The underlying theme of the book is that life is complicated and sometimes downright painful... but there is hope. If we don't give up the search for a handle on LIFE... we will "get a grip." (CLICK ON BOOK COVER FOR MORE INFORMATION)

Stagliano reveals how one woman raises three daughters with autism, loses one at Disney World, stays married, has sex, bakes gluten-free, goes broke, and keeps her sense of humor.