It’s release day! Black Gold Secret, the first book in the Mercer Files, is available today.
Thank you for making room for a new series alongside Mirror Estate and KC & Orlando Prime. This one takes us out onto the Gulf Coast, where a wreck has been keeping its secrets for twenty-five years.
Welcome to Blackwater Rig Three
Hurricane Tanya exposes the old offshore disaster site. Reporter Gemma Klein receives an anonymous package that points her toward it. Luke Mercer, a salvage operator whose father died in the explosion, has no interest in helping a journalist reopen that part of his life.
Then Luke finds a hidden case inside the wreck. What looked like an old accident begins to look like something people are still willing to kill to conceal.
What you’ll find in the Mercer Files
This is clean action-adventure suspense, with dangerous recoveries, a corporate cover-up, and a slow-burn romantic undercurrent. Luke and Gemma bring different skills to the investigation, and neither can follow the whole trail alone.
Black Gold Secret tells its own central case while opening a larger conspiracy that continues through the series. You can begin here without having read any of my other books.
If you’ve been waiting for release day, get your copy of Black Gold Secret here. I hope you enjoy getting to know Luke and Gemma.
A little more to explore
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