Books published by del Oro

FIRST PLACE, READER VIEWS LITERARY AWARDS; CHOICE AWARD WINNER, REBECCA READS; A FIRST HORIZON AWARD FINALIST (Hoffer Awards) and a READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARD FINALIST. "Riveting...You don't want to put it down!" S. Marie Vernon, PACIFIC BOOK REVIEW. -- When Jarret, a seasoned assassin agrees to do one last "hit" in Indonesia, and discovers his hands have gained the power to heal, his carefully planned, secret world is thrown into chaos. Desperate to understand what's happening to him, he seeks out a local mystic, a Dalang of the spiritual Shadow Puppet Theater and his mysterious, mesmerizing daughter, only to soon find himself healing the sick of Jakarta's slums by night, while by day, planning the hit on the very presidential candidate trying to help them -- driving Jarret to a mental, emotional and spiritual crisis from which there is no escape, save the SHaDOW GAME.

FIVE STARS, Readers' Favorite Book Reviews; RECOMMENDED, The US Review of Books ("A suspenseful must read!") When Eddy Reeves, a smart, Manhattan defense attorney with a broken past, wakes up one morning to find himself framed for the murder of a known gangland player, he knows it's only a matter of time before he's either arrested by the Police, or gunned down by a contract killer, Eddy drops out of sight, changes his appearance and goes in search of the truth. With nowhere else to turn, he reaches out to the only person who can help him now: his painfully-estranged ex-fiance, Sally Matthews, now a rising star at the District Attorneys office, and currently dating a NYPD Homicide detective. Despite every ounce of her better judgment, their old romance sparks, and Sally finds herself trying to help Eddy in his desperate efforts to exonerate himself, precariously embroiling herself in Eddy's deadly troubles, forcing Eddy to make a gut-wrenching, dire decision that will forever change both their lives...

FINALIST, Readers' Favorite Book Awards ""Brilliantly entertaining!"" When a suddenly divorced, big-city lawyer named Will comes South to lick his wounds and write the great American crime novel, he meets Jasmine, a mysterious, beguiling waitress whose late night, black-humored tales of Gothic crime and coldblooded murder draw him into her hazardous world. But as two new murders grip the tightly-knit swamp community, Will soon realizes that not only is he falling for Jasmine, but that her dark stories may all be true, implicating Jasmine herself. Hellbent to discover the truth, Will soon finds himself descending into a precarious underworld determined to keep its secrets -- secrets that may either exonerate Jasmine, or find Will face down in the swamp, left to the kindness of alligators.

FIVE STARS, Readers' Favorite Reviews; "I COULD NOT PUT THE BOOK DOWN!" Reader Views...What if there was a brain-altering technology capable of making a person believe he or she is somebody else, replete with implanted memories? What if this technology was being employed by US Counter Intelligence to transform common soldier into short-term "immersion" spies, "trancing" them into believing they are committed members of the Taliban to learn its secrets? Set in the Afghan mountains, TRANCER follows a Special Ops Team with an embedded female "T Tech" specialist on a mission to deploy a Trancer spy into the Taliban, then safely extract him. But as their mission grows ever more life-threatening, their young spy grows increasingly concerned by his lost-time memory lapses, as well as his shifting loyalties, driving him on a hellbent search to discover who he truly is, even as he tries to protect a precarious new love.