This is the table of contents for my Substack DoaCK novel/story series, because their POS interface won't let me do anything like this.
See here for introduction.
This is an in-universe timeline order of stories. As I make them available, I'll link each chapter to its page.
Much of the writing in this series is episodic and can, largely, be read in any order. That said, later stories often contain spoilers for earlier ones. If the stories are interrelated, as is true for chunks of the novels proper, I'll highlight their association by numbering them.
Those without links haven't been posted yet.
Links to each novel:
Dramatis Personae NOTE: Contains Spoilers!
Character names below are linked to their entry. Reminder: Contains Spoilers!
Life Saver Part 1, where Jim the smuggler officially meets Seacay.
Agatha, where she and Seacay first meet.
Life Saver Part 2, the second time Jim's life is saved by Seacay
Book 1: "Trained Killers, Falling in Love"
Enter the mind of an international contract killer.
Analytical, patient, and methodical, Seacay works alone since leaving the special forces; he sees any dependency as weakness. Seacay works when he wants, charges what he likes, and moves around the world anonymously. Picking up women - the more, the better - Seacay enjoys spending his money and building his secure mansion in the mountains.
Seacay's life is perfect... until a gorgeous Brazilian spy complicates a routine mission. More intelligent than she is beautiful, Isabel has lightning-fast, deadly reflexes. Almost involuntarily, Seacay collaborates with Isabel and her team to complete his mission. After they go their separate ways, Seacay's left with feelings he's never experienced and doesn't understand. He throws himself into work just to clear out the cobwebs.
In the ensuing years, fate, and Isabel's girlfriend, Tessa - a matchmaking fellow spy - conspire to bring Seacay and Isabel back together. But Seacay fights fate - and Tessa - until Isabel suddenly vanishes.
Can Seacay find Isabel? Should he?
Negotiating unfamiliar feelings, Seacay throws himself into this new rescue mission.
But will it be too late to save Isabel?
Part 1: Seacay meets Isabel
Part 2: Twice as Beautiful
Part 3: Frustration is as Frustration Does
Part 4: The Price of Success
1. It's All In The Mind
2. Damsel in Distress
3. Search and Rescue
4. Recovery
5. Home At Last!
6. What Comes Next
One Perfect Evening, where Angelina's mother details the one-night-stand she shared with Seacay.
Book 2: "New Circumstances"
Book 2: "New Circumstances"
Seacay, Isabel and Tessa have to forge a way to work together as a loving partnership and contract killing team. They must adapt their very different backgrounds and personalities into a cohesive whole.
Seacay, the loner, must learn to work as part of a team.
Isabel, despite her expertise as a sex lure, needs to learn about love.
Tessa must develop the confidence to work independently from her old Agency.
During this process a stunning secret is revealed, forcing them to reevaluate many life-long choices made or avoided. With this process barely begun, the team takes a job in the snowy North that seems to conspire against them at every turn. Afterwards, the trio undertake a job where the least risky part is the execution, the preliminary research and exfiltration afterwards are even more dangerous.
Part 1: Adjusting to New Circumstances
The A Team
So Much for Intentions
Wine and Roses
Thorns and Hangovers
Unburdening
The Little Job that Could
Settling In
Background Basics
Start with the Beginning
Mentor is as Mentor Does
Part 2: Background Research
For Example
A Day in the Life
Back to the Job
Tessa Takes On
Vexation
This Blonde is not a Bimbo!
Training
Tessa Meets Isabel
Things Slow Down
Killing Time
Trying Something Different
Skimming the Cream
Church and State
Part 3: Adding to the Team
1. Search and Rescue, Mark II
2. Sown Seed
3. Becoming a Mother?
4. A Daughter? At My Age?
5. More Thorns, Hangover
6. Breaking In
7. Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child
Part 4: Winter Wonderland
1. Time for a Break
2. A Change of Scenery
3. In the Hot Seat
4. Getting Started
5. Shopping!
6. Making Small Progress
7. The Suite Life
8. Luring
9. Angering The Gods
10. Back to Field Work
11. Wrapping Up
Part 5: Stretching Out
1. Seacay
2. Tessa
3. Romancing the Raven Haired
4. Tessa, Mark II
5. Isabel
6. Distraction Example
7. Isabel, Mark II
8. The Hit
9. Back at the Ranch
Agency Woman Part 1, Sarah describes her evolving thoughts about Seacay.
Book 3: "Training Manual"
I was kidnapped at 8 by a total stranger. Held prisoner in his house. Subject to continuous exhausting training where I was beaten every time I failed or lost focus. The training was carefully designed to turn me into a spy/assassin. Nearly 10 years later, my training is complete and I'm on my first mission. My first chance to escape. This is my story...
Go inside Angelina's mind as she puts her training to work and learns confidence in herself.
Can she reconcile herself to her alien situation? Can she manage as team lead? Will her trained reflexes be enough to save her family?
Part 1: Inauguration
Getting Pawed
After Action Review
Meet the 'Rents
Some History
Hobbies
Fighting Unfair
Summer Camps
Hiding in Plain Sight
Surviving Naked and Alone
Part 2: Training Montage
Pushing Past the Edge
Misc
Awakening
Seeing with Sound
Lying Very Still
The Fog of Paintball
Infiltration
Avenging Angel
Draw!
To Be Beaten
Taking a Punch
Discovery
Gigolo as Gigodoes
Part 3: Plan C
1. The Trepidation of Beginnings
2. Becoming the Boss
3. Planning Imperfect
4. Into Action
5. Plan B
6. The Last Step?
7. AAR
Part 4: Baby's First Hits
Long Range
Up Close, Personal
Vanishing Point
Paging Dr. Anon
Tension Release
He Who Hesitates...
When it all Goes Well
And When it Falls Apart
Part 5: The End of the Beginning
1. Road Trip
2. Friendly Neighborhood Arms Dealer
3. New Diggs
4. Back to Basics
5. Libernapping
6. Bested
7. Interrogation
8. What Comes Next
9. What Just Happened?
Agency Woman Part 2, Sarah's further adventures regarding Seacay.
Demo Day, Nadine narrates a day-in-the-life of an arms dealer.
Book 4: "Courting a Killer" (NOTE: this hasn't been writen yet)
JJ knows the precise instant he fell in love with his best friend, Angelina. It was also the same moment his heart broke. What's the issue? Beyond the usual teenage angst, there's the three year difference in age; huge when you're fourteen. Then there's the matter that Angelina has spent nearly a decade training with her father to be a contract killer. Oh, then there's the reality that Angelina has trained under one of her moms as a sex lure, complete with gigolos. Not to mention her other mom training Angelina to be a world-class expert in deadly hand-to-hand combat.
JJ knows how foolish it is to to be love with a sociopathic killer, but he just can't help himself. JJ works to make himself irresistible to Angelina, but knows he'll never be able to be a consciousness killing machine. Can JJ reconcile himself to his conflicting desires? Can JJ survive his self-imposed training regime to convince Angelina he can be more than a friend? Can JJ keep from getting captured, or worse, as he learns to 'play' in Angelina's world?
Debbie's View, where she describes an adventure with Isabel
Twilight: what happens when a contract killer gives up his job?
Appendix: Select character bios.