The Kentucky Chronicles

Something is destroying the thoroughbred bloodlines of Kentucky. Is the villainous plot sounding the death knell for the horse racing industry? Can the efforts and passions of Tucker Flannery, manager of Fairhaven Farm, and Doctor Gwen Gardot, a microbiologist with the Kentucky Equine Center, interpret the ravenous disturbance and restore the noble breed to its kingly reign?

Wrestling with his tortured past, Sasha, also known as Darkside, is now the trusted confidante and manager of the Sheikh of Karoumi's most valued horse stables. Loyalty and motives are tested as Darkside finds himself lured into a fantasy voyage with the woman of every man's dreams. The discovery that his sheikh has been kidnapped while he is conveniently unavailable quickly turns his dream cruise into a nightmare.

Members of an evil terrorist group, known as the Knights of the Caliphate, infiltrate the city of Louisville on a mission of vengeance where they receive an explosive device which, according to plan, will kill thousands of Americans, turning the acclaimed Kentucky Derby into a virtual holocaust. As faithful fans descend on Derby City, Tucker Flannery and Gwendolyn Gardot have their Thoroughbred, Sugar Thief, poised to run for the roses.

Robert Flynn's body is lying in the study of his ornately decorated mansion at Bruenwild Farm in South Central, Ireland. Although it appears that he died of blunt-force trauma to his head, there are no witnesses. But who would want the elderly horseman to meet such a tragic fate? The sad truth is, who wouldn't? All this and more as the intriguing who-done-it takes you from the majestic Bluegrass of Kentucky to the emerald pastures of Ireland's most prestigious horse farm.