TIERNEY JAMES

Lipstick & Danger

My Books

Just a quick update. I can now be found on all your favorite platforms and outlets. Thanks for sticking with me. The good news is I will be working with Ingram Spark who distributes all over the world which includes 44,000 outlets. You’ll now be able to find me on all your favorite book stores and online outlets like Kobo, BN, Apple, Amazon, etc. Scroll down to see what I have for you. The latest ones are pictured at the top. *Indicates published in 2025

     

 

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The Enigma Series

AN UNLIKELY HERO

You’d be surprised at what a wife & mother can do with a little imagination when confronted with a terrorist. Some heroes wear high heels & smell like chocolate chip cookies. Her name is Tessa.

WINDS OF DECEPTION

Can a woman who believes spiders should be considered a terrorist threat, save the president twice from an assassin? Or will Capt. Hunter kill Tessa before she can explain why she is holding a gun on the president who is bleeding all over the floor?

ROOFTOP ANGELS

Does she run away with a mountain bandit who can protect the children left in her care or take her chances on the Taliban not coming back? Tessa had to decide on the least dangerous man to save her.

KIFARU

Tessa Scott thought taking her children to Squaw Valley for a skiing trip would be a great way to relax. Reconnecting with her family turned out to be more of an adventure than she’d planned when several men followed her onto a snow-packed highway. After meeting a stranger at a convenience store, she convinced him to help her get away, only to discover later, the stranger was the bigger threat.

BLACK MAMBA

Action-Adventure continues when Tessa follows her friend, Handsome Jones to Botswana, Africa, and finds herself in the crosshairs of a corrupt dictator. With the winds of change blowing through the Okavango Delta, she calls on the Enigma team to protect the man who threatens the stability of a peaceful nation.

THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHAOS

Captain Hunter believed watching Tessa Scott’s children for one night would be an easy assignment while she traveled to the airport in Reno to pick up her parents. What he hadn’t considered was how much they resembled miniature, domestic terrorists. The former Delta officer discovers, outmaneuvering the Taliban was child’s play compared to keeping three kids from falling victim to a group of not-so-smart burglars. But with their flare for the dramatic and enough plastic firepower to make Darth Vader tremble, the children help Chase make this Christmas one they’ll never forget.

INVISIBLE GOODBYE 

On a calm moonless night, a Singapore airliner carrying several hundred passengers, including twenty of America’s top scientists and engineers, disappears over the Indian Ocean without a trace. Then one day an Enigma agent hiking through the Siberian forests of Russia, finds one of the scientists…alive.

MARTYRS NEVER DIE

Designated to protect the next King of Saudi Arabia, Tessa Scott never imagined how things could go sideways. For the first time since she joined Enigma, her mettle is tested when an attempt is made on the prince’s life. Now a devoted admirer, the prince forces Captain Hunter to confess his true feelings for her before he misses another opportunity. When the captain disappears in Syria, Tessa decides it’s her turn to bring him home. With the help of two agents known for their love of mayhem and shoot-first mentality, they concoct a plan of rescue and revenge.

THE HEMLOCK SWITCH  

Follow the heart pounding action as the Enigma Team tries to save world leaders from a sociopath they’ve come to admire and support. With little time left toward world domination by a mad man, Captain Hunter and Tessa play a cat and mouse game that unravels quickly. Only one person can save them, but remains hidden and protected by Captain Hunter. 

KNIGHT OF THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY 

Captain Chase Hunter decides this Christmas with Tessa’s kids will be epic. Show no fear, suck it up and boldly go where even the Taliban would not dare to go, is his mantra. Then the live Nativity at their church catches on fire thanks to Tessa’s oldest son, when he comes to the rescue of his little sister and her special needs friend. To make things interesting, when the firemen hit the manger with a blast of water, the baby Jesus hangs precariously from a nearby tree. The captain saves the reputation of the three Scott children, only to have to explain to local police why escape camels and pot-belly pigs are now running wild in the streets of Grass Valley.

 

*CHINA DOLLS

Embark on a pulse-pounding journey with Captain Chase Hunter and his wife Tessa as they confront a sinister plot that threatens global stability. When a deadly virus target adopted baby girls from China, the Enigma team is called upon to investigate. The key to the cure lies in a young girl named Lotus, setting off a dangerous mission to bring her to safety.

 

 

WHISPERS OF ANGELS SERIES

*The Unleashed Miracle

In Book 1 in the Whispers of Angel Series an unexpected adventure spanning North Africa, forces three unlikely allies into a race against time to uncover a holy relic capable of restoring the UNESCO-protected Rock Hewn Churches of Ethiopia. But the relic is not just a treasure-it also holds the power to free the man who discovered a miracle trapped in a web of half-truths and death.

 

 

STRONG INDEPENDENT WOMEN SERIES

*Whiskey & Sweet Tea 

In a rugged Afghan medical unit, no-nonsense Major Vivian Palmer—a surgeon devoted solely to her craft—is tasked with treating the injured country music star, Kade Atwood. With his concert postponed and the camp in desperate need of his performance, Kade tries every charm in the book to persuade her to delay his treatment. It quickly becomes clear, however, that he’s met his match.

Dragged into a deadly game where the enemy demands an impossible surgery for her survival, the unlikely pair must navigate treacherous territory under the watchful eye of a brutal Taliban leader. As Kade rises to the challenge of safeguarding Vivian and engineering a risky escape, the stark reality of their predicament sets in. When a Black Hawk helicopter finds them wandering in the desert, their flight to safety is marked by escalating peril, tragic losses, and a fierce confrontation.

The Rescued Heart

Sometimes you need to be rescued when you try and escape your heart’s desire. Somewhere between a cover-up and fate, lies the truth buried in a collapsed mine.

House of Miracles

Meredith Marshall, on the run from her past, leaves a promising career behind. She carries a life changing secret to Belize in search of a new existence and finds a trusting soul to give her a second chance. Problems begin to mount when a former Army vet, Axel Cahill, discovers the truth she so carefully tries to hide. She realizes he believes she poses a threat to the children at the orphanage she promises to protect. He insists she leave. She is forced to run away again when a hurricane slams into the coast. This time, the man who wants her out of children’s lives is the only help she can turn to.

The Dark Side Series

Dark Side of Morning -When someone comes looking for you from another time and place, you know you’re in trouble. Her Missing Father Reappears in a Most Unexpected Way:  Dr. Cleopatra Sommers never came to terms with herDark Side of Morning by Tierney James father’s disappearance at the Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He had been a Native American scholar that explored avenues of unexplained spiritual paths in their cultures. The museum had been her home and playground growing up when her father spent long hours working. She was always drawn to one display case holding a mannequin of a Pawnee Indian. There was no way she could know he watched her all those years until the night he crossed over to find her.

 

Detective Jacque Marquette and a time-jumping friend Wind Dancer, decide on a vacation in Northern New Mexico onlyDark Side of Noon by Tierney James to find themselves caught up in a kidnapping of a Down syndrome child. Accused of being involved, the two convince Police Chief Perez to let them team up with her department in order to rescue the little boy. When they discover their friend Dr. Cleo Sommers has also disappeared, they attempt to unravel the mysterious chain of events that beckon supernatural forces from a bygone culture and a killer who walks among them.

Additional Books

 

Do you prefer a standalone book? Here are a few that might interest you.

Dance of the Devil’s Trill

Wandering for 300 years to help those in need until the night Catharina Spokane danced into his life. Would she be willing to sacrifice everything to free his angelic bonds or cave to pressure from a corrupt mayor to save a deserving soul.

 

 

How to Market a Book Someone Besides Your Mother Will Read

Believe in yourself! You got this. Helpful hints and tips to get the attention of readers.

 

 

 

TURNBACK CREEK

Henry Boxx wore the reputation of a mean scoundrel like a badge of honor when it came to getting what he wanted. One of those things was the land that ran along Turnback Creek belonging to the Holt family. The only way to get such a prize was to make sure they met with an untimely death. Believing their small boy was away from home, he never bothered to tie up that one loose end. The day came when a lawman showed up, bent on taking back what was rightfully his, and bringing the man to justice who killed his parents.

Rancher Justice, Law & Order Western style, Lawmen of the West