Books and selected works in progress by Jordan McCollum

Saints and Spies

Coming in 2013 from Covenant Communications! (at right: mock cover by Jordan McCollum)

Molly’s new priest is not what she expected—and not what he seems.

Winner, 1st Place, LDStorymakers Conference
           2010 First Chapter Contest, Mystery/Suspense Category

When she finds her priest murdered, Molly Malone, secretary of their Catholic parish, doesn’t plan to fall in love with his replacement. Young, handsome and—dare she even think it?—flirtatious, Father Tim O’Leary is nothing she expected. But Father Tim is also nothing like he seems: he’s Special Agent Zach Saint, an LDS undercover FBI agent there to root out the mob that’s using the parish as a cover.

And Molly isn’t helping: every time Zach gets close to the mob, Molly manages to get in the way. Falling for her is the last thing he needs. Now Zach must find the murderer and catch the mobsters before his feelings for Molly blow his cover—and add another murder or two to the mobsters’ docket.

Read an excerpt of Saints and Spies.

LDS romantic suspense | Publisher: Covenant Communications | 2013
 

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Façade

Winner, 1st Place, LDStorymakers Conference
           2011 First Chapter Contest,
           Mystery/Suspense Category
Finalist, Crested Butte Writers’ 2011 Sandy
          Contest, Thriller/Mystery/Suspense
           Category

An attempted assassination in post-war Paris forces dyed-in-the-wool Soviet diplomat Katya Mikhailova to trust her family’s safety to the American spy hunting the Nazi underground responsible. To stop her would-be killer from destroying the world’s tenuous peace, she must choose between being a good Soviet or a good daughter.

This pitch won the Pitch Your Character’s Emotional Arc Contest at Pitch-University.com.

Read the first chapter of Façade.

World War II spy thriller | Currently in revisions

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Saints and Agents

Can Zach and Molly stand to work together long enough to save the innocent people targeted by suspected terrorists?

“Happily ever after” for Special Agent Zach Saint and Molly Malone didn’t last very long. Now an FBI agent herself, Molly may be the ticket for Zach to track down a pair of Irish terrorists. But getting in with the criminals—and working side by side with the one that got away—isn’t easy for either of them.

Can they keep it together long enough to discover the terrorists’ plans—and maybe admit that they still have feelings for one another?

Sequel to Saints and Spies | LDS romantic suspense | Currently in outline form
 

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Con Artist

Margaux may be living with a killer—and the only person who’ll believe her is the one man who can ruin her.

Sure, they’d have to fool the press, eight million New Yorkers and the international art community—but it was just a little hoax. It’s all fun and games in the summer of 1974 for Margaux Williams, a struggling artist, until her best friend is found dead. Margaux’s partner-in-con and roommate, Fredrick, quickly becomes her prime suspect.

The only person who will believe her is the one man who could blow the lid off their hoax and expose her for the fraud she is: Charlie, a handsome news photographer who noticed some anachronisms at the press preview. Can Margaux trust Charlie to help her catch a killer before he claims his next victim—her?

Romantic suspense | Currently in rewrites

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True Believer

Convinced of a convict’s innocence, a reporter finds himself caught between the Mafia and the FBI—and he can’t tell which is the bigger threat.

Filling in for a sick reporter, Charlie Fordham covers a low-level Mafia murder trial and notices some inconsistencies in key testimonies. Although the defendant is convicted, Charlie is convinced of his innocence.

The more he digs, however, the more enemies Charlie finds. First the Mafia threatens him, then the paper puts the kibosh on his stories, and finally the FBI stonewalls him. As if that weren’t enough, he receives an anonymous threat to his family. Can Charlie exonerate an innocent man before someone hurts his wife and son?

Sequel to Con Artist | Suspense | Currently in outline form

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Photo credits: USSR flag: Timitrius; woman (Tamara Karsavina): Valentin Serov (1909); priest: Elvis Santana; woman (Jean Louisa Kelly): The Fantasticks; violin: Per Hardestam; Manhattan alley: Kat Kotrla