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November 3, 2013
Pioneer Instinct coming soon — and we LOVE our cover
J. Morgan, one of Desert Breeze’s most engaging authors, interviewed our cover artist on his blog today. Check it out.
And see the first public look at our latest cover. The Heartmark woman in this book is an 1890s Irish immigrant in Wyoming territory, loosely based on real events in my husband’s family. More to come!
Buy at Desert Breeze Publishing or on Amazon. All the Kindle books are on sale at Amazon.
September 28, 2013
Endicott and Animals Featured in Kings River Life Magazine
Check out the September 28 issue — I am featured along with the book which features a therapy dog, The Return of Joy with Atlas, and the book in which my dog Ollie is a major character, Finding Her Voice. Leave a comment there for a chance to win and mention whether you want a paperback or an electronic book. http://kingsriverlife.com/
August 17, 2013
My publisher has accepted two more book ideas!
COMING June 2014 – Out of Agony, Starting Over Book Four
Some of the readers of Finding Her Voice have asked a very pointed question — what happened to Nathan, Trudy’s father. Nathan’s ex-father-in-law stays in touch with him, and continues to use him as the lawyer for the family business. After all, they have all been through a terrible loss together.
Nathan’s hard shell of attitude protects him from any one else knowing the despair that is tearing him apart inside. Then one day he blasts out at the coffee shop barista and the woman behind him in line asks, “Are you just having a bad day or are you always a jerk?”
Alisha turns out to be the new partner in his law firm, and her ethics and sharp sense of right and wrong turns things upside down and remind Nathan what he used to believe in.
COMING January, 2015 – Better Than You Know, Starting Over Book Five
Susan is a successful blind professional who depends on her husband to provide child care while she is the wage earner in the family. When he descends into domestic violence she must get him out of her life and her daughter’s. She then faces the prejudices around parenting with a disability, from people assuming her daughter must be blind, too; that she can’t parent if she can’t see, and scariest of all for both her and Jean, her ex threatens her with, “I am watching you all the time. You just don’t know because you’re blind.”
July 31, 2013
Primal Instinct – Coming December 2015
My name is Meredith McCann. I’m but nineteen years of age, yet I’ve lived countless lifetimes. I’ve been sentenced to spend my existence seeking out the Heartmark women, descendents of my brother Colin and his wife Aleena. Why? There is one reason and one reason only. To destroy their chances of finding, and holding onto, true love.
I am forbidden to harm the women – or the men they love — physically. So for each lifetime where I find the Heartmark woman I must use whatever means may be at my disposal.
Sometimes I shock even myself with my cunning and cruelty.
Shifted against my will from one Time to another in search of my nieces, I’ve seen things, done things, which would see me condemned to death if those in my era were to learn of them.
You must be wondering why I must spend lifetime after lifetime searching for these Heartmark women?
I’ll tell you.
As punishment for a crime I committed. Aye, I admit to my crime, having drawn blood from my very own brother with my jealous sword– but I did so in a moment of fear, insecurity and loneliness.
Colin was all the family I had left, you see. My brother was the only one in my heart, and the one I’ll likely never see again. Not that he would wish to lay eyes upon me even if it were possible.
And why would he? After all I’ve done.
I was so afraid the love he held in his heart for Aleena would crowd out any affection he may have held for me, the sister he’d raised since I was five and he seven and our parents slain before our very eyes by an enemy chieftain.
He and I against the world, that’s how it had always been… until Aleena came into his life.
Colin’s heart, his time, his world, shifted from me, his own flesh and blood, to her. Leaving me lonely, so very lonely.
I tried to tell him, I really did. But he brushed off my words, my tears. He ignored my pleadings that he should cast her aside so we could go back to how we were before she came along.
Now, countless lifetimes later, I understand I did not truly have anything to fear from his new marriage. Now, countless lifetimes later, I understand that a man’s heart, a woman’s heart, can hold many different kinds of love in them, for countless people.
If only I’d known then what I know now….
Yet I didn’t know then and now, well, now I’m so tired. Exhausted really, and do you know what? I’m just as afraid, insecure, and lonely as I was that fateful day in Colin’s chambers, where I struck out at my beloved brother and set into motion this wretched life I now live.
I’ve destroyed countless Heartmark women’s loves. I always leave those times feeling almost as empty as the nieces I left behind.
Regret scorches my heart, but what am I to do? My whole purpose in being in their lifetime is to see them fail.
There have been even more Heartmark women and the men who loved them who stood strong against me, halting my efforts to destroy them at every turn. And once they utter the words I fear I myself will never be allowed to utter, the words ‘I do’, I am swept away, to another day and time, to begin my search for the Heartmark woman all over again.Those times when I leave, emptiness again fills my heart, but it is compounded a hundredfold by sadness and bitter regret.For I’ll never have the chance to find my own true love. How can I when I have no control over where or when I will be whisked away?
But just in case I’m wrong, just in case I may someday be able to seek penitence for my crimes against my brother and his wife, I have fiercely held on to my innocence.
Oh, in many of the Times I’ve lived there were those who would swear that innocence was far from me, a thing long past.
They’d have been wrong.
Just in case — just in case pity should ever be shown to me, and I can stop my relentless pursuit of the Heartmark women–at last leave them in peace, then, aye, then I can find the person who fills my heart the way Aleena fills Colin’s.
I vow I will go to my new husband pure– in mind and body, and I will belong to him and him alone forever more…
If, that is, pity should ever be shown to me.
Coming December, 2015
July 27, 2013
Protective Instinct — Coming August 2014
Our hero also appears as a lad in Chameleon’s Shadow, available now. Protective Instinct will be released August, 2014.
July 24, 2013
Reviews for Finding Her Voice
From Amazon Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars How Do You Heal a Broken Heart? July 22, 2013
By Fair and Balanced
Format:Kindle Edition
What does one do when everything begins to go wrong? Finding Her Voice is a heart wrenching story about a young couple with a sweet young daughter, who soon learn what it really means to have to deal with tragedy from the first page and on through the book. When they learn of the death of their daughter, not only are two hearts broken, neither are able to find a way to heal and go on. Not able to cope together the couple ends up in divorce, they also lose their home, and Jennifer, the mother, struggling miserably with her own grief, her faith, and her loss of peace, has to venture off on her own to find some answers.As a historical romance writer, I don’t normally read contemporary fiction, but I found this story to be a fast-paced page turner from the beginning to the end, sometimes difficult to read because of the sadness, but so well written I had to go on to find out what would happen next — An easy to read, true-to-life book of friendship, faith, and hope.
Only one disappointment for me was in not finding out what happened to a very important character in the story who could not bear the tragedy of a lost child.
I recommend this book to readers who enjoy contemporary fiction with real life circumstances.
Shirley Kiger Connolly,
award winning author of both historical romance and nonfiction books of reflection
From Desert Breeze Publishing
No Easy Answers
Posted by Natalie Chamberlain on 16th Jul 2013
I don’t usually read this genre of literature but I really enjoyed this book. As a pastor, I especially appreciated the fact that Lynette Endicott not only chose not to give easy, pat answers to difficult questions, she even confronted those easy answers, showing them to be more harmful than helpful.
The happily ever after ending was expected but the journey there wasn’t. The story is well written and engaging. The characters are true to life as are their situations. I found it to be a very hopeful book and well worth the time to read it.
July 18, 2013
Dog is a key Character in New Release
Oliver Twist is my personal dog, a therapy dog like Atlas in The Return of Joy.
I didn’t own pets until after my 50th birthday, so they mean a lot to me. (I didn’t engage with the ones in the household as I was growing up — they belonged to other people.)
When I walked into the pet store to get something for the cats that my daughter convinced me we needed, I saw Ollie in a cage with the other rescues. He was looking right at me, and I knew if I looked back I would bring him home, and I did.
So I had to include Ollie as a character in my latest release, Finding Her Voice.
A remarkably talented artist has just finished a statue of him for me to use in promoting Finding Her Voice when he can’t come along in person. And here it is with his actual photo for comparison.
Check out more of Jennifer Rudkin’s art at:
http://www.RudkinStudio.com https://www.facebook.com/RudkinStudio
June 29, 2013
Newest Release: Finding Her Voice
Jennifer had the perfect life. A loving husband, a beautiful daughter, a flexible job in the family business. When it was all taken from her, Jen struggled to move through her days with the help of friends and family — but they couldn’t understand, and somehow expected her to get over her grief. Even her twin brother, Joshua, was unable to help her heal.
Ollie, her daughter’s rescued dog, was the only one who seemed to share her grief and understand her pain in losing her daughter. When the divorce ended in the sale of their home, she and Ollie set out on a road trip of discovery. She needed time and the care of an old friend, and along the way met others who had lost a child or a marriage or both. None of them expected her to get over it, but they did help her go on living.
Her old friend listened, and with love guided her to an outlet for her feeling through music — and she found comfort through on-line contact with other bereaved parents, including Michael.
Life would never be the same, but maybe she could find the music, find her voice, find her own path to living after her loss. And if she was lucky, find love along the way.
Excerpt
Time to get this show on the road. She typed out a text and sent it in a blast to her whole family.
I’m packed and headed out. Thanks for understanding. I’ll update you from time to time.
Then she gave a little whistle and commanded Ollie to get up. He clambered into the seat where she belted him in.
“Well, boy, here we go. Off on an adventure.”
They called every ride an adventure. He had no idea how long a trip he was in for. Or that he would never come back to the place they’d called home. But then, she wasn’t certain how long it would be either.
Jen went around to the driver’s side, climbed in, and dropped her phone into the sound system so she could take or make phone calls if she wanted.
She started the van and, out of habit, started the tunes saved to her phone.
The song that came up was one she and Trudy sang together, a fun, silly song. She couldn’t bear it. She shut down the music. It was too hard. She couldn’t sing. Not anymore. She took one last look at the house that had been home to her now-destroyed family, then threw the van into reverse and turned so she could steer out of the driveway and onto the road. She didn’t look back. Her goal today was to drive as fast as the law allowed, and as far as her energy would support. She needed distance between her wrecked life and whatever was ahead.
Available July 11 from my publisher, and along with the paperback and epub versions of Books One and Two, on my Amazon Author Page.
Coming July 11: Finding Her Voice
Jennifer had the perfect life. A loving husband, a beautiful daughter, a flexible job in the family business. When it was all taken from her, Jen struggled to move through her days with the help of friends and family — but they couldn’t understand, and somehow expected her to get over her grief. Even her twin brother, Joshua, was unable to help her heal.
Ollie, the little terrier mix that had been her daughter’s rescued dog, was the only one who seemed to share her grief and understand her pain. When the divorce ended in the sale of their home, she and Ollie set out on a road trip of discovery. She needed time and the care of an old friend, and along the way met others who had lost a child or a marriage or both. None of them expected her to get over it, but they did help her go on living.
Her old friend listened, and with love guided her to an outlet for her feeling through music — and she found comfort through on-line contact with other bereaved parents, including Michael.
Life would never be the same, but maybe she could find the music, find her voice, find her own path to living after her loss. And if she was lucky, find love along the way.
Excerpt
Time to get this show on the road. She typed out a text and sent it in a blast to her whole family.
I’m packed and headed out. Thanks for understanding. I’ll update you from time to time.
Then she gave a little whistle and commanded Ollie to get up. He clambered into the seat where she belted him in.
“Well, boy, here we go. Off on an adventure.”
They called every ride an adventure. He had no idea how long a trip he was in for. Or that he would never come back to the place they’d call home. But then, she wasn’t certain how long it would be either.
Jen went around to the driver’s side, climbed in, and dropped her phone into the sound system so she could take or make phone calls if she wanted.
She started the van and, out of habit, started the tunes saved to her phone.
The song that came up was one she and Trudy sang together, a fun, silly song. She couldn’t bear it. She shut down the music. It was too hard. She couldn’t sing. Not anymore. She took one last look at the house that had been home to her now-destroyed family, then threw the van into reverse and turned so she could steer out of the driveway and onto the road. She didn’t look back. Her goal today was to drive as fast as the law allowed, and as far as her energy would support. She needed distance between her wrecked life and whatever was ahead.
Available July 11 from my publisher, and along with the paperback and epub versions of Books One and Two, on my Amazon Author Page.
May 27, 2013
Now available in Paperback…Books One and Two of the Starting Over Series
I am pleased to announce that the sales for these books were high enough to go to press — literally. My debut contemporary romance, More Than a Job, follows Paige Hamilton as she is forced to seek a new life when her consuming, 24/7 job ends at the hands of a new company owner. But Paige is a survivor, and begins to build a new life, one that may even have room 
for romance. A handsome stranger helps her through the transition, and soon she falls fast and hard for Joshua Robinson. Then she discovers he is the cruel owner, and that the company she loved — the company that cared so much about the adults with disabilities who lived in their homes — is in a downward spiral that puts the life of one of her friends at risk. Romance, job loss, life coaching, hidden family treasures, and a secret about an uncle she’d never met — Paige learns that life is More Than A Job.
The Return of Joy is actually the first book I wrote — and the first where an animal is one of the key characters. Patterned after a therapy dog I know, Atlas steals the show every time he shows up. His story is woven into his master’s, Mark Stone.
When Joy Huffman’s recurring dreams of the husband she lost become urgent she is convinced to go tot he cabin, their project of love, in New Mexico. With her daughter and mother-in-law, they set out to learn what Steve wants them to know — that his death was no accident, but murder. Their investigation stirs up the evil that ended his life, and puts them all at risk. The caretaker at the cabin, Mark Stone, is challenged to keep them safe while he unravels the mystery of why Steve died. Along the way he falls in love with Joy — but will she be open to loving again?
These books are available in paperback from Amazon today! Check out all six listings at: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Lynette%20Endicott&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank
