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August 8, 2019
Gem, Himself, Alone and a round-up of free goodies!
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Before I start today’s round-up of freebies, I have to share my latest news with you! The Do No Harm collection of 17 medical thrillers that I have been drumming up support for the last few months made the USA Today Bestseller list this week! We couldn’t have done it without the support of all of our readers, so thank you to those of you who bought this collection! I hope you enjoy Unlawful Harvest especially.
You can still buy Do No Harm on Kindle or read it in Kindle Unlimited.
Gem, Himself, Alone
Okay, on to the freebies! Fill your cart with some more freebies for your summer reading! Gem, Himself, Alone is free this weekend August 9-11, and I have rounded up a few more freebies that look good!
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Alone on the street, Gem joins up with the Rippers gang to escape his old life, burying his past the best he can.
Riker, a vice cop, makes it his business to put Gem behind bars, but he can’t break the alibis Gem has for crimes Riker knows he has committed.
Gem has a special gift for unbreakable alibis.
Riker delves into Gem’s past in a bid to discover his secrets. Can he sort through the tangled threads to lay Gem’s past bare? And if he does, will he be able to put Gem behind bars and see that he is punished for all he has done?
Or can Gem keep his secrets from coming to light and make a new life for himself, one where he is free and able to make his own choices?
If you like contemporary YA, gritty crime and hard-hitting issues, or twisty suspense, you will like Gem!
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Hey You, Pretty Face
An abandoned infant. Three girls stolen in the night. Can one overworked detective find the connection to save them all?
London, 1999. Short-staffed during a holiday week, Detective Jack Rutherford can’t afford to spend time on the couch with his beloved wife. With a skeleton staff, he’s forced to handle a deserted infant and a trio of missing girls almost single-handedly. Despite the overload, Jack has a sneaking suspicion that the baby and the abductions are somehow connected…
As he fights to reunite the girls with their families, the clues point to a dark secret that sends chills down his spine. With evidence revealing a detestable crime ring, can Jack catch the criminals before the girls go missing forever?
A Trace of Smoke
It’s 1931 in Berlin, and the world is on the precipice of change—the affluent still dance in their gilded cages but more and more people are living under threat and poverty. Hannah Vogel is a crime reporter forced to write under the male pseudonym Peter Weill.
As a widow of the Great War, she’s used to doing what she must to survive. Her careful facade is threatened when she stumbles across a photograph of her brother in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead. Reluctant to make a formal identification until she has all the details, Hannah decides to investigate, herself. She must be cautious as Ernst’s life as a cross-dressing cabaret star was ringed in scandal, and his list of lovers included at least one powerful leader in the Nazi party.
She’s barely had a chance to begin before an endearing five-year-old orphan shows up on her doorstep holding a birth certificate listing her dead brother Ernst as his father, and calling Hannah ‘Mother.’ Further complicating matters are her evolving feelings for Boris Krause, a powerful banker whose world is the antithesis of Hannah’s. Boris has built a solid wall preventing anyone from disturbing his, or his daughter Trudi’s, perfectly managed lives—a wall Hannah and Anton are slowly breaking down.
One Last Prayer for the Rays
School should be the safest place in the world. Not this winter.
Detective Michael Yorke faces his most harrowing case yet.
When 12-year-old Paul disappears from school, Yorke’s only clue is a pool of animal blood. Fearing the worst, he turns toward the most obvious suspect, recently released local murderer, Thomas Ray.
But as the snow in Salisbury worsens, Ray’s mutilated body is discovered, and Yorke is left with no choice but to journey into the sinister heart of a demented family that has plagued the community for generations. Can he save the boy? Or will the evil he discovers change him forever?
Shadow Harvest
When Sydney Rye’s friend and mentor, Merl, goes missing in Shanghai, she and her faithful dog, Blue, rush to the People’s Republic to track him down.
Following Merl’s trail leads Sydney to probe deep, dark corners of corruption where she witnesses atrocities making her already cold blood freeze. With time running out, and powerful forces closing in, Sydney is willing to risk everything to save her friend, but will everything be enough?
Crowned with Guilt
As a child, I discovered a castle.
It became a sanctuary from the nightmare that was my life, but my fairytale truly began when he found me.
The boy with green eyes and crooked smile.
The boy with stories and an imagination that could take us far, far away.
In our castle he was the prince, and I the princess.
For the first time in my life I was safe, happy.
I was loved.
But every fairytale has a villain, ours would be no different.
I just never expected the villain to be me.
The Perfect Wife
Criminal profiler-in-training Jessie Hunt is sure she’s finally put the darkness of her childhood behind her. She and her husband, Kyle, just moved from a cramped downtown Los Angeles apartment into a Westport Beach mansion. Kyle’s promotion has them swimming in money. And Jessie is on the verge of getting her Master’s degree in forensic psychology, the last step in her dream of becoming a criminal profiler.
But soon after their arrival, Jessie begins to notice a series of strange developments. The neighbors—and their au pairs—all seem to be hiding secrets. The mysterious yacht club Kyle is desperate to join is rife with cheating spouses, and with troubling rules of its own. And the notorious serial killer being held at the psychiatric hospital where Jessie is completing her degree seems to know more about her life than is normal—or safe.
Something I am Not
Billy McQueen works hard to keep his life together … and concealed. At seventeen, he dreams of an escape from the barroom, his father’s manipulation, and the advances of his father’s girlfriend. However, on his eighteenth birthday, Billy is introduced to a younger brother he never knew he had. An eight-year-old who is barely capable of navigating the corrupt world of his father’s boxing club.
In order to secure his freedom, Billy must fight for it. To save his little brother who is next in line for the slave trade … he must die for it.
In Between
With her mom in prison, and her father AWOL, Katie is sent to live with a squeaky-clean family who could have their own sitcom. She launches a full-scale plan to get sent back to the girls’ home when she finds herself in over her head…and heart.
When Katie and her new “wrong crowd” get into significant trouble at school, she finds her punishment is restoring a historic theater with a crazy grandma who goes by the name of Mad Maxine. In the midst of her punishment, Katie uncovers family secrets that run deep, and realizes she’s not the only one with a pain-filled past.
Katie must decide if she’ll continue her own family’s messed up legacy or embrace a new beginning in this place called In Between.
Madhouse
Faced with his parents’ divorce, eleven-year-old Lucas runs away from home in the hope that his family will get back together to find him. While walking through the empty streets, he is picked up by a mysterious woman, who offers to take care of him and provide him with a loving family.
The boy then wakes up in shackles, confined to a bed in a decrepit house in the middle of nowhere and will have to face his deepest fears in order to survive in his new home.
Runaways
After losing their father at a young age and in a fatal accident their mother Jessie turned to drugs to cope with losing him. The teens were left on their own with little help from her. Jason stepped up to take care of the house while still making sure his mother was alright. From the age of 9 until they were 16, their mother Jessie was dating the local drug dealer by the name of Clo Johnson. He thought he ran everything including Jessie.
Clo was tired of Jessie and wanted his hand at Jalisha. Her own mother sold her to Clo just for a hit. Taking force of her and dragging her upstairs to have his way with her. But lucky Jason makes it home to save her but she was badly beaten.
During this time the twins were able to find love and peace of mind as soon as they ran away from home to start a new life. Time passed and the twins were better than ever, as for their mother Jessie she hit rock bottom and was ready to give up on life until Darren popped up and saved her from Clo.
Little did Darren know, his own skeleton was coming out the closet and her name was Kiki Washington. She was a detective looking for him but they had history together. Playing both sides Kiki was in the wrong but she didn’t care. Her long lost love was back but not for long.
A Life Not my Own
In A Life Not My Own, Tina shares her personal experiences of child abuse and neglect, her struggles as a teenager and in her young adult life.
The book started as a journal and was her attempt to address many of the secrets she had pushed to the back in her mind. As the memories continued to resurface, she was forced to address the issues that ultimately led to her sharing her past with readers around the world as a powerful force of inspiration.
Raji
Rajiani Devaki (Raji) is a girl of thirteen from India. On a cold December morning in 1925, Vincent Fusilier (Fuse) finds Raji sleeping in his parents’ barn. He thinks she’s a vagrant and tells her she has to go. She doesn’t understand English and doesn’t know where she is, having recently escaped from a house in Queens New York where she had been held for the past nine years as an indentured servant.
After Vincent leaves for school, Raji slips into his house to find something to eat. She peeks into the front room and is startled to see a man sitting in a wheelchair. He stares at her but apparently cannot move or speak.
The Baker’s Daughter
Liddy’s father, Klaus, secures a night job as a prison guard where anti-Nazi dissident, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is being held. Klaus smuggles out the pastor’s letters, but tensions rise as Keppler establishes a tenuous relationship with Liddy’s young brother, Willy. Does the Nazi officer wish to recruit Willy, or is Keppler there to spy on Liddy’s family?
From air raids to the Hitler Youth, Liddy becomes enmeshed in a world of spies intent on betrayal. When Liddy makes a critical mistake that endangers a loved one, she faces a decision that puts her own faith on the line and her family’s safety in jeopardy.
Lies and Alibis
Here is a Romantic Suspense giveaway that you might also be interested in. Have a look and see if there is anything else you’re interested in.
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August 6, 2019
Excerpt from I Let You Go
If you haven’t yet purchased Do No Harm, our collection of 17 medical thrillers, it is you last chance to get it at $1.99. It will be going up to $9.99 shortly.
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And in case you haven’t seen it, June, Into the Light is now on preorder at $0.99. June, Into the Light is the sixth book in the Between the Cracks series. Hop over and have a look! Three of the books in this series have won literary awards from the In the Margins Committee of the School Library Journal.
During the preorder period, the first book in the series, Ruby, Between the Cracks is also on sale for $0.99.
I am re-reading I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh this week. I had to check to see if I had done an excerpt on it here before, but it doesn’t look like I have. This is a domestic thriller/police procedural mashup about the hit-and-run killing of a five-year-old boy. Despite the fact that I figured out most of the twists ahead of time, it was still an enjoyable read. It is well-written and intriguing, even if you know the plot ahead of time.
My hand hurts. I can feel my pulse beating rapid and light in my wrist. I’m glad of the pain. I wish it were more. I wish it had been me the car hit.
Clare Mackintosh, I Let You Go
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I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past.
At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators trying to get to the bottom of this hit-and-run. As they chase down one hopeless lead after another, they find themselves as drawn to each other as they are to the frustrating, twist-filled case before them.
August 1, 2019
Do No Harm and other New Releases
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Do No Harm, our 17-book medical thriller collection is now live in all stores! The release price of $1.99 will not last; it will be going up to $9.99 next week, so get it at the lower price while you can! Even at $9.99, this is a great deal. That’s just $0.59 for each full-length thriller.
My book in this collection is Unlawful Harvest.
About Unlawful Harvest
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Unlawful Harvest is a Kenzie Kirsch Medical Thriller. If you have been reading the Zachary Goldman Mysteries, then you have met Kenzie Kirsch, who works in the medical examiner’s office.
This story will take you back to before Kenzie started medical school, to the case that first attracted her to medical investigation.
When an Urban Legend becomes the truth
Kenzie Kirsch had led a sheltered life; daughter of a wealthy lobbyist, her way had been paved for her, and she wasn’t really required to do much in life. There were events to make an appearance at, boards to sit on, fundraisers to support, but she could pick and choose what she wanted to do and how busy she wanted to be.
When she set out to find out why her sister Amanda was so ill, she had no idea where her amateur investigation would take her. Amanda’s illness had never been discussed. Amanda deserved her privacy.
As Kenzie’s questions take her deeper and deeper into the murky world of transplant tourism, Kenzie starts to wonder just what her parents have been covering up, and who else’s life might hang in the balance.
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Audio excerpt from Unlawful Harvest
Unlawful Harvest is currently only available as part of the Do No Harm bundle, but will be available as an individual book and ebook in the future.
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Exhume
Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman has finally found a place to belong. As the medical examiner for the San Francisco Police Department, working alongside homicide detective Hal Harris, she uncovers the tales the dead can’t tell about their final moments. It is a job that gives her purpose—and a safe haven from her former life at the hands of an abusive husband. Although it’s been seven years since she escaped that ordeal, she still checks over her shoulder to make sure no one is behind her.
Schwartzman’s latest case is deeply troubling: the victim bears an eerie resemblance to herself. What’s more, a shocking piece of evidence suggests that the killer’s business is far from over—and that Schwartzman may be in danger. In this pulse-pounding thriller from award-winning writer Danielle Girard, a woman must face her worst nightmare to catch a killer.
The Appointment
With his marriage collapsing and grief-stricken following the death of his baby son, surgeon Dan Lewis is struggling to make sense of it all.
His work is his lifeline. But when he fixates on a child patient he thinks has a potentially lethal disease, no one believes the diagnosis. They all think he’s losing his mind.
When one of Dan’s critics is senselessly murdered and the evidence points to the damaged doctor as the prime suspect, his bad situation becomes desperate.
But there’s a dark secret linking the ill child and the murder victim. One that no one other than Dan can see.
Winter’s Rise
For more than thirteen years, Winter Black has believed her little brother is dead—kidnapped and murdered by the same lunatic who killed her parents. The news of a lead into Justin’s whereabouts brings her out of her hiatus and back to work at the Richmond FBI office. And face to face with the co-workers she’s been avoiding.
Winter can’t avoid them for long because a body is discovered in a fifty-five-gallon drum, and the team soon realizes that they aren’t hunting your typical serial killer. Whoever killed this man isn’t just a murderer—they are a skilled surgeon, and John Doe is just one of many. And now, the killer is after her friend, Autumn.
Deceive Me
When Jo’s teenage daughter goes missing, she feels like the world is collapsing around her.
The police believe Grace is just an angry teenager, punishing her parents by hiding out at a friend’s house, but Jo is terrified that her daughter is in grave danger. With so little urgency from the police, Jo decides to take matters into her own hands.
But, as Jo gets closer to discovering what has happened to her daughter, a devastating secret is uncovered that threatens to destroy the family she has been trying so very hard to protect…
Lethal Obsession
Dr. Zora Smyth has only one choice: fight the enemy or end up dead.
With a larger-than-life enemy nipping at her heels, chief surgical resident Zora Smyth is on the race to clear her name, preserve her medical license, and uncover a truth that has been hidden for years.
Brainwave
A famous neurosurgeon electrifies the scientific community when he announces he is successfully on his way to developing a cure for catastrophic brain disorders, including dementia and Alzheimer’s. He says his secret is BRAINWAVE Therapy. Impressed with the financial potential, Big Pharma rushes to finance his research.
Jack Bodwell, an energetic out-of-work young writer, follows up on an ad that seeks high-paid volunteers for clinical trials. He interviews and is signed up for a thirty-day period at the Doctor’s remote brain research clinic.
Jack becomes suspicious of what the doctor’s tests may be doing to the volunteer patients, but he has no proof. He and a bright young nurse, Claire Montieri, who believes in the Doctor’s work, search for the truth. Their quest ultimately puts them in grave personal danger.
Organ Donor
Beckett is no ordinary forensic pathologist, which is why he’s not surprised when a container with expertly removed organs arrives on his desk. What is alarming, however, is the note that accompanies it… the note that suggests this is only the beginning, that more are on their way.
And then there’s the hidden message. The one that reveals Beckett’s darkest secret, the thing that sets him apart from all others.
He can’t go to the police, his colleagues, or even his closest friends for help.
It’s up to Beckett alone to figure out where the organs came from before more people die. In the process, he finds himself locked in a sadistic cat-and-mouse game with a brutal killer that has him reevaluating his own unique moral code.
Chimera
A chimera is an illusion, an idea of something that can never be. In mythology, the pseudo-creature has the head of a lion, body of a goat, and a serpent’s tail spliced together into a freak of nature without a purpose or plan. Under the watchful eye of a scientist in a lab, it is a genetic anomaly whose presence exists as a contradiction to mother nature herself.
When Catherine Masters, a tenured risk manager for one of North Carolina’s largest and most successful healthcare systems, begins to suspect that everything is not as it seems, she enlists the help of her longtime friend and pharmacy director, Dr Ryan Allen, to sort through past and present conspiracies that identify facts from fiction and separate lies from the truth.
After they uncover a terrible secret involving murder and corruption at the highest level of the corporate command, they find their lives and the lives of those they love in compromise and that everything at the hospital is not as it seems. After several prominent physicians die under suspicious circumstances, they fear no one is safe from the sins of the past. They enlist the aid of the FBI, only to discover the FBI may be collaborating with the conspirators.
Catherine and Ryan will, at the very least, be forced to look deep inside themselves and discover the chimera that lives in each of us to save themselves and those they love from being sacrificed for the sins of the past.
July 30, 2019
Excerpt from Two Kinds of Truth
Today is release day for the Do No Harm collection of medical thrillers, including my book Unlawful Harvest, the first Kenzie Kirsch book. If you didn’t buy it on preorder, now is your chance to get it at $1.99, because the price will soon go up to $9.99. Even at $9.99, it’s a heck of a deal for 17 full-length medical thrillers.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
I have just finished reading Michael Connelly’s Two Kinds of Truth, a Harry Bosch novel. Maybe some of you are watching Bosch on Amazon. According to Wikipedia, the 2019 season was based on Two Kinds of Truth. Don’t worry; I’m not going to spoil it for you (assuming the TV series follows the novel.)
It was classic Connelly, and I quite enjoy the Harry Bosch character. This is book 20 in the series, and while you get a little bit of backstory about Bosch’s wife, daughter, brother, and previous partner(s) there is not a lot of information about his childhood, which I’d like a little bit more of.
As soon as Kennedy mentioned his assignment, Bosch put everything together and knew what was going on. Borders, the man thought to have killed three women but convicted of only one murder, was making a final grab at freedom after nearly thirty years on death row.
Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth
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Harry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered in a robbery. Bosch and the tiny town’s three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big-business world of prescription drug abuse. To get to the people at the top, Bosch must risk everything and go undercover in the shadowy world of organized pill mills.
Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch’s days with the LAPD comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems to have new evidence to prove it. Bosch left the LAPD on bad terms, so his former colleagues are not keen on protecting his reputation. But if this conviction is overturned, every case Bosch ever worked will be called into question. As usual, he must fend for himself as he tries to clear his name and keep a clever killer in prison.
The two cases wind around each other like strands of barbed wire. Along the way, Bosch discovers that there are two kinds of truth: the kind that sets you free and the kind that leaves you buried in darkness.
July 26, 2019
A los Que Creen
A los Que Creen by Cami Camporro, P. D. Workman New Release!
Genres: Foreign Translation
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¿Desobedecer podría estar bien? Su vida puede depender de la respuesta.
A los Que Creen
Y estas señales seguirán á los que creen…
Escapando de Servicios Sociales y otros que no entienden sus creencias, Nathan y su madre, una mujer que cura con su fe, Billie Ashbury se mudan nuevamente a otra ciudad.
Nathan, de nuevo, enfrenta los desafíos de hacer nuevos amigos y esconder los secretos de su familia. Pero con lo que realmente lucha es con su dudosa fe y reconciliando sus acciones con lo que su devota madre le ha enseñado desde pequeño ¿Desobedecer está bien? Su vida podría depender de su respuesta.
July 25, 2019
A Season of Suspense
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Betrayal, Lies, Danger and Deception! Will Chandler County ever be the same?
Six inspirational, romantic suspense stories about love in the midst of danger, duplicity and a desperate race to outrun the worst winter storm in Chandler County in 15 years.
As Chandler County Christmas festivities loom, so does a storm of epic proportions. It threatens the safety of its residents and visitors alike as they wrestle with emotional, spiritual and psychological dangers that could jeopardize true love, marriage and both new and old relationships.
Can the power of love overcome the biggest of life’s storms?
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Christmas in July!
Today is July 25, and that means… Christmas in July! There is no snow here today, there are no Christmas trees or lights… but there are always Christmas books!
Dog-free Dinner
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I have on story that is specifically Christmas-themed, and that is Dog-Free Dinner, a holiday short in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series, which is available exclusively through my website.
Vic is looking forward to Christmas with her new Bald Eagles Falls family. Erin—not so much. But she wants to make it a special day for Vic.
An unexpected turn in events changes all of their carefully-laid plans.
This Christmas short, part of the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series, is only available through my website. The series—and your holiday—won’t be complete without it.
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A couple of other books of mine are set at Christmastime: She Wore Mourning and Questing for a Dream.
She Wore Mourning
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A dead child.
A mother deep in mourning.
Private Investigator Zachary Goldman’s life isn’t all roses, but he tries to put his own shattered life behind him to investigate the death of five-year-old Declan Bond.
Declan’s death has been ruled an accident, but his grandmother thinks there is more to it. She fears Declan’s mother will not be able to find peace until Zachary can give them an answer once and for all. But as Zachary digs into the circumstances surrounding Declan’s death, he finds that all is not as it seems, and somebody doesn’t want him to find the truth.
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Questing for a Dream
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Nadie is a bright, caring teen growing up Manitoba Cree growing up in abject poverty. She tries to balance school attendance, caring for her younger cousin Luyu, and spending time with handsome, impish Mouse, her best friend and confidante. Together, they strive to find the path to happiness on the reservation.
But tragedy strikes and Nadie’s is devastated by Luyu’s accidental death. Unable to find comfort in Mouse’s arms or Grandfather’s traditional mourning rites, Nadie leaves the band and strikes off on her own, searching for meaning and a new life in the outside world.
Can Nadie find happiness and a place of her own in a foreign world where she is abused and discriminated against? Completely alone for the first time in her life, it is a challenge such as Nadie has never before faced.
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And more…
I have rounded up a few new Christmas books for you. Some of them have promos running right now, so snatch them up while you can!
A Season of Suspense: A Chandler County Christmas Box Set
Betrayal, Lies, Danger and Deception! Will Chandler County ever be the same?
How about six inspirational, romantic suspense stories about love in the midst of danger, duplicity and a desperate race to outrun the worst winter storm in Chandler County in 15 years for just $0.99? Can’t get much better than that!
As Chandler County Christmas festivities loom, so does a storm of epic proportions. It threatens the safety of its residents and visitors alike as they wrestle with emotional, spiritual and psychological dangers that could jeopardize true love, marriage and both new and old relationships.
Can the power of love overcome the biggest of life’s storms?
Let me know if you pick this one up!
Christmas Cozy
Christmas in Ashton Falls is always a magical time of year. The first big snow has arrived, the tree in the town square has been decorated, the window displays completed, and Hometown Christmas is just around the corner. Zoe finds herself knee deep in holiday shopping and Children’s wishes as she and Zak play host to nine year old Scooter Sherwood and his friend Alex.
Although a bit hectic, the magic of Christmas is in full bloom and things couldn’t be more perfect until Zoe finds the body of history teacher Holly Jolly in the Ashton Falls High School Christmas Tree lot run by best friend Levi Denton and is pulled into a dangerous holiday investigation.
Finding Jessie
On sale for $0.99 in some markets.
Christmas. That special time of year when help can come from the most improbable of places.
It’s Christmas Eve and bounty hunter Grace deHaviland’s got plans. For once in her life, she actually has plans to not spend Christmas alone. But when a custody case results in a little girl being kidnapped, yuletide festivities will have to wait. As the weather outside turns frightful, Grace gets to work. Yet, even with all hands on-deck, meaning every police agency in the state on the lookout, and her best friend Sheriff’s Deputy Suzie Jensen by her side, it may not be enough.
What Grace needs to find Jessie before time runs out, may just be a Christmas miracle.
Reindeer & Robberies
The Christmas Season is in full swing on board the cruise ship, Siren of the Seas thanks to Andy Walker, the ship’s cruise director who is all in on his new holiday theme, “The Reindeer Games.”
Millie and her co-worker, Danielle, are tasked with taking charge of the holiday theme and everything is running smoothly until one of the reindeer comes up missing. But the missing reindeer is the least of the security staff’s worries after a string of thefts are reported.
Millie jumps in with an investigation of her own that soon turns south when a stalker surfaces, determined to make her life miserable or worse yet.
Despite escalating incidents from the deranged stalker, Millie sorts the clues and discovers a possible link between the mysterious thefts and her stalker that hits close to home.
Not Quite a Lady, Not Quite a Knight
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A Fortune Teller who is not what he seems, a tavern girl who was not always so, a chance meeting and a ball that changes everything.
Threatened by past scandal and a villain who could ruin her, Miss
Adelaide plans to trap the wrongdoer.
Occasionally we all need a knight in shining armor…even if it is a little tarnished.
Santa Miracles
In this heartfelt collection of real-life Santa stories, Christmas lovers will learn that the jolly old elf is alive and well and still performing miracles that reflect the spirit of the season this and every Christmas. Inside you will meet such inspiring Santa Clauses as:
Raleigh, the mailman, who every Christmas, donned a Santa suit to distribute gifts of toys and food to the poor families in “shanty town,” because they were too proud to accept charity from someone they knew
Bill, the juvenile delinquent sentenced by the judge to play Santa and distribute gifts to the children at a local orphanage—who in the process discovered the true spirit of Christmas
Robert, who kept an old man from being mugged one cold December night, only to recognize him later over coffee as the local department store Santa who had brightened his childhood Christmases
Not even Scrooge himself could resist these touching yuletide stories of cheer, hope, and love. If you love Christmas, you’ll love this book!
Evil Santa
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Evil Santa is a Justin Hall short story.
Justin and his nephew go to the mall to see Santa and things take a very unfestive turn…
Murder in Christmas River
Cinnamon Peters is one tough cookie.
Every year at Christmas River’s annual Gingerbread Junction Competition, pie baker extraordinaire Cinnamon aims to win, taking down any competitor who gets in her way. But when she finds a dead body in the woods behind her pie shop just days before the big competition, Cinnamon realizes that there’s much more to worry about than cookies, frosting, and gumdrops.
Someone’s out to bring Cinnamon down. And they’re playing dirty.
Only Cinnamon and a mysterious stranger who walks into her life one snowy evening can figure out the mystery.
Restoring Christmas
The Christmas season is not all sugarplums and twinkle lights – at least not for Adrienne and Gretchen Harkins. Estranged after a family tragedy, the sisters have been living separate lives in New York City. That is, until a mysterious red envelope shows up on both their doorsteps with news that forces them to reconnect and return to their hometown.
In order to save the once grand home they grew up in the sisters must work together to restore it and save it from foreclosure . . . and they only have five days to do it.
Permit problems, bursting pipes, falling trees, broken shingles, ex-boyfriend’s, current boyfriend’s – this is not your typical Christmas list. However, help and support comes from the most unexpected of places as the community pitches in to help bring the Harkins’ home back to life by Christmas Eve.
Thrown into a race against the clock, can they pull off a Christmas miracle or will they lose their home, their family and true love in another Christmas disaster?
How Gretchen Stole Christmas
“Gretchen, you killed Santa!”
Nothing about Gretchen Mayberry’s Christmas Eve surprise for her family is going according to plan. As she arrives home from California, she is horrified to see a man dressed as Santa sneaking into her little sister’s window. Gretchen goes into attack mode, saving the day, only to earn a trip to the ER with her ex-boyfriend, a distraught troop of Santa-loving siblings, and a Christmas Eve no one will ever forget.
Cozy up to this hilarious, clean holiday romance. It’s never too late to come home.
July 23, 2019
Excerpt from The Stranger in the Woods
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This weekend was the launch of my new book Gem, Himself, Alone. If you haven’t checked it out, pop on over and have a look now.
If you like gritty crime, hard-hitting issues, and twisty suspense, you will like Gem!
Alone on the street, Gem joins up with the Rippers gang to escape his old life, burying his past the best he can.
And now onto the Teaser!
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
I have just started reading The Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel, an account of a hermit who lived in the woods of Maine for almost three decades, surviving off of bold thefts from the camp and homes just a few minutes from his tent without discovery. It’s interesting to hear Finkel’s firsthand account of his interviews with Christopher Knight and the investigation into how he survived without any contact with humanity.
I couldn’t decide between these two quotes, so I decided to share both of them!
She asks Knight to claim what is his. “Everything is stolen,” he says. His backpack, his boots, his break-in tools, the entirety of his campsite, and all the clothes he is wearing, right down to his underwear. “The only thing I can honestly say is mine,” he states, “are my eyeglasses.”
Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods
“I said, ‘Hi,’” Knight replies. Other than that single syllable, he insists, he had not spoken with or touched another human being, until this evening, for twenty-seven years.
Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods
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In 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to death.
He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothing, reading material, and other provisions, taking only what he needed but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life—why did he leave? what did he learn?—as well as the challenges he has faced since returning to the world. It is a gripping story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude, community, and what makes a good life, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way, and succeeded.
July 19, 2019
If a Tree Falls
Robert I. Katz
Richard Kurtz thought that covering for another surgeon in the West Virginia mountains would be a pleasant way to spend a few weeks…until fifteen bodies are discovered in a shallow grave.
If a Tree Falls is part of the Do No Harm collection, which is now available for preorder!
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Justice for All
Chris Patchell
A brutal attack. A survivor left for dead. When DNA evidence cracks a cold case, can Assistant District Attorney, Elizabeth Holt, find the justice she’s looking for?
Justice for All is part of the Do No Harm collection, which is now available for preorder!
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