Powell is up on Preorder Now.

Well, things have been busy as usual around here. (It always is during softball season, since I always get pulled in to help coach!). Rec league softball is over now—her last year. Leagues around here only go up to 13U, and she’ll be 14 this December. So, we’re starting the travel ball tryouts. She’s never done travel, but does do private pitching and hitting lessons. We’ll see what happens…In our area, there just aren’t a great deal of teams in her age division, for some reason.

I’ve also been hard at work. Powell’s book, The Secrets She Keeps, is up on preorder. It’ll release July 16th. It turned out a bit longer than Haldyn’s book, and just a little shorter than Zoey’s. It is a storyline I’ve been working toward resolving since Lacy’s book—earlier, actually. Since I first introduced the beautiful Gunnar Erickson in book 1.

Now on Preorder. Releasing July 16, 2024.

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Powell Barratt was used to success in real estate, business, and law… not romance.

Certainly not romance with a man who could give the god Thor a real run for his money. But Detective Gunnar Erickson is right there, in front of her, vowing to keep her safe after she is nearly abducted. He’ll do anything to protect her, and she believes him.

And Powell has a secret he deserves to know…

Gunnar knew what it was like to lose the woman he loved. He’d lived that hell before. Now that he has Powell in his arms, he’s not about to let anything hurt her—even if he is in the midst of the biggest case of his career with the TSP. He’ll keep her safe by keeping her right next to him where she belongs.

But when his enemies realize just how important Powell is, Gunnar has a fight on his hands.

Before people close to them both pay the ultimate price…

The Secrets She Keeps is a complete, 500+ page romantic suspense novel and is the second in the Finley Creek: Enemies Within tetralogy. The Finley Creek series contains multiple scenes of violence, adventure, dark criminal behavior, cursing by heroes, heroines and villains, a few mild-to-moderate love scenes, and references to subject matter that may distress some readers, including pregnancy loss, abductions, assaults, stalkings, mass shootings, child abuse and other dark themes. The Finley Creek series of books contain the same depth of content that can be found on a network crime drama series. Bad things happen to good characters, but GOOD always triumphs over EVIL in the end.

Also…

In other book news, if you missed it, the first collection of Finley Creek Storm Stories are available in ebook form now:

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I released a brand new paranormal. It was not a relaunched title. I do hope to have an updated, revised version of Jason and Anna’s story ready soon, too. The new book was Becca and Matthuin’s story:

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I am working on Madison’s book now. It’s in the early stages, but I don’t have dates yet. It will be in 2024. I am also working on Meyra and Brandt’s book heavily now. It is a Masterson County book, but takes place almost completely within the timeline of Powell’s book, so it is next on the release list, and probably will be around August or September. 

Upcoming Titles:

So, for now, the release plan looks like this:

Powell and Gunnar, “Finley Creek #14”, in The Secrets She Keeps – July 16, 2024. Meyra and Brandt (still unsure of the title) “Masterson County #11” –TBD Madison and Dom (title TBD) “Finley Creek #15” –TBD & Dylan and Fletcher, “Masterson County #12” in “Winning Her Wager” –hopefully by Christmas 2024.(Dylan jumped in line on the schedule, due to some events in Meyra’s book. Dylan surprised me…) After Dylan, it’s the conclusion of Finley Creek: Enemies Within, with Charlotte & Daniel in “Finley Creek #16”, titled Secrets of Their Fathers.

After that, I’m thinking there will be something PAVAD. I’m just not sure of the details, yet. I have new stuff in the works, as well.

I suspect I’ll be getting a lot of writing done this month—kid has softball camps and lessons and tryouts like crazy. I usually write while she’s doing that. I am very fortunate to be able to basically write/work anywhere! She has camp at the University of Illinois one day next month. We’ll be taking the RV up there and camping at a nearby state park; we want to get away for a bit.

We did a “test” camp run last week at the state park nearby, since Freyja the Dog has never been (we stopped RVing for a while after Liberty the Dog had her stroke in summer 2020). Our thinking was that I would take the dog home, if needed, and we’d ease her into it. (She has trouble with leashes, other dogs, and she has some significant vision issues in lower light situations and at distances of 50+ feet). 

The hubs was insistent his cat was going camping with us, too. It went reasonably well—as well as a first camping trip with a crazy 4-yr-old border collie can. She even walked on a leash without a problem—as long as it was daylight out. 

The cat…well, he hid under the bed most of the trip—then got in the bunk over the cab and just stayed there, watching everything. He discovered birds outside the window, and that made him happy. 

He will be going with us on other trips, but I think he’ll eventually get used to it. He’s a remarkably easy-going, low anxiety cat. He had his emotional-support-Freyja nearby, too. I think that helped. Here those two are in the over-the-cab bunk. Freyja can climb, that dog.

I do draw the line at walking the cat, or carrying him in a backpack. That is just not happening. 

The hubs did buy him a harness and a leash, though… I think that man has plans. 

(Did I mention, hubs hates cats???????)

I’ll update with more info on the next releases as soon as I can.

Thanks for reading,

C.J.