Deadly Déjà vu : Moondance : Spirits To Enforce : We'd Rather Be Writing : Endgate Island : Sweet Cream Ladies, LTD : Scarecrow's Dream : Pick up the Pieces : Four For Texas : Legacy of Silence : Cold Wind To Valhalla : Serenade to a Cuckoo : Haunting Melody : Aria in Ice : Sweet Dreams : Hot Stuff : Ghosts, Wandering Here and There
Deadly Déjà vu
July 30, 2020
ISBN: 978-1952894503 (Print)
ASIN: B09BXPT8GB (ebook)
Category: Suspense
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After 17-year-old Natalie Willis is dropped off at her Birmingham, Alabama home following a Halloween party, she discovers that the house has been ransacked and her parents and younger twin siblings have been brutally murdered. Natalie is attacked by one of the killers, but rescued by the police who arrive in time to save her.
Fast forward seven years to another Halloween night. Natalie, now a reclusive author of children's books, stumbles onto another crime scene when she checks to see how her neighbors fared during a tornado. She sees the bodies of Emma And Craig Hadley lying lifeless in their own blood. Their young son, Aiden, is missing. Terrified, Natalie flees the house, but is grabbed by a masked man who whispers "Where is he?" before choking her into unconsciousness.
Moon Valley Chief of Police, Gil Acosta, arrives on the scene in time to save Natalie from further harm, and quickly becomes intent on soothing her fears. Natalie soon realizes she's entertaining possibilities of romance with the handsome cop. Gil also would prefer to spend his time developing a relationship with the fragile author, but is kept busy determining why two separate, yet eerily similar, murders happened within less than 80 miles of each other, seven years apart.
As Natalie joins in the hunt to find Aiden Hadley, she avoids more threats and dangerous situations from murderers intent on retrieving a priceless object, no matter the cost. All the while Natalie is determined to overcome the brokenness inside herself and be willing accept the love Gil clearly wants to give.
Moondance
July 29, 2019
ISBN: 978-1951055004 (Print)
Category: Paranormal Romance
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1997: Autumn in Texarkana and the harvest moon is shinin' on.
Sybil MacKenzie (Mac), in town to choreograph "South Pacific" for a local theatre is feeling moonstruck. She's falling in love with a younger man, Johnny Chandler who's playing Joe Cable in the show. In between rehearsals, the pair are entering swing dance contests, sharing stories of traumatic events in their lives, and searching for clues to the identify of a killer. They also are experiencing physical events that happened to a pair of teen lovers in the mid-1940s, who were caught in the grip of the Texarkana Phantom Moonlight Killer. When Mac and Johnny learn that their forties counterparts met a violent death in 1947, they're forced to confront the past and embrace the presnt before history can repeat under the next full moon.(previously published as "It's a Marvelous Night for a Moondance")
Spirits to Enforce
August 29, 2019
ISBN: 978-1689416603 (Print)
Category: Cozy Mystery
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Charlee Maguire is providing a group of bankers through the Chufih Street Theatre, with entertaining tales of hauntings during the worst storm to hit Shelby County, Alabama in fifty years. After the rains and wind die down, she discovers the body of a magician known as Odilo, who performed at a casino down the street. With the help (or hindrance) of Lady Val Baudin, a 19th Century spirit who used to perform (and ply another trade) at the theatre, and a handsome suspect, Charlee searches for answers she hopes will lead her to Odilo’s killer. But someone has other plans. In keeping with the traditions of magic, the murderer is determined to keep from revealing any secrets, including identify, even if Charlee ends up joining Lady Val as another Chufih Street Theatre ghost.
We'd Rather Be Writing:
(easy recipes and tips on time management- collaboration with 88 other authors)
October 28, 2015
ISBN: 978-1940795348 (Print)
Category: Cooking and Recipes
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Have you ever wished you could find more time to do the things you want to do, rather than just doing the things you have to do?
Most authors juggle day jobs and family responsibilities along with their writing. Because they need to find time to write, they look for ways to save time in other aspects of their lives. Cooking often takes up a huge chunk of time.
In We’d Rather Be Writing: 88 Authors Share Timesaving Dinner Recipes and Other Tips you’ll find easy, nutritious recipes for meat, poultry, pasta, soup, stew, chili, and vegetarian meals. All of the recipes require a minimum of prep time, freeing you up to read, exercise, garden, craft, write, spend more time with family, or whatever.
Within the pages of We’d Rather Be Writing: 88 Authors Share Timesaving Dinner Recipes and Other Tips you’ll be introduced to authors who write a wide range of fiction—everything from mystery to romance to speculative fiction to books for children, young adults, and new adults—and some who write nonfiction. Some of the authors write sweet; others write steamy. Some write cozy; others write tense thrillers.Some are debut authors with only one published book; others are multi-published and have had long publishing careers. Some are New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors who may or may not be familiar to you, but being a bestselling author doesn’t mean they still don’t have to juggle their day job along with their writing.
The authors who contributed to this book are a rather creative and resourceful bunch when it comes to carving out time from their busy lives. So in addition to timesaving recipes, within the pages of this book you’ll find timesaving and organizational tips for other aspects of your life. And if you happen to be a writer, you’ll also find a plethora of great ideas to help you organize your writing life.
Authors who contributed to this book include: Lisa Alber, Reggi Allder, Judy Alter, Krista Ames, Rose Anderson, Cori Lynn Arnold, Judy Baker, Beverley Bateman, Donnell Ann Bell, Paula Gail Benson, Kris Bock, Maureen Bonatch, Ava Bradley, Susan Breen, Lida Bushloper, Michelle Markey Butler, Ashlyn Chase, Judy Copek, Maya Corrigan, Mariposa Cruz, Melinda Curtis, Lesley A. Diehl, Conda V. Douglas, Nancy Eady, Helena Fairfax, Jennifer Faye, Flo Fitzpatrick, Kit Frazier, Shelley Freydont, Mariana Gabrielle, Rosie Genova, Marni Graff, Joanne Guidoccio, Margaret S. Hamilton, L.C. Hayden, Linda Gordon Hengerer, Heather Hiestand, R.Franklin James, Kathryn Jane, M.M. Jaye, Elizabeth John, Stacy Juba, Gemma Juliana, Carol Goodman Kaufman, Melissa Keir, Kay Kendall, A.R. Kennedy, Lynn Kinnaman, Marie Laval, B.V. Lawson, Claudia Lefeve, Alice Loweecey, Cynthia Luhrs, Sandra Masters, Lisa Q. Mathews, J.M. Maurer, Sandra McGregor, Kathy McIntosh, Claire A. Murray, Ann Myers, Tara Neale, Stacey Joy Netzel, Jayne Ormerod, Alice Orr, Laurel Peterson, Irene Peterson, Pepper Phillips, Caridad Pineiro, Kathryn Quick, Renée Reynolds, Josie Riviera, Elizabeth Rose, C.A. Rowland, Cindy Sample, Sharleen Scott, Terry Shames, Susan C. Shea, Judy Penz Sheluk, Joanna Campbell Slan, Karen Rose Smith, Lynette Sofras, Kaye Spencer, Skye Taylor, Lourdes Venard, Lea Wait, Regan Walker, Lois Winston, and Aubrey Wynne.
Endgate Island
July 29, 2019
ISBN: 978-1951055004 (Print)
Category: Romantic Suspense
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BURIED TREASURE...
When Teddie Grant decides to accept her best friend's invitation to move to Endgate Island and work as the set designer for an interactive mystery theater, she can't wait to shed her past and start fresh. Not long after arriving, she meets Eric Desmarais, a prominent Broadway director, and the chemistry between them is sudden and more familiar than logical explanations can provide.
With a history of pirate settlers, slave traders, and violence, Endgate Island is not what it appears. In the midst of life-altering secrets, storms, and a vicious property battle, Teddie and Eric work to uncover the mystery that seems to push them together at every turn. But well-kept secrets are made to stand the test of time, and there are those who work hard and ruthlessly to keep the truth buried. Yet, these lovers cling to what they have found in each other, and they have no intention of letting go.
Sweet Cream Ladies, LTD
May 15, 2019
ISBN: 978-1948338592 (Print)
ASIN: B07NPYVTCY (ebook)
Category: Cozy Mystery
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The plot hatches during a margarita fest at a Manhattan cafe. Create a contract-killing business. Get rid of pesky ex-husbands and professional rivals - and get off unemployment as well. But when an intoxicated Babs Harrison announces to the patrons of that diner that she and buddy Bootsie Kittredge are becoming hit-women, Bootsie wonders if the sanity train has left the station. Then the top three intended victims on the ladies’ list are murdered. Bootsie and Babs must deal with skeptical detectives, mob bosses, auditions, agents, a fake psychic and a magician with the uncanny ability to know where the ladies are at any given moment—all while trying to prove they are innocent. The question is—are they?
“Sweet Cream Ladies, Limited. You call—we kill!”
Scarecrow's Dream
June 4, 2017
ISBN: 978-1511783996 (Print)
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Category: Paranormal/Romance
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Through death and time, two souls search for love lost and found.
When Holly Malone staggers into her Manhattan apartment at one-thirty in the morning, she’s shocked to discover more than forty years have passed since her last, vague memory of being involved in a motorcycle crash.
No one can see her, and only a few can hear her—her now-aged aunt, and the man she’d been clinging to when the motorcycle sailed off that icy bridge. Shane Halloran, who everyone assumed died with her on that snow-blind night.
Now, Shane hides behind an assumed identity. The wreck that took Holly’s life was part of a string of not-so-coincidental accidents connected to a play so controversial, someone went to deadly lengths to make sure it never saw the lights of opening night.
As they piece together Holly’s sketchy flashbacks, Shane comes to the heartbreaking realization that the woman he has loved for over forty years could at any moment disappear back into the past. Unless Holly’s memories of then—and now—turn out to be a two-way street.
Warning: Contains one uber-charming black Irish rogue, one feisty heroine who’ll take on the world for him, one eccentric hippie aunt—and two generations of eagles named Joey.
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Pick up the Pieces
April 27, 2015
ISBN: 9781508921851 (print)
ASIN: B00WSTTVWO (ebook)
Category: Mystery/Romance
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“pick up the Pieces.” The words, written in embossed lettering on a cream-colored card within a pricey thick envelope, arrive at the door of Bebe Beccera’s New Jersey apartment, throwing Bebe into confusion and annoyance until she determines Pieces refers to the rock band she sang with when she was a student at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Pieces broke up after its lead soprano, Marigold Blume, vanished one night during a Beta Zeta sorority dance gig ten years ago. When Bebe learns the same sorority wants Pieces to “come home” to sing for their reunion dance, she fears returning will shatter her privacy and the walls she’s built to keep from contacting her first love, band member Nic Jericho. She never imagined she could lose her life.
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FOUR FOR TEXAS: A Quartet of Short Stories
June 12, 2015
ISBN: 9781511983600
ASIN: B00ZM1U070
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A quartet of short stories set in Texas, including Treasures: A Mystery; Labor Day/Ladies Night: A Chick-lit Romance in "unusual" circumstance; Wilkinson Roses: A ghostly fairy tale - and Center Floor: A Memoir
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Legacy of Silence
July 2014
ISBN-13: 9780373366866 (print)
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Publisher: Harlequin Heartwarming
Category: Sweet Romance
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She can't imagine a life without music…
Even as a little girl, Miranda Nolan loved to sing and dance, especially for her reclusive neighbor, a woman who was more like a second mother. She never expected to inherit her mentor's estate and to have to put her career as a performer on hold. Even more confusing, she's found herself settling affairs with co-claimant Russ Gerik, an interpreter who lost his hearing in a tragic bombing and struggles to find his way in a now-silent world. Unimaginable.
As the two work together to catalog the possessions of—and understand—a woman shrouded in mystery, they forge a powerful connection. But how long can their bond last when it's not built on trust?
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Cold Wind To Valhalla
Volume 3 in the Abby Fouchet Mysteries
June 2013
ISBN-10: 1484914341
ISBN-13: 978-1484914342
Category: Mystery
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Actress Colette Currie mutters "history repeats, cold wind, cinnamon and ken-see", then dies in the arms of Abby Fouchet. Aided by her fiancé Johnny Gerard, Abby pursues clues in theatres, cemeteries and abandoned movie studios and calls upon her own gifts of second-sight to solve an eighty-year-old mystery and find a klller.
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Also in the Abby Fouchet Mysteries: Sweet Dreams (vol 1) & Aria In Ice (vol 2)
Serenade To A Cuckoo
August 2012
ISBN-10: 1432826018
ISBN-13: 978-1432826017
Category: Mystery
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Portraying Detective Jocelyn Girard on television forensic drama Crime Unit New Jersey involves dealing with special-effects corpses, high speed chases, and flamboyant gymnastic feats for actress P.L. (Princess Louise) McGinnis.
But when P.L. begins stumbling over "real live dead bodies" she's thrust into a mystery which mirrors C.U.N.J. episodes, including a pursuit-on-horseback-by-a-clown scene in the middle of a New Jersey Thanksgiving Parade. If P.L. can't produce the antique clock which holds the key to the murders, her final scene might be filmed at her own funeral.
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Haunting Melody
November 2011
ASIN: B0063UB62W
BN ID: 2940013630390
Category: Time-Travel Romance
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An antique musical doll, cranberry-stained sheet music and the machinations of an eccentric, stupidly-short witch with a fondness for Elvis throw Melody Flynn through time to the 1919 Ziegfeld Follies. Mel soon finds herself dealing with jealous chorus girls while trying to learn songs and dances created nearly 100 years before she was born.
That's the easy part. When she begins a race to track down missing chorines, she's suddenly battling fanatic Egyptian cultists, murderous bordello madams - and her growing feelings for stagehand Briley McShan.
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Aria In Ice
Volume 2 in the Abby Fouchet Mysteries
June 16, 2011
ISBN-10: 1461194520
ISBN-13: 978-1461194521
Category: Mystery
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Scouting for a "must be chilly/must be spooky" medieval castle in Prague to use as the background for a musical film based on a Gothic novel is, to quote Gershwin, "nice work if you can get it."
Dancer Abby Fouchet (Sweet Dreams) acting as location scout for film company Headlights Productions has "got" it. She's also got her soap star fiancé playing wannabe burglar, a psychic with more costumes than a Broadway touring company, assorted film divas and grave-robbers popping up around Kouzlo Noc, Abby's choice for the atmospherically creepy castle.
Then there's the ghost. Ignatz Jezek, flautist and craftsman (who died in 1792) is providing musical accompaniment primarily from Mozart's The Magic Flute, an opera dear to Jezek's departed heart. Abby is the only one being entertained by flute music because along with her gifts of second-sight Abby has the unique and often maddening ability to "hear" spirits.
Throw murder into the mix of cast, crew and and Abby's "nice work" may just end up getting her as cold as Kouzlo Noc and Ignatz Jezek.
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Also in the Abby Fouchet Mysteries: Sweet Dreams (vol 1) & Cold Wind To Valhalla (vol 3)
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I inherited my name, Abby, my height, 5’2”, and the gift of second sight from my great-grandmother Abigail Dumas. She should have included instructions written in my genetic code for using that latter talent.
Precognition hasn’t stopped me from falling for popular “soap” star, Johnny Gerard. Flashes of the future haven’t kept the two of us from being hounded by mobsters, attorneys, hit-men, less-than-respectable strip club bouncers –and looney daytime drama fans.
Johnny and I are supposed to open soon in a new Broadway show. But, if my latest vision comes true, we won’t live long enough to hear the first chords from the orchestra.
Where’s Granny Abigail when I need her?
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Also in the Abby Fouchet Mysteries: Aria In Ice (vol 2) & Cold Wind To Valhalla (vol 3)
RT Award Nominee 2005
Hot Stuff
April 2005
ISBN-13: 9780821777534
Publisher: Zebra
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I was hired to accompany an art collector to India. Act as his interpreter during negotiations to buy some cursed statue called Shiva’s Diva. Easy. I can translate over ten languages in my sleep.
Then the bullets started flying and I began using moves l perfected years ago in college gymnastic meets. Next thing you know, I’m vaulting over tables and diving across a bar counter ending up in a saloon storeroom. Not alone. I’m sharing space with Briggan O’Brien, a man blessed with a saucy smile, pirate’s guile and the charm of a pub owner on St. Paddy’s Day.
Now we’re hiding in the Film City area of Mumbai called Bollywood. We’re dancing and performing back flips in a Masala musical extravaganza atop Ferris Wheels and roller coasters just to hide from the sinners, slayers and sellers playing this deadly game of Hot Potato with Shiva’s Diva.
Not the best scenario for romance, especially with a man fluent in the one language I, Tempe Walsh, can’t decipher – love.
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RT Award Nominee 2005
RT Book Club Rating: Phenomenal
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Ghosts, Wandering Here and There
August 16, 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1511782623
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*Was previously titled Ghost of a Chance
Fifty years ago, actor Don Mueller was shot dead in front of 750 horrified patrons watching the melodrama, “Bad Business on the Brazos.” Rumor has it his spirit still haunts the East Ellum Theatre in Dallas, Texas.
Five weeks ago, dancer Kiely Davlin was hired to choreograph a new production of Bad Business. It’s a busy job. When she’s not teaching dances,she’s falling for a villain, dodging near-fatal accidents and tripping over dead bodies and old bones.
But this show is far from over. If history repeats itself, Kiely may soon be joining Don Mueller as the theatre’s newest ghost.
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“…a wacky cast of characters who deliver three full acts of matchmaking, mayhem… and murder.”
—Best-selling author Kasey Michaels