Get the Deadly Dozen Boxed Set .99 Limited Time!

I'm thrilled to announce that I was asked to be a member of the Deadly Dozen, a fantastic group of USA Today and New York Times bestselling authors. And...for a very limited time, we've boxed up twelve of our best selling novels for a mere .99!

 

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10 full-length novels + 2 long novellas

Over 680 5-star reviews across all 12 titles!
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 1 - DON'T KNOW JACK (The Hunt For Reacher Series) - Diane Capri

 2 - CRY WOLF (A Laura Cardinal Novella) - J Carson Black

 3 - NIGHT WIDOW (The Night Series) - Carol Davis Luce

 4 - GUARANTEED JUSTICE (The Justice Series) - M A Comley

 5 - STRANGER IN TOWN - Cheryl Bradshaw

 6 - BREAKING STEELE (A Sarah Steele Thriller) - Aaron Patterson & Ellie Ann

 7 - MOONLIGHT SONATA (A Dick Moonlight Thriller) - Vincent Zandri

 8 - TERMINUS - Joshua Graham

 9 - ONE DAY IN BUDAPEST - J F Penn

10 - DEAD CELEB (The Dead Celeb Series) - Michele Scott

11 - FINAL VECTOR - Allan Leverone

12 - THE GIFTS (A Jacody Ives Mystery) - Linda S Prather

 

 

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Murder in Mind Weekend Sale .99 Two Days Only

February 2 and 3, Murder in Mind (Sloane Monroe series #2) will be on sale for .99.

 

 

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Hush Now Baby Chapter One Sneak Peek

Hush Now Baby

Sloane Monroe Series #6

Chapter One Sneak Peek

Serena Westwood peeled back the quilt atop her four-poster bed and climbed in, reeling the covers over her shivering body until she’d cocooned herself inside. It was early September, and already the frigid fall air crept through the valley, misting it like a damp sheet struggling in the wind.

After a long, noise-filled day, all was still. There was a time when Serena loved the quiet, basked in the gentle, serene calm, but not now. Now she had more than herself to consider. At thirty-nine years old, Serena had almost convinced herself the role of “mother” was meant for everyone but her. She’d spent many restless nights in the same bed she rested in now, trying to accept the reality that she, and her husband, Jack, would remain childless forever. And yet, here she was, the proud new mother of a sweet baby boy.

Before Finn was born, Jack and Serena had run the gamut, trying everything from artificial insemination to in-vitro fertilization. Nothing took. Her womb, desolate and barren, had rejected it all. When conceiving a baby themselves was out of the question, they turned to surrogacy. Three potential candidates were interviewed. All were rejected. Another round of women were selected. None seemed like the right fit.  

On the way home from the market one wintery afternoon, an SUV struck a patch of ice on the road. The vehicle careened into the oncoming lane, sideswiping Serena’s Subaru in the process. While waiting for police to arrive, Serena had taken refuge inside the Precious Gift Adoption Agency. A firm believer in fate, Serena found herself explaining her unsuccessful plight to Teresa, one of the case workers. Teresa was empathetic, her own struggle mirroring much of what Serena herself had endured, but Teresa’s attitude was different. In Teresa’s mind, infertility had led her to the greatest gift of all—adoption—and she prevailed upon Serena to think of adoption the same way.

One week and several conversations later, Jack and Serena filled out the necessary paperwork. And although Teresa cautioned them at the onset, saying the wait time for a newborn baby could be two years or more, a mere three months passed before a birth mother selected Serena and Jack as her adoptive parents. Four months later, Finn made his opening debut.

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The faint hum of a stirring baby jolted Serena awake. She peered at the clock on the nightstand. Four a.m. It seemed like only minutes had elapsed since she rested her head on the pillow, and already, it was feeding time again.

“Mommy’s coming, Finn.” Her melodic voice drifted down the hall.

Serena coiled a tattered robe around her body, cinching it in front of her waist. She picked a few bobby pins out of the terry-cloth pocket and twisted her long, blond locks into a bun. She squeezed the lids over her hazel eyes open and shut a few times, forcing herself awake.

The frigid chill of the tiles beneath her feet as she made her way down the hall were a stern reminder to leave her slippers by her bedroom door next time. She entered the kitchen, her mind doing most of the work for her, having memorized her every move. After performing the same routine night after night, intelligent thought was no longer required. The bottles practically made themselves.

Cupping the bottle in her hand, Serena stirred the formula and water together and popped it into the microwave. She watched the hardened plastic revolve around and around on the circular glass tray like a carousel. For a moment, her eyes closed and she found sleep again until Finn’s desperate cries grew louder. She was used to the baby fussing, but he’d never been this agitated before.

“Almost there,” she called. “Mommy’s coming.”

Mommy.

She still wasn’t used to the name.

The microwave dinged. She removed the bottle and dipped her pinkie finger inside, ensuring the formula had heated just right. Perfect. She screwed the lid on and paused. The crying had stopped.

Had he fallen back to sleep?

Tiptoeing to the other side of the house, she snuck up to the crib and peered inside. A wave of panic gripped her. There was no baby.

A low chirp prompted Serena to whip around. She saw nothing at first, but then she fixed her eyes on the wall. A dark shadow in the shape of a person blackened its surface. Her eyes trailed the shadow to its source—the bedroom door.  

“Who’s there?” Her voice trembled.

No response.

Her eyes tore across the lamp-lit room. Armed with nothing but the baby’s bottle, she saw no way to defend herself from the assumed attacker. Her mind raced back to a self-defense class she’d taken years earlier, remembering something the instructor had said about fingers being a person’s most viable weapon. “Jab them in the eyes,” he’d said, lecturing the room full of women on how to handle an intruder. “Fast and hard. Don’t think about it. Just do it.”  

A knot wrenched her gut. “I asked who’s there. Show yourself.” She thought about adding the word “please,” but didn’t want to sound weak.

There was no movement, but a second faint squeak emitted from Finn’s mouth.

“Who are you?” she cried. “Why do you have my baby? Come out. I know you’re there.”

A man spoke, but not to her. “Hush now.” His voice was rugged, and yet soothing enough to quiet the child.

The man remained behind the door, toying with Serena. But why? She shaped her fingers into a stiff V and surged forward. The man stepped out. He had the height of a basketball player and the largest hands she’d ever seen. In one hand he held Finn. In the other, a Sig Sauer .45, aimed right at her.

“Back…up,” he demanded. “Now.”

Staring down the barrel of a gun, Serena shied away, seeing no alternative than to comply with his demand.  

“Why do you have my baby?” she whispered.

He bounced Finn up and down, his eyes never breaking contact with Serena’s terrified face. “My baby.”

“What do you mean your baby?”

A nervous laugh escaped from the man’s lips.

Finn started to cry.

“He’s frightened,” Serena said. “Let me hold him. Please. You’re scaring him!”

She attempted to place the bottle on the nightstand.  

“Don’t!”

“I was just going to—”

“Your hands,” he grunted. “Keep them where I can see them.”

She wasn’t sure whether to hoist them in the air, palms forward, like she was a hostage in a robbery or to let them fall to the side. He picked up on her uncertainty.

“Just … cross your arms or something.”

In his eyes she detected inner conflict, like he was wrestling with the decision of whether to keep Finn or give him back. Or maybe she had it all wrong. Maybe he was trying to decide whether she lived or died. His hands were steady, not pulsating like hers. Why was he there? What was his motivation? She tried appealing to his sensitive side, if he had one.

“My son’s name is Finn. We adopted him a few weeks ago. He’s our only—”

“Shut your mouth, lady. I don’t care.”

Finn squirmed, growing restless in the man’s hand.

Without stepping forward, Serena reached her hands out in front of her.  

“Don’t … move,” the man said through gritted teeth. 

He crossed in front of Serena, eased Finn back into the crib.

“Thank you.” 

No response.

“We have a safe,” she added. “I’ll show you where it is. Okay?”

With the slowest of movements, she put one foot in front of the other, easing her way toward the door. 

“You think I’m here to rob you?”

“Aren’t you?” she asked, without looking back.

“Lady, if I wanted to rip you off, I would have done it already.”

“If you don’t want money, what do you want?”

Thoughts swirled around in her mind, each more sinister than the one before. She breathed in, but it made no difference. It felt like all the air to the room had been sucked out. Another thought occurred: Is he here to rape me?

She reminisced on how grateful she’d been when her husband switched from days to swing shift at work. The bump in pay allowed them to come up with the adoption money they needed. Now she wished Jack was here.

Serena wrapped her arms around herself and bowed her head, pointing the way to the master bedroom at the other end of the hall. “Just get it over with … and then I want you to leave.”

“I’m sorry about this. Really, I am. Why couldn’t you have stayed asleep?”

“Why couldn’t I…?” But it was too late.

He aimed the gun at the back of Serena’s head and fired.

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Get my NEW boxed set for .99 December 26-27th

December 26 and 27 I will be running my new boxed set, Sloane Monroe series books 4-5 for .99. The set includes my novels Stranger in Town and Bed of Bones, which is my new release. After this, it will return to $4.99.

 

 

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Working Girls do it for THRILLS!

...And speaking of thrills, I am thrilled to take part in this six author, six novel, boxed set series. But that's not the best part. For a limited time, you can get all six of these novels on your ereader for a mere 99 pennies.

When stakes are at their highest, these working girls draw on the tools of their trades to kick butt, take names and make a difference.

 

Want to know a little more about the six fine authors in this stellar series?

 

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IRREPARABLE HARM (Melissa F Miller)

 



Someone's using a smartphone app to bring down commercial airliners and only attorney Sasha McCandless and the federal air marshal she's teamed with can prevent more disasters. When the madman's killing spree takes a personal turn, Sasha will need both her legal skills and her Krav Maga training to stop him.
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GUARANTEED JUSTICE (M A Comley)



Retired Detective Inspector Lorne Simpkins is happy running her new animal rescue centre with her husband. But when sisters Linda and Fiona Carter come to her desperate to adopt a guard dog, Lorne takes up the mantle of Private Investigator when she learns the reason. Linda was brutally raped by a serial rapist -- who's named Fiona his next victim.
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BLACK DIAMOND DEATH (Cheryl Bradshaw)

 

On the slopes of Park City, Utah's newest ski resort a woman is found dead. Accident -- or murder? Private Investigator Sloane Monroe is on the case when a second dead body is found. Now the killer is tracking Sloane's every move, and her life depends on uncovering the truth before he strikes again.
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CONCRETE EVIDENCE (Rachel Grant)



Accused of stealing artifacts from a shipwreck, underwater archaeologist Erica Kesling is determined to clear her name. An undercover job with the buyer of the missing antiquities puts her close to her goal. Until a sexy, charismatic intern with secrets of his own shows up, placing her heart -- and her life -- in jeopardy.
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BADWATER (Toni Dwiggins)



A terrorist has stolen radioactive material, leading forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws on a perilous hunt through Death Valley. The unstable atom -- in the hands of an unstable man -- is governed by Murphy's Law. Whatever can go wrong, will. And when it does, field skills won't be enough to save them.
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SECTOR C (Phoenix Sullivan)



A pair of seemingly unrelated outbreaks -- a rise in human stroke-like cases and a rapidly spreading animal disease -- lead a CDC analyst and a veterinarian to a shocking discovery at a big-game compound. But even if they can escape with the secret of Sector C, it may already be too late.

 

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Enter The BEST Christmas Tree Contest!

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for sending in photos of your lovely trees.

The winner is DorieLou Strobel!  

The holidays are here, and if there's one thing I love at the onset, it's making my Christmas tree shine like the top of the Chrysler building. And I really enjoy seeing everyone else's trees as well. Since I can't visit you all personally, how about a little contest?

 

Send me one photo of your Christmas tree HERE between now and December 20th. In the subject line write: CHRISTMAS TREE CONTEST.

 

I will post them on this blog in numerical order (without using names). My Street Team will vote, and the winner will receive a signed print copy of one of my novels AND a cookie gift basket from Cheryl's Cookies. Once the votes are tallied, the winner will be announced here on December 26th.

 

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TWO DAYS ONLY! Get Bed of Bones for .99

HO...HO...HO! 

For two days only, December 4-5, you can get my brand new novel, Bed of Bones (Sloane Monroe Series #5) for a mere .99 on eBook. This book may never be discounted this much again, so don't miss out!

 

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