So Many Books

    Secrets of the Manor Suspense Thriller Date Published: December 26, 2024     In a busy outdoor market, in broad daylight, an apparently ordinary woman is gunned down by a professional assassin. Twelve years later, the killer is back with a new target – and a mysteriously sinister employer…   What secrets could a father leave behind? A gripping, high-stakes thriller that seamlessly blends espionage, mystery, and intense suspense, The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Sophie Allard, a promising jet pilot cadet at a prestigious military academy, finds her world shattered when she’s summoned to the Commander’s office with devastating news—her estranged father has died in a mysterious lab explosion at their family estate. What begins as a routine investigation soon spirals into something far more dangerous. As Sophi...

    BLURB: ONE ANCIENT PROPHECY, TWO HEARTBROKEN LOVERS, AND A WORLDWIDE SCAVENGER HUNT FOR THREE MIRACULOUS PAINTINGS. After her husband’s death, New York artist Claire Lucas has baffling dreams and waking visions as she channels an enigmatic and healing painting of a holy man in India at the deathbed of a young woman. When widowed antiquarian Richard Markson announces that Claire’s canvas is one-third of three paintings prophesied by the Angel Scroll, a recently discovered Dead Sea parchment, she is pulled into an international scavenger hunt to find the stolen scroll and the paintings it predicts. As she pursues the paintings with Richard across historic and holy sites in America, Israel, and Europe, Claire encounters a series of remarkable teachers. A Buddhist, a Benedictine monk, and a professor of early goddess worship all provide rich explanations for the artist’s compelling and perplexing psychic experiences — until she assembles the incredible triptych and dec...

So, what's up with me? I'm writing a second-chance romance tentatively titled The Second Time Around. My couple in this one were married, with a pre-teen son. (Oh, and I just realized his mother was the only person who wanted them divorced.). Angie was never good enough for her son. I'm at the halfway point now. I have a few scenes foreshadowed, so I have enough things happening for the next couple of chapters. This is usually the place where I get writer's block. Here is the last thing I wrote yesterday. (Of course, this is a first draft and I'm still working on this scene. So beware!) “Not as loud as mine and Matt’s.” Gail glanced over at the desk. “It only got worse when he started playing in college.” “Oh, I remember that.” Drew laughed, grinning like the boy he used to be. “And I can’t wait to do the same to Jeff and Kelly.” Laughter rang out, bringing back the past. Angie was okay with it   [TS1] Need to show Drew and Matt drinking something,...

  This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Rhonda Blackhurst will be awarding a free e-book of Inn the Dead of Winter or book one, Inn the Spirit of Murder to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. Welcome to Spirit Lake in the dead of a Minnesota winter, where the brutally cold temp isn't the only thing to fear. Andie Rose Kaczmarek, a six-year sober life coach and owner of the haunted Spirit Lake Inn, has learned the hard way that the living are far more dangerous than anything in the spirit world. When a controversial guest fails to return to her room on the same night a body is discovered in a fish house on Big Spirit Lake, Andie Rose teams up with her sponsor and sidekick, Sister Alice, and her emotional support red retriever, Aspen, to solve the case. After Andie Rose discovers illegal activity on the inn’s property that ties to the murder, the investigation shifts into high gear. A...

 Celebration time. Benefits of Friendship is out today. YES!!! A sweet romance. All Cassandra Rogers wants is to expand the family bookstore. No matter what or who tries to stop her, she plans on fulfilling that dream. Until she hears a second person wants the building, and her dreams are once again compromised. And so is her peace of mind when she learns who the other interested party is—Jack Fontaine, her secret crush from over a decade ago. Once a bullfighter with the rodeo and now a veterinarian, Jack and his interference affect more than just her business. Then her mother states a plan to hire a PI to find her brother, and a promise made to her deceased father comes back to haunt Cass. You can get it through this universal link . And here is an AI picture I did with the Designer App on Office.

  This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Cindy Causey will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. At her fiftieth birthday party, Tess Thomason, a plain-Jane, divorced mother and decidedly unprepared women’s newspaper columnist, is blindsided by her well-meaning family with a stack of gift cards she interprets as meaning she’s fat, frumpy, and wrinkled. Facing a lonely future and failing career, Tess embarks on a journey of self-discovery, taking her readers along for the ride. But her resolve is nearly derailed by a hilarious season of family chaos that includes a surprise pregnancy, rushed wedding, and unexpected houseguests. In the midst of it all, Tess is drawn into a confusing new relationship with a man who is impossibly perfect for her. But if she can keep herself, her family, and her willpower firmly seated on the crazy roller coaster of her li...