Category: In the Spotlight

Dead in the Ditch

A water feud. A dead rancher. And a killer who won’t let the truth surface. Life in Salmon, Idaho, is never dull for flower-shop owner Hatta McFarlane. Especially when a heated argument over irrigation water ends with rancher Russ Talbot dead in a canal. The police have questions, and Hatta has a talent for finding answers—usually with her mischievous Yorkie, Sprout, underfoot and her opinionated ghost grandmother, Agatha, offering advice nobody asked for. The suspects are piling up fas... [Read More...]

Handle With Love: A Slow-Burn Romance

Two estate sale companies. One house. Neither of them wants to share. Diana Ward runs Bright Corner Estate Sales out of a garage. Her hand-painted van honks going uphill, and she writes little notes on her price tags. She can walk into a stranger’s house and work out what they loved. What she can’t do is share a job with Graham Spearman. Graham runs the other kind of company, with a warehouse, matching trucks and staff in lanyards. He’s a widower who keeps his life tidy because tidy is ea... [Read More...]

Free: Lesson UnPlanned: A Decade of Teaching, Travel, and Transformation

For a decade, Michelle taught and traveled across Ecuador, Bahrain, Dubai, India, and beyond. What began as an adventure and a series of cultural blunders becomes more about complicated relationships, sobriety, yoga, and making it up as you go. Funny, provocative, and essential reading for anyone who’s ever reinvented themselves Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Dodge City Chronicles

Set in Somerset in the 1980s, the Chronicles follow a collection of friends, rogues, chancers and small-time criminals whose money-making schemes have an unfortunate habit of getting spectacularly out of hand. The stories are fiction, but the world around them is very real. They take place in real Somerset towns and around pubs and places the author knew — some still there, others long since disappeared. $3.99 to $5.33 on Kindle. Learn More ... [Read More...]

Free: The People That Melt in The Rain

12-year-old Laura was just a normal girl from Seattle when her mother decided to move to a mysterious town in the Midwest. The moment they arrive in their new home, hundreds of frogs rain down from the sky. Her quirky new neighbor has a house full of knickknacks and odd tiny creatures beckoning from the shadows, and there’s a terrible curse on the town of Deluge that makes every summer storm a life-threatening event. On her first day of school, Laura discovers a painting in the school lib... [Read More...]

Grumpy Hometown Santa

The grumpy hockey star who broke my heart doesn’t know he fathered my child. Now I’m his boss. Awkward. The NHL sent Dane Brandt back to Evergreen Falls to rehab his image while the media records his every move. We both had no idea he’d be serving those hours under me in my beloved community center. Or that the curious ten-year-old boy asking endless questions is his son. I told myself I didn’t need the golden boy who left me. But he’s there every morning, helping the ... [Read More...]

Whiskey and Ink

Emily: Most of my life has consisted of carefully curated moments. Routine. Discipline. Faith. A good girl image further enforced by my father. The pastor of Willow Creek. It’s a small town held together by quiet mornings, Sunday service, and long-standing traditional beliefs. I’ve never questioned my religious upbringing until the loud, obnoxious beast of a man moves in next door, shattering the idyllic silence with the roar of his Harley. Suddenly, my quiet existence is turned on ... [Read More...]

The Sisters Abroad Series

Three sisters. Three countries. Three second chances. One promise—that love is worth crossing oceans for. Each book centers on a different Britton sister, exploring themes of family, identity, and love rediscovered abroad. Every story can stand alone but connects through overlapping timelines, cameos, and the emotional thread of letters and lines, distance and destiny. Book 1 – Bound by History (Brie’s Story): A Slow-Burn Military Romance of Love, Secrets, and Second Chances Across Time B... [Read More...]

High Water at Tower Beach

Chicago journalist Emma Burleigh has three weeks to sell the salt-bitten Gulf Coast house her estranged great-aunt left her. But the dead radio station on the property won’t stay quiet: at 2:59 each morning, it broadcasts in her Aunt June’s voice. Its co-owner, quiet fisherman Noah Teague, has a family ruined by hers and a secret he’s kept since they were kids, and neither of them can sell without the other. A slow-burn small-town romance with a ghost story. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]