RECOMMENDED
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Below is a rather eclectic list of books I've recently read and enjoyed. Their common bond is excellent story telling and writing by talented authors. I highly recommend any of these books for your reading pleasure, and also suggest that you visit the authors' sites. I'll be adding to this list from time to time, so please check back again. Enjoy! -Steven Douglas Womack
The children of Rhinebeck are not safe. They have been disappearing
since 1900, without a trace. The lives of the three sisters who
own the inn, become forever altered when thirteen year old Morgan
disappears in the middle of the night when her family lie sleeping.
The sisters’ Scottish upbringing, with all of its tales
of evil birds always seemed like old wives’ tales; until
the crows began behaving oddly and the sisters swear that when
it rains, they can hear children’s voices on the night air.
Detective Sunny (Royal Sun) Cloud's life is the stuff of country and western songs. He's been shot up, fed up and his woman is gone. He has one last murder to investigate and then he's off to a Florida retirement. But this last case proves to be his most challenging. Library Director Ian Fisher has been bludgeoned to death with a paperweight, and the fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to Joanne Gallagher, mother of rookie detective Mitch Gallagher. A former alcoholic, Joanne Gallagher is newly sober and newly separated. Only a few details stand in the way of her redemption—those prints on the murder weapon and the scratches on the victim's face both came from her hand. She tries to explain but no one is listening. She’s considering making a false confession in order to save her son’s career. Detective
Sunny Cloud thinks Joanne Gallagher is as cute as a new baby chick
and as guilty as hell. Will she be able to convince him of her
innocence before it’s too late?
Patty O’Donnell is often not what her rural Irish neighbors expect. A smart, strong-minded American, she is married to an Irish Steeplechase jockey, and works in her father-in-law’s racing stables as his assistant. When a chance discovery reveals that a neighbor is being abused by her second husband, Patty and her family mobilize to help her, taking in her exiled teenage son and initiating a search and salvage effort for a sunken ship that’s cargo could help free the woman fro her abuser. When the boy later disappears and a kidnapping attempt on Patty is thwarted, the others immediately suspect the abusive husband. Patty is sent out of the country, while detectives attempt to locate the missing boy. Patty joins the search for the shipwreck, unwittingly making herself the target of an international gang of thieves who want the salvage for themselves, and are willing to kill to get it.
In 1836, the action never stops for Ace Dover's family at the
Three Springs Ranch. Rustling and lawlessness prevail in the Florida
Territory, and adopted son Treff Ballowe has his hands full trying
to protect the TSR pastures. Putting Joel Godwin in the Fort Brooke
stockade only intensifies his problems by fueling Grandma Godwin's
vow to "see Treff dead".
Political controversy is not a new concept to Floridians. In 1838,
long before chads and punch cards were ever heard of, Florida
Territory Governor Call plans for a constitutional convention
to bring Florida to statehood, and questions abound. Should the
territory be divided into two states as some wish, or even three?
Should the capitol be located in Pensacola, Tallahassee, or St.
Augustine?
A
woman searching for answers…
Generations past, in the chilled reaches of space, a band of itinerant space travelers crash-landed on an alien world battered by ferocious storms. Their numbers split, and half vanished without a trace while the remaining faction struggled for survival in the depths of a rock-shrouded realm they called the Always Dark. Centuries later, beautiful enslaved Dwinn Somuron finds herself leading a dangerous mission to prove to a small band of believers the family legends of the Herreth's Stone are true-that explorers miraculously survived beyond the stony confines of the Always Dark. Dwinn's single-minded plans quickly become complicated when she meets Lusaar Gursenni, sole son of the head official of the land. Lusaar is on a mission of his own-to make certain his mother retains her dynast title; it is a quest fraught with danger, deception and enemies who will stop at nothing to see them dead. Together Dwinn and Lusaar battle murderous armies, raging storms and tremendous odds. Will their last-ditch attempt to reach their goals end in disaster, or will Dwinn prove herself to be the true Daughter of the Stone?
1855...Emily
March thought life with her new husband, Nathan, on his vast tobacco
plantation was going to be Heaven. But, soon after arriving at
Evermore, life is Hell.
Passion. Heartbreak. Betrayal. Murder. Deceit. Revenge. Friendships
hanging in the balance. Innocence lost. Young lives forever changed.
In a sleepy mountain town, a high school graduation party is underway.
By morning's light, four friends will make choices that will impact
their lives for years to come.
Two bodies, necks snapped, like a fox strikes its prey. Jessica Tyson, searching for the killer while gaining self-understanding, travels the world of prostitution and the dark mind of a murderer. One suspect becomes her lover, as others surface, including a kind philanthropist, spinning children's tales of Queen Anne Fox. For Jessica the path leading to the killer is filled with shadows of her past and life lessons for a brighter future.
With her life threatened by a serial killer, Dani Karr ran to the only place she felt secure, Karr's Port. The retirement home that had belonged to her parents, sat in a secluded trailer park. There she could hide among the older residents and not have to face the inevitable. Hugh Anderson only wanted to get the new owner of Karr's Port to sell the trailer to him. He certainly didn't expect to become embroiled in a manhunt for the killer responsible for the only case he'd left unsolved when he left the Atlanta Police Force.
In
the steamy, tropical decadence of the Florida Keys, an intoxicating
love must find a way to overcome darker, more lethal desires.
Bold, beautiful Skylar Connelly wants to know what happened to
her sister, Maia, who has vanished without a trace. Skylar never
expected to be blindsided by passion and ultimately lose her heart
to the man who holds the key to Maia's disappearance.
Rakkel,
aging postulant at Nidaros Cathedral in Viking Norway, remembers
the death - and her contribution to it - of her adored love, Bjorn.
Unaware they are children of brothers they meet, fall in love,
but cannot marry. Fleeing Trollviken, Bjorn is fatally wounded
by Rakkel's errant arrow shot at a presumed pursuer.
A
brooch, a lighthouse, a seashore, a love that transcends time…Single,
childless, and forty-three, college English professor Laura Bouvoire
is determined to have a baby by in-vitro fertilization, but her
plans meet opposition when she falls in love with her thirty year
old college student, Dante Giovanni. Even though she becomes pregnant,
she is shocked at Dante's opposition to "test-tube babies"
which he deems morally repugnant. Yet the two are drawn together
by forces neither understands, forces they later learn stem from
a past life.
Matt Druker loses his job and his girl. He lost his faith long ago. Now he struggles with no job, but one day he drifts into the local church which needs help. Matt decides to impersonate an Irish priest to help the struggling pastor. Does he have a prayer?
Jack Van Camp went to Hunter’s Mills to run interference between his mother, Dutch grandmother and his very pregnant sister. When he finds Annie Wilson hiding out in his cottage, he’s floored by her beauty and innocent nature…not to mention curious about why she was hiding. Jack soon finds himself persuading the lovely Annie to pretend to be his wife for as long as his grandmother is in town. With her mother’s sudden return to Hunter’s Mills, Annie finds herself without a place to live. While her mother entertains various men in her apartment, Annie finds Jack’s request hard to turn down. A roof over her head, a handsome man at her side and the unconditional love of Jack’s family. But Annie has a request of her own to make in return for her help. When Jack agrees, they begin the Marriage Sham. Falling in love wasn’t supposed to be part of the game.
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