Author: cjzahner

After losing her driver’s license, suburban mom Nikki ends up trapped at home surrounded by hostile neighbors. Can she take control of her life with a little help from her friends? A funny, poignant novel about relationships, love, and self-discovery!

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Project Dream laces a trace of the paranormal into the lives of teenagers taken from their families in this prequel to CJ Zahner’s Gripping thriller, Dream Wide Awake.What happened to the kids in the desert?In 2002, the CIA forced several teenagers out of detention centers and into a National Security Test Program called Project Dream. Teens selected had two characteristics: physical superiority … physical superiority and a sixth sense. When the awkward, unpopular, and destitute Izzy Jimenez is caught stealing clothes, authorities enroll her in the program for two reasons: Izzy swims like a fish—and she sees angels.There she studies…

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Jack vowed to find the missing boys, but will he risk his daughter’s life to save them?“I picked this up and could. Not. Put. It. Down. I kept thinking about it for weeks afterward.” – Alex S.A kidnapper scribbles quotes on three abduction notes. His fourth mentions Detective Jack Daly’s six-year-old daughter, Mikala. Jack crumbles the note in the palm of his hand and slips it into a pocket.In … slips it into a pocket.In this page-turning crime thriller, four words on Christian stationery force a father to work alone while narrowing a web of suspects and identifying a kidnapper.Years…

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Project Dream laces a trace of the paranormal into the lives of teenagers taken from their families in this prequel to CJ Zahner’s Gripping thriller, Dream Wide Awake.What happened to the kids in the desert?In 2002, the CIA forced several teenagers out of detention centers and into a National Security Test Program called Project Dream. Teens selected had two characteristics: physical superiority … physical superiority and a sixth sense. When the awkward, unpopular, and destitute Izzy Jimenez is caught stealing clothes, authorities enroll her in the program for two reasons: Izzy swims like a fish—and she sees angels.There she studies…

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Jack vowed to find the missing boys, but will he risk his daughter’s life to save them?“I picked this up and could. Not. Put. It. Down. I kept thinking about it for weeks afterward.” – Alex S.A kidnapper scribbles quotes on three abduction notes. His fourth mentions Detective Jack Daly’s six-year-old daughter, Mikala. Jack crumbles the note in the palm of his hand and slips it into a pocket.In … slips it into a pocket.In this page-turning crime thriller, four words on Christian stationery force a father to work alone while narrowing a web of suspects and identifying a kidnapper.Years…

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Jack vowed to find the missing boys, but will he risk his daughter’s life to save them?“I picked this up and could. Not. Put. It. Down. I kept thinking about it for weeks afterward.” – Alex S.A kidnapper scribbles quotes on three abduction notes. His fourth mentions Detective Jack Daly’s six-year-old daughter, Mikala. Jack crumbles the note in the palm of his hand and slips it into a pocket.In … slips it into a pocket.In this page-turning crime thriller, four words on Christian stationery force a father to work alone while narrowing a web of suspects and identifying a kidnapper.Years…

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She thought they were her siblings. By the time she realized they weren’t, one of them was dead. Doctor Emma Kerr had no right counseling them. Adopted and her birth records lost, she believed she was born a McKinney. Her face, intelligence, and depression resembled theirs. For years people mistook her for their sister. So she devised a plan.What begins as a scheme to counsel the McKinney family … McKinney family and determine if they are blood relatives, quickly causes Emma to wonder if she had truly done the manipulating. Is someone following her? Now Emma clamors to escape the…

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