Author: marydeal
Rachael Connor has great looks, money and a home of her own, but childhood abuse has left her fearful of men.When Rachael meets Matthew, she begins to rethink her life. He falls in love with her, but Rachael rebukes him, living by the “rules” her father taught her.She soon has an epiphany about how to overcome her father’s grip on her life. The next time she falls in love, she will know how to … will know how to deal with it.But will Matthew let her get away so easily?more
Rachael Connor has great looks, money and a home of her own, but childhood abuse has left her fearful of men.When Rachael meets Matthew, she begins to rethink her life. He falls in love with her, but Rachael rebukes him, living by the “rules” her father taught her.She soon has an epiphany about how to overcome her father’s grip on her life. The next time she falls in love, she will know how to … will know how to deal with it.But will Matthew let her get away so easily?more
Written and compiled by award-winning novelist Mary Deal, Write it Right – Tips for Authors is a major source of information for breathing life into your prose. Learn how to polish your writing with tips and examples, and make your prose leap off the page.Writing your opus, you may have encountered myriad questions about imperfect areas that you stumble across in the composition. The thoroughly … thoroughly explained tips offered in Write it Right – Tips for Authors clarify these worrisome issues, instead of simply taking a chance they’ll be acceptable.These thorough and often humorous tips were written in response…
From the day her five-year-old was abducted, Abigail Fisher vowed never to stop looking until her daughter was safely back home. But despite multiple searches, twenty-three years have passed without a trace of Becky Ann. When Abigail learns that death row inmate Megan Winnaker is the same age as her daughter, she begins to wonder if the kidnapper had Becky’s Ann’s face surgically altered to … altered to prevent identification.Megan Winnaker maintains her innocence, but faces capital punishment if she loses her final appeal. As Abigail launches her own investigation to find out if Megan is truly her daughter, someone…
A serial killer is on the loose in Sacramento River Delta.When Sara Mason returns to her hometown to start a new life, she learns that a murderer is terrorizing its residents. Despite battling difficult childhood memories, Sara is determined to make peace with her past.But she soon learns that the elusive psychopath is now stalking her. Sara’s attempt to rebuild her life is hindered even more by … life is hindered even more by the discovery of skeletal remains on her property. As the investigation focuses on several suspects, Sara discovers critical clues and bravely volunteers to be a decoy…
The complete list of thirty over-the-top stories included in “Off Center in the Attic,” with their descriptions, meant to bend the mind:Acting in a Coffin – A director plays a prank that backfires on a movie set.The Wallflower – A woman compares herself to one who is the life of the party.Pupule – A neighborhood gets a lesson in humility from a crazy old Hawaiian man.To Soar – What a bird … drops.Out of Body – A man is shot and his brain goes through a metamorphosis.Looking for Life – Never the right one.Most Wanted – The killer of young…
Sara Mason’s new life solving missing person cold cases with love interest, Huxley Keane, includes accompanying him into the Vietnam jungle searching for his MIA brother and others. Their friend, Esmerelda, accompanies them. Her daughter was abducted along with Huxley’s brother. Scant remains are found and await identification.Sara has purchased a home on the island of Kauai for use by the … veterans who make frequent trips between the U.S. Mainland and Vietnam. The house is an R&R stopover. Sara learns that a six-year-old neighborhood girl went missing ten years earlier and strangely, dogs howl when taken high on the…
A trilogy of stories that shatter the myths of stereotypical islands of paradise. In Promises, during the late 1960s, the ketch, Mercy, sinks during a sea storm off Culebra near the Virgin Islands. Ciara Malloy assumes custody of her drowned fiancé’s son and learns a devastating secret about the boy that changes her life forever. In Adrift, in the late 1990s, underwater photographer Lillian … in the late 1990s, underwater photographer Lillian Avery gets caught in a rip current and swept out to sea off Kauai in Hawaii. In facing death, she finds a way to leave a message behind.…
Archaeology student Chione has vivid dreams about the discovery of an opulent tomb. After the founder of the Institute of Archaeology learns that Chione’s dreams might be connected to events in Egypt, he accepts an offer to examine a mysterious site in the Valley of the Queens.When they discover a burial chamber, ancient spells transport Chione and her ex-boyfriend, archaeologist Aaron Ashby, … Ashby, 3,500 years into the past. There, they learn of Tutankhamon and Tauret, a priestess in Pharaoh’s Court.Soon, Chione and Aaron discover that they have been chosen to play a crucial part in Tauret’s plan.Praise:★★★★★ – “If…