Book Excerpt: Murder in Devil’s Cove
Read the first chapter of Murder in Devil’s Cove Chapter 1 “Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.” ~Charles Dickens The island of Devil’s Cove lay between the mainland and the barrier islands on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, smack in the middle of four ocean channels. Albermarle Sound was to the north.
Book Excerpt: Living the Vida Lola
Living the Vida Lola Prologue When I was fourteen years old, I snapped pictures of Jack Callaghan doing the horizontal salsa in the backseat of a car with Greta Pritchard. That’s when I knew for sure I’d grow up to be a private eye. I’d stooped to low levels in order to spy on him: disguising myself as a substitute custodian and pushing a mop cart into the boys’
Book Excerpt: Pleating for Mercy
Pleating for Mercy A Magical Dressmaking Mystery Chapter 1 Rumors about the Cassidy women and their magic had long swirled through Bliss, Texas, like a gathering tornado. For 150 years, my family had managed to dodge most of the rumors, brushing off the idea that magic infused their handwork, and chalking up any unusual goings-on to coincidence. But we all knew that the magic started the very day Butch
Book Excerpt: Kneaded to Death
Kneaded to Death A Bread Shop Mystery Winnie Archer Chapter 1 Santa Sofia is a magical town, nestled between the Santa Lucia Mountain Range and the Pacific Ocean on California’s Central Coast. I’ve always seen it as the perfect place. Not too big, not too small. Historic and true to its commitment to remain a family-oriented place to live. They accomplished this goal by having more bikes than people, concerts
Book Excerpt: Storiebook Charm
Storiebook Charm Spellbound, book 1 By Melissa Bourbon Prologue Eight years ago… Whiskey Creek, Texas, wasn’t far from Austin, but to Reid Malone, it might as well have been light years away. Thank God for the lake. No matter how much he hungered for city life, this place—especially on a day like today—was his solace. He parked on the bluff in between the trees near the old haunted fishing
Book Excerpt: Silent Echoes
Silent Echoes, Chapter One San Julio, Texas. Present day. Vic Vargas stood on a grassy knoll in the corner of his several hundred acre ranch, where it intersected with three adjoining properties. A group of men—his neighbors—along with Deputy Derek Braido, stood there with him, looking grim. Vic deliberately kept his eyes off the goat carcass at his feet and instead gazed up at what he could see of the