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Historical Suspense
SPEAK OF ME IN WHISPERS Revolutionary Russia in 1918 and Nazi Germany in 1943 What do Romanovs, supposedly killed in 1918, have to do with Russian Imperial treasures sold on the black market by Nazis in 1943? Hitler sends enforcers to stop repeated theft of his looted treasures. Her mother was Russian, but Lena Schiller must give them a scapegoat before the Gestapo starts hauling people away: "Remember my name, my daughter, my dear one. . . but speak of me only in whispers." Cover photograph of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia in about 1915. Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
ONCE UPON A TIME OF WAR: When the Fairy Tale Gets Twisted Europe, World War II, 1939-45 This is a collection of short stories of European women and their struggles during the Second World War, inspired by the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose and others. Some stories: What if Cinderella was really an arsonist of great use to the French Resistance? Or an old woman from a bombed-out neighborhood in Holland finds shelter in a shoe shop and takes in some orphans? Or an attractive flaming-redhead in Poland is having difficulty escaping the notice of the Nazis who are looting her homeland and must flee to the woods where there are other sorts of wolves waiting there? What if Jane Muffet, who works in a furniture repair shop in London, finds that Fifth columnists are passing secret messages through footstools sent to embassies as gifts?
RED TALKERS: The Colony (COMING 2012) Mid-1990s and 1950s. Last seen on a late-night, deserted winter highway, Kimber's twin sister has been missing for months now—presumed dead under the ice of a frozen Montana river. But just lately, Kimber's been having dreams about her twin: Kerry is driving late at night when headlight brights flash in the rear view mirror. Her sister is scared, but not alone—Kerry is talking to some one named Angeline, though Kimber cannot see anyone else in the dream. It took Kimber months to work up the courage to admit her sister was gone for good, and that something else was wrong. Kimber has no clues, only a place to start: The town were Kerry and her husband settled in rural Montana, a town called Prayer—no kidding. Prayer is a not a close-knit community, but very closed-mouthed about a lot of things. Like the secluded religious colony near town, mostly German-speakers who keep mostly to themselves. Also there's a small, secure military base that is more rumor than fact. It was built in the last part of the Second World War, but not to hold prisoners-of-war—not for long anyway. In fact, no one seems to know what it was for then—or now. Why was the base built so near the religious colony? Was it to guard the German-speakers there from acts against the American people, or was it to protect those inside from something else? Kerry might have stumbled onto the answer, and Kimber might end up the same way: MIA. Red Talkers - Referring to neighboring tribes, from a Native American phrase meaning "people of a different speech." COMING 2012

Historical Suspense

SPEAK OF ME IN WHISPERS

Revolutionary Russia in 1918 and Nazi Germany in 1943
What do Romanovs, supposedly killed in 1918, have to do with Russian Imperial treasures sold on the black market by Nazis in 1943? Hitler sends enforcers to stop repeated theft of his looted treasures. Her mother was Russian, but Lena Schiller must give them a scapegoat before the Gestapo starts hauling people away:

"Remember my name, my daughter, my dear one. . . but speak of me only in whispers."

Cover photograph of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia in about 1915. Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

ONCE UPON A TIME OF WAR:
When the Fairy Tale Gets Twisted

Europe, World War II, 1939-45 This is a collection of short stories of European women and their struggles during the Second World War, inspired by the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose and others.

Some stories:

What if Cinderella was really an arsonist of great use to the French Resistance?
Or an old woman from a bombed-out neighborhood in Holland finds shelter in a shoe shop and takes in some orphans?
Or an attractive flaming-redhead in Poland is having difficulty escaping the notice of the Nazis who are looting her homeland and must flee to the woods where there are other sorts of wolves waiting there?
What if Jane Muffet, who works in a furniture repair shop in London, finds that Fifth columnists are passing secret messages through footstools sent to embassies as gifts?

RED TALKERS: The Colony (COMING 2012)

Mid-1990s and 1950s.
Last seen on a late-night, deserted winter highway, Kimber's twin sister has been missing for months now—presumed dead under the ice of a frozen Montana river. But just lately, Kimber's been having dreams about her twin: Kerry is driving late at night when headlight brights flash in the rear view mirror. Her sister is scared, but not alone—Kerry is talking to some one named Angeline, though Kimber cannot see anyone else in the dream.

It took Kimber months to work up the courage to admit her sister was gone for good, and that something else was wrong. Kimber has no clues, only a place to start: The town were Kerry and her husband settled in rural Montana, a town called Prayer—no kidding.

Prayer is a not a close-knit community, but very closed-mouthed about a lot of things. Like the secluded religious colony near town, mostly German-speakers who keep mostly to themselves. Also there's a small, secure military base that is more rumor than fact. It was built in the last part of the Second World War, but not to hold prisoners-of-war—not for long anyway.

In fact, no one seems to know what it was for then—or now. Why was the base built so near the religious colony? Was it to guard the German-speakers there from acts against the American people, or was it to protect those inside from something else?

Kerry might have stumbled onto the answer, and Kimber might end up the same way: MIA.

Red Talkers - Referring to neighboring tribes, from a Native American phrase meaning "people of a different speech."

COMING 2012

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Historical Adventure
THE WILDE FLOWER SAGA: A Contrary Wind Revolutionary France in 1795 and the seas all around In the war-torn world of 1795, an American seabound healer is caught in European waters between countries and accusations of espionage. When she's captured by French Republicans with a nasty rap on the head, she begins to dream about the secret of her family's tragic past. Now if she can only find the truth before the same happens to her. "True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher." - John Petit-Senn LOOK FOR OTHERS IN THIS SERIES 2012-2013
THE GARDEN HOUSE: Coming Soon Near Paris, France, 1793 Riada's family has been on the fringes of the violence of the French Revolution, but when it comes to their street on the outskirts of Paris, she finds more kindness from strangers than her neighbors. The Garden House of a rich family has been converted into a sort of clinic for those needing medical care—or a hiding place. In any case, seek shelter there, not sympathy. Meanwhile, Louis Dumars needs to find a safe place to meet the daughter of his dear cousin, who left France to marry an American named Senlis years before. But their family has aristocratic connections, and his movements are watched by Revolutionary factions who might get the wrong impression. . . or not. COMING 2012 "It is not known precisely where angels dwell— whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode." - Voltaire Also part of the Past Lives Series: Same souls, different lives. Some know, some don't.
PORT ROYAL: Taking the Wilde Caribbean - 1670s and the seas all around The story of Calliope and her ill-fated adventures amongst pirates and patriots. COMING 2013
Elizabeth: 1776 American Colonies - 1776 The story of an American woman torn between loyalty to her family roots in England and her American husband: a patriot or a traitor. COMING 2014

Historical Adventure

THE WILDE FLOWER SAGA: A Contrary Wind

Revolutionary France in 1795 and the seas all around
In the war-torn world of 1795, an American seabound healer is caught in European waters between countries and accusations of espionage. When she's captured by French Republicans with a nasty rap on the head, she begins to dream about the secret of her family's tragic past. Now if she can only find the truth before the same happens to her.

"True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher." - John Petit-Senn

LOOK FOR OTHERS IN THIS SERIES 2012-2013

THE GARDEN HOUSE: Coming Soon

Near Paris, France, 1793
Riada's family has been on the fringes of the violence of the French Revolution, but when it comes to their street on the outskirts of Paris, she finds more kindness from strangers than her neighbors. The Garden House of a rich family has been converted into a sort of clinic for those needing medical care—or a hiding place. In any case, seek shelter there, not sympathy.

Meanwhile, Louis Dumars needs to find a safe place to meet the daughter of his dear cousin, who left France to marry an American named Senlis years before. But their family has aristocratic connections, and his movements are watched by Revolutionary factions who might get the wrong impression. . . or not.

COMING 2012

"It is not known precisely where angels dwell—
whether in the air, the void, or the planets.
It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode." - Voltaire

Also part of the Past Lives Series:
Same souls, different lives. Some know, some don't.

PORT ROYAL: Taking the Wilde

Caribbean - 1670s and the seas all around
The story of Calliope and her ill-fated adventures amongst pirates and patriots.

COMING 2013

Elizabeth: 1776

American Colonies - 1776
The story of an American woman torn between loyalty to her family roots in England and her American husband: a patriot or a traitor.

COMING 2014

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Historical Adventure - Western
WILD WEST WOMEN OF SOME GUMPTION* Wild West: 1840s - early 1900s - Gumption: A bustle and six-shooter. Annie Oakley, Belle Starr, Calamity Jane—those were just the famous ones. This is a collection of stories about the other women who made the American West (or died trying and took a few varmints with'em). Some tales might be inspirational, the others are just for fun. After all, it could have happened that way. . . no really!*
Grace, the Good Traveler (COMING Spring, 2012) American West, mid 1880s When she was young, Grace Ryman's parents left America to avoid the American Civil War. The family traveled to China where they spent several years as missionaries, but tragedy struck the family, and her father lost his faith. That's how they ended up in hell. On closer inspection, Grace decided she likes it here in the Arizona territory. She doesn't know the whys and wherefores of how people are supposed to act around here, especially when it comes to dealing with the natives, saloon girls, and an outlaw or two, but she's determined to make a home in this hell that has become her promised land: The winds of grace are always blowing; all we need to do is raise our sails. - author unknown "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu COMING 2012
Jenny Waltz: Dance with the Devil's Daughter (Coming Soon) American West, mid-1880s Jenny Saffire only meant to take the prisoner his Sunday supper as usual, but this time the old man was alone and too weak to eat on his own. He'd been beaten by the sheriff who sometimes did that for pleasure. Or maybe the sheriff was also looking for the treasure map, which is how the man ended up here in jail in the first place. But Jenny found the map, along with a small nugget of gold and a twenty year old picture of the man's wife and child. Well, not exactly found it, the old man told her where it was as a matter of last confession (rest his soul). She promised to take the map to the old man's daughter, but Jenny isn't sure now if she really meant it. "I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places." - Mark Twain "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." - Mark Twain "But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" - Mark Twain "All right, then, I'll go to hell." - Mark Twain COMING 2013

Historical Adventure - Western

WILD WEST WOMEN OF SOME GUMPTION*

Wild West: 1840s - early 1900s -
*Gumption: A bustle and six-shooter.

Annie Oakley, Belle Starr, Calamity Jane—those were just the famous ones. This is a collection of stories about the other women who made the American West (or died trying and took a few varmints with'em). Some tales might be inspirational, the others are just for fun.

After all, it could have happened that way. . . no really!

Grace, the Good Traveler (COMING Spring, 2012)

American West, mid 1880s
When she was young, Grace Ryman's parents left America to avoid the American Civil War. The family traveled to China where they spent several years as missionaries, but tragedy struck the family, and her father lost his faith. That's how they ended up in hell.

On closer inspection, Grace decided she likes it here in the Arizona territory. She doesn't know the whys and wherefores of how people are supposed to act around here, especially when it comes to dealing with the natives, saloon girls, and an outlaw or two, but she's determined to make a home in this hell that has become her promised land: The winds of grace are always blowing; all we need to do is raise our sails. - author unknown

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu

COMING 2012

Jenny Waltz: Dance with the Devil's Daughter (Coming Soon)

American West, mid-1880s
Jenny Saffire only meant to take the prisoner his Sunday supper as usual, but this time the old man was alone and too weak to eat on his own. He'd been beaten by the sheriff who sometimes did that for pleasure. Or maybe the sheriff was also looking for the treasure map, which is how the man ended up here in jail in the first place.

But Jenny found the map, along with a small nugget of gold and a twenty year old picture of the man's wife and child. Well, not exactly found it, the old man told her where it was as a matter of last confession (rest his soul). She promised to take the map to the old man's daughter, but Jenny isn't sure now if she really meant it.

"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places." - Mark Twain

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." - Mark Twain

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" - Mark Twain

"All right, then, I'll go to hell." - Mark Twain

COMING 2013

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Historical Adventure - Past Lives Series
THE HERETIC'S GARDEN THE FACTS: An early Christian sect believed that life was really just a means of proving your soul worthy of Heaven. If you led a good and noble existence on Earth, you would become closer to Perfect and ascend into Heaven at your end. If not, you would not go to Hell, but would return to another life and try again in whatever circumstance you deserved then?which for some was the same thing as Hell. In 1244, after years of Holy Crusade against them for heresy, over 200 Cathari, a devout Christian sect, were burned by the armies of the Pope at the foot of the fortress mount at Montségur, in the Langue d'Oc region of present-day France. The Cathari believed that if you did not lead a pure life, you would be sent back to earth to try again. . . and again. Some believe that Templars escaped the seige with a great and secret treasure. . . perhaps even the Holy Grail. Langue D'Oc region in southern France, 1243-44 When their village is attacked by Crusaders, two women—herbal healers—and their students—a group of little girls—must flee from rampaging Crusaders else be burnt as witches. They are helped by a knight—on a quest of his own, and his brother—a priest, who thinks they are all damned anyway.
THE GARDEN HOUSE: Coming 2012 Near Paris, France, 1793 Riada's family has been on the fringes of the violence of the French Revolution, but when it comes to their street on the outskirts of Paris, she finds more kindness from strangers than her neighbors. The Garden House of a rich family has been converted into a sort of clinic for those needing medical care—or a hiding place. In any case, seek shelter there, not sympathy. "It is not known precisely where angels dwell— whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode." - Voltaire Same souls, different lives—some know, some don't. COMING 2012 Also part of the Wilde Flower Saga.
PAST LIVES, PRESENT DANGERS Oregon coast, 1970s A couple of World War II nurses thought they were in for a quiet retirement, but find themselves fighting ancients battles in a new world. Detective Sergeant Susan Hannah is the first female detective in this small city near the Oregon coast. It's only one of the changes happening here. But when a young woman staggers into a local clinic and dies, Susan discovers a series of rapes and a police cover-up that has gone on for some time—maybe decades. This series is about a group of souls with intertwined lives during trouble times that have stretched across millennia: Different lives, same souls—some know, some don't.

Historical Adventure - Past Lives Series

THE HERETIC'S GARDEN

THE FACTS: An early Christian sect believed that life was really just a means of proving your soul worthy of Heaven. If you led a good and noble existence on Earth, you would become closer to Perfect and ascend into Heaven at your end. If not, you would not go to Hell, but would return to another life and try again in whatever circumstance you deserved then?which for some was the same thing as Hell.

In 1244, after years of Holy Crusade against them for heresy, over 200 Cathari, a devout Christian sect, were burned by the armies of the Pope at the foot of the fortress mount at Montségur, in the Langue d'Oc region of present-day France. The Cathari believed that if you did not lead a pure life, you would be sent back to earth to try again. . . and again. Some believe that Templars escaped the seige with a great and secret treasure. . . perhaps even the Holy Grail.

Langue D'Oc region in southern France, 1243-44
When their village is attacked by Crusaders, two women—herbal healers—and their students—a group of little girls—must flee from rampaging Crusaders else be burnt as witches. They are helped by a knight—on a quest of his own, and his brother—a priest, who thinks they are all damned anyway.

THE GARDEN HOUSE: Coming 2012

"It is not known precisely where angels dwell—
whether in the air, the void, or the planets.
It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode." - Voltaire

Same souls, different lives—some know, some don't.

COMING 2012

Also part of the Wilde Flower Saga.

PAST LIVES, PRESENT DANGERS

Oregon coast, 1970s
A couple of World War II nurses thought they were in for a quiet retirement, but find themselves fighting ancients battles in a new world.

Detective Sergeant Susan Hannah is the first female detective in this small city near the Oregon coast. It's only one of the changes happening here. But when a young woman staggers into a local clinic and dies, Susan discovers a series of rapes and a police cover-up that has gone on for some time—maybe decades.

This series is about a group of souls with intertwined lives during trouble times that have stretched across millennia: Different lives, same souls—some know, some don't.

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Women's Suspense
NATALYA'S ESCAPE: Ruthless Vision Seattle, mid-1990s. An orphan with a brilliant mind, Natalya was inducted into the KGB as a teenager. When the USSR fell, she came to America to find her murdered American father's family. She found his fortune, and no family left. Now she's living the American dream and runs a corporate security firm in Seattle. But corporate espionage bleeds into international intrigue when bodies keep turning up: A warning for past sins or offerings on the altar of revenge? "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead." - Aldous Huxley "Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision." - Aldous Huxley."
DOWNFALL, RISE UP: The Bridge Seattle, late 1990s Julia Coles came to Seattle to marry a man she met on the Internet, but instead of jumping into wedded bliss, Julia took a dive off the Aurora bridge. The cops figure it was all in her head, because instead of finding romance, Julia found that Simon Oleander was keeping company with Lily Seung, an exotic Asian beauty working for the South Korean government. Julia started to stalk him, it seems, and the cops wrote it up as a broken-hearted suicide. Cops aren't romantic at all. But her best friend, Emi Rye, isn't convince, and has come to Seattle to find out what really happened—it could mean the salvation of both of their souls. Also part of the Modern Fantasy Series: Shadows, Angels & Ghosts Series
HIT MISSISSIPPI RUNNING (COMING 2012) How Sonny got to small-town-Mississippi is a mystery, but not one so pressing as the severed finger she found in her pocket. Okay, so she knew the guy months ago, but now the cops think she's not only a killer, but crazy. True, she can't remember long stretches of time, but Sonny does recall that she had to get out of a high-tech military complex in Alabama and hit Mississippi running. What next? COMING 2012 Bridge over Bear creek in Tishomingo State Park Photo by Waynersnitzel

Women's Suspense

NATALYA'S ESCAPE: Ruthless Vision

Seattle, mid-1990s.
An orphan with a brilliant mind, Natalya was inducted into the KGB as a teenager. When the USSR fell, she came to America to find her murdered American father's family. She found his fortune, and no family left. Now she's living the American dream and runs a corporate security firm in Seattle. But corporate espionage bleeds into international intrigue when bodies keep turning up: A warning for past sins or offerings on the altar of revenge?

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead." - Aldous Huxley

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision." - Aldous Huxley."

DOWNFALL, RISE UP: The Bridge

Seattle, late 1990s
Julia Coles came to Seattle to marry a man she met on the Internet, but instead of jumping into wedded bliss, Julia took a dive off the Aurora bridge. The cops figure it was all in her head, because instead of finding romance, Julia found that Simon Oleander was keeping company with Lily Seung, an exotic Asian beauty working for the South Korean government. Julia started to stalk him, it seems, and the cops wrote it up as a broken-hearted suicide. Cops aren't romantic at all. But her best friend, Emi Rye, isn't convince, and has come to Seattle to find out what really happened—it could mean the salvation of both of their souls.

Also part of the Modern Fantasy Series:
Shadows, Angels & Ghosts Series

HIT MISSISSIPPI RUNNING (COMING 2012)

How Sonny got to small-town-Mississippi is a mystery, but not one so pressing as the severed finger she found in her pocket. Okay, so she knew the guy months ago, but now the cops think she's not only a killer, but crazy. True, she can't remember long stretches of time, but Sonny does recall that she had to get out of a high-tech military complex in Alabama and hit Mississippi running. What next?

COMING 2012

Bridge over Bear creek in Tishomingo State Park
Photo by Waynersnitzel

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Modern Fantasy: Cornish Legacy Series
THE SAGA OF A CORNISH LEGACY, Vol 01: The Dowager's House (COMING SOON) Cornwall, UK, Present Day Leoni Trelawny—sounds more like the name of a 1940s film siren than a 21st century failure. With no family, no job, and an eviction notice looming, Leoni's luck does a complete turnaround: She inherits a fortune, along with an ancient manor in Cornwall from a relative she didn't know she had. She also finds tragic and deep family secrets that someone seems more than willing to kill to keep—perhaps not the first time, it seems. But who is the culprit: the people or the place? "The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance." - Gilbert Parker Coming 2012
THE SAGA OF A CORNISH LEGACY, Vol 02: The Spirits of Foolish Deeds(COMING SOON) Cornwall, UK, Present Day Leoni Trelawny—sounds more like the name of a 1940s film siren than a 21st century failure. With no family, no job, and an eviction notice looming, Leoni's luck does a complete turnaround: She inherits a fortune, along with an ancient manor in Cornwall from a relative she didn't know she had. She also finds tragic and deep family secrets that someone seems more than willing to kill to keep—perhaps not the first time, it seems. But who is the culprit: the people or the place? "The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance." - Gilbert Parker Coming 2012
Nuthatch Farm: Now and Then (COMING 2013) New York State, Present Day When police psychologist Faedra March watched the man jump off the ledge, she didn't expect him to fall into her past, taking her down on the way. These are the intertwined stories of a group of high school friends: what happened then to make things as they are now. But she needs some help of long-time residence of this place to figure it all out. COMING 2013
The Costume Shop (COMING 2013) New York, modern day/Cornwall, UK, 1820s Sheba Smith inherited a costume shop from her aunt who disappeared, presumed dead. She doesn't realize that there's something special about the costumes and the mirror in the fitting room. . . until she falls in. . . and how to get back out again. She could ask someone who already has. COMING 2013

Modern Fantasy: Cornish Legacy Series

THE SAGA OF A CORNISH LEGACY, Vol 01:
The Dowager's House (COMING SOON)

Cornwall, UK, Present Day
Leoni Trelawny—sounds more like the name of a 1940s film siren than a 21st century failure. With no family, no job, and an eviction notice looming, Leoni's luck does a complete turnaround: She inherits a fortune, along with an ancient manor in Cornwall from a relative she didn't know she had. She also finds tragic and deep family secrets that someone seems more than willing to kill to keep—perhaps not the first time, it seems. But who is the culprit: the people or the place?

"The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance." - Gilbert Parker

Coming 2012

THE SAGA OF A CORNISH LEGACY, Vol 02:
The Spirits of Foolish Deeds(COMING SOON)

"The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance." - Gilbert Parker

Coming 2012

Nuthatch Farm: Now and Then (COMING 2013)

New York State, Present Day
When police psychologist Faedra March watched the man jump off the ledge, she didn't expect him to fall into her past, taking her down on the way. These are the intertwined stories of a group of high school friends: what happened then to make things as they are now. But she needs some help of long-time residence of this place to figure it all out.

COMING 2013

The Costume Shop (COMING 2013)

New York, modern day/Cornwall, UK, 1820s
Sheba Smith inherited a costume shop from her aunt who disappeared, presumed dead. She doesn't realize that there's something special about the costumes and the mirror in the fitting room. . . until she falls in. . . and how to get back out again. She could ask someone who already has.

COMING 2013

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Modern Fantasy: Shadows, Angels & Ghosts. . . okay, maybe some Demons
KNITTING THE OLD DAYS: COMING SOON A collection of short stories with a quirky, dark theme: Twilight Zone meets Sex in the City. A bit of romantic fantasy too, but others are just a bit creepy. . . Genre: You call this fun?
DOWNFALL, RISE UP: The Bridge Seattle, late 1990s Julia Coles came to Seattle to marry a man she met on the Internet, but instead of jumping into wedded bliss, Julia took a dive off the Aurora bridge. The cops figure it was all in her head, because instead of finding romance, Julia found that Simon Oleander was keeping company with Lily Seung, an exotic Asian beauty working for the South Korean government. Julia started to stalk him, it seems, and the cops wrote it up as a broken-hearted suicide. Cops aren't romantic at all. But her best friend, Emi Rye, isn't convince, and has come to Seattle to find out what really happened—it could mean the salvation of both of their souls. Also part of the Women's Suspense Series
DOWN HERE IN THE LOW (COMING 2014) Near Future When Kea says her father fell for her mother, she really means it. But what becomes of the earthbound offspring of a fallen angel and a demoness when caught—not in the usual struggle between good and evil that has always plagued mankind—but the time-forgotten truce between the forces of Shadow and Light. While it's true that Alfadir could resolve this in an instant, but he's been on Seventh-Day since before this whole thing began, and no one has had the nerve to tell him his Garden of Eden has been scorched beyond recognition. Now a copter has gone down in an isolated, restricted region of Iraq—what the Ancients called the Land of Sumer. Remnants of the great war before have left the air filled with a sort of metallic vapor that blocks out modern-day surveillance equipment. As an expert on ancient writings, Kea knows this area very well and is called in to find the survivors before they stumble onto the Disa and break the truce in the War of No Repent. Disa. . . The Aramaics called it "the door." The ancient Katuliqa called it "the portal." Today, it's often just called "the Rapture." The Guardians Fall The angels who held with Lucifer when he rebelled, In heaven, those Morning Star legions no longer dwell But those battle-wasted in the War of No Repent Weren't the first angels burnt and bereft, lessened and spent The first mutiny in the Heavens truly began, When the angel-watchers fell for the daughters of man Children cross-coupled from fair and fiery Lilith's breed, Roam free between Earth and Disa to heal, teach, and lead But the issue of angel with sweet and docile Eve, Still bitter, search for Rapture so they may be redeemed. COMING 2014

Modern Fantasy:
Shadows, Angels & Ghosts. . . okay, maybe some Demons

KNITTING THE OLD DAYS: COMING SOON

A collection of short stories with a quirky, dark theme: Twilight Zone meets Sex in the City. A bit of romantic fantasy too, but others are just a bit creepy. . .

Genre: You call this fun?

DOWNFALL, RISE UP: The Bridge

Also part of the Women's Suspense Series

DOWN HERE IN THE LOW (COMING 2014)

Near Future
When Kea says her father fell for her mother, she really means it. But what becomes of the earthbound offspring of a fallen angel and a demoness when caught—not in the usual struggle between good and evil that has always plagued mankind—but the time-forgotten truce between the forces of Shadow and Light. While it's true that Alfadir could resolve this in an instant, but he's been on Seventh-Day since before this whole thing began, and no one has had the nerve to tell him his Garden of Eden has been scorched beyond recognition.

Now a copter has gone down in an isolated, restricted region of Iraq—what the Ancients called the Land of Sumer. Remnants of the great war before have left the air filled with a sort of metallic vapor that blocks out modern-day surveillance equipment. As an expert on ancient writings, Kea knows this area very well and is called in to find the survivors before they stumble onto the Disa and break the truce in the War of No Repent.

Disa. . . The Aramaics called it "the door." The ancient Katuliqa called it "the portal." Today, it's often just called "the Rapture."

The Guardians Fall
The angels who held with Lucifer when he rebelled,
In heaven, those Morning Star legions no longer dwell

But those battle-wasted in the War of No Repent
Weren't the first angels burnt and bereft, lessened and spent

The first mutiny in the Heavens truly began,
When the angel-watchers fell for the daughters of man

Children cross-coupled from fair and fiery Lilith's breed,
Roam free between Earth and Disa to heal, teach, and lead

But the issue of angel with sweet and docile Eve,
Still bitter, search for Rapture so they may be redeemed.

COMING 2014

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About the Author

Marilyn M Schulz

Born and raised in Montana, Schulz now lives and works in the Seattle area.

The first novel came in the second grade, but it was only half a page ("using one of those big pencils too") and even then, the author was concerned about the length. It wasn't until years later that writing became a form of stress management:

"It's amazing how many co-workers requested this boss or that co-worker be rendered a victim of terrible circumstances.

And of course, resemblance to anyone actually living is purely coincidental. No, really. . ." - the Author

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About the Collection: Romantic Suspense, Romantic Adventure and Romantic Fantasy

If you like adventure, mystery, history, and maybe some fantasy too, along with women who never, ever fall and hurt their ankle while running from the bad guys, then these works are for you. Most stories are based on historical events, some mysterious, and possible connections to modern times.

Have you ever wondered:

What were the last days like for the Romanov Imperial family, and how did they die in 1918 (or did they)? And just how did the Nazi invaders so easily find secret hiding places in Imperial palaces that had eluded Soviet looters for decades?

Why would a woman go to sea in the late 18th century when the French were still battling for their freedom and fighting anyone in sight, the English were threatening to re-take America one ship at a time, and African pirates were free to roam the high seas, pillaging (among other things)?

Marco Polo encountered the Pillars of Fire in his travels on the Baku peninsula of the Caspian Sea in the late 13th century, so why are people killing former Soviet spies in Seattle to find about the same thing now?

What happened to the European scientists who were captured in Germany in World War II and brought to the United States. They seemed to just disappear in something the government called Operation Paperclip, and what does that have to do with a little town in Montana called Pray and the colony of religious people more sequestered than Quakers?

If you like a story within a story, some mystery in your history, a shaded past, a growing storm, and a twist in the tail, then these are the stories for you, because after all, predictable endings are boring.

eBooks of Historical Suspense and Adventure

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About the Collection: Romantic Suspense, Romantic Adventure and Romantic Fantasy

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Copyright, Attributions, and Disclaimers

All works copyrighted by Marilyn M Schulz

These are works of fiction, inspired by historical events:
The author makes no claim of accuracy.

Cover design by Bert Schulz

Web Page design by Bert Schulz

Background texture provided by: grsites.com

Artwork and Photos Used are in the Public Domain and attributed when available.

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eBooks of Historical Suspense and Adventure

FORMATS AVAILABLE

About the Author

About the Collection: Romantic Suspense, Romantic Adventure and Romantic Fantasy

Copyright, Attributions, and Disclaimers

All works copyrighted by Marilyn M Schulz These are works of fiction, inspired by historical events: The author makes no claim of accuracy.

Cover design by Bert Schulz

Web Page design by Bert Schulz

All works copyrighted by Marilyn M Schulz

These are works of fiction, inspired by historical events:
The author makes no claim of accuracy.