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"A winning plot ...." Kirkus Discoveries. With a skeleton comes lust, stolen money, secrets, a clue, and mystery amidst emerging 1960s feminism in rural Iowa. Clear, consistently readable prose, wrote a Writers' Digest judge. First in a diverse trilogy of skeleton mysteries.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">"A winning plot...." Kirkus Discoveries./span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A winning character....Writers' Digest judge./span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Respected, church-going Sarah Hamilton anguishes for a decade with an emotional skeleton living in her mind's closet. The consequences to her of one act of forbidden lust do | |  | | Abbey Burning Love
Melissa sets aside her love life to organize an Abbey fund-raiser for her father. An explosive fire disrupts the gala. She wakes up in the hospital, rescued by an unidentified male. In her effort to unmask her savior she discovers an extra coffin in her family's crypt with no ancestral connection.
Stunning beauty and stock car racer Melissa Malone debuts as MC to raise funds for The Abbey, a historical Western Illinois nunnery with a humiliating past. A murderous explosion rocks the fund-raiser and Melissa's world.
She cheats death when carried to safety by an unidentified male.
To rebuild The Abbey, Melissa battles city zoning staffer Rob Campbell and discovers an extra coffin in the family crypt.
While she strives against her internal fears to find a satisfying love Melissa's goal to rebuild The Abbey looms unfulfilled and she's never certain what her future | |  | | Adolph's Gold
A buried skeleton ups the ante for Detective Adolph Anderson to earn his gold shield. A strange historically-clad visitor, illegal drugs, and a competitive co-worker work against him in multiple ways, many unseen and lethal.
p class="MsoNormal">Years in pursuit of his gold shield, enigmatic Detective Second Class Adolph Anderson relies on his uncanny insight into the workings of the criminal mind to solve cases. He’s on a multi-faceted journey within a Midwest town surrounded by miles of countryside, farm houses, bed and breakfasts, and river captains who ply the Mississippi River. He discovers the truth of a crime by ferreting out the passions, dark secrets, and hidden desires of those he meets.o:p>/o:p>
p class="MsoNormal">With his long-time partner out on disability, he creates his own deadline t | |  | | Alexa's Gold
Entertaining and captivating, writes an Alexa's Gold reviewer. A roller coaster of twists and turns that involve mystery, intrigue, threats, violence, kidnapping plots, death, stake outs and romance. A well-written read with a very surprising ending by award-winning Author Donan Berg..
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alexa's life is upended when she stands to inherit her grandmother's Iowa farm. You'll fall in love with Alexa's grit. She displays pluck, courage, and stamina, not to mention the endless farmyard gravel outside Grandma's farmhouse./span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Yes, Grandpa's buried gold coins are hers, if? Multiple BIG IFs. If she sleuths Grandma's recipe clue. If she outwits those who would steal it. If Grandma's lawyer | |  | | All's Forgiven
Donan Berg's "All's Forgiven" is a captivating mystery that keeps the reader guessing until the very end, writes a Five-Star reviewer. A family drama unfolds as-thirty-two-year-old Jenny Olsen's life descends into chaos. Jenny is injured in a hit-and accident that hospitalizes her young niece. Thieves kidnap her mother and demand a ransom. Amidst family disputes and inner turmoil, romance tantalizes's her heart.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jenny Olsen flees wintry Iowa to the New Orleans Mardi Gras to dull her past and present, at least for a week. Injured in a hit-and-run automobile accident that hospitalizes her young niece, Jenny weathers family rancor by running away on a pre-booked holiday bus tour. /span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Puzzling turmoil finds her./span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times | |  | | Amanda
After thirty-six years married, Amanda snaps. She executes her plan to rid herself of husband Herbert with an accident based on his major habitual fault. What happens is a twist worthy of O. Henry.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">After thirty-six years married, Amanda snapped. What happened did her in, not husband Herbert. /span>/span>
| |  | | Aria's Bayou Child
"Intriguing turns, steadily unfolding dark secrets, surprises in isolated locales," says 5-star review. Imbued with nice touches, Aria's Bayou Child leaves Aria and the reader hopeful, and redeemed. Second 5-star review: "It is no surprise that Donan Berg's books have won award after award. . . . he creates tales that stick in the mind long after the book has been read, making it necessary to read each one over and over again in order to feel that shot of adrenaline he delivers so well."
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">No motherless child flourishes and no mother's journey embraces sanity until she breaks the chains of false accusations and hugs a beating heart./span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Aria Gleason's experience, the bayou exists, not as a magical place, but an obsession forced upon her, and she'd have it no other way until she finds her child./span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: " | |  | | Baby Bones
When a coffin floats to a rural creek's surface, Sheriff Jonas McHugh discovers a female skeleton and baby bones inside. The Coroner is scared by abortion vigilantes. Two other deaths complicate Jonas's search for a killer. It may even be his social friend.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In/span>/span>i>span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Baby Bones, Third Skeleton Series Mystery/span>/span>/i>span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, Author Donan Berg introduces Iowa Sheriff Jonas McHugh to his mystery series trilogy showcase of nuanced, complex, and captivating crime-solvers./span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman& | |  | | Find the Girl, A Fantasy Novel
Fears converge on fourteen-year-old Eta Dorcas. Her fingertips glow blue after she captures a weasel who speaks. July 2021 Literary Titan Gold Award winner. Five-star review cites unique characters, a striking setting with innovative plot and elegant prose.
Breaking News, Find the Girl, A Fantasy Novel, achieves 406 days as #No1 most popular at AuthorsDen.com This is as of June 3, 2022, and extends its 2021 streak as top novel halfway into 2022..
Last July, Find the Girl, A Fantasy Novel won the Literary Titan Gold Award. Judges praised Find the Girl, A Fantasy Novel for its unique characters, innovative plot, and a fresh theme written in elegant prose.
Seventh grader Eta Dorcas hides from her family her glowing blue fingertips and the weasel she captures in an Iowa cave.
The weasel escapes her backpack | |  | | Into the Dark
A murdered Iowa Caucus campaign manager lies near a remote cabin with stacks of cash, vote tallys, an empty ballot box to challenge Sheriff Jonas McHugh. As he explores a cave for killer clues, a bomb targeted to end the sheriff's life ticks.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fresh off solving his first murder in i>Baby Bones, /i>Sheriff Jonas McHugh returns to find his own life targeted./span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a remote Northwest Iowa cabin after the Iowa Caucus, he discovers an empty ballot box and thousands in cash. Suspicious enough to investigate, he finds a presidential campaign manager outside a nearby cave, murdered./span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium;"> | |  | | Lucia's Fantasy World
Captivating story of courageous and caring young girl. Charming and intriguing says 5-star reviewer. Author perfectly captures the innocence and imagination. Perfect fantasy book for middle-aged children. Find out what is special about Lucia and how her tale helps reachers cope with hard times..
p class="MsoNormal">span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucia McFate finds her life changed when sledding friend, Johnny, is stricken with a life-threatening infection. Discovering that she has a rare, if dangerous, gift, Lucia literally falls into a tunnel and her escape lands her in a far-off land many centuries in the past./span>/span>o:p>/o:p>
p class="MsoNormal">span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her challenges are many, but the most important is how to transport a spirite | |  | | One Paper Heart
❤❤❤❤❤ Fast-paced, captivating Gold Award romance. Alicia's secrecy attempt backfires. She never expects her innocent one paper heart to kindle romantic embers. Will trust blossom before Alicia's one paper heart symbolizes love lost?
i>span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">One Paper Heart /span>/span>/i>span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">wins national First Place Gold Award for Romance. /span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a tangled web of secrets and multiple unexplicable occurrences, Alicia trusts she will overcome her insecurities. She never envisions her fantasy romance will kindle her unexplored romantic embers./span>/span> | |  | | The Bones Dance Foxtrot
"Clues eventually fit together in clever and significant ways," says 5-star review. After a woman's corpse and a skeleton surfaces, pressure mounts on Jake, a widower. He finds strength in ballroom dancing and three women who believe in him while corrupt forces seek to jail him and throw away the key.
Enjoy a twisted plot of murder, suspicion, and multiple clues while you're seduced by a bubbling beneath the surface budding romance.
Weary and determined to conquer the demons that haunt him, Jake Brown parks his big rig in Paradise, a Midwest town he thinks peaceful. He earns acceptance in a five-person acting troupe and at Saturday night ballroom dances.
Police find a woman's corpse in his truck. The Police Chief still treats Jake as a suspect when a skeletonized second body is discovered by Jake at his temporary worksite.
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