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Athletic career woman meets good-old-boy for a five-day backpacking trek in the rugged North Carolina mountains.
Chapter 1 - The Best Laid Plans
Suzanne unloaded the groceries, checking each bag as she hung the plastic handles over her hand. She snagged the Mast General Store bag from the trunk of her Accord and surveyed her uncle's cabin.
Disgraceful.
A rampant wisteria vine, heavy with purple blooms, was trying to devour the porch, and giant rhododendrons loaded with fat pink buds threatened to take over the entire property. Though it was springtime, and everything was fresh and green, there was something creepy about the place. Anything or anyone could be concealed in all | |  | | Emeralds in the Snow
Downhill skiing, an emerald mine, a treasure hunt, and a cold case combine for this fast-paced tale of romance and adventure set in the North Carolina mountains.
"If I live through this," Emerald Graham vowed, "I'll stay on the bunny slope forever." Pain, intense as a red hot poker, ran through her leg, and her knee throbbed. "Hey!" she squealed and threw up her hands to ward off the icy spray as some bratty kid made a parallel turn just above her.
Skiers plummeted past on the hard-packed snow. Sugar Mountain, North Carolina. Tom Terrific, the black diamond slope. Their looks of annoyance confirmed what her rather spectacular fall and the pain in her left knee already told her. Grandfather was right. It's only worth the risk if you don't get | |  | | Meow Means Me! Now!
A Rhyming Feline Allegory
Hunter the cat conveyed to author Maggie Bishop his tale, part biography, part fantasy. He thinks in rhyme and meows in verse. Many black and white photographs accompany his story which are twelve lines of poetry for each of his 20 years of life.
Like the guardians he lives with, he starts out cute and simple, grows in depth and sophistication, and gradually acquires wisdom and achey joints.
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Brandy, Jemma's horse, finds a body on the family dude ranch. Jemma, a CSI wannabe, starts to investigate.
Handsome, the horse behind Jemma, neighed followed by other horses answering. Brandy’s stride shortened and her head came up. Under Jemma, Brandy’s skin shivered. Her ears and eyes locked to the right, her hindquarters slipped away, bulging into Jemma’s left leg. A familiar knot came into Jemma’s stomach, Brandy was going to spook.
Jemma snapped her weight into her heels. She opened her right rein and closed her left leg and clicked Brandy forward to push her on. Brandy’s tail was up as if asking what? what?
Jemma leaned forward and stroked the long neck of the brown mare. “What | |  | | Perfect for Framing
Returning for a second suspense-filled mystery, Jemma Chase and Detective Tucker find themselves embroiled in a Property Owners Association power struggle. When a simple break-in escalates to murder Detective Tucker finds suspects aplenty from POA president Petula Windsor's files, leading him to suspect the victim of blackmail. Tucker tries his best to keep Jemma's interest at bay, but when the president’s husband is found dead and Tucker's life is jeopardized, Jemma won't be stopped until she finds the murderer.
Are you tired of crowded highways, expensive gas and no adventure in life? Perfect for Framing is an easy read for pure escapism to the mountain vacation town of Boone, North Carolina.
"Maggie Bishop delivers a thrilling whodunit, peppered with lovable characters and set against the beautiful backdrop of the mountains of North Carolina. Breath-taking action and nail-biting suspense, a twisting plot that guarantees constant speculation, this is one book that will have readers quickly turning pages, eager to find out what happens next. Highly recommended." --Christy Tillery French, M |
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Sweet Dreams
by Flo Fitzpatrick
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 While trying to make it big on Broadway, dancer Abby Fouchet finds herself falling in love, falling in rehearsal (!), and trying to outwit a clever killer out to destroy the man she loves. |
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