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Romance...Out of Time
2008 Great Expectations Winner ~ Best Paranormal
The Night Caller::
After a botched robbery, hostage negotiator Evan Braun takes an extended leave of absence--a self-imposed exile--to come to terms with the loss of fourteen lives he tried to protect. He finds refuge in restoring a nineteenth-century home his grandfather left him. A call late one night from a mysterious woman through the dusty shell of an antique crank phone leads him on a journey back in time and through the deep recesses of his own fears. Can he find the connection to his future in the shameful secrets of the woman's past before her deadly fate becomes his own?
Excerpt::
Chapter One
Even his own breath reeked of psychosis. Stale from exhaustion and hours-old Jamaican Blue Mountain coating his teeth, Evan Braun’s urgent, but intimate encounter with the oak door spiked an inferno against the sweat sheen above his lips.
The peephole’s convex glass bubbled the front lawn. Stiff autumn leaves spiraled on the pre-dawn wind like flecks in a darkened kaleidoscope. A peeling Victorian bracket shifted against the porch’s roofline. Farther out, past the imaginary barrier—the kill zone he’d called it more than once—a neon sign lauding Michelin Tires blazed and faded in the shop window across the road.
An optical illusion of chaos.
His only certainty the world existed beyond this zone, The Silver Creek Gazette, lay bundled on itself, naked. Exposed. Too far away.
Chasing Destiny::
In the year 2032, technology has anesthetized society's capacity for raw human emotion. Destiny Beck, a psychologist with the rare ability to see and feel the memories of others, becomes trapped in the tortured past of Dr. Cole Renton, a bio-medical specialist and double-agent for the black organization formed by his father. In a desperate struggle to return to her physical world, Destiny navigates the dark memories of Cole's past to realign events leading up to the release of a deadly bio-weapon capable of destroying the future.
(sequel to Chasing Midnight)
A Measure of Time::
The most important map in history lies fractured and dormant in three of the most extreme conditions on Earth: Her determination. His sacrifice. And the truth.
Liv Mandora, a cartographer driven to establish an identity that has eluded her since childhood, inherits a torn fragment of a topographic map. Embedded in the synthetic fibers, she discovers mysterious symbols and shifting holographic pools near some of the most extraordinary geological structures on Earth.
One hundred years in the future, a super race of time travelers have upset the balance on earth and destroyed the capacity for humankind to restore justice. Asher Ronan, working for a secret sect of law enforcement, discovers the origin of the tyrannical race: a map depicting portals of electromagnetic energy powerful enough to breach the space-time barrier.
At odds over the fate of the map once complete, they embark on a dangerous journey to find the remaining pieces across the globe, through time and within their hearts.
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Awards/Nominations
2008
1st Place Winner ~ Best Paranormal
"The Night Caller"
Great Expectations Contest
2007
RWA Golden Heart® Nominee
"Chasing Midnight"
Novel with Strong Romantic Elements
2006
1st Place Winner ~ Best Paranormal
"Chasing Midnight"
Southern Heat Contest
East Texas Chapter RWA®