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Evan Braun

To fulfill a long-neglected promise, he finds refuge in restoring a nineteenth-century home his grandfather left him, unaware of its shameful past.  A carpenter with a gift for sculpting breathtaking wooden sculptures, he becomes a prisoner to his fears and the unyielding memories of the violent night he can’t erase.

Lillie Marcel

Beneath her optimistic exterior lies a dark secret.  Guilty of fatally wounding a man to save her mother’s life, Lillie is forced into the care of a madam when a deadly illness kills her mother before she can stand trial for the crime her daughter committed.  Lillie becomes a prostitute—blackmail set forth by the madam in exchange for keeping her secret hidden.

C.A. Farr

A traveling photographer in 1881, Chester Farr seeks the artistic recognition he can't find snapping wet plate photographs of railroad progress.  He longs to capture what has never been done before, the ultimate expression of realism:  the moment of death.

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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?

 

 
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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 into a telescopic blend of muted autumn colors.  Stiff maple leaves spiraled like glass flecks in a darkened kaleidoscope.  A peeling Victorian bracket shifted from its roofline anchor and clung to the porch post as if its imposing height could salvage the frivolous architecture from the pre-dawn winds.  Farther out, past the 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.

 

 

 

 

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Awards/Nominations

 

2008

1st Place Winner ~ Best Paranormal

"The Night Caller"

Great Expectations Contest

 

 

2008

2nd Place ~ Best Flash Fiction

"Home"

Western Pennsylvania Romance Writer's 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®

 

  

    

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