HER THREE LIVES
By Cate Holahan
“A page-turner filled with betrayal and surprises,” #1 NYT bestselling author Harlan Coben says “Cate Holahan just keeps getting better and better.”
Her public life: Jade Thompson has it all. She’s an up-and-coming social media influencer, and she has a beautiful new home and a successful architect for a fiancé. But there’s trouble. To Greg’s children, his divorce from their mother and his new life can only mean a big mid-life crisis. To Jade, his suburban Connecticut upbringing isn’t an easy match with her Caribbean roots.
Her private life: A savage home invasion leaves Greg house-bound with a traumatic brain injury and glued to the live feeds from his ubiquitous security cameras. As the police investigate the crime, Jade begins to wonder what he may know about their attackers.
Her secret life: Greg is convinced that Jade’s behavior is suspicious and that she’s hiding a big secret. The more he sees, the more he wonders whether the break-in was really a random burglary. And whether he’s worth more to Jade if he were dead than alive.
THE AUTHOR
Cate Holahan is the USA Today bestselling author of domestic suspense novels The Widower’s Wife, One Little Secret, Lies She Told and Dark Turns. She is a member of The Author’s Guild, Sisters-in-Crime, and Crime Writers of Color.
In a former life, she was an award-winning journalist, writing for The Record, The Boston Globe and BusinessWeek, among others. She was also the lead singer of Leaving Kinzley, an original rock band in NYC. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, two daughters and food-obsessed dog, and spends a disturbing amount of time highly caffeinated, mining her own anxieties for material.
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RUBY FALLS
By Deborah Goodrich Royce
Like the chilling psychological thriller The Silent Patient, Ruby Falls is a nail-biting tale of a fragile young actress, the new husband she barely knows, and her growing suspicion that the secrets he harbors may eclipse her own.
When a little girl is abandoned by her father in a cave, can she grow up to be healthy and whole? Eleanor Russell is an actress at the top of her game when scars from a childhood wound begin to unravel the threads of her life. Fired from her show, she bolts to Europe and marries Orlando Montague, a man she has only just met.
Back in Los Angeles, desperate to create the perfect life, Eleanor believes it is all coming together. But her stability is threatened when Orlando reveals a sinister side, secrets from the past are unearthed, and the specter of the cave becomes unavoidable.
THE AUTHOR
Deborah Goodrich Royce launched her acting career in 1982 in the lead role of Silver Kane (sister of the legendary Erica Kane) on ABC’s All My Children. She went on to star in feature films such as Remote Control, April Fool’s Day, and Just One of the Guys, television movies such as Return to Peyton Place, The Deliberate Stranger, and Liberace, and television series such as St. Elsewhere, Beverly Hills 90210, and 21 Jump Street. In 2008, she received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Lake Erie College. Her first psychological thriller, Finding Mrs. Ford, was published in 2019 to rave reviews.
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SURRENDER
By Marylee MacDonald
Her young life changed in an instant. Now she shares her story with the child she gave away. Readers’ Favorites calls Surrender “psychologically rich and emotionally moving.”
Adopted at birth, Marylee’s parents told her she was a “chosen child.” She tried her hardest to make them proud, but her parents’ divorce sent her into the comforting arms of a handsome Catholic boy. Convinced that he was her Romeo and she a modern-day Juliet, she surrendered to passion. Unfortunately, it was 1961. Pregnant girls were sent away, and their babies given up for adoption.
Nature vs. Nurture: Which plays a greater role in who we become? The family we were raised in, or the parents we never knew? In telling her adult son the story of his birth, can the narrator find compassion for her own wounded inner child?
A truthful account laced with the passion of youth and the wisdom of age, Marylee MacDonald’s memoir is funny and poignant, exploring how we grow up, grow old, and learn to accept ourselves.
THE AUTHOR
Marylee MacDonald grew up in Redwood City, CA, married her high school sweetheart, and worked as a carpenter in California and Illinois. When she’s not writing, she’s hiking in the red rocks of Sedona, walking on a California beach, or plucking snails from her tomatoes.
Her short stories have won the Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award, the Barry Hannah Prize, the Ron Rash Award, the Matt Clark Prize, and the American Literary Review Fiction Award. Her short story collection, Bonds of Love and Blood, was a Foreword Reviews’ INDIES Finalist, and her novel, Montpelier Tomorrow, was a Gold Medal winner in the Readers’ Favorites annual book awards.
She currently splits her time between Tempe, AZ, where her husband is a professor, and Santa Rosa, CA, where she tries to stay out of the way of fires.
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FIRST DOG ON EARTH
By Irv Weinberg
How does the greatest love story in history begin? With a leap into the unknown.
At the dawn of civilization, a wolf dog befriends an old hunter and revives his alpha powers among his human tribe. Together with the animal’s pack, they discover a new way of life — a shared odyssey of survival and trust that grows into the most successful partnership the Earth has ever known, changing dogs and humans forever.
The pack led by Oohma encounters the first humans they have ever seen — Ish the old hunter, Lut the gifted young medicine woman and Hun the brutal tribe leader whose jealousy forces him out of the tribe.
This is the poetic story of how civilization progresses all because of the abilities the dogs bring the tribe. Set against the ancient Chauvet Cave in France with its remarkable cave art and the footprints of a small boy and his dog as they walk together side by side as companions, not prey.
THE AUTHORS
Irv Weinberg is an internationally known marketing and advertising executive turned novelist with more than 30 years’ experience leading accounts for major brands. He has won every major award in the advertising industry, and his Dr. Pepper campaign, America’s Most Misunderstood Soft Drink, is in the permanent collection of the Advertising Hall of Fame. As an entrepreneur, Irv co-founded Poochi, the world’s first pet fashion company and the force behind America’s “dress your pet” craze, now a global phenomenon.
Irv currently lives in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He has three kids, two dogs, and one mission: to create stories that make you say wow. You can follow his ex-pat adventures if you Google “Blue-Eyed Boy in Mexico.”
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ROCK & ROLL MURDERS
By Phillip B. Chute
“Chute’s latest offering — smart, scary, full of grit and grift, building suspense page by page — places this author on the high shelf with Hammett, Chandler, Grafton and Parker,” writes Feathered Quill Review.
Based on a true, untold story, with information taken from actual court transcripts, Rock & Roll Murders is set in the Inland Empire region of Southern California in the 1970s-1990s.
Raymond McDade started out running a small radio station from a van outside his apartment; taking his profits he bought a struggling radio station with a very powerful signal. After a name change and new Rock & Roll format, it became a regional success. Now wealthy and lonely, it was time for a bride. Young, ambitious Alice fit this role perfectly. At the pinnacle of his success, his life dissolves into a quicksand of greed, infidelity, lost love, and murder. He becomes obsessed with keeping his wife and successful radio station … but at what cost?
What ensued was a circus of events consisting of murders, extortion, and chaos that led to a million dollar courtroom trial where he maintains his innocence. Will anyone believe him? Would you?
THE AUTHOR
Phillip Bruce Chute, EA, is a businessman-writer. He is currently a tax and financial advisor with a consulting practice in Temecula, CA.
Phillip served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division in the States and Europe during the Cold War. His ancestry dates back to warrior-king Robert Bruce of Scotland and the Speaker of Parliament Chaloner Chute of England.
As a writer, Phillip has won national and international awards from Kiwanis International. His first book, American Independent Business, was published in 1985 and used as a college textbook and reference for business entrepreneurs. He has also published articles for the Nova Scotia periodical, The Shore News, and has been interviewed by Entrepreneur Magazine.
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NO MORE DODGING BULLETS
by Amy Herrig
“A feel-good, faith-based memoir,” BookLife says “readers looking to immerse themselves in positivity will enjoy her story of finding ‘the rainbow’ that follows the years of storms.”
After overcoming a heroin addiction in her teenage years and striving to move forward, Amy Herrig faced an entirely different addiction twenty years later: money. She and her father, Jerry Shults, were thriving as the owners of the Gas Pipe stores in Dallas, TX, as well as other successful businesses, when a government lawsuit threatened to take everything — their businesses, their money, and their freedom. Accused of crimes she hadn’t committed, Amy spent the next four years fighting to stay out of prison, but that wasn’t all she had to fight along the way.
When one life-altering change after another shook up Amy’s world, she gained a new perspective on herself and on what matters most in life. From an exhausting and demoralizing situation came a new outlook of gratitude, but also remorse and humility. Although Amy’s actions in the past had not all been illegal, she had let the allure of money guide her decisions rather than using her moral compass; the shocking turn of events that resulted from those decisions led to profound changes and made a lasting impact on Amy’s life.
THE AUTHOR
Amy Herrig is a mother, wife, business owner and lifelong Texan. Her strong faith has deepened over the years through trials and tribulations, and it is the backbone of her life. She decided to use her own life’s challenges and mistakes to connect with others and help people. She volunteers regularly and started a nonprofit called Hopeful Tuesdays to assist the homeless in her community. Her story is an example that faith and perseverance can lead to overcoming obstacles and that people can learn from their mistakes and use them to experience growth and self-improvement.
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