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Shalanna Collins and Denise Weeks
April, Maybe June
ISBN-978-1612641461
WINNER of 2010 Golden Rose Contest
A Bliss Sisters Magical Adventure--first in a new series!
Maybe magic. Maybe trouble. Homeschooled siblings April and June Bliss are inadvertently sucked into their older cousin Arlene’s troubled life when that street-savvy 17-year-old disappears and then sends for their help via a magical spellcasting grimoire and a silver ring. Smart April and brash June set off secretly to rescue Arlene. But when life in the adult world takes a turn toward the supernaturally spooky, the two must quickly pull together in order to survive. What is an appropriate sacrifice for family, and what is too much to give for a worthy cause? The girls soon find out what truly matters.
Nice Work by Denise Weeks
ISBN 978-1610090407
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WINNER of 2011 Oak Tree Press Novel Contest
Jacquidon Carroll Snoop Sisters Mystery #1
Jacquidon Carroll has problems after she's diagnosed with diabetes and is laid off from her job the same week, but that's nothing compared to becoming a suspect in the murder of her ex-boss Yancey two days later. Clues lead her and her intrepid sister Chantal through a network of local sex clubs and the seamy underside of the S&M (BDSM) lifestyle that her former boss was involved in. Can she get access to the evidence she needs to prove that Yancey was killed by his new employee, a young woman he "recruited" from an Internet sex site to participate in his erotic games--the same woman he then put into Jacquidon's job after "downsizing" her out--in time?
DULCINEA: or Wizardry A-Flute
ISBN 978-0738853888 First in a series
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First Runner-Up in the first Warner Aspect First Fantasy Novel Contest, 1996
A female Harry Potter goes on a quest to save a dragon--and an entire city (including her father). Okay, she's a little older than Harry, and she's stuck at home in her dad's apothecary shop, but there's a new apprentice who brought with him a load of trouble. . . .
Dulcinea Brown is about to discover a whole new kind of magic. It's a good thing, too, because she'll soon be called upon to save the world. Can her flute magic stop a dragon and prevent the evil Society of Mages from tearing the very fabric of reality?
Little Rituals by Denise Weeks
ISBN 978-1467960373 First in a series: Literary chick lit/paranormal
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Daphne Dilbeck's life is ruled by little rituals. She doesn't remember when or how she invented them; she doesn't always rationally believe they work. When everything starts going wrong, Daphne decides she has somehow hexed herself by botching one of her lucky rituals. As Daphne attempts to restore her luck by chanting incantations she finds on the Internet, burning candles as advised by a New Age store, and even visiting a Mexican witch's "circle," events snowball until even Daphne's best ritual can't extricate her.
Are there such things as hexes, or can one make one's own luck? Is her mother right when she says Daphne just has mild OCD? Daphne's investigation into the nature of luck parallels her personal search for meaning and her journey from blaming "bad luck" for her problems to taking responsibility for what happens, even if the only thing she can do is bend her head against the ill wind. A few "paranormal" events are left up to the reader to interpret: did they really happen, or did Daphne imagine them? The romantic subplot steams up a few pages, but this isn't strictly a romance; it's about growing up at age thirty, with a little help from true friends.
Murder by the Marfa Lights
ISBN 978-1478185512
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Ariadne French Paranormal Mystery #1
Ari French has waited almost a year to hear from her fiance Aaron, who'd left with her trailer to find his fortune out West. Instead, a call came to say he'd just died in Marfa, Texas, leaving her his worldly goods. On the heels of the loss of her sister Zoe's young son, it's devastating. Ari travels to Marfa to help settle the estate--and investigate. She finds herself in an exotic world of religious cults, a shady minister, a mystic Cherokee lawyer, a sly musician, cryptographic software, and Aaron's eccentric family, complete with crazy sister. After enduring everything from a chase through the desert by the Marfa Mystery Lights to some very real death threats from Aaron's erstwhile heirs, Ari finds herself recruiting Zoe to help her solve the ultimate mystery: why Aaron was killed, and who did it.
Love Is the Bridge by Denise Weeks
ISBN 978-1468104752 Standalone: Ghost Story/Romantic Suspense
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Something is out to get Paige Campbell . . . something not of this world. She was happy working for her Uncle Hans at his music store, taking classes at Dallas Music Academy, plus taking gigs playing piano and singing at weddings whenever the opportunity arises. She never dreamed that getting one crank phone call could lead to a nightmare. Alan McConnell hires Paige to sing radio jingles for his advertising agency, and discovers that she's afraid to answer the phone and thinks she might be going crazy. Determined to help, he runs headlong into what he can only concede is--a ghost. In his studio.
The ghost is determined to haunt until Paige "undoes" the curse it believes she has put on. The attraction between Alan and Paige is an inconvenience they can't ignore. Can they break the hold that the entity gains over them without resorting to doing something evil themselves--and thereby becoming as wicked as it is?
