Featuring Author Catherine E. McLean

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AUTHOR CATHERINE E. MCLEAN

Besides being a wife and mother, Catherine has ridden and exhibited Morgan Sport Horses. She is an avid clothing and costume designer, an award-winning amateur photographer, a 4-H leader, and a Red Hatter who loves bling.

She lives on a farm nestled in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains of Western Pennsylvania. In the quiet of the countryside, she writes fantasy, futuristic, and paranormal stories where a reader can escape to other worlds for lighthearted adventure and romance.

"Hearts Akilter" is one such book and it's AVAILABLE TODAY!

Get your copy now! You can buy it at:

The Wild Rose Press: http://tinyurl.com/HeartsAkilter

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Hearts-Akilter-Catherine-E-McLean-ebook/dp/B010VXLYPA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1436039788&sr=8-1&keywords=Hearts+Akilter

Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hearts-akilter-catherine-e-mclean/1122237294?ean=2940151140065

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Book Review

MAGGIE'S MAN

By Lisa Gardner (writing as Alicia Scott)

Alicia Scott...Lisa Gardner...the name doesn’t matter. What does is the magic between the covers of this novel. And that’s what Gardner/Scott writes.

Maggie, a meek, redheaded twenty-seven-year-old woman is duty bound to honor her calling to serve as juror. But instead, ends up being kidnapped by Cain, a convicted murderer, who is there at the courthouse to defend himself pro se. After knocking out a guard, he steals the guard’s clothes, a truck, and Maggie. He binds her to him with the handcuffs he steals from the guard and makes a run for it.

He doesn’t expect meek and mild Maggie to put up a fight and she doesn’t; at least not a physical one. Drawing upon her knowledge and experience of being a marriage counselor, she uses simple morality to turn Cain into someone he never dreamed he’d become.

Whether it be Stockholm Syndrome or just plain loneliness, Maggie begins to believe Cain and everything he tells her. As she fights for her sanity and safety, she begins to see not everything is just in the world and Cain’s cause may just be an injustice.

I was captivated from page one until the end by Cain and Maggie’s stories. And at the culmination, which is typical of romantic suspense, I cheered on Maggie’s heroics and Cain’s desperate entreaty to be seen as someone other than a convicted murderer, and was thrilled when love won out. But what is atypical is Gardner/Scott’s ability to pen an entrancing tale of fanaticism mixed with gripping suspense and love. Well done and I absolutely recommend this book.

Reviewed by Starr Gardinier, author of “The Other Side: Melinda’s Story”

Book Review

“A Stake in Murder” by Donald Allen Kirch

Kirch is once again, entertaining the masses with his latest release.

Anton Gerrold is the mortal name for a vampire (Aswang) who wants to feed. He’s been ‘killed’ before and is unfortunately, still around. When Special Agent Napoleon Hill finds out that Anton is still ‘alive,’ he is shocked but immediately jumps into action. He procures the help of Captain Darren Matheson—a nonbeliever of vampires—and mandates that reporter Sebastian Hemlock come to Los Angeles and help with the case before Anton can kill again.

Both Hill and Hemlock fought, found, and ‘killed’ Anton in Phoenix years prior and therefore, have experience in dealing with Aswang. Hill’s career as a reporter was ruined in Phoenix—thanks to Governor Lester Bach and his battle with Anton—and he has no desire to aid Hill now in another Anton debacle.

But desire for revenge is strong and Hemlock agrees to help. He goes to Los Angeles to face not only Anton but his ex-girlfriend, Karon Ramiko, who he is still in love with. Together with Matheson and Karon, Hemlock faces Anton again. Will any of them live to tell the story? And if they do, will the past repeat itself and will no one believe?

Kirch weaves a story that will leave you spellbound as you flip the pages. Great book! I can’t wait to see what Kirch does next!

Reviewed by Starr Gardinier, author of “The Other Side: Melinda’s Story”