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Mystery-suspense novels have always intrigued me. I can curl up for hours with my favorite authors—Linda Barnes, Nelson DeMille, Jonathan Kellerman, Ed McBain, Dick Francis, Minette Walters. I also like romance, science-fiction, horror and fantasy, as well as the occasional mainstream novel by such wonderful authors as Annie Proulx.

I tried my hand at romance and didn’t fare so well. My niche is darker, grittier. Nevertheless, Romantic Times Magazine gave Bitch Factor 4-1/2 stars, and the other Dixie Flannigan novels also earned high marks for romance. So if you like a smidgeon of romance with your hard-edged suspense, you’ll like these novels.

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Student Bill Chalmers reading Bitch Factor while participating in the Havana Cup Sailboat Race
Student Bill Chalmers took Bitch Factor when he
sailed in the Havana Cup Sailboat Race from
Tampa to Havana, Cuba. To quote Bill, "The
book was a lot more exciting than the race."

Death Edge Tales: 7 Nail-Biting Stories of Suspense


Book Cover: Death Edge Tales: 7 Nail-Biting Stories of Suspense
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Death Edge Tales
In this first volume of short mysteries from novelist Chris Rogers, you'll travel inside the minds of unpredictable characters from both sides of death's bony grasp: a young photographer stumbling in the footsteps of a serial killer; a 911 dispatcher working the lunatic shift; a blood-soaked lover whose cries of innocence go unheard; a writer who would kill for a great story; a cop facing the damned-foolest case of his career; a confectioner who sugarcoats bites of murder; a desirable woman of strangely insatiable appetites. In the spirit of Rod Serling, Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Hitchcock, these narratives take you down a path filled with thorny surprises, often frightful, sometimes amusing and always gripping. A lover of people, language, irony, and mad speculation, Rogers has a unique view of humanity, especially from the dark side. Enjoy the read with one caution: once having sampled Rogers' shorts you will be hooked.

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Stand at the Cross Roads: A True Story of an Imperfect Woman,
An Uncertain Future, and A Mission That Would Change Lives Forever

By Hilda Hellums Baker with Chris Rogers


Stand at the Cross Roads unfolds in suburban Houston; a small, rural Texas town; and a remote, rugged wilderness. A twisting, turning gripping true-life adventure that will take you along on the trip of a lifetime! In 1996, Hilda Baker travelled into some of the last remaining wilderness in Texas. For years, as her life spun increasingly out of control, she was plagued by a series of painful divorces, financial setbacks, and the struggles of single motherhood. Now, she tells the true story of her quest to turn her life around and find true meaning in her work and personal life. One sultry morning, at a retreat in south Texas, Hilda sensed a voice whose message catapulted her from cosmopolitan Houston to Chriesman, Texas, population seventy. She finally knew what she was supposed to do, but had no idea how to do it. The task - to carve a sanctuary out of a dense forest - was daunting, but she was determined to succeed. Finally she had found purpose in her life. Hitching up a U-Haul trailer crammed with her wordly belongings, and with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Nina, in tow, she set out for her new life.

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Stand at the Cross Roads



Bitch Factor

Book Cover: Bitch Factor
Book Cover: Bitch Factor
If Betsy Keyes had known about the car waiting at the curb that morning, waiting for the moment she stepped into the intersection, she would have worn the purple shirt. Purple was for special days, days she marked with stars in her diary. The most important days got the purple shirt and three stars.

Hopping over a jagged hump in the sidewalk, she shoved a hand in her pocket and pressed a thumb-sized metallic noisemaker: Click! Released it. Click!

Sometimes the dark secret Betsy held inside made her feel exactly like a teakettle about to boil over. Squeezing her toy clicker allowed tiny bits of worry to escape, like steam from a teakettle’s whistle. The shiny black cricket painted on top had worn thin from rubbing against her finger. Crickets were supposed to be lucky, weren’t they?

Click, click.

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Rage Factor

February 14

Cold.

Bone-piercing cold needled Sissy’s muscles.

A vile stench invaded her nose. The back of her head throbbed, each pulsating beat ringing like steel on an anvil. Her mind, muggy with something deeper than sleep, faltered at the rustling near her face.

Somewhere, a motor whined.

Were her eyes open? Darkness wrapped her so completely she couldn’t be sure. She tightened them, opened—

Ohh! One eye stayed shut, hurt when she tried to force it. The other opened only halfway. She reached to touch her face—

Pain ripped through her arm into her chest. She couldn’t breathe—

Ah…there, subsiding now. She swallowed carefully, barely moving, didn’t want the pain again…then sipped a shallow, tentative breath—

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Book Cover: Rage Factor
Book Cover: Rage Factor


Chill Factor

Book Cover: Chill Factor
Book Cover: Chill Factor
Monday, 3:00 P.M.

Lucy Ames, a plump fifty-five-year-old divorcée, swept into the Texas Citizens Branch Bank on a crisp May afternoon and waited her turn in silence, not chatting with other patrons as was her custom. Instead, she hummed “Bad Moon Rising” and spent the brief wait noticing the rich viridian carpet, rose marble counter, and Ms. Darlene Flores pecking away at her computer. Lucy didn’t usually bank at the Webster branch. Nevertheless, she’d come to make a withdrawal.

When the woman ahead of her, wearing an outrageously short, poppy-print dress, turned from the counter to exit through the glass doors, Lucy laid an empty book tote in the window and smiled at the teller. The tote was empty now because Lucy had removed the only item it carried, a .38 Police Special.

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Create Your Own Magic for CLNC® Success by Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD

With illustrations by Chris Rogers

Inside each of us lies a desire to do something spectacular—to fly, to write, to sculpt, to climb mountains or perhaps to step off into the unknown and create a business where none existed. That space between vision and creation is a magical land filled with wondrous adventure but also with treacherous pathways and fierce, fire-breathing dragons.

Maneuvering in such a land requires that we suspend fear and embrace valor. Yet courage alone is not enough A courageous fool is no less a fool.

With the tools, skills and knowledge to conquer the unknown, we shape our own destiny, we forge a new reality. We reach to the stars and grasp handfuls of wonder.

When I stepped out for my own adventure in 1982, I had no guidebook. I pioneered the field of legal nurse consulting, carving a new industry in an uncharted land, conquering the dragons and narrowly skirting the pitfalls. What I did have was vision, persistence, and the voices of my favorite inspirational coaches urging me onward and upward.

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Book Cover: Create Your Own
Magic for CLNC® Success
 

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