Pat Bertram
Author of Daughter Am I,
More Deaths Than One, and A Spark of Heavenly Fire.
When twenty-five-year-old Mary learns she inherited a farm from her recently murdered grandparents--grandparents her father claimed had died before she was born--she becomes obsessed with finding out who they were and why someone wanted them dead. Along the way she accumulates a crew of feisty octogenarians--former gangsters and friends of her grandfather. She meets and falls in love with Tim Olson, whose grand-father shared a deadly secret with her great-grandfather. Now Mary and Tim must stay one step ahead of the killer who is desperate to dig up that secret."A delightful treasure-hunting tale of finding one's self in a most unlikely way." -- Publisher's Weekly
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In quarantined Colorado, where hundreds of thousands of people are dying from an unstoppable disease called the red death, insomniac Kate Cummings struggles to find the courage to live and to love. Her new love, investigative reporter Greg Pullman, is determined to discover the truth behind the red death until the cost -- Kate's life -- becomes more than he can pay. "Bertram's characters are heartbreaking and real. I love Kate. Absolutely love her." --Rachael Wollet, freelance editor
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Bob Stark returns to Denver after 18 years in Southeast Asia to discover that the mother he buried before he left is dead again. At her second funeral, he sees . . . himself. Is his other self a hoaxer, or is something more sinister going on? Even worse, two men who appear to be govern-ment agents are hunting him for no reason he can fathom. With the help of Kerry Casillas, a baffling young woman Bob meets in a coffee shop, he uncovers the unimaginable truth.Click here to read the first chapter of More Deaths Than One
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