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Book One of the Liminals series Now you see me, now you don't! My name's Wren, and I'm a liminal who can phase in and out of the real world. Sounds like an awesome trick, right? Yeah. Like everything that's supposed to be cool, it's complicated. I'm caught between two warring factions who'd kill to get a piece of me. Someone's blocked my energy flows so if I phase I'll get trapped in a ghostlike plane called Between... and die. And to top it all off, I'm totally crushing on my only ally, mysterious bad boy Kade. Sad thing is he's keeping secrets from me, just like everyone else. My life's spinning out of control. I don't know who to trust anymore. And what I find lurking Between is the biggest shock of all. *** Winner: Editor's Choice Division Romance Writers of New Zealand Strictly Single contest Second place: Published Authors Division From the Heart Romance Writers Golden Gateway contest ***

Piper Harland, a police diver, returns to a remote New Zealand island and must work alongside her first love, Ryan ‘West’ Westlake, the man she blames for her father’s death. Saying goodbye for the second time might just destroy them both.

Art expert and psychic Megan Alistair had two things beaten into her early—her gift was valuable, and she was worth nothing. Now she hides both her gift and her heart, and plays a dangerous double game with the art underworld. Her quest? To find the painting whose whispers and shadows have haunted her since childhood. Rumor tells multi-millionaire Dominic Stone that Megan Alistair is an immoral, money-focused schemer. So when he goes to her with a business proposition to find a missing family heirloom he expects her to bump up the price and then jump at it—and probably jump him as well. He doesn’t expect her categorical refusal. He certainly doesn’t expect to find her attractive. Or courageous. Or vulnerable. Or humorous. And he sure as hell doesn’t expect this infuriating enigma of a woman to become as important to him as the mystery he needs her help to solve. Suddenly, for both Megan and Stone there is more at stake than lost heirlooms. The passion and desire unleashed could be more dangerous than learning those secrets whispered in shadows. If they don’t trust each other—and dare to love—their past could ruin them, their present could kill them, and any future together might well destroy them both. Gracie says: Hi everyone! :-) After this first week (when I'll upload a part every day) I'll upload the next part of TOUCHING SHADOWS on Friday/Saturday depending on which part of the world you're in. But if you can't wait to read it all, the completed book is on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007LT3YJM