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Clans

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'Clans' is a suspense/thriller novella of 22,783 words.  A young female elementary teacher is in a tavern celebrating the end of the school year with three other teachers when she notices a man she has never seen before watching her.  When she goes home that night she is attacked and nearly murdered on her doorstep.  Her attacker delivers a cryptic message just before killing her.  Which is just before he is killed by the strange man who had been watching her in the bar.  Who then flees after saving her life.  The police detective investigating the case tells her the name of the dead man who attacked her, and that he was from southeastern Kentucky.  That knowledge, plus the words the man uttered just before dying, sends her from her home in Cincinnati, Ohio, off to the mountains of Appalachia to learn how she is involved in such lethal events.  Once there, she becomes embroiled in a brutal fight not only for her life, but for the very soul of the violent world she has been drawn into.All Rights Reserved

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Secrets, Lies and Dragonflies

Once upon a time, in a small Carolina border town, there lived a woman and her dead best friend's kids. Orphaned at fifteen, Mackenzie Temple can't exactly fly under the radar. People still whisper about those poor children that deceased, alcoholic mother left behind. To make sure her new surrogate parent doesn't regret her decision, Mackenzie sticks to two simple rules: Head down. Grades up. But when an evening of rule bending kicks off a chain of unfortunate events, Mackenzie's carefully constructed world begins to unravel. And that mysterious mountain boy isn't making things any easier. Meanwhile, her strange Art History class taught by even stranger teachers embarks on a field trip, taking the concept of strange to a whole new level. Was learning how to track evil creatures even on the course syllabus? With chunks of memories missing, Mackenzie's world falls deeper into chaos. For her little brother's sake, she can no longer hide behind her books. Facing enemies, old and new, she must act or lose the very thing she's tried so hard to protect. Secrets must be kept. Lies must be told. Monsters must be stopped.