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Time of Death, Not all Secrets Stay Buried by Carrie Merrill

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Time of Death, Not All Secrets Stay Buried, by Carrie MerrillREAD A SAMPLE | SHARE | BUY
~ A PARANORMAL GHOSTLY THRILLER

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Evan finds herself lost in a world between life and death, but something else is there with her. Something sinister, demanding that its secrets be revealed.
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Dr. Evan Jensen is a fourth-year resident in a General Surgery program at St. John’s Hospital in Chicago, where she must face life and death decisions on a daily basis. After she is the passenger in a horrific car accident, she is taken to the same trauma hospital where she works. Comatose and with life-threatening injuries, random and misty images dance around in her silent brain. Evan finds herself lost in a world between life and death, but something else is there with her. Something sinister and terrifying.

Once she awakens, she is locked in a body that is unable to walk and with a serious brain injury. Through weeks of painful therapy in the hospital’s rehabilitation unit, she becomes aware that she didn’t return to this life alone. Perhaps the waking nightmares and whispers in the dark of her room are a product of a damaged brain, or maybe they come from somewhere else, in the most hidden corners of the hospital. Maybe, they are a warning from the locked north wing on the seventh floor, a place that nobody will talk about. A place where something tragic and terrible occurred years before Evan arrived there. And now it demands its secrets to be revealed.
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A Carrie Merrill novel. Visit CarrieMerrill.com

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Off the Record: A Shae Rose Mystery, Book 1

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Off the Record, A Shae Rose Mystery by Diana Kilpatrick
Off the Record, A Shae Rose Mystery by Diana Kilpatrick

Diana Kilpatrick’s debut novel, “Off the Record”, introduces us to Shae Rose, a feisty and loveable court reporter who lifts the veiled curtain, offering a unique and entertaining peek into the secretive world of deposition court reporting.
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As a busy court reporter in a small Idaho town, Shae Rose ordinarily minds her own business: sharing a duplex with two elderly sisters, Bernice and Clarabelle Darling, riding a Harley on fine sunny summer weekends, and devoting time to her Chihuahua, Hercules. And though she is privy to people’s legal troubles, large and small, she leaves her work at the deposition room door. She wouldn’t dream of meddling.

All of that changes when Shae finds herself embroiled in a case involving a wealthy prominent local family. At first the case appears straightforward, but the court reporter soon discovers dark secrets lay just beneath the sheen of the family’s polished exterior.

Her troubles begin after taking possession of an unusual deposition exhibit. Intrusions and personal attacks ensue, confirming a horrible truth: Shae has become the unwitting central player in events that have been forty years in the making. It doesn’t take long for Shae to realize that someone is willing to do anything to keep the truth from being revealed.

With her career and her very life on the line, she accepts the aid of the handsome Sergeant Jackson Landers. As his investigation heats up, so does Shae’s attraction to Jax, as he’s known by his friends. But can she reveal her suspicions to him?

Will Shae be able to protect herself and those she loves, help solve a mystery, while maintaining her mandated professional confidentiality?

Joni Jesme Interview with Diana Pierce

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White Chair Day by Joni Jesme

OMG! I’m Having a White Chair Day
by Joni Jesme

Watch podcast interview of Joni Jesme on “What’s Next with Diana Pierce”

Joni Jesme’s debut book uncovers the humor behind growing older and the need to embrace the journey into mid-life and beyond with a smile. Stemming from a green trash can lid verbally mistaken as a white chair, Jesme turned that White Chair Day incident into a compilation of 40 fully-illustrated true stories revealing the humorous side of life.

As you grow older, have you found yourself having a “White Chair Day?”

That’s when you walk into a room, forget what you went to get, then sit down and then.. remember why you got up in the first place?

Author Joni Jesme calls that.. your “White Chair Day” journey and has devoted a book to her stories and a collection of her friend’s stories, too..

Joni’s book is available on Amazon and at Twin Cities selected bookstores. And, if you want to add to Joni’s second book, she is looking for your story at IHad@WhiteChairDay.com