Bøger af Maryann Miller

Life as she knows it ceases to exist for Samantha Rutgers when her husband of twenty-plus years decides he no longer loves her. The challenges are myriad. Can she build a life without him? Will her daughter always blame her? Can she ever trust a man again? And what is she going to do about sex? Cover design by Dany Russell. "PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM turns the standard "The End" of a marriage into the "Once upon a time" of a genuine grown-up love story. A life- and love-affirming look into the real life events of divorce, children, exes, memories, regrets, beginnings, and the courage to love again." Laura Castoro author of A New Lu, Icing on The Cake, and Crossing the Line "This is a poignant story of human frailties, emotions, turmoil, confusion and the sometimes, inescapable fear of the unknown. Samantha is encouraged to turn-off the familiar road of 'what use to be' and forge a new path of 'what could be.' Miller develops her characters well in this enjoyable story, giving them qualities that we would all relate to. A sensitive portrayal of romance, not of the sweet first time love, but a realistic viewpoint of life and love, and the curve ball it can throw." Review by J.B. Scott

Three stories; four men whose lives take unexpected turns. Meet Samson who wonders what is down that country road that draws people so. Should he get in that old truck and go see? Mel and Rube have been having dinner at the Leavenworth Grill every Wednesday for years. One day the menu changes and so does life for Mel. Tom would give anything for his life to change. Can he beat back the effects of a crippling stroke by sheer force of determination? Growing old is not for the faint of heart. "These three gems will make you think about time and how you use it. Maryann Miller has a rare gift for taking the pulse of ordinary lives and spinning that into extraordinary tales." -- Craig Lancaster, author of 600 Hours of Edward and The Summer Son "Miller shares her skills as a writer and her humanity in this inspiring glimpse into the realities of aging and the heartbreak of letting go." Paula Stallings Yost Editor/Author, What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest "Sometimes the best stories come at the end of our lives, and so do the strongest lessons. Read Maryann Miller's poignant vignettes about aging and let them tug at your heart-strings. They capture the very essence of our tender humanity." Dani Greer, author, editor and Special Projects Coordinator for Little Pickle Press,

Young Jamel Frederickson is taken down by a bullet fired by a white, rookie Dallas police officer.Jamel's crime? Being black and mentally ill.In the midst of street protests, Detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson are thrust into the investigation of two midnight murders, while desperately clinging to the threads of their partnership that is threatening to unravel like a cheap sweater.Are the alt-right white supremacists that invaded the city with their guns and inflammatory rhetoric responsible for the shootings.Or is there more than one person out there with an agenda?Will more people get killed?Are the police safe?Maybe not. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BRUTAL SEASON"In the compelling fourth installment of the Seasons Mystery series, Miller once again tackles difficult subjects in this absorbing, page-turning crime thriller." --Carrie Rubin, author of Fatal Rounds, a Publisher's Weekly BookLife Prize Finalist "Walk the hard streets. Walk the tough streets, the mean streets. Day or night, police officers are on the bitter edge of lives that forever hang in the balance. Maryann Miller has written a frightening and an explosive police thriller that dares you to walk the streets where death waits in the shadows of a brutal season where the sound of gunfire is as steady as a heartbeat in the night." Caleb Pirtle III author of Eulogy in Black and White: A Magnolia Bluff Mystery. PRAISE FOR THE SEASONS SERIES "Miller spins a tight tale that's a cut above the average police procedural.... Readers will want to see more of these engaging female cops." Publisher's Weekly. "Detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson are crisply drawn characters. The hard-edged story of racial tension in Dallas could be drawn from today's headlines. Open Season is a smart, spirited page-turner." Bruce Cook Tommy Gun Tango STARRED Publishers Weekly Review ". . . gripping second mystery featuring Dallas, Tex., police detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson . . . The relationship between the women is just as absorbing as the search for the killer. Few readers will anticipate the closing twist."

*** Small Stories With Big Hearts ***Pulling from her 30+ years of hospital ministry, Maryann Miller has created a book celebrating the patients who blessed her life so abundantly by allowing her to share their grief journeys. Filled with anecdotes and testimonials about death and dying and faith and living, it is also very much a memoir of her personal growth through ministry and how that growth impacted her own path through grief.

Stalking Season is a police procedural in the vein of the acclaimed 87th Precinct Series by Ed McBain, (Evan Hunter) and has been called "Lethal Weapon" with female leads set in Dallas. In this second book of The Seasons Mystery Series, Homicide Detective Sarah Kingsly and her partner, Angel Johnson are pitted against another uncanny killer while still struggling to feel like real partners. Neither wanted the pairing in the first place, and it isn't getting any better. When a young girl is killed in a cheap motel and her identity is discovered, an influential Dallas businessman brings the heat down on the department. The investigation takes the detectives inside an exclusive gentleman's club, a prestigious private school, and leads to a killer that nobody suspected.** REVIEWS **"Miller spins a tight tale that's a cut above the average police procedural.... Readers will want to see more of these engaging female cops." Publisher's Weekly."Open Season is a solid police procedural with fully developed characters and provocative social issues." L.J. Sellers, author of the Detective Jackson Mysteries"Detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson are crisply drawn characters. The hard-edged story of racial tension in Dallas could be drawn from today's headlines. Open Season is a smart, spirited page-turner." Bruce Cook Tommy Gun TangoSTARRED Publishers Weekly Review " . . . gripping second mystery featuring Dallas, Tex., police detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson. . . . The relationship between the women is just as absorbing as the search for the killer. Few readers will anticipate the closing twist.""So deftly plotted and paced that, although it's certainly possible to grow impatient with the protagonists' unwarranted impatience toward each other, they're appealing enough to keep the pages turning." Kirkus

"Children dying is a cop's worst nightmare. Throw drugs in the mix, and the nightmare gets worse. Dallas Homicide Detectives Angel Johnson and Sarah Kingsly, who are still trying to sort out their partnership, race to stop the influx of a nasty new street drug that is killing kids as young as ten. Those kids should be playing in the park, not dying in it. Who owns the streets of Dallas? Can the detectives take them back before more kids die?"--Back cover.

Set against a backdrop of racial tension and deadly force controversy in Dallas, Open Season introduces Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson, homicide detectives who are unlikely and unwilling partners. When people start dying in area shopping malls, the detectives find themselves up against a killer who has his own race card to play. This is the first book in the critically-acclaimed Seasons Mystery Series, followed by Stalking Season. "Try this debut mystery by a journalist for its open treatment of current urban problems, clean prose, and realistic depiction of women working together. For readers who enjoy Robin Burcell and fans of police procedurals." Library Journal"Open Season is a solid police procedural with fully developed characters and provocative social issues." L.J. Sellers, author of the Detective Jackson Mysteries "Detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson are crisply drawn characters. The hard-edged story of racial tension in Dallas could be drawn from today's headlines. Open Season is a smart, spirited page-turner." -Bruce Cook - Tommy Gun Tango" Miller spins a tight tale that's a cut above the average police procedural in this first of a new series introducing Dallas police detective Sarah Kingsly." Publisher's Weekly

Trying to define the indefinable can get us into trouble.  That’s what happened when we decided to define ‘love.’  We set standards of action determining the existence and depth of the love being offered.  We used our minds to define something only our hearts truly know anything about.In her second book, Love – The Alpha & The Omega, Maryann Pino Miller takes us on a journey of discovering love.  We learn love already exists within us.  In fact, we are love.  We just forgot.In this easy-to-read and relate-to book, we learn of the seven levels of love:1.    As babies we know we are love.2.    We forget and begin searching, filled with fear we will not find it.3.    We begin using words to convince ourselves we are okay.4.    We begin using uplifting, loving words to reset our energy and awareness of who we are.5.    We realize it’s safe to look at every aspect of ourselves and still accept ourselves as we are.6.    We fall in love with ourselves, allowing ourselves to live and love life fully.7.    Full circle…we now know that not only are we love, so is all of life. We love, honor and respect ourselves and all of life. We live from our being-ness.Using her life twists and turns, we learn how Miller sorted through her life, using tools she picked up along the way.  When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.