Bøger af N E Brown

1972, DALLAS, TEXAS Pounding rains flooded the rivers, streams, and lakes in Dallas, Texas, depressing the city, darkening the days, and leading to murder. Detective Mark Wilder had been weathering some storms of his own for a long time. The loss of his beloved several years ago remained stained deep into his heart. Detective Wilder was good at his job and then the storms came. The first body was found on the banks of the Trinity River, the rain wiping away any hopes of clues to the murderer. One morning at a café, Mark meets Sarah Mason, a legal secretary, and is instantly drawn to her. Is it a coincidence she leads him to his first key piece of evidence? Before he can find out, another corpse is found on the banks of Bachman Lake. Again, the evidence is washed away by severe thunderstorms the previous night. Sarah's volunteer work at Calvary Baptist Church's thrift shop connects her to the case. Her co-worker at the thrift shop may also, but Mark's concern has more to do with the man's abusive background and his unholy fascination with Sarah. Is he the man stalking her?Although his and Sarah's relationship deepens, and sparks fly, he can't completely rule out her involvement. Especially when a third murder occurs on another rainy night and more evidence is discovered at the church.Mark must solve these murders. He must stop whoever is murdering members of Calvary Baptist, and he must still the storms in his heart. He's convinced of the first two, but even he wouldn't bet on the last one.

When Carson Chance first laid eyes on run-a-way Amy Warren five years ago, he had no idea that she would open his eyes to life and love again. Carson's history of PTSD and a gunshot wound broke them apart, but now she is back in his life and attending law school. Carson, desperate to hang on to what they had, struggles with Amy's new life. When Carson and a rival male law student clash at a local bar, Amy has doubts that Carson didn't start the fight, and tension between them escalates. Unable to put their dysfunctional past behind them, Amy pushes Carson away.Picking up the pieces of his broken life, Carson returns to his old job at Dawson Investigation. He decides to move from the garage apartment he rents from Amy and finds the ideal place. There's only one problem: the last occupant was a drug dealer. When a prostitute comes knocking on his door to buy drugs for her boyfriend, she ends up dead. All evidence of the murder points to Carson. As his life unravels, Carson fights for his freedom and Amy, the woman he loves.How will Carson prove his innocence and clear his name? Has he lost Amy forever? Or can they put aside their doubts and learn to love again?

A bridge spans time and space. It connects here with there, and a bridge too far allows us to reach beyond and sometimes touch forever. Such is the bridge of life. Such is the bridge of literature. Authors of the East Texas Writers Guild have published their 2016 anthology as a bridge from the streets of reality to streets unknown. It is suspended by our imagination. It is held together by our stories. It is a crosswalk from fiction to nonfiction, from memoir to poetry, which, according to Percy Bysshe Shelley, is a mirror, which makes beautiful that which is distorted. A bridge in literature allows us to venture to places we've never been before and may never go again. The bridge is made up of stories that make us laugh and cry, sometimes terrify us and sometimes encourage us to fall in love. The bridge may astound you. It can mystify you. A mystery lies at the far end of the bridge. So does romance. You can follow one bridge to times of long ago. Another rises to worlds unknown and unexplored. It is the bridge we have built with our thoughts and words. It is the bridge we hope you choose to travel. These are our worlds, and we wait for you to cross the bridge and join us.

One photograph - A single image - A lonely boat on the edge of seaIs it adrift? - Was it abandoned? - Did it wash ashore? - Was anyone aboard?Did someone leave it behind? - Is anyone coming back? - Who knows.The sea has washed the footprints away.Look at the vessel and think: "If that old boat could talk, what stories it would tell."Wonder no longer.Twelve members of Underground Authors all gazed upon the same image. And to each the photograph told a different story. Same boat. Same image. Different genres.From mystery and technothriller to romance and magical realism, from horror and historical fiction to fantasy and suspense with a little paranormal thrown in for good measure. These stories are presented in Beyond The Sea and are the handiwork of award-winning authors Breakfield and Burkey, N.E. Brown, James R. Callan, Michael Scott Clifton, Cindy Davis, CW Hawes, Kelly Marshall, Caleb Pirtle III, Linda Pirtle, C.J. Peterson, Richard Schwindt, and Ronald E. Yates. The stories are all different as the boat had more than one secret to tell. It had a dozen.The Underground Authors decided to dedicate the proceeds from 2021 sales of Beyond The Sea to a group that supports communities. https://teamrubiconusa.org/ Team Rubicon serves communities by mobilizing veterans to continue their service, leveraging their skills and experience to help people prepare, respond, and recover from disasters and humanitarian crises.The story of Team Rubicon and what they have accomplished is amazing. There are also volunteer opportunities with them if you wish to help. Enjoy the stories a bit more knowing you also contributed to a worthwhile cause.

The epic journey of Catherine Merit continues as she struggles to build her medical practice and raise her children alone in Rosenberg, Texas. She is engaged to her lover, Dr. Samuel Allen, who is a resident at Houston General Hospital, but she cancels their wedding after finding that he has been unfaithful. She longs to return to Galveston and is tempted when her old house comes back on the market. Still distraught over the indignities of her past, she finds the attention from the powerful and rich Michael Atwood a nice distraction. Atwood has also set his sights on Catherine, and his fearless pursuit and demands begin to push her away. After she refuses his marriage proposal, Atwood schemes to make her life intolerable and interferes when she meets a new suitor. Jealousy, infidelities, and twisted fate give her reason to re-evaluate her future. Wondering if she will ever find love and happiness, Catherine risks everything to find her one true love.