This is my cute two-year-old Shih Tzu/Pekinese dog, Shiloh. She's a lot of fun to play with, and a good companion to me while my husband and son are at work. For the first year of her life, she was a great dog, but this year she has changed a bit. My son and I have started thinking of her as Shiloh and Mr. Hyde. She will let me pet her when she's sitting at my feet, but if I pull her into my lap, she starts growling. If I pick up something off the floor, she runs over and nearly attacks my hand. I scold her when she growls and make her get off my lap. Things are a bit better than they were, but alas, she's not the lap dog that I had wanted. Of course, if it's thundering, she wants to be in my lap. I wonder how often we treat God like that--growling when we don't get our prayers answered. I think whenever Shiloh growls at me, I need to stop and think if I've been treating God the same way.
Two August Releases
I recently got the rights back on a bunch of novellas I wrote for Barbour Publishing, so expect to see more releases in the upcoming months. The first two were in a collection called Christmas Next Door, which I wrote with my good friend Susan Page Davis. They are stories about neighbors who fall in love at Christmastime, but wait! There's more to the story. Each of the four novellas have a mystery, but there is also another mystery that runs throughout all of the novellas. I wrote books 1 & 3, and Susan wrote books 2 & 4. Each story is a stand-alone, but they are best read in order because they include the same town, townsfolk, and the over-arcing mystery. We have retitled the collection as An 1880s Christmas Mystery. Let me tell you about my novellas.
Book 1: The Marshal Next Door by Vickie McDonough
When Marshal Justin Yates' deputy claims he’s seen Justin’s twin sisters snooping around businesses where there have been recent thefts, Justin can’t believe his sisters might be the thieves, but when evidence is found in his house, will he have to arrest the twins at Christmastime?
In hopes of making his sisters more genteel, he asks his neighbor, Marta, for help. At first, Marta is stunned, but then she realizes the motherless teens could benefit from learning to cook and sew better. The hard part is not allowing the busy marshal to know she's far too attracted to him.
To make matters worse, he is starting to fall for his deputy's sister. He can only imagine what the man will say about that.
A reformed outlaw has finally met the woman of his dreams. Regina Ross is the perfect woman: pretty, sweet, and kind-hearted. She's far too good for the likes of Dane McDermott, but Dane can't help being attracted to her. In spite of his rugged past, he begins to hope for a future with Regina, but when his former gang shows up and kidnaps her, will it ruin his chance for love with the preacher’s daughter?
To make matters worse, he is starting to fall for his deputy's sister. He can only imagine what the man will say about that.
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Book 2: The Spinsters Next Door by Susan Page Davis
Book 3: The Outlaw Next Door by Vickie McDonough
A reformed outlaw has finally met the woman of his dreams. Regina Ross is the perfect woman: pretty, sweet, and kind-hearted. She's far too good for the likes of Dane McDermott, but Dane can't help being attracted to her. In spite of his rugged past, he begins to hope for a future with Regina, but when his former gang shows up and kidnaps her, will it ruin his chance for love with the preacher’s daughter?
Book 4: The Gunslinger Next Door by Susan Page Davis
I hope you get a chance to read these fun romantic Christmas mysteries. You can buy all four stories for less than $12.
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