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MORE DIGITAL RELEASES COMING IN 2012
Just
released: No Place for an Honest Woman,
is now available for the Kindle at Amazon.com
and in most other digital formats at Smashwords.com. Junior
diplomat Kathryn "Casey" Collins is working behind the
Iron Curtain as a budget officer in the US embassy in Warsaw. If she
can finish her tour without screwing up, she has a shot at her dream
job in Washington. But events in Cold War Poland conspire against
her.
Suddenly,
she's muddling her way between the competing demands of her security
officer Bella Hinton, her ex-lover Matt Barnes, seductive foreign
agent Stefan Krajewski, and the coven of spooks from the top floor
of her own embassy. As tension mounts between the US and Libya's
Colonel Gaddafi, she finds herself also under the watchful eyes of
terrorists-for-hire from the Abu Nidal Organization. All complicated
by an inconvenient lust for the Polish spy Krajewski. With Chernobyl
on the verge of meltdown, April 1986 is shaping up as the hardest
month of young Casey's life.
An
earlier version of this spy thriller won first place in the 1995
Literary Contest sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Writers
Association. The action takes place a decade before we pick up
Casey's story in 12 Drummers Drumming, Night on Fire and East
Past Warsaw.
Casey's
fans won't want to miss her first appearance in print. Set in Poland
during the chilly January of 1986, "Warm Bodies in a Cold
War" won honorable mention in the 1994 Heekin Foundation Short
Fiction Competition. A re-titled version was published in the August
1996 edition of the Foreign
Service Journal. I'm thrilled to make this work available again.
Read more about this short story and the four
novels featuring Casey Collins on the Books
page.
Coming
soon: Moved to: 2100 Copenhagen,
a novella in which I continue the displaced-teenager saga that began
with "Lydia Meets the Danes," originally published in the
third edition of PIECE OF CAKE 8. Enjoy
the first two chapters . . .
For
more in the young adult arena, look for my newest short story,
"Heart Failure," expanded from a piece about The 27 Club
recently published online by Alinea.
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