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Buy the short story ebook from Amazon Buy the short story ebook from Smashwords	The boar Casey Collins hit is road-kill. Her VW's in a snow-shrouded ditch. She and Matt, the young Marine guard riding shotgun, are stuck on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain after dark, an hour from the Warsaw embassy. She can't let the lad freeze to death. She cajoles him into her double sleeping bag and climbs in after. Her need for warmth this icy winter night puts her on a deadly road. As a bonus, the electronic edition of the "Warm Bodies" short story includes the first chapter of my never-before-published novel, No Place for an Honest Woman, continuing Casey's 1986 adventures in Poland. An earlier version of this spy thriller won first place in the 1995 Literary Contest sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. The entire novel will appear this spring as an original ebook.



Read Excerpts	FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd played a supporting role in my international thriller NIGHT ON FIRE. She so captured my imagination that I've described her later exploits in eleven short stories published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Back issues are available from www.themysteryplace.com and subscriptions for your Kindle eReader are available at Amazon.com.



Read an Excerpt Reviews Buy from Amazon	Casey Collins, a U. S. Foreign Service officer, is thrown into a maelstrom of agony when she learns a New York bound flight from England exploded soon after takeoff, like a grim Lockerbie Two. Casey fears that her lover Stefan Krajewski, a Polish operative for Danish Defense Intelligence, was on the ill-fated flight and promptly flies to Europe to learn the truth. But she is swiftly embroiled in a twisted series of events that paint her as a terrorist conspirator and a suspect in the airline bombing. Discredited by her own State Department, pursued by the FBI, wanted by Interpol, Casey is a fugitive whose only protection is a small band of skilled agents operating outside of the law. With her career and credibility in ruins, Casey has only one chance to bring the malicious mastermind behind the bombing to justice before he can massacre any more innocent people. Setting herself up as a fake mediator for U. S. interests, she conceives a dangerous strategy for gaining access to her target. Hurled into a relentless, death-dealing mission, she senses a multi-leveled web of deception tightening around her, forcing her to rely on people she neither knows nor trusts--any one of whom might sacrifice her life for his own corrupt motives.



Read an Excerpt Reviews Buy the ebook from Amazon Buy the ebook from Smashwords	On assignment in Copenhagen to locate and buy back missing stinger missiles, Casey returns to her apartment to find the lifeless body of a brutally murdered biker. The victim is the brother of one of the leaders of the Bandidos, a ruthless motorcycle gang, engaged in a vicious turf war with Denmark's Hells Angels. Struggling to extract herself from the compromising situation, Casey learns that her partner in the Stinger missile project has been shot, caught in the crossfire of a gun battle between the Hells Angels and the Bandidos. Suddenly Casey is the sole link between two violent deaths, and when she barely escapes an ambush, it becomes dangerously clear that someone wants her out of the way before she makes the connection between the dead men. As the solstice approaches in the land of the midnight sun, a dark web of treason, espionage and terrorism spreads from Washington, D.C., to the capitals of Eastern Europe. Both the Danish police and U.S. embassy officials are asking a lot of questions, but the more Casey learns the less she can reveal to them. Now the countdown has begun in Casey's desperate race against time to save lives and not to lose her own. From the highest circles of power to the violent criminal underworld, she follows a trail across Europe on a harrowing search for the perpetrators-only to find that they might be closer to her than she ever imagined, waiting to destroy her at any moment.



Read an Excerpt Reviews Buy the ebook from Amazon Buy the ebook from Smashwords	Casey Collins is on her way to Berlin for an international conference on global traffic in small arms. Casey's specialty is counterterrorism and she aches for the women and children killed worldwide by terrorists with hand-held weapons. Yet, a crushing series of events demand she shift focus to solve a more ominous problem involving a missing nuclear physicist and a supply of stolen plutonium. Casey is forced back into the field to pursue a villain who threatens everyone she holds dear. From twilight in the long-term parking lot at Dulles Airport to a sunlit afternoon in a Belarus orchard, the action winds breathlessly eastward as Casey and her small band of unlikely cohorts struggle to contain a nuclear evil let loose when the Cold War ended.



Read an Excerpt	“Lydia Meets the Danes” and “Toby Keeps His Cool” from MOVED TO : 2100 COPENHAGEN, a novel-in-progress Two American teens are suddenly uprooted from their childhood home in Oregon and moved 10,000 miles east to their father's native land. Thirteen-year-old Lydia and fifteen-year-old Toby learn a new language and deal with a culture surprisingly different from what they knew in the U.S.The first chapter describes Lydia's first day in a Danish school and was originally published in GOOD WORKS anthology. A condensed and revised version entitled “Lydia Meets the Danes” was adapted for the third edition of PIECE OF CAKE 8, a textbook for non-native 8th graders learning English.The complete novel is intended for an American audience and uses additional details about life in Denmark and more colloquial English and slang. Find out more about Lydia and Toby by reading the longer versions of Chapter One, “Lydia Meets the Danes,” and Chapter Two, “Toby Keeps His Cool”. To learn more about A PIECE OF CAKE 8 by Joan Bosen and Marianne Rosendal, click here to visit the website of their publisher, Alinea.



	A paperback collection of novel excerpts, short stories, memoirs, poems, song lyrics, original sketches, paintings and photographs by English-speaking women living in Denmark.The release of GOOD WORKS coincides with the 75th anniversary of the founding of the American Women’s Club in Denmark, a non-profit organization that provides social support to its members living permanently or temporarily in Denmark and promotes mutual understanding between the USA and Denmark. For nearly two decades, the American Women’s Club has sponsored a group for writers who wish to hone their craft in English. Publication of this anthology by women from a half-dozen countries around the world, is made possible by a cultural award from the club and personal contributions.