Rabbit Moon Jan D. Payne Publication date: September 17th 2024 Genres: Adult, Mystery, Thriller They say you can’t go back home, but Marin Sinclair, end-of-life doula, doesn’t expect her life to be in danger when she answers a mysterious plea for help from a long-ago friend and returns to Dinetah, the Navajo Nation. Her past there holds memories she is reluctant to confront, but what about her life then would make someone want to kill her? Navajo Nation Police Sergeant Justin Blue Eyes shares a connection with Marin from the past, and he has a few questions of his own when Marin disappears―such as why the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agents investigating the abandoned uranium mines on the reservation and how Marin is connected. Marin needs to survive to find any answers, and to do so she is forced to run, going off the grid on her own in the Lukachukai mountains with unknown killers close behind. Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: The Bilagaana woman’s eyes were wid...

My name is Robyn Echols. Zina Abbott is the pen I use for my historical novels. I’m a member of Women Writing the West and Western Writers of America. I currently live with my husband in California’s central valley near the “Gateway to Yosemite.” I love to read, quilt, work with digital images on my photo editing program, and work on my own family history. I am a blogger. In addition to my own blog, I blog for several group blogs including the Sweet Americana Sweethearts blog, which I started and administer. ~ Facebook ~ Website ~ ~ Amazon ~ Blog ~  ~  Pinterest ~   Goodreads ~  ~  Google+ ~    Newsletter ~ Booklinker ~ Prequel to the Atwell Kin series: Charlie, it would be easier to stop the flow of the great Missouri and Kansas Rivers than to prevent the Americans from coming to Kansas.   It is 1856, and the United States opened Kansas Territory to American settlement two years before. Land...

Review: Nala - Women of Strength Series - Adelle Laudan - November 2014 Nala lives in an Indian village called Lakoda in Canada ; she was born with a birthmark on her cheek. In her village, many of the females are married by a certain age and if not they become outcasts. For Nala as the eldest daughter, she is fearful of becoming forever alone just like her name means. With her younger sister's wedding coming up, Nala is possible without a date as her latest arrangement ended up with him calling her a Windego. One day though Nala sees a guy looking at her and feels a spark, the next day he is gone. Did she dream him or is he real? Over the next course of the days, she will catch glimpses and once she accepts that she is truly beautiful and a Woman of Strength, the guy is known as Thunder reveals himself to Nala, and the HEA comes with him asking for her hand in marriage. This part made me swoon, and I was so overjoyed for Nala as she deserved it mor...

The Raven’s Daughter By- Peggy A. Wheeler Genre- Fantasy, Adventure Expected Publication Date-February 29th A Murdering Demon and a Myth Come to Life After a police shoot out where she killed a man, criminologist Maggie Tall Bear Sloan retires from the force to enjoy some peace and quiet in a rural California town. But when children are murdered, she is recruited by the local sheriff to solve the gruesome killings. As the manhunt intensifies, Maggie will do whatever it takes to keep her family safe from the killer. Awake or asleep, Maggie is faced with a difficult choice: embrace her heritage, even if that means turning into myth itself. Or deny that heritage and lose everything. But to catch a killer, Maggie must accept her true nature as a “pukkukwerek”-the shapeshifting monster killer of Yurok legend-or more children will die. Maggie must find a way to trust herself again, learning along the way that not all things are as they seem, and ...

Review: The Hunters Moon - Book #1 The Secret Warrior Series - Beth Trissel - December 2015 Morgan is now seventeen and has been in the Witness Protection Programme along with her little brother after witnessing a double murder done by a gang called The Panteras. Her life has been a continuous series of running for her life and learning how to defend themselves in case danger strikes. Now danger has found them once again as the Panteras have tracked them to their new location , following their Aunt's rules - Morgan grabbed her younger brother and hopped in the car and drove heading to a cabin out in the mountains - in the middle of nowhere but Danger followed them there as the Panteras tracked them to the mountains. The car goes over the edge and gunshots ring out , Morgan and her brother spot wolves and then are found by an American Indian tribe aka Robin Hood with his arrows. As I read about him , I imagined him looking like Jacob from Twilight Saga. He proceed...

  Review: The Hardest Thing in This World - Nicole Eva Fraser - October 2013 Have you ever read a book and then as you continued reading it , have had the thoughts of "I am still confused" cross through your mind ? For me, that was this book. Even now days later, I am still a tad confused about the storyline of this book and what it was supposed to mean. As it starts off introducing Melody - a mother who has just gone back to work after her youngest daughter Renee was found dead and her funeral has been etc. The mother then blanks out and the story goes back in time and Melody is visited by Renee's ghost and told to move forward and forgive Uncle Michael. Here , we wonder whether Uncle Michael was a good guy or not and I wondered if he had anything to do with the reason Renee died. Then it moves back in time to when Melody first met her husband nicknamed Winch and then forward to her husband's younger brother dying and then his ghost "Jamie...

    Review: Through Rushing Water - Catherine Richmond - July 2012 Set in 1876 , Through Rushing Water is a Historical Christian novel and tells the story of the quote "when one door closes, another one will open".  Sophia has been working as a teacher and courting the upcoming Senator and believes that he will propose to her and she will become the new Mrs. Montgomery and be the Lady of the House. All this comes crashing down around her as he proposes to her friend Annabelle instead. Heartbroken , Sophia attends a lecture on missionary work in China and helping save the Christians who are at this stage getting persecuted for their beliefs. What scares me though as I was reading this was that in some parts of the world in the year 2013 the persecution of Christians is still happening.  Sophia believing she is to be sent to China hops aboard the missionary team only to eventually discover she is being sent a little bit closer to home to the Pocona...