Smile To The Friday!

It was supposed to be easy… it turned out to be murder.

In the thrilling start to the Trask Brothers Murder Mystery Series, identical twin brothers Dave and Don hunt a silent killer terrorizing anglers in the great north woods.
“Spellbinding! I could not put it down. It will keep you on the edge all the way to the end.”

When Dave Trask ran for sheriff of wild Lake County, he thought the job would entail locating lost campers and catching poachers, and he didn’t really expect to get elected. He was wrong on both counts.
Before he can be sworn in, two guests at a small fishing lodge are discovered brutally murdered. As Dave surveys the murder scene, he becomes aware of two things: he has an inexperienced staff and he will be looking for a killer who walked up to his victims unseen and then disappeared into the wilderness.
As the murders continue, they threaten to destroy the tourism business vital to the county and set off a war between lodge owners and Native American guides. Dave feels his only choice is to enlist the help of his identical twin Don, lead agent for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. But their hunt for the killer does not go as planned.

“Ye will stay here until I allow ye to leave.”

The masked Beastly Laird scares everyone away. Yet everyone expects Keith to find a bride in the next month. It seems impossible – until a lass stumbles right into his bedchambers.

Pressured to marry an old Laird, Maisie longs for one last adventure: she sneaks into the castle of the Beastly Laird, planning to steal a rare book.

But the Beast catches her. And in order to let her live, she must do what he asks; pretend to be his betrothed for exactly thirty days. After that, she must leave. No matter how much she yearns for the man under the mask…
*Trapped with the Beastly Highlander is a steamy Scottish historical romance novel of 60,000 words (around 300 pages) written by Lydia Kendall and published by Cobalt Fairy.

Seven college students set out to explore an abandoned 1800s mining ghost town and Native American village with their Anthropology professor, Dr. Bailey. One student does not return from the trip. His death is ruled an accident. Eighteen years later, the students are invited back to the same town to enjoy the preview opening of a new resort, The Village, that has been built from the remains of an old saloon in hopes of growing the town again. But the invitation is deceiving. The resort’s owner is unknown, and the group of adults can’t find any information about it online. Slowly, the guests start dying. Will the former Anthropology students find out who is behind this trip before they all end up dead?

A blizzard has arrived, trapping the former students with no contact with the outside world. As people start dying one by one, they have to figure out who has invited them back to The Village for revenge. Set in an old mining town in rural Montana, this locked room mystery will keep readers guessing until the end.

It began at the Inn.
Five strangers… And a town in peril

When a Dwarf, Elf, Rogue, Ex Sailor and a Dragon Born Sorceress all find themselves stranded in an Inn during a snow storm, they expect to be leaving as soon as the snow melts and the pass reopens. But then the supply wagon goes missing, and farmers complain of vandalism and slaughtered herds.

Can these five adventurers find some common ground to work together and help the town? Will they rise to the challenge? Or are some differences too much to overcome?

Find out now in this story of five unlikely heroes stumbling into something worth fighting for, and the sentient fireball they meet along the way.

Twelve Years at a Japanese Temple —

An account of an Englishman who for over a decade has worked and trained martial arts at a 16th century Buddhist temple in Nagasaki City, Japan.

This book details his time there, but also describes (among many things) his experiences working variously as a male model, a barman at a ‘gaijin bar’ in Nagasaki’s red-light district, and a business English teacher for Mitsubishi.

This is a searingly honest book about the highs — and lows — of living in the Land of the Rising Sun.
This is something very different from your ‘average’ Japan book.