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Books By Kathy

A Fine Line, Baxter Series #5 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Kathy Herman / Multnomah Publishers Inc. Monty's Diner is all abuzz. The city council voted to let Thompson Tire Corporation build a plant in Baxter, threatening the town's quaint culture. New jobs. New faces. Foreigners. fast-food chains. Tempers flare as people take sides. Underneath the chatter, darker rumors spread about the mayor and the company's attorney. How exactly did sultry Sheila Paxton influence Charlie Kirby's vote? Charlie has seven children and a wife he loves more than anything. But it doesn't take much to destroy a beautiful thing... When Sheila dies suddenly, newspaper editor Ellen Jones pursues the story. But the lawyer's past is strangely elusive. Someone stands between Ellen and the facts - someone dangerous.

A Shred of Evidence, Seaport Suspense Series #1 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Kathy Herman / Multnomah Publishers Inc. Sitting in Gordy's Crab Shack in Seaport, Ellen is shocked when she overhears two men making disturbing accusations about her friend Sue Ann's husband. Could it be true? Researching old newspaper articles, she discovers more frightening allegations. Now, if she "spills the beans," does that make her a do-gooder detective---or a gullible gossip? 400 pages, softcover from Multnomah.

All Things Hidden, Seaport Suspense Series #3 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Kathy Herman / Multnomah Publishers Inc. Ellen Jones gets a disturbing call from her elderly father's neighbor and must face the fact that her father's mind is slipping and he has reached the stage where he's not safe living alone. Lawrence is having trouble remembering many things, just not the one thing that he's held against Ellen for nearly forty years!

Ever Present Danger, Phantom Hollow Series #1 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Kathy Herman / Multnomah Publishers Inc. Ivy Griffith is a murderer. At least, she might as well be since she made a pact with Pete Barton and the others to cover it all up. Now, after ten years of numbing her guilt with drugs, she's finally coming clean, and home, to the little town of Jacob's Ear, Colorado. Hoping to find the courage to reveal the truth, practical matters must be dealt with first. Since she'll certainly be thrown in jail, she must secure a guardian for her seven-year-old son, Montana, whom her parents didn't even know existed. But at her ten-year high school reunion, an ugly twist of events pays homage to the past, and further entangles Ivy in a sick web of deceit. Can she ever shake the haunting darkness that plagues her and leave the horrors of the past buried, perhaps right alongside Joe Hadley's body, never to reemerge?

Eye of the Beholder, Seaport Suspense Series #2 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Multnomah Publishers Inc. Guy Jones is about to burst his buttons. He just won the biggest case of his career and is being hailed by his law partners. But his wife, Ellen, is consumed with her quirky needy friends and misses his victory dinner. Little does she know that Kinsey Abbott, Guy's pretty legal secretary, is more than happy to keep him company. Communication between the Jones rapidly deteriorates when Ellen's stubborn loyalty to an Iranian couple lands her in the FBI's spotlight--and Guy's bad graces. Guy soon discovers Kinsey's dark side, which inevitably pulls him into a web of danger and deceit. Her decides not to tell Ellen. But it's going to cost him.

High Stakes, Baxter Series #4 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Kathy Herman / Multnomah Publishers Inc. Eighteen-year-old Angie Marks, tattooed and pierced, shows up in the small town of Baxter without a place to stay. When eccentric millionaire Patrick Bailey hires her to be his housekeeper, and then when Angie risks her own safety to help Mr. Bailey get his twin great-grandsons out of a rattlesnake's strike zone, she finds herself fully at the center of the town's curiosity. At Monty's Diner they say she might be involved with Billy Joe Sawyer, using rattlers to intimidate the key witnesses in his upcoming trial. Is she? Or does Angie Marks have her own agenda?

Never Look Back, Phantom Hollow Series #2 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Kathy Herman / Multnomah Fiction IVY GRIFFITH has been released from jail after serving time for covering up the strangulation death of a high school classmate ten years earlier. She's paid her debt to society. Kicked her drug habit. And asked God to give her a fresh start. Problem is, everyone in her hometown of Jacob's Ear, Colorado knows what she did. And her seven-year-old son, Montana, won't stop probing about the father he has never met-the man Ivy was too stoned to even remember. Plagued by her own shame and her little boy's cries for male affirmation, Ivy is thrilled when Rue Kessler takes an interest in Montana and her. Maybe, just maybe, he's the answer to prayer she's been waiting for. But Rue has a shadow hanging over his past and is suspected in a rash of bizarre, brutal beatings. He denies any involvement, and Ivy believes him-until she discovers he and Montana have kept a secret from her. At a loss for what to believe or where to turn, Ivy's on the verge of despair and wonders if even God has turned His back on her. Or is something bigger at play here-something being orchestrated outside of her control that's about to bring down the curtain on everything including her past?

Not by Chance, Seaport Suspense Series #4 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Kathy Herman / Multnomah Publishers Inc. His energy, job, and girlfriend gone, Brandon Jones takes a job at a summer camp and begins a turbulent relationship with Caedmon. When the teenager disappears and the town is threatened by the double horror of a hurricane and hate-filled racists, Brandon wonders if he'll ever find Caedmon---or his own calling. 320 pages, softcover from Multnomah.

Poor Mrs. Rigsby Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Kathy Herman / Multnomah Publishers Inc. Nursing assistant Sally Cox is about as happy to be at Walnut Hills Nursing Center as the patients are---but it's either work or starve since her divorce. When Elsie Rigsby reveals the whereabouts of cash she's hiding from her greedy family, Sally promises to give it to the needy. But will Sally keep the money for herself when the elderly woman dies unexpectedly? 320 pages, softcover from Multnomah.

The Grand Scheme Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Kathy Herman / Multnomah No description available at this time. Check back to see if the publisher provides one