The Hazard of Secrets

Posted on September 5, 2024June 7, 2024 by writer35_bg

Two hearts with dangerous pasts are twisted up into complex schemes in this 10th book of the Hearts in Hazard series ~ The Hazard of Secrets.

The Hazard of Secrets

Can these two hearts keep their secrets, or will murder force them to reveal all?

Clarey Parton crosses the Atlantic to steal an inheritance. She hopes that no one discovers the rightful heir lies in a cold grave.

Jem Baxter returns to the England he fled three years before. He assumes the name James Axminster to conceal his past, one littered with misdeeds.

When a press gang sees two people traveling alone, they seize the opportunity for quick cash: they plan to sell Clarey to a brothel and impress Jem on a merchant ship. Fate brings these two lonely souls together. Chance helps them escape.

Yet escape traps them in another secret—one with murder as a bloody solution.

The Hazard of Secrets offers twists and turns as tight as knots.

Can Clarey and Jem keep their secrets, or will murder force them to reveal all?

Read the first chapter at this link.
Here’s the second chapter of the newest release by M. A. Lee, The Hazard of Secrets, historical mystery set in 1814 Liverpool, England, with just a dash of romance. Find it at this link.
Writers will tell you that sometimes characters take control of a story, and writers are just along for the write. That’s the case with Vic, a boy on the streets of 1814 Liverpool in M.A. Lee’s newest historical mystery. I liked Vic so much I might even ask him to write another story with me. Find Vic’s introduction at this link.

And watch the trailer:

This is the book that became ever-expanding, blowing past the original length of 55,000 words, climbing on to 78,000 words, and then achieving 109,000 words.

I kept thinking about dividing it out, but events at the beginning cause events in the middle and connect to events at the end.

And I hate to read cliff-hangers which require two separate books. Better to have the cliff-hangers at the end of chapters!

Available Worldwide as an ebook https://books2read.com/u/4DWRJr

Available ebook and paperback on Amazon

Medieval Fantasy ~ Out of Wild Sherwood

Posted on September 1, 2024August 19, 2024 by writer35_bg

All through September ~

stories Out of Wild Sherwood, from Edie Roones.

Beware the Vengeance of Outlaws and Faeries.

Fall begins with Medieval Fantasy!

Join the wrestler Dav, Tall Brigit and Arthur a Bland, Irishman Finn Callum, Much the Miller’s son, and the Faerie sentinel Fenric as they battle corruption, injustice, and pure evil, all lurking outside Sherwood Forest.

5 Stories of Medieval Fantasy & Crime

“Dangerous Gold” / Sept. 1

Strong Temptation for Two Young Thieves

Two young outlaws decide to steal the Nottingham mayor’s gold as revenge for a false accusation. Haunted by misgivings, Dav of Doncaster keeps a wary eye on them … only to discover a lethal trap is closing fast.

“Keen-Edged Dagger” / Sept. 4

Murder needs a Tricky Vengeance

Orphans learn early that life is a precarious balance and justice has a keen edge. When Brigit is falsely accused of murder, how can she reveal her innocence?

“Silver Dreams” / Sept. 8

A Double Twist for a Double Theft

Finn Callum is guilty of much but never a blood crime. The Irishman thinks Nottingham is ready for prime plucking.

Quick of fingers and fleet of foot, he’s always escaped any hue and cry. To wake with a knife aimed between his eyes is a shock.

“Poisoned Roots” / Sept. 12

A Deadly Sin caused Dishonor

Envy is a deadly sin, and it killed Much’s good name and honor. That loss still aches like an unhealed wound. Cast from his family, he carved a place in Robin Hood’s band. Will a dying wish rip open that old wound?

“Memory of Magic” / Sept. 16

A Faerie Confronts Human Evil

After a visit to Robin Hood’s camp, the hunter Fenric stumbles upon slaughtered deer, killed for neither food nor sport. The trail leads this Faerie beyond Sherwood’s border and to a freehold stinking of evil.

Out of Wild Sherwood / Sept. 2

Beware the Vengeance of Outlaws and Faeries.

A Collection of Medieval Fantasy, crime and magic, foul sins and eldritch deeds.

Buy the individual short stories or the collection.

Short stories are ebook only.

The collection will be available as ebook, paperback, and audiobook.

For the Collection:

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCLQKTGT

Worldwide Distributors https://books2read.com/u/mlQvM7

View the Trailer https://youtu.be/ENKYL_Qi9u4

The Individual Short Stories:

“Dangerous Gold”

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCR3969H

Worldwide Books to Read https://books2read.com/u/4E9rNM

“Keen-Edged Dagger”

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCGT1FQQ

Worldwide Books to Read https://books2read.com/u/bw0Gyv

“Silver Dreams”

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCG29ZTV

Worldwide Books to Read https://books2read.com/u/baRMd6

“Poisoned Roots”

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCW7KQ7F

Books to Read https://books2read.com/u/bM0L2B

“Memory of Magic”

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCW8JCK4

Books to Read https://books2read.com/u/47PKva

Out of Wild Sherwood

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCLQKTGT

Books to Read https://books2read.com/u/mlQvM7

Backstabbing double-crosses.

False accusation of murder.

Double-twist on a heist.

A hidden murder concealed in a Evil deed.

Blood magic and a foul enchanter.

View the Trailer Here.

https://youtu.be/ENKYL_Qi9u4

Enjoy your FALL READING!

Free Fiction: Summer Sieges

Posted on August 31, 2024March 30, 2024 by writer35_bg

Free Fiction

Take a W.Ink with a First Chapter Glimpse.

Edie Roones’ fantasy Summer Sieges, ordinary people battling extraordinary odds and foul sorcery.

Chapter 1

Her body jerked.

Beren muddled her way up. Slowly. Into the pain.

Another jerk.

Return was . . . sluggish. A great darkness. A lesser one. She wanted to retreat from waking, crawl back into the deep blackness, but pain pulsed in her head and throbbed along her arm, denying any escape.

Her body jerked again.

Hands were on her. At her hips. Metal clinking. A lift. She groaned.

The hands stilled then gave another jerk that peeled something from beneath her.

And then a growl, deep, predatory. As black as the darkness. Danger as old as time.

Whoever had pulled at her scrambled away. She tried to open her eyes then realized they were open, to night-black. The dancing lights weren’t in her throbbing head. They were torches bobbing, some bigger and brighter, others distant, like the will o’wisps that hovered over deepest springs and in magickal glades.

Continue reading “Free Fiction: Summer Sieges” →

Summer Sieges: medieval fantasy

Posted on August 30, 2024March 30, 2024 by writer35_bg

The first book in the alternate medieval fantasy by Edie Roones: Seasons in Sansward

& Edie Roones’ First Book

& the First Book Published by Writers’ Ink Books

Summer Sieges

Honor and death? Or cowardice and life? Stark choices, and not that easy.

Beren, a warder at Caldew Keep, swore an oath to defend her lord and lady. The

arrival of the Watrani horde, allied with the Gitane Witches, changes the world she has known. The Witches are sorcerers who have been exiled from Sansward for generations.

Beren’s keep lady orders her to protect the Eye, a magical crystal that increases a wielder’s power.

Besides the magnification of power, the Eye has two other important purposes: 1) It can remove the curse that transformed the fighting Prica warriors into wolves. 2) It will free sorcerers who were trapped in stone at the end of the Great War between the mages and the witches.

And the Gitane Witches are searching for the Eye.

Lady Treasache intends to steal away with the Eye in a desperate bid to keep it from the Gitane. The Prica Storr thinks to use the Eye to shift back into man.

Will Beren sacrifice herself in a futile attempt to guard the Eye? With only a sword as defense against sorcery, can she survive a battle against the Gitane? Or will she discover that the road to death is littered with people who chose honor over life?

Available now.

What is The Hazard with Hearts?

Posted on August 25, 2024June 7, 2024 by writer35_bg

Regency Mystery with an Eerie Touch of the Gothic and a Dash of Romance

The Hazard with Hearts concludes the Hearts in Hazard series.

Two wives haunt the castle. Will she be the third to die?

Vivienne Northrup agreed to a marriage of convenience to reap the benefits of becoming the Countess of Sheldrake. While she explores the ruins of Sheldrake Castle, a falling stone dislodged from a tower nearly kills her.

Only then does Vivienne discover that the earl’s previous two wives died tragically. The first had jumped to her death from that very tower.

Or had the woman been pushed?

Had someone tried to Kill Vivienne with the stone?

In the gothic tradition of Victoria Holt and Dorothy Eden, The Hazard with Hearts offers a determined heroine who confronts doubts, superstition, and the dark passions of a killer who wants every countess of Sheldrake dead and buried.

The Hazard with Hearts is book 12 in the Hearts in Hazard series of mysteries and suspense, with just a dash of sweet romance. The stories are loosely connected with each story complete in one book.

2 Free Glimpses and 2 Audio Files

For an audio narrated by the Author M.A. Lee: Click the link to listen on PodBean.

If you prefer to read the first chapter, please click this document file:

Haz with Hearts 1st chapter

You can listen to an audio file about Maxwell Herrick, 9th Earl of Sheldrake at this link

Or you can read this document file: Haz with Hearts Meet Max

They whisper that he is Bluebeard. His first two wives haunt the castle? Will his third wife be next to die?

Want to Read about Writing Problems?

“What’s in a Name?” That was a major question at the beginning of the rough draft for M.A. Lee’s The Hazard with Hearts.

Read about her problems here!

Enjoy.

LINKS

Trailer https://youtu.be/y9gELz8G6-E

Ebook only :: https://books2read.com/u/boEVg1

For ebook and paperback :: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GJXKK2N/