“Amber Dreams” / a Short Story Mystery / Happy Birthday!

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1st Short Story in the Sailing with Mystery anthology

featuring Isabella Newcombe Tarrant from the Into Death series.

Aboard the Passenger Ship Nomadic

A short story mystery featuring Isabella Newcombe Tarrant from the Into Death series.

Amber Dreams ~~

Blackmail threatens a young bride when her secret diary is stolen. Her marriage of convenience is threatened if the contents are revealed to her new husband and his autocratic mother.

Can Isabella recover the diary before the bride loses all hope?

Find the individual short story at these links:

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1YG2J6Q

Books2Read  https://books2read.com/u/3yWAAl

The “Amber Dreams” cover represents the rocky coasts that Isabella would have seen along the French and Spanish coastlines during her ocean voyage.

Visit this website for the first section and more links. https://maleebooks.blogspot.com/2025/02/amber-dreams-opening-and-links.html

Sailing With Mystery ~ the short Story Collection

Travel presents opportunities to meet new friends and see new places. And confront DANGER!

Follow Isabella through the Mediterranean Sea and into the Indian Ocean as she sails from England to India … and encounters puzzling crimes and mysterious intrigue.

All five short stories are available in the collection.

Link for Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1YG2J6Q

Link to Wide Distribution ~ Books2Read https://books2read.com/u/3yWAAl

A Word on the Covers: My designers manipulate stock photos to create vibrant colors. Few images are available that present 1921 accurately. Rather than be limited in cover choices, we avoided that problem and chose to emphasize Isabella’s art. Five similar watercolor images became the covers for the short stories, each one symbolically depicting the story’s conflict or theme or setting. Finding those similar images became the next design challenge.

The cover for the collection Sailing with Mystery echoes the covers for the original three-book series Into Death. The ocean and the railing of the ship depict her location while the tumultuous sky echoes the mysteries she encounters while aboard the passenger ship.

Enjoy!

The Into Death series:

Digging into Death ~ Love and murder on an archaeological dig. Has the love of her life beguiled Isabella straight into death?

Christmas with Death ~ An English country manor offers Christmas merriment, miracles, and murder. Will Isabella be the next victim?

Portrait with Death ~ When murder paints with blood, will Isabella and her new friend Flick discover that the murderer? Or will the murderer stop them?

Collected into Into Death

LINKS:

https://books2read.com/u/baDN1L

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MRBNCH7

Available ebook and paperback

Spells of Air ~ the Fae Mark’d World

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Fantasy. Action and Adventure.

On a mission for the Wizard Enclave, Orielle ventures into the Wilding, a strange frontier filled with magical creatures. There she discovers sprites and wraiths, gobbers and wyre, and the mysterious Dark Fae called the Kyrgy.

All view her as prey.

Spells of Air ~ a trilogy of novellas

To Wield the Wind

Never adept with magic, Orielle allies with Grim, a swordsman who wields elemental power. With him as guide and guard, she heads for Iscleft Haven, hoping to renew the alliance between the Enclave and the Haven.

Can Orielle and Grim reach the Haven without falling to the wyre and the gobbers? Or must they bind themselves to Lady Bone and ride the Wild Hunt as the newly chosen of a Kyrgy?

To Charm the Air

When Orielle and Grim reach the Haven, the elder arrests him. The Haveners aren’t interested in a renewed alliance with the Wizard Enclave.

Is her mission for the Enclave in vain? Will she ever escape the Wilding?

And what of her vow to the Kyrgy Lady Bone?

To Curse the Wyre

Hunter. Hunted. Who is who?

The sorceress and her servants, the shifter wyre, seek to destroy Orielle’s allies in the Wilding. Orielle has gathered Dark Fae and Rhoghieri to defeat them.

She rides with the Dark Fae Lord Skull and Lady Bone—but can she trust them?

 

Available in ebook and paperback from worldwide distributors!

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

LINKS

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Spells-Air-Fae-Markd-World/dp/1737422646/

Worldwide https://books2read.com/u/mlq96v

9 retailer links for Spells of Air.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/spells-of-air-remi-black/1141843804?ean=2940175178921

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798822633971

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/spells-of-air

https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Remi_Black_Spells_of_Air?id=AQAAAEACk1LTQM

https://www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/spells-of-air-by-remi-black

https://bingebooks.com/book/spells-of-air

https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/583666393/Spells-of-Air-Fae-Mark-d-World

https://www.storytel.com/se/sv/books/3318288

The Fae Mark

Celebrate the April Book Birthdays!

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Spring is bursting forth, birds are twittering around,

… and allergies have started.

Time for April Book Birthdays!

discover with one click!

By Dejan Krsmanovic - Birthday Cake Details, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=134047258
Who doesn’t want chocolate cake? Image free from Wikimedia Commons, see alt text for attribution

 

 On April 1st ~ Writing Craft!

Discovering Your Writing

The epic journey for all writers is discovering the many areas of our writing craft.

Characters.

Plot.

Branding.

Sentence Craft.

A ready-reference to build your writing career. Designed for writers at any skill level.

One-click link for the book description, trailer, and purchase.

 

April 5 ~ Fantasy!

Spells of Aircover by Deranged Doctor Design

On a mission for the Wizard Enclave, Orielle ventures into the Wilding, a strange frontier filled with magical creatures. There she discovers sprites and wraiths, gobbers and wyre, and the mysterious Dark Fae called the Kyrgy.

All view her as prey.

What can you expect from this trilogy? Elemental magic. Dangerous Dark Fae allies. Treacherous shape-shifted. A twisted sorceress.

This book bundles the three novellas, To Wield the Wind, To Charm the Wind, and To Curse the Wyre. 

Amazon has the ebook and paperback options. Worldwide is ebook only.

LINKS:

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Spells-Air-Fae-Markd-World/dp/1737422646/
Worldwide https://books2read.com/u/mlq96v

View the Trailer here: https://youtu.be/PqjouEJtbjY

April 9 ~ Traditional Regency Mystery

The Dangers to Hearts

What can possibly go wrong in an idyll? Arson uncovers a baffling murder from the past. 

When Agatha’s lover abandoned her years ago, she poured herself into her family’s property, Helmes Farm. Mismanaged by three stewards, the estate suffers financial trouble. Agatha needs someone honest to help.

Jess Carter evaded arrest for smuggling. The smuggler’s fence offers him a job at Helmes Farm. When Agatha hires Jess as her new steward, his loyalties are divided.

Then hatred burns into a fire in the night. The arson reveals an old murder. The vanished fiancé didn’t leave—he was murdered.

Who is the arsonist? Who is the murderer? Are the arsonist and the murderer the same person? Or have two people been poisoned by hatred?

Troubles past and present swirl around destructive hatred in this twisty romantic mystery.

LINKS

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y59XB7N

https://books2read.com/u/31qlQ7

View the trailer. https://youtu.be/kFhnthIuYks

April 30 ~ Another Traditional Regency Mystery

The Hazard for Spies

Disguised to Spy

Conrad Hoppock works with the Bow Street Runners to locate a French master spy. His search sends him undercover in a firm of solicitors.

Phinney Darracott wants justice for the murders of her sister and brother-in-law. Clues lead her to a firm of London solicitors. Disguised as a cleaning maid, Phinney prowls for the evidence. There she encounters Conrad.

Then the lawyer at the center of the tangle of clues is shot dead while they watch from hiding.

Will Phinney and Conrad discover the connection between past and present murders ~ or will they face two bullets?

LINKS

https://books2read.com/u/4j2JEl

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087WJ8TJD

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

 

All cover images by Deranged Doctor Designs!

Winter Sorcery

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The third Fantasy in an Alternate medieval World,

part of the Seasons in Sansward

Winter Sorcery

Book 3 in the Seasons in Sansward Quarternary

When a Gitane WitchMaster pursues two Frenc spies who stole a sphere of power, can a half-trained mage and a simple temple cleric help them escape?

Just as their cover is blown, the spies Rolf and Catal stumble upon a greater secret:  the Kaerrefiorne, a blood-fed globe that will connect every Gitane Witch.  They steal this orb that will complete the witches’ connection and escape into snow-smothered Arlas.

When Catal is severely wounded, two clerics at a Protectorate temple outpost become the Frenc spies only hope.  Legeeta and Niijai, a Green mage with unschooled powers, do not know they harbor Frenc spies.

Rolf takes the orb to the border to keep it safe from the pursuing Watrani.  He is not an hour from the temple when the troop arrives.

With the Watrani is Keipven, a WitchMaster.  He recognizes Niijai’s magic as a potent replacement for the orb.

If he can bend her power to his will, his own puissance increases.  If he can twist her to sorcery, the Gitane Witches become that much stronger against the Mages.  If he can neither control her nor twist her, then he will kill her.

Will Catal be discovered and killed as a spy?

Will Rolf stumble into the Watrani when he returns?

And will Niijai be destroyed by Keipven, alive and enslaved to his plans or bloody and dead on the snowy fields of Arlas?

Available Here.

Sing a Graveyard Song ~ Wizard Against Walking Death

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Dark Fantasy. Twisted Magic. Foul Sorcery.

A blood-drinking monster.

The icy mountains hold danger and death but not in the way

that the Fae Mark’d wizard Alstera expects in Sing a Graveyard Song.

Suspicious villagers, justice-seeking pursuers, and foul sorcery

are nothing compared to a blood-drinking monster.

Icy mountains hold danger and death.

The wizard Alstera continues her quest to restore access to her bound powers.  A nightmare of foul sorcery gives her an opportunity.  She tracks the evil to a snow-smothered village deep in the mountains.

 

A vengeful woman crafts spells based in sorcery.  To fulfill her revenge, she re-animated a corpse, turning the dead man into a death-walker.

When Alstera and her friend Raul arrive, the suspicious villagers don’t trust them.  Too many have died mysteriously, victims to a monster that don’t dare name.

Alstera is shocked when she discovers the sorcery re-animated a corpse.  Walking Death drinks blood to retain a semblance of life. But to fight the death-walker, she must once more rely on primitive and forbidden blood-magic.

This battle will not be easy.  She can’t find the sorcerer.  She can’t find the death-walker.  And a wizard from the Enclave is in close pursuit.

She knows the Enclave wizard comes to discover if she is keeping the wizard tenets or if she is crossing the tenuous barrier that separates wizardry from sorcery.  Every time she uses blood-magic is a mark against her.

 

With only a small portion of her powers freed, not enough against the death-walker, can Alstera wield blood-magic to defeat a blood-spelled monster?

How many lives will the death walker take before Alstera finds the way to destroy it?

 

The dark fantasy Sing a Graveyard Song continues the grim story of twisted magic and foul sorcery and Alstera, walking the silvery thread that separates them. Third in the Fae Mark’d Wizard series, Grave follows Weave a Wizardry Web and Dream a Deadly Dream. Although each novel is a complete story, readers will have a richer experience if they read all three in order.

View the trailer here: https://youtu.be/zwWFb11GP1g

Fetch it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BK9DYDK