Kirjahaku

Young sign language professor Emma longs for someone who will stick around. Her dad left when she was fifteen, and now the only creature she trusts is the stray cat she feeds every day. But this morning, while exploring a beautiful old cemetery, Emma meets Locke, a man she forgets to doubt.Today marks one year since Locke lost his brother to an apparent suicide. He visits the grave full of unanswered questions and dark thoughts. When Emma appears, with her wild orange hair and fiery disposition, she's a welcome distraction.Minutes after their introduction, a bizarre car crash effectively binds the two strangers, leaving them to co-parent an orphaned infant (and the stray cat). Before they can set up house, however, they are forced to flee from violent intruders, and they find themselves the focus of a police investigation. That's when Emma is mysteriously gifted with a skeleton key that connects the crash to the death of Locke's brother and points to corruption within the police department.What began as a chance meeting (was it chance?) must become a quick and powerful alliance if Emma and Locke are to uncover the truth and keep their unlikely new family intact.For your next favorite love story, open The Locke Box. You already have the key.

This Great Smoky Mountains cabin has been in my family for seven generations. When Jake died, and the bridge was flooded as it is now, we had to bury him on site. It was like losing my twin. I came back to move past the feeling that they buried me in that grave too-and I meant to do that by myself. But with the storm raging, my cousin's handsome friend gets trapped here with me. Things could be worse. The guy's interesting, and he's funny. And he's got this thick beard that-but anyway when we discover several disturbing entries in the visitors' log and an eccentric neighbor spying through the windows, we realize that Jake's death was no accident, and ours may be next. Playful and sexy, this mystery/romance delves into the backwoods oddities of the author's Southern heritage. "The South Jennifer writes of is the William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor South. Darkly romantic. Hot and humid. Haunted and gothic...grown slowly from some dark, rich soil." -The Performing Songwriter Magazine

"I've always had the sense that an unrestrained me would have lasting consequences."Beam is not allowed to speak to her uncle-not since she was five and her dad found him catching her blood in a jar. She's not allowed to do a lot of things, like ask about it. And she is certainly not allowed to entertain creatures no one else can see or follow injured mountain lions back to the reservation where she was born (no matter how intriguing they turn out to be in human form).Today, though, everyone Beam loves is missing, and her late grandmother's old Tribal lullaby pounds through her head like a warning."Uncle Joel? It's happening."Journey with Beam through the Badlands of South Dakota in a wildly imaginative adventure of courage, friendship, and the wisdom of blood. Drawn from Lakota folklore and heralded for the strength of its characters, The Elixir won Neal Serious Writer's Writer of the Year award."There's a larger story being written here than your own personal crisis. There is always a larger story."

In book two of The Elixir Series, birds are gathering by the thousands to a faerie-like creature trapped in an elaborate cage, and Uncle Joel is acting unhinged. Chausie uncovers a smuggling ring for magical exotics-by getting himself caught and sold to a madman. And Beam finds that his blood is acting upon her in some incredible ways.This fast-paced tale is sure to delight with laugh-out-loud moments and steadfast friendships. It reveals the thrilling backstory of Chausie's shifter abilities as it collides with the more pressing need to get him free before he is too deeply hidden to be found.Inspired by real-life depictions from the painted histories of Native American tribes, our story begins in South Dakota during the massive Leonid Meteor Storm of 1833 and makes its way East to the mountains of present-day Georgia. Reunite with the beloved characters from The Elixir and fall in love with new ones in this highly anticipated sequel on Snatcher's Ridge.