The skeleton found in the last book turns out to be that of a young woman in her late teens or early twenties, who has been dead for twenty years. Now it's up to the police chief John MacDougal to find out who she is and who murdered her. Added to this, Father O'Shawnessy discovers a dead body in his church, Our Lady of the Roses, which now gives John two murders to investigate with his girlfriend Catherine Jewell especially interested in the skeleton of the young girl after the girl's diary was found.
Christmas is fast approaching with all the trappings, and love is in the air. John's mother and fiance get married and two other couples pledge their love. However, the holiday season is dampened when someone is murdered. John has to find the murderer and although he doesn't want Catherine involved, she can't quite help herself from getting involved.
Catherine Pinkiss is a chambermaid. Her employers are ungrateful and expect too much of all their employees. Knowing that only she can change her life, she takes her chance and replies to an advertisement in the Matrimonial Times. She knows she could be risking her very life, but when a handsome man arrives on her doorstep will she regret the actions she has taken? Dylan Jones believes that love will never find him again. Left alone to bring up his son after the tragic loss of his first wife he knows that happiness is fleeting. He knows he has already been blessed, growing up to wealth and privilege and having found the one woman who could make his heart sing. But Kyle needs a mother, and he needs companionship as he tries to build a new life away from everything he once knew. He is not looking for anything more, but will he find out that sometimes we don't get quite what we might think we are looking for?
"Greed, power, and sex-that's all some strive for, all they desire. And eventually it destroys-or kills. Welcome to the world of entertainment, Hollywood style." -Catherine Winter, Private InvestigatorThe divorce of a gifted singer and songwriter leads Catherine Winter into the dark shadows of drugs, sex, and power. Determined to find the killer of an entertainment attorney to Hollywood's elite, Catherine discovers the multifarious and convoluted connections between several people as she searches for truth and justice. Working closely with the Los Angeles Police Department, and teaming up with former cop and private investigator, Joe Copp, the hunt is on to find a killer. Catherine Winter has seen it all in her many years as a Southern California private investigator, and now in her sixties, she's as determined and dedicated as ever. "Having worked in the music industry in Los Angeles, I felt a particular connection to Linda Pendleton's latest novel, Shifting Focus. While music is an art form, promoting the artists is more about profit than talent, and where money rules, danger often follows. You'll feel like you're right there on the edge of corruption with Private Investigator Catherine Winter as she pulls back the curtain on Hollywood's steamy secrets." -Chelle Thompson, Author and Editor"Linda Pendleton's first private eye novel is a brilliant debut. Shattered Lens is good enough I hope it becomes a series." -Richard S. Prather, Author of the Shell Scott Mystery Series.Book Three of the Catherine Winter Series.Linda Pendleton writes fiction and nonfiction. s
Catherine Jewell's grandfather is in a nursing home now, where two residents are murdered. Her fiance, police chief John MacDougal wants her to keep out of it, but knowing Catherine, can she?
A young woman who's lost everything. A rancher with a tragic past. A chance to find love in the unforgiving west.No nineteen-year old should have to spend her birthday like Catherine Lamott, burying her entire family after a devastating illness took their lives. After her father's debtors left her almost penniless and her fianc broke their engagement, Catherine considers it fate when she learns about the mail order bride program from a stranger.Catherine corresponds with Samuel Cardwell, a businessman looking for a wife and partner to help manage his mercantile in booming Texarkana. Having decided it the perfect match for a St. Louis born and bred, educated young woman, she catches the train to meet her suitor. But she does not bargain for the man waiting at the end of her long journey.Jackson Trimble is content on his ranch, raising cattle and working hard from sun up to sun down to help him forget the tragedy of his past. When he hires a young innocent woman who is down on her luck to be his cook and housekeeper, he does not anticipate that his feelings for her would go beyond a purely business proposition.When his actions put her life and safety at risk, and unable to cope with the tragic memories of his past, Jackson tells Catherine he is sending her home, a decision she has no choice but to accept despite her growing feelings for the introspective rancher with the secretive past.Catherine's story is a clean short read western historical romance in the "Courageous Orphan Brides" series. Each story is a complete standalone story.
Book Synopsis: Lord Edward Bannister finds his wife and her maid in the convict colony of Botany Bay in Australia. When he discovers them, Lady Catherine is desperately ill. After seeing to Catherine's recovery, Edward makes it his life's purpose to bring to justice the men and women responsible for the women's unjust imprisonment and transport to Botany Bay. Edward and Catherine examine the bond the two women share, and their lives and experiences, as Edward finds and gets vengeance from those who abused them. The story also engages the reader in the class struggle of the times and the impact it had on the lives of Lady Catherine and her maid.Autobiography: Helen has always enjoyed historic English Literature and has taken a deep interest in her English ancestors. She attended the University of Ballarat where she completed a degree in Professional Writing and Editing. She enjoyed it immensely. Over the course of several decades she has written several stories, though this is her first book of this length. She has always had a passion for writing. Thanks to a loving Husband her confidence has blossomed. She enjoys the time she has for writing. Most of all she has wanted to follow the advice of her dear Mother before she died some years ago: 'Don't give up your writing' Offering words crafted in her more mature years, she is happily married and lives in Tucson, Arizona with her husband. She is Australian by birth and has two adult sons and one grandson living in Australia.
Set in eighteenth-century London, England. This fictional novel touches on the life of the upper crust and those who served them. As they both come together, foolish choices and harrowing consequences take two women-one an aristocrat and the other her servant-into a storm of trial, scorn, and tribulation. Stripped of title, recognition, and value, one wonders who the heroine really is, Catherine or Betsy? Catherine repeatedly asks, "How will Lord Edward find us?" A twisted and perverse judge condemns these two women to the Australian colonies. What is his motivation? Why would he want to hurt two women he'd never seen before? When everything about her life and station no longer has meaning, tears flow for Catherine. What has she done? Her foolishness has bought shame both on herself and her dearest friend, Betsy. How can she go on if they are parted? As Betsy looks back in time, her memories share love, concern, and deep anxiety. As she looks forward, she questions, "Am I worthy of kindness above my station?"
Russian-American professor Nicholas Krylov encounters a host of unusual characters while doing summer research on the 2018 World Cup Football Games to be held in multiple Russian cities. A serious stray dog problem threatens to derail the Games in Yekaterinburg (Catherine Town). Head city veterinarian Dr. Ivan Krastov is devising new methods to capture and kill or train and adopt the strays. He is also trying to modernize the city's animal control services to prevent danger to the visiting sports fans. Nicholas learns that Dr. Krastov is working on the side to create a new species of dog, the latest specimen that walks upright and talks. Th is success has generated high-level Kremlin support for his research, especially for its applied uses to save the prestigious Games from bad publicity. But Krastov's success has also attracted jealousy and animosity. His program is threatened, along with his and Nicholas's lives. The threats come from violent animal rights groups...but also from people in Krastov's own animal control facility, colleagues who are trying to steal Krastov's ideas and methods. During his stay Nicholas has befriended police inspector Simon Petrovsky, as well as Anna Irtenev, a professor from the university where he is doing his summer research. Together they fight back against those trying to derail Krastov...if they can survive long enough to succeed.
The memorial of Catherine Stewart is about the legacy of Catherine Stewart and how her life influenced her grandson Jy'Quan Stewart to leave an example of what Godliness is and why we should leave a Godly Legacy. We live in a generation where preachers and deacons claim to be men and women of God. They live and act just like the world and do not know what it means to be born again. Every born again believer is called to fight the good fight of faith and run the race. Before Catherine died she passed the baton on to Jy'Quan now he had to finish well fight for the faith. Jy'Quam Arnay Stewart was born July 1, 2001 at St Peter's Memorial hospital in Albany, New York. He was prophesied over as a child by Pastor Chapman to be the man of God. He was raised in Rensselaer, New York in poverty. Jy'Quan Stewart got saved at a young age by God using his grandmother as a witness. He always had a hunger for a deeper walk with God not merely just going to church but being the church. Being filled with the fullness of God and pouring into other lives. He attended Rensselaer City School District. God has used many things from his past to shape him into the man he is today and is a work in progress.
