Anne Hagan

An ancient evil lurks in a charming Ohio small town. Can the bond of two outsiders save their new home? When Willow and Jennifer move to the charming town of Zanesville, Ohio, they expect to find tranquility in their new home. But soon after arriving, Willow senses a sinister presence lurking in the shadows. Her suspicions are confirmed when she witnesses her eccentric boss at the library, Martha, leading a mysterious ritual at the decrepit Bane House on the edge of town. Determined to protect themselves and their new community, Willow and Jennifer begin unraveling the disturbing history of the abandoned farmhouse and the tragic fate of a young woman named Charlotte, whose ghost haunts its halls. But their investigation takes a frightening turn when Jennifer falls under the influence of an evil pendant given to her by Martha. Racing against time and dark mystical forces, Willow and Jennifer must work together to expose the secrets of Martha's coven before they can unleash dangerous magic on the eve of the Harvest Moon. Joined by brave friends and townspeople, the two women engage in a final, high-stakes confrontation with the witches in the ruins of Bane House. Will Willow and Jennifer's bond withstand this ultimate test? Can they defeat the coven and free their town from its nefarious grip? Find out in this spine-tingling tale of romantic suspense, paranormal horror, and heroic courage against the occult.

Can a fake romance lead to true love? Iva Romano runs a successful event planning business specializing in weddings with her best friend Jon, but secretly operates a side hustle staging fake nuptials for clients with something to hide. When investigative journalist Cheyenne Moore asks her to plan a sham wedding to fool her conservative family and to pose as her fianc e, Iva reluctantly agrees despite her ethical reservations. As they pretend to be in love and hurtle through wedding planning, the lines between real and fake begin to blur. Iva struggles to reconcile her growing feelings for Cheyenne with her concerns about the morality of their deceptive arrangement. Further complicating matters, a rival wedding planner finds out about and threatens to expose Iva's secret side business. In the end, Iva and Cheyenne will have to decide if their relationship is based on lies or love. Will they take a leap of faith to find their own happy ending? Or, will the falsehoods tear them apart? Filled with humor, heartache, and deception, this charming fake relationship tale explores what happens when make-believe becomes all too real.

Faye thinks Hattie's a suspect. Chloe thinks she's a kindred soul. Only Hattie knows for sure Best friends Faye Crane and Chloe 'Mama' Rossi are deep into another historic building preservation project in the tiny village of Morelville. Money is tight and it gets even tighter when the rare coins one of their prospective donors, Bridget Novak, was going to auction off to benefit the project come up missing. Written out of a hit sitcom when she's suspected of maliciously using witchcraft to further her career, Althea Dwyer, returns to using her given name, Hattie Novak, and moves in with her aunt Bridget to lick her wounds and kick off her next move. When Bridget's oldest friend Selma confides she's experienced coin thefts too, Hattie sticks her nose into the investigation on behalf of her aunt and her friend. The local sheriff warns off all the ladies as rare coins continue to disappear and bodies pile up, but the trio each have their reasons for wanting to see the coins returned and justice done. They don't take orders from Faye's eldest child too seriously. They won't stop until the coins are recovered, a murderer is in jail, and the restoration can continue.

A woman, imprisoned for manslaughter, disappears without a trace during transport between states and it

An unsolved murder, more than 40 years in the past, leads to the discovery of a new victim and the return of an old stalker.After a blow to the head, Owen Lafferty lied dying, alone in a cabin, far out in the woods and far from home. He was found by Dana Rossi-Crane as she happened along, chasing around the threads of a 1972 unsolved murder involving her mother-in-law, Faye and Owen and his family. Dana's efforts were too little, too late to save Owen. With the two murders, 40 some years apart, looking like they're related, a cast of suspects now in their sixties and seventies and a wife who won't stay out of her cases, Sheriff Mel Crane already has her hands full. A new Deputy District Attorney coming in and horning in on her investigation and the return of her old stalker, don't help matters.Can Mel solve either case? Can she convince the new Deputy DA that she's not hiding evidence to protect her family? Is Sally's reason for showing back up in Mel's life legitimate or a ruse to get close to her again? Will Dana butt out? Stay tuned This book is great together with Books 1-9 of The Morelville Mysteries series but it can also be read as a stand-alone mystery. Please use the 'Look Inside' feature to view the book contents and remember you can download a sample of "Sullied Sally" to your Kindle for free.

Two different worlds brought together by cake...When Hannah Yoder left the Amish order at 17, she didn't know what life had in store for her. She just knew she wanted to be free to be herself. Four years later, with the support of a loving family of choice, an adopted son entering full-on toddlerhood and a new bakery starting to do well, she felt like she had almost everything. Almost. After a previous relationship fizzled out over different life goals, she decided to focus on her son, her business and completing culinary school before she gave any more thought to finding someone new to share her life with. Morgan Barber has secrets. She hopes culinary school will be her ticket out of the life she hides from the world; a life she wants so desperately to leave behind. With her home life a constant nightmare, a career in chef's whites seems like a beautiful dream. She doesn't dare dream of anything beyond that for herself.Assigned to work on a Christmas cake baking project together, the two young women are reluctant at first but then they begin to form a bond. Just when Hannah thinks she may have found a spark of the one thing missing in her life; that maybe she can have a relationship with Morgan, the other woman draws away and contemplates changing course entirely.Can they come together and find joy in the season of joy?This is a sweet romance featuring a character from Anne's popular Morelville Mysteries series. The book stands alone.

A collection of five lesbian romantic short stories by the author of Broken Women and Healing Embrace, mostly sweet with a little spice.Loving Blue in Red States: Sweetwater TexasEmmie Warren is a middle school teacher who is just trying not to rock the boat until she can finish her Master's Degree and find the courage to move herself and her son away from sleepy Sweetwater to diverse, vibrant Austin, the only place in Texas she ever felt free to be herself. She's been hiding her truth for years. She doesn't see any reason to change that before she can make a clean break of things and start all over.Cass Prater is the brash cowgirl who lives life out loud, wherever she lives. Cass clashes with Emmie the minute they meet. It's a battle of wills from there, on. She's determined to show Emmie she can have it all: her family, a mate and a job that she loves, right there, in the heart of Texas. Loving Blue in Red States: Birmingham AlabamaIsabella is young, in love and she thinks she has it all. As a mechanic trained in high school, where being a female in the classroom was accepted, to doing the same job in the Air National Guard where it is too and getting her tuition to aviation tech school paid for by the Guard, she' s got it made...or does she? She figures she's well on her way to working on jets like she's always wanted to and living the life she's dreamed of. Her boss in her day job at the Air Base sees things a little differently, however, and he's just waiting for her to screw up.Aslyn makes no apologies for being black, out and proud. Nursing is her chosen vocation but women's rights are her passion. She sees Birmingham as a city on the brink of an all new civil rights movements and she wants to be right in the middle of it all. Her family disagrees with that, with her sexual preference and especially with her choice of a girlfriend. Will a riot ruin it all for the two young lovers?Loving Blue in Red States: Jackson Hole WyomingLiz Ventura is a semi-retired saddle and tack shop owner who just wants to get out of the house, out among people. Friends in community theater convince her to try out for a part in the summer long Jackson Hole Shootout show and she makes the cut. Jessica 'Jess' Davenport is a six-year veteran of the show. It's been the only steady thing in her life for most of those years as she struggled with loss and the effects of addiction. Sparks fly between the two. Both women are living in the past. Can a Shootout show help them find a future together?Loving Blue in Red States: Perryville MissouriWhat happens in a cave...Bethany French is a geologist who loves her job. She gets to explore caves and land forms for a living. The only thing missing from her life is a partner to share it all with. Renn Sowell has two doctorates; a formal one in ceramic engineering and one in cover and concealment earned over years of keeping secrets from her ultra-conservative, white nationalist father. She can't keep a girlfriend in her life for long because she doesn't dare do anything to upset the delicate balance she works to maintain. The Two women keep meeting in unlikely circumstances. They feel they couldn't be more different. Will they find common ground in the light of day?Loving Blue in Red States: Salt Lake City UtahThe banker and the barista...Amanda and Rebecca were both raised in the male-centric Mormon church. Rebecca broke free. Amanda wants to, but her job is holding her back. What will it take for her to break free herself and find true love?

The old-fashioned country village of Morelville Holds a secret.Faye Crane has the perfect life as a homemaker, farmer's wife and grandmother...or she did until her daughter-in-law Dana went and stirred up a mysterious murder, never resolved and long buried in the Lafferty family lore - before Faye ever became a Crane. Now she's been reminded of some startling questions about her families past that she's not sure she wants to know the answers to.Dana knows to tread lightly around Faye. Their relationship is far from perfect but she just can't help herself; she's certainly intrigued by the unsolved case. The down to earth, gentle residents of the village are more than happy to fill her in on all of the old gossip too. She even gets an education in oil drilling and backroom poker along her way to trying to clear the Lafferty family name and bring some closure to her mother-in-law. The question is, can she figure it all out and, if she does, will the Lafferty's and the Crane's be better off or far worse?

Is it the Christmas season or the 'silly season'?All Sheriff Mel wants to do is close out the year and spend a joyful first Christmas with Dana and with their extended families. She's even hired a new detective, Janet Mason, to ease some of the workload for her and her only other detective, Shane Harding. Things were shaping up great for her and Dana for a relaxing holiday season. Too bad it just wasn't meant to be...The local criminals want it all too and a string of burglaries in high-class county enclaves have Mel and both of her detectives stymied. Throw in a bunch of disappearing dogs, some designer sheep, a lonely woman and an unsolved murder case, and the good guys are at their wits end. Meanwhile, back in tiny little Morelville, things aren't much better; the village is buzzing over Dana's family taking over the store but Dana herself isn't so sure that's a good thing.Can Mel and her team resolve everything before Christmas dinner comes out of the oven? Will Janet Mason fit in at all? Will Dana find a balance between work and family that works for her in time to enjoy her first Christmas with Mel?This book is great together with Books 1-5 to get all of the Dana and Mel back story but it can also be read as a stand-alone mystery.

A young mother with a troubled past seeks help from Mel and Dana but is their effort to assist her too little, too late?Hannah Yoder appears on Dana and Mel's doorstep late one night with her teenage friend Katie and Katie's newborn baby in tow telling the couple the girl and child are in trouble and have no place else to go. Dana and Mel offer refuge for the night and a firm promise to talk about the future. Plans are barely made when first one mysterious tragedy strikes and then another leaving Mel, Dana, Hannah and the Crane and Rossi families with few clues and little hope. Mel knows there's a killer out there; she just doesn't know where to start looking. She's stonewalled at every turn and running out of time. Somebody knows something that will unlock the mysteries swirling all around, but who?This book is great together with Books 1-7 of The Morelville Mysteries series to get all of the Dana and Mel back story but it can also be read as a stand-alone mystery.

Can two women, unlucky in love, find solace in each other?Where do you go when you lose everything? Who do you turn to next when nobody seems to want you for more than a casual fling?When death unexpectedly takes the love of your life, the best you can do is to try to cope and to hold on to the good memories. When your beloved's family takes everything else you have, hope is all that's left...if you can hang on to that.You've been smitten more than once. You've even been in love a time or two. The trouble is, your feelings are always only yours. Cupid's arrow always fails to land.Can two love-weary people from different worlds find strength together? Can they find more and even a happily ever after?This is Anne's first romance novel. Fans of the Morelville Mysteries mystery/romance series may recognize these two characters, who played supporting roles in those books but this novel stands alone. If you like it, please let her know. While she enjoys writing mystery, she's always loved reading the lesfic romance works of authors like Radclyffe, Karin Kallmaker and Harper Bliss and she thought she might try her hand at creating some herself. With a little encouragement, she may do more

Rival gangs will stop at nothing to gain sole control of the drug trade in Muskingum County and they've picked Valentine's week to create a firestorm of murder and mayhem as they battle each other for supremacy.Sheriff Mel Crane is blindsided by looting, murdering and marauding bikers at a time of year when most Harley's are tucked safely away from the effects of Ohio winters that come rife with snow and ice. They're rolling out, they're out of control and she can't stop them. On the home front, she's feeling guilty about spending so much time working and hardly any time with Dana, especially when she knows Valentine's Day is right around the corner...or so her mother-in-law keeps reminding her.Dana just wants Mel to be safe; she has her own problems to worry about. Her attempt at novel writing isn't going as well as she hoped and she's bored. She got a little taste of what it was like to be an investigator again and she misses it. What to do? This book is great together with Books 1-6 to get all the Dana and Mel back story but it can also be read as a stand-alone mystery.

Chloe Rossi wants to retire with her husband and move away from suburban sprawl to bucolic Morelville; the only trouble is, Morelville is experiencing its worst crime wave ever and Marco Rossi wants no part of a move there. What to do?Faye Crane would like nothing more than to have her good friend Chloe move closer to her and to Chloe's own daughter. She's got Chloe convinced it's a smart move but Marco is a tougher nut to crack. A string of brutal, ritualistic style murders around Halloween with no witnesses and little evidence to work with has Fayes' Sheriff daughter and her entire department stymied. Marco is second guessing even taking his retirement since Sheriff Mel can't get a handle on the killings and bring peace and wellbeing back to the tiny village.Someone has to root out a killer. Can Faye and Chloe nose around and figure out what the police can't to solve the crimes? If they do, will Marco still waver or will he consent to move? This is the first book in a new spin-off series from the Morelville Mysteries series by Anne Hagan. The book stands alone but, if you're interested in getting all of the Crane and Rossi families back story, you should check out the fifth book in the first series, Viva Mama Rossi If Faye and Chloe were 35 years younger, they could give Stephanie Plum and Lula, from the Janet Evanovich series that features them, a run for their money. They aren't quite to the Miss Marple stage from the Agatha Christie novels yet but they do have to work crime solving in, in between caring for their demanding spouses - something the spinster Jane Marple never had to worry about - and around the needs of their overactive bladders. Too much coffee during the day is never a good thing during late evening stakeouts.

Mel and Dana attempt to bring their growing romantic relationship full circle but family, duty and family duties all conspire to get in the way.A victim with close ties to the Cranes escapes a deadly assault with his life only to die from his injuries minutes later. Mel has few clues to find the fighter turned murderer and the further she goes with her investigation, the more the situation deteriorates. Meanwhile, Dana's trying to plan their wedding but the family is resisting both her efforts and the wishes of the couple while focusing more on her sister and her traditional relationship.Family angst, violent crime and more than a few Holstein steers abound as Dana and Mel fight against the odds to solve Mel's case and find their own happily ever after.DISCLAIMER: This fourth installment of the Morelville Mysteries series, like the third book, contains erotic scenes between consenting adult females. If that is distasteful to you, please consider reading something else. This book is great together with Books 1 through 3 to get all of the Dana and Mel back story but it can also be read as a stand-alone mystery.Please use the 'Look Inside' feature to view the book contents and remember you can download a sample of "Hitched and Tied" to your Kindle for free.

Cases collide for two star crossed ladies of law enforcement Customs Special Agent Dana Rossi was forced to start her life anew after a bad breakup with her former girlfriend and the loss of job that she loved. These days, she spends life on the road, moving from one case to another until one day when runs run right into the path of Sheriff Mel Crane. The feisty, sexy butch cop is as determined to uncover a counterfeiting ring in her county as Agent Rossi becomes to stop a stalker obsessed with Mel and hot for her company. Dana is under the added pressure of conducting an undercover investigation of her own with a tight deadline: finding and then stopping a ring of smugglers bringing high end designer knock-offs into the states. Could their cases be related? When repeated vicious attacks on Mel and on her home accelerate the danger for her and also their attraction to each other, they become desperate to find the truth and solve the two mysteries. Can they find a way to work together to resolve both cases while coming to terms with their growing feelings for one another? Can Dana move beyond her jilted lover past and find true happiness with a small town Sheriff?