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The Blood-Red Pencil Editors are also published authors. Check out some of our latest and most popular releases! Genres include Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Romance, Memoir, and books to help you with your writing craft.  

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Linda Lane

Tormented Tango

Family must be protected at all costs. Even if it means killing them.

Former prosecutor Aidan Wolf runs a small legal aid office.

Defense lawyer Jenna Jacobs rarely loses a case, but she lost Aidan Wolf.

District Attorney Wilson Howell, wife Becca, and their two teenagers live in what he believes is near-perfect bliss. And then… Buy Here

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Linda Lane

The Accounting

What if the person who should love you the most hurts you the worst? 

A powerful story of families that you won’t soon forget. Woven through its pages, The Accounting shares within its carefully crafted plot and well-defined characters events that will forever change the lives of four Kohler households. Family dynamics expose their weaknesses and reveal their strengths as they adjust to the sudden death of their beloved husband and father. Enter Oren Kohler, the brother, and everything they’ve built their lives on, everything they hold dear is at imminent risk. Buy Here

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Elle Carter Neal 

Draconian Rules

Book 1 : The Convoluted Key 

Have you ever wished you could open your own front door and step out into a magical world? 

This is exactly what Pippa Dracona and her family can do... because they are witches. And, one day, when Pippa needs their help, a very ordinary brother and sister get the chance to experience the magical world, too.

Pippa is not like other witches. She lives in our world so that she can go to school and study mathematics - a subject far more interesting to her than boring old magic. 

Debbie and Danny Torken's family own a cleaning business, and looking after the Dracona mansion is their biggest job. When Danny is involved in a misunderstanding, Pippa makes the impulsive decision to trust the Torken children with the secrets of Magicas. What could possibly go wrong?

Meanwhile, mysteries abound - there are unapproachable unicorns, disappearing objects, and inaccessible locations. Who is behind the confusion? And why? Choose from retailers here

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Elle Carter Neal 

Grounded Series 

Book 1 : Madison Lane and the Wand of Rasputin 

In a family of magical treasure hunters, luckless Maddie Lane is the second-born and therefore doomed, like her mother before her, to a dull life of safe, boring jobs, expected to stay home and raise the next generation, while her elder sister inherits the magic and adventure of the family business. But Maddie has more history than anyone realised: someone has been waiting nearly 900 years for her to arrive. A seemingly chance gift grants Maddie access to a world even her experienced ancestors were unaware of, and suddenly it is Maddie who is set on the adventure of a lifetime as she becomes embroiled in a quest to save two planets. Madison Lane is about to be Grounded. And it’s much more fun, adventure, and danger than she could have wished for. Choose from retailers here

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Ann Parker

Silver Rush Mysteries Series

Book 8 : The Secret in the Wall

Sometimes you can't keep your gown out of the gutter... Inez Stannert has reinvented herself—again. Fleeing the comfort and wealth of her East Coast upbringing, she became a saloon owner and card sharp in the rough silver boomtown of Leadville, Colorado, always favoring the unconventional path—a difficult road for a woman in the late 1800s. Then the teenaged daughter of a local prostitute is orphaned by her mother's murder, and Inez steps up to raise the troubled girl as her own. Inez works hard to keep a respectable, loving home for Antonia, carefully crafting their new life in San Francisco. But risk is a seductive friend, difficult to resist. When a skeleton tumbles from the wall of her latest business investment, the police only seem interested in the bag of Civil War-era gold coins that fell out with it. With her trusty derringer tucked in the folds of her gown, Inez uses her street smarts and sheer will to unearth a secret that someone has already killed to keep buried. The more she digs, the muddier and more dangerous things become. She enlists the help of Walter de Brujin, a local private investigator with whom she shares some history. Though she wants to trust him, she fears that his knowledge of her past, along with her growing attraction to him, may well blow her veneer of respectability to bits—that is, if her dogged pursuit of the truth doesn't kill her first. Buy Here

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Dani Greer

Kindle Vella

The Lonely Rancher

Four conservative ranchers. Four feminist businesswomen. The most contentious, divisive presidential election in modern history. When a lonely rancher and a sexy widow literally run into each other at a Denver tavern, sparks fly. As fate would have it, their paths keep crossing. But it doesn't take long for friends and family to see red and feel blue about their connection. Different sparks start flying. Can true love survive all the explosions? What will it take to find the happily ever after? Buy Here

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Maryann Miller

The Many Faces of Grief

Small Stories With Big Hearts 

 Pulling from her 30+ years of hospital ministry, Maryann Miller brings readers a book that celebrates the patients who blessed her life so abundantly by allowing her to share in their grief journeys.Filled with anecdotes and testimonials about illness and death and dying, as well as joys and living, it is also very much a memoir of her personal growth through ministry and how that growth impacted her own path through grief. Buy Here

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