Books


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NOVELS/NOVELLAS
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The Breakaway
a novel

When Naomi Jensen is kidnapped, it takes her parents two days to realize she’s missing. Escape isn’t high on her list of priorities when all she has to return to is an abusive boyfriend and parents who never paid much attention to her. For the first time in her life she’s part of a family—even if it is a family of criminals. But she’s still a captive. In a desperate attempt to regain some control in her life, Naomi embarks on a dangerous plan to make one of her kidnappers think she’s falling in love with him. The plan works too well, and when faced with the chance to escape, Naomi isn’t sure she wants to take it.

The Breakaway is published by Rhemalda Publishing. It is available now. Click here for all book information.




Bonded
an omnibus

Cinderella, Issina, and Serina have one important thing in common - the elves. When Cinderella marries her prince, she can't forget about the seductive elf she met years before. When Issina tires of not having the same magic as her sisters, she finds comfort - and more trouble than she can handle - from the elves who live in her woods. When Serina, a fairy, hears that her mother is murdered, she retreats into the mysterious human and elven realm where she is met with love and fire - two things that will transform her into an unwanted creature with scales.

Based on three fairy tales, Bonded contains a fairy tale continuation (Cinderella), a fairy tale retelling (One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes), and a fairy tale prequel (Sleeping Beauty).

Bonded will be published November 1, 2012 by Rhemalda Publishing. Click here for all book information.
 

Monarch
a novel 

Nick’s life as a CIA spy should be fulfilling, but it has only given him unhappiness—a wife who committed suicide, and two daughters who resent everything he has become. Now, stuck in the Amazon on the last mission of his career, he must track down Matheus Ferreira, a drug lord and terrorist the U.S. has tried to bring down for years. If he succeeds, he’ll have the chance to start his life over again.

Just when Nick is on the brink of catching Ferreira, he’s framed for a murder that turns his world upside down. His only chance of survival lies in West Virginia where Lilian Love, a woman from his past, owns the secluded Monarch Inn. He’s safe, but not for long…

Monarch is published by Rhemalda Publishing and is available now. Click here for all book information.



A Curse So Deep
a novel

Hazel has always known something is different about her beauty. In fact, her charms are so powerful they might even be enough to set her free from her life of indentured servitude. But Hazel is cursed, and when the master's son falls in love with her, all of her beauty begins to fade and something horrific takes its place—she turns into a monster. She is seal-like, but not a full selkie like the creatures she heard about in her Scottish island home. Neither human nor selkie, Hazel cannot live in either world. In order to break the curse and survive, someone who loves her must die. But who can love a monster?

Set in late 17th century America and Scotland, A Curse So Deep is inspired by the Celtic selkie myths. It is considered upper young adult.

A Curse So Deep is in progress. 



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SHORT STORIES & COLLECTIONS
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True Colors (and other short stories)
a short story collection

In this short story collection, Michelle Davidson Argyle shares sixteen of her literary pieces written during 1999 - 2011. In the title story, "True Colors," the main character fights her vibrant personality against the true darkness lurking within her. The story builds until a row of six dead birds stop her in her tracks. In the opening story, "Thread," (also published in the 2011 collection, Stories for Sendai), a married couple's reaction to the Sendai earthquake and tsunami on March 11th, 2011 reveals their own earth-shattering issues and what must be done to solve them. The lizard on the cover represents the story, "The Threshold," about a young boy with an intense physical attraction to a girl he's not supposed to touch. True Colors is a collection of quiet stories exploring the hidden, but often overlooked colors we try to hide every day. Sometimes they shouldn't be hidden at all.

Also included are several poems and one prose poem picked as the staff choice award in New Mexico's Literary journal, Scribendi (2002).




True Colors is independently published by the author. It is available now. Click here for all book information.