Sharyn McCrumb's first co-authored novel, written with NASCAR driver Adam Edwards, will be published in April 2010 by the Ingalls Publishing Group. Adam, who was the model for the character Tony Lafon in Once Around the Track, has driven in the ARCA/REMAX national racing series, managed and spotted for a NASCAR Nationwide racing team, and worked as an race car driving instructor at the Fast Track School of Racing. When he gave her technical advice during the writing of Once Around the Track, Sharyn suggested that they try to write a novel together, loosely based on Adam's experiences teaching race car driving. Read More:Click to View
The Blood of Caesar, by Albert A. Bell, Jr. In the summer of 83 AD Pliny the Younger receives a visit from the disguised emperor Domitian. Domitian is afraid that a previously unknown relative of Nero, supposedly the last of Julius Caesar's relatives, may be about to claim the throne. Or that Nero himself may be back from the dead. Domitian wants Pliny and his friend Tacitus to find out if any other descendants of Caesar survive, fifteen years after Nero's supposed death. Did Nero's mother, Agrippina the Younger, have any other children? What has become of her diary? Those questions seem somehow connected to the death of a mason working on Domitian's new house on the Palatine hill. When Pliny learns that the mason and his family were on the island of Pandateria while Agrippina was in exile there, he begins to make some surprising connections. Read More:Click to View
All Roads Lead to Murder, by Albert A. Bell, Jr. During a stop-over in the city of Smyrna in April of 83 AD a Roman citizen traveling in a caravan is brutally murdered. Since there are no Roman magistrates on the scene, Pliny the Younger takes charge of an investigation until the governor of the province arrives. He learns that the victim, Lucius Cornutus, had antagonized several people in the caravan. One owed him large sums of money from gambling debts. A group of women, devotees of a witch-like cult, may have killed him as a prelude to one of their rituals. Two of Cornutus' own slaves -- who were thought to have been locked up for the night -- were actually able to get out of confinement. Most surprising, Pliny learns that Cornutus was poisoned first, then knifed. Is he dealing with two killers or one? And what part does the beautiful blond slave girl play in all this? Read More:Click to View
In the Shadows of Chimney Rock, by Rose Senehi An heiress to one of the South’s lumber dynasties reaches out to her mountain roots for solace after suffering a life-shattering blow, only to be drawn into the race against time to save the beauty of the Hickory Nut Gorge in Western North Carolina. A touching story of Family & Place A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each of Rose Senehi’s books benefits environmental causes. “This story will thrill and disturb you by turns, and also inspire hope for the years ahead for the highlands we love.”--Robert Morgan, author of Brave Enemies and Boone:A Biography. Read More:Click to View
Pelican Watch,by Rose Senehi Multi-faceted love story told against a backdrop of murder and suspense, laced with the flavor of South Carolina’s lush low country and the un-forgettable people who work to preserve it. “Everything I look for in a great read: colorful sentences, memorable characters and a plot that keeps you turning the pages. It’s a book I gladly and joyfully recommend.” – Cassandra King, author of The Sunday Wife. “Senehi weaves a murder around her other well-wrought subplots, ... not only a hair-raising page-turner, but also one of the best “Chick Lit”novels out there. Her characters are original and quirky, her dialogues zesty. ...Senehi has a well-honed sense of comic timing.--Patrice Tappee, Rapid River Magazine, Asheville, NC “Senehi weaves a murder around her other well-wrought subplots, ... not only a hair-raising page-turner, but also one of the best “Chick Lit”novels out there. Her characters are original and quirky, her dialogues zesty. ...Senehi has a wellhoned sense of comic timing.--Patrice Tappee, Rapid River Magazine, Asheville, NC Read More:Click to View
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