What's New From Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers?

Following are some of the new releases from members of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers:

Love and Darker Passions
by Alexis Brooks de Vita and Lee Barwood, Editors
Double Dragon e-books June 2012
e-book $4.99

Love and Darker Passions is a collection of provocative short stories by today’s up-and-coming authors of dark, urban and Gothic fantasy. Award-winning RMFW author Karen Duvall sends a Millennial Alice through a very different looking glass, and RMFW bestseller C.E. Murphy makes her twisted fairytale tell what drives a lover into the arms of her questionable beloved.

In Love and Darker Passions, edgy and cult fantasy authors combine their talents to make us question what inspires love, why we crave revenge against those who’ve stolen love from us, and why we despair when love’s pain is lost.

Check out more about Alexis Brooks de Vita at her website.


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The Heart You Own
by Diane R. Jewkes
Crimson Romance  June 2012
ISBN: 978-1440546150
e-book Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes etc. $4.19

Why would an English lord want to have part ownership in a New Mexico cattle ranch? And why did it have to be her father’s ranch?

Kara Jonston has grown up thinking she will someday inherit the family ranch. She has worked the ranch as hard as any man. Ask any of the cowboys. Finding out her father sold half ownership in the ranch—and to a soft Englishman, no less—without even talking to her hurts her pride and stirs her anger. To make matters worse, this outsider is coming to inspect his investment, and her father expects her to be nice.

Although she promises her father to give his new partner a chance, she vows she will never accept him as her partner on her ranch.

Hawke Pryce, Lord Stoneham, is not English, he is Scottish. He is not soft, and he is not coming to the New Mexico Territory just to inspect his latest investment. He’s hunting a man.

Sparks fly—but will they turn into lasting love for two people determined to hang on to their hearts?

You can learn more about Diane and her books at her website and on Facebook.


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Information compiled and formatted by Pat Stoltey.

What's New from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers?

Here are a few of the recent and upcoming releases from members of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers:


The Past Came Hunting
by Donnell Ann Bell
Bell Bridge Books, September 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1611940480
Paperback, $14.95

Fifteen years ago a young Colorado Springs police officer arrested a teen runaway accused of aiding a convenience store robbery and attempted murder. She was innocent, but still served prison time briefly. Her testimony sent the real thief to jail for much longer.

Now she's a young widow raising a son, and the man she put in prison is free and seeking revenge. She moves to a home in a new neighborhood-then learns that her next-door neighbor is the by-the-book officer who arrested her. Now he's a Colorado Springs P.D. Lieutenant. Like it or not, he may be the only one who can protect her and her son from the past he helped create.

Learn more about Donnell and her writing at her website. She is also on Facebook and Twitter.

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The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels
by Alexis Brooks de Vita
Double Dragon Publishing/ Blood Moon Publishing
Trade Paperback, $13.99
ISBN-13: 978-1-55404-891-5
eBook: ISBN-13: 978-1-55404-862-5

The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. These are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy.

From the tale of a beautiful woman imprisoned in a tower to save her village from slave raiders to the murdered girl whose spirit is trapped in her bedroom mirror, these stories build to a bloody battle between the shape-shifting freed people hiding in plain sight and the bounty-hunting patrollers who pursue them. The blue-eyed African American girl who masquerades as the freed people’s owner must learn, in the end, to choose the love and freedom in hiding that she can have or succumb to the death that is its only alternative.

Author Web Site: www.alexisbrooksdevita.com
Books of Joy Series Site: www.alexisbrooksdevita.com/thebooksofjoy

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A Real Basket Case
by Beth Groundwater
Re-release by Midnight Ink, November 8, 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0738727011
Trade paperback, $14.95

This is the first book in the Claire Hanover gift basket designer mystery series, which was a finalist for the Best First Novel Agatha Award when it was released in hardcover in 2007.

Feeling neglected by her workaholic husband, forty-something Claire joins an aerobics class at the urging of her best friend Ellen. Divorced and bitterly unhappy, Ellen and most of the other women in the class add a little vicarious excitement to their lives by flirting with the handsome instructor, Enrique. In a moment of weakness, Claire agrees to let the charming Enrique come to her house to give her a massage. She realizes she has made a deadly mistake when Enrique is shot and killed in her bedroom and her husband Roger is arrested for the murder.

Visit Beth at her website and her blog. She can also be found on Facebook.


List compiled by Pat Stoltey

What's New from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers?

This is just a sample of the recently released books from members of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers:

Sherry Ficklin announces that her teen mystery Military Brats: After Burn is now available for Nook, Kindle, and other eReaders.

"Reece Barnet and her father have just relocated to sunny North Carolina, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point to be exact. It's another new town and another new school. But just as Reece is starting to fit in, a rash of bomb threats rocks her father's experimental aircraft squadron. When the authorities track the threats to Reece's school, she decides to do some investigating of her own. Unfortunately, the more she digs, the more it looks like her new boyfriend is the culprit.

When the unthinkable happens and her father is rushed to the hospital, it becomes a race aginst time as Reece fights to protect her father, clear her boyfriend, and discover the suprising truth of the person behind it all!"

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Murder by Proxy, the second book in the Edna Davies series by Suzanne Young, is now available in paperback.

"Protagonist Edna Davies discovers that automation can be convenient, but it can also be deadly. In the Colorado Rockies on an errand of mercy, Edna is accosted by a private detective and challenged to find a missing woman.

Anita Collier appears to be alive. Her paycheck is deposited, her bills are paid, her phone is answered; but closer inspection reveals everything is automated. Nobody has actually seen her for several weeks, except perhaps Edna's son, but he isn't talking. In her search for the truth, Edna plunges deep into danger when she uncovers more than one murder and struggles to prevent another."

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Alexis Brooks de Vita announces her newest publication, Dante's Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell, is available in e-book and paperback from Blood Moon Publishing.

"For an urban English-speaker in the twenty-first century, the original language of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the first act of his trilogy, the Comedy, would read like a shockingly accurate critique of today’s globalized society, if we could understand it. Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell gives second-millennial English-language readers a chance to share the pathos, the humor, and the raw political aggression of Dante’s vision of Hell.

Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell preserves the meaning of Dante’s verses, line by line. Where a literal translation of his highly philosophical but often slang-rich text will not make sense for the twenty-first century English-speaking reader, the most reasonable compromise of the literal and figurative is used."

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Facades, a novel by Alex Marcoux, is coming back in print in paperback from Bella Books and should be available next week. The novel can be pre-ordered today.

"She's a singing sensation.

When rumors about her private life send her CD sales plummeting, Anastasia is trapped with few options. Desperate, manager Sidney Marcum helps her star client concoct a façade to distract fans and media. It seems to work ... for a while.

Sidney has skeletons of her own, life-threatening ones. She won't tell, even though the compelling connection she feels to Anastasia makes her long for a happiness she cannot have. Instead she puts on a brave front and hides her feelings to safeguard her secrets.

Outside forces create cracks in their façades until only Anastasia and Sidney can tell what's real by what's in their hearts. But some secrets come at immeasurable expense."

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Watch for more new releases next month.


Posted by Pat Stoltey