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As I mention sharing… there are two meanings to this. You can actually share my book if you bought it… once. You can send a friend the book for free for 14 days for them to read it. There is no additional cost to either of you. But I’m pretty sure you can only do it once.

Also in the vein of sharing, I would LOVE it if you shared any of my posts, or that you enjoyed any of my books, with as many people as you dare.

Getting noticed without a giant ad budget is tough. The deal I made with myself when I started this was that I wouldn’t spend more to market than what was coming in from sales. And that is a rough road. Even effectively giving away free books is expensive. Some of the “book deal” newsletters charge over $100 to give away FREE books. And there is no type of guarantee of a single future sale.

And then there is the whole business of buying artwork for covers, paying editors and all of the other gears in the mechanism. I will say that the background stuff (not the marketing) gets a little easier with each book.

Planning Vengeance is a story about secrets. Secret crushes. Secret lives. Secrets of the past and present. Jack has been in love with Amy since the moment they met. Paul managed to get in the way and peel her from everyone around her. When he makes a mistake and Jack gets an opening, Paul’s revenge unleashes secrets in the pasts of all three families… Jacks, Amy’s and Paul’s.

Dig Two Graves is the culmination of the revenge that started in Planning Revenge. Death, near death, betrayal and conspiracy all come together for the conclusion. We also are introduced to a few new series characters and locations. Gunny and his merry band come into prominence, as well as Agent Sky, who is an enigma.

You Don’t Know Jack is a few years later. Jack and Amy have embarked on their lives and are making their way in the world when Jack finds himself kidnapped by a drug cartel kingpin. As we can assume, Jack and Amy’s fathers get Gunny involved and a rescue underway. But the rescue changes everything for Jack, Amy and everyone they know.

Who, What, When, Why? is a collection of shorter stories from the Dixon-Prince universe. Characters that have floated into, around and out of minor roles in the mainline stories star in these vignettes. Jack’s friends Terry and Cy both have stories. We find out how Jack and Amy finally got married, as well as when happened to Rolf, a little more about Agent Sky, and finally, the story of Anna… Paul’s mother.

Triple Cross is my newest title. JD Ross gets the boot from the military and nobody knows why, except perhaps his former girlfriend, Christi. When JD shows up at home in GA, she’s there to meet him and help him get back to civilian life. But soon, JD is suspected in a crime, and Christi is too busy keeping secrets. JD has to count of his friends to save him. Relationships change and appear, and JD’s life is forever altered.

Right now, Planning Vengeance is only $8.99. That is a 30% discount. I want to see if I can get any pricing traction with the lower price. If you’ve been waiting for a print copy, here it is!

This price will only last a couple of weeks. If it works, I might try it on some of my other titles… maybe even the upcoming ones as a pre-order price. Of course, ANY sale prices or discounts or free offers will be promoted here on the blog first!

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Love lost, love flourishes, sinister vengeance begins. In this first novel of the series, a bad relationship dies, giving birth to a new love between young friends. The vengeance that creates takes you through the romance/spy novel/who-done-it thriller that is Planning Vengeance. The twists and turns reveal hidden pasts, clever players and plot twists, a sinister character hell-bent on revenge and some great nostalgia for some readers. A well written, easy read that takes you on a journey that binds three families in a twisted tale of vengeance and love, and leaves you wanting more.

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So, grab your copy TODAY, even if you aren’t ready to read it yet. It’ll be yours to read at your leisure.

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Amy had picked Jack up in the Z-28 before school.  They talked during lunch about walking on the beach at Grandview after school.  It was quiet and secluded, and they just wanted to spend a little time relaxing.  Jack had often enjoyed walking out to the point at the end of the beach and watching the fighters take off from Langley Air Force Base up the river, dreaming that maybe one day he’d be flying fighters from there.    

As school ended, Amy and Jack walked out to the parking lot and hopped into her car.  They drove down Pembroke and turned on Old Buckroe Rd, making their way over to Beach Rd and down to Grandview Beach, near the end of the road.  They planned to spend about an hour on the beach before heading back to reality. 

***

Paul searched for the Camaro after he left his house.  He hit up a few regular spots, thinking he could find them… but they weren’t in any of the regular places.  As a last-ditch effort, he decided to try Grandview Beach.  It was popular with a lot of teenagers because it was remote.  They could go party, drink and carry on without much interference.  It didn’t seem like their style, unless Amy had decided to start putting out, Paul laughed, but it was worth a shot. 

Then, as he passed by, he saw the Camaro pulling out of State Park Drive near the end of Beach Rd.  They HAD been out on Grandview. 

He did a quick U-turn and got behind them.  Before the first bridge, he crossed the double yellow line and pulled up next to the driver’s side of the Camaro.  Amy was driving… this was even better than he planned. 

He flashed the gun, hoping to get her to panic and run off the road.  But instead of hitting the gas, she slammed on the brakes.  Paul quickly shot in front of them as the Camaro slowed suddenly. 

“Did you see that, he has a gun,” Amy exclaimed to Jack as she slammed on the brakes.

She downshifted and booted the gas pedal to the floor.  The 302 under the hood was one of the smaller V-8s in Chevy’s lineup, but it was an engine built for speed.  And the Z-28 launched forward while the engine screamed.  She shot past Paul, who was still reacting to Amy hitting the brakes. 

The car got light going over the second little bridge, as the road turned slightly in the middle of the hump, but Amy counter-steered just a little, instinctively, and kept it under control. 

“Take a left on Hall Rd.  Paul might not even know it’s there.  We might lose him,” Jack said quickly.

Amy pushed hard on the brakes again, barely making the hard left on the narrow road as the tires gently squealed, on the edge of their ability to maintain traction.

Hall Rd was an old country road that ran between Beach Rd and Silver Isles Blvd.  There were a few ruins of old houses on it, but now it was dilapidated hardly ever used. 

Amy was flying along in second gear when she saw the little BMW behind her.  She leveraged her power advantage and quickly went up to third gear, pushing the car over eighty on the narrow road.  The curves were blind and strewn with cracks, potholes and gravel, but she pressed on.  The whole road was barely a mile and a half long, but she reached Silver Isles in under a minute. 

The Camaro drifted out onto Silver Isles, which was a wide, tree-lined boulevard.  As the tires grabbed traction, they rocketed away toward Old Buckroe Rd.  The BMW 2002tii was no longer visible in the rearview mirror.

***

Paul didn’t know how she managed, but she had slipped away from him.  After the first third of Hall Rd, he’d had to back off the throttle or risk slamming into one of the trees that lined the twisty road.  That had been his plan for the Camaro… that it would slam into a tree or flip into the marsh… not the plan for him to have an accident. 

Apparently, Amy was a better driver than he had expected.  He’d really expected his plan to work.  Flash a gun, whoever was driving would panic, they’d wreck into a tree, killing them both, and he’d drive away smiling. 

Now he had something new to worry about… the police coming to visit him looking for a gun. 

Paul drove quickly back to the house.  Nobody was home, so he carefully wiped down the gun to make sure he didn’t leave any fingerprints on it and put it back in his brother’s room.  He went back to school and hit the weight room.  There hadn’t been anyone there right after school, and there wasn’t anyone there now.  He just needed to hang out and lift until someone came in.  Worst case would be the janitor closing it up around six, but usually one of the Assistant Principals came in to work out Monday, Wednesday and Friday around five.  He would just tell him he’d been there since after school. 

***

Amy and Jack drove straight to Jack’s Dad’s office.  They needed to let their fathers know about Paul’s new tactic, and Ed’s office was a little closer. 

“What’s up Sport?  And good to see you, Amy,” Ed said as they walked into his office.

“It’s Paul, Dad.  He just threatened Amy and me with a gun.”

“We were over by Grandview and he pulled up next to me and showed a gun.  I was able to lose him, but we thought you and my dad needed to know.”

“I appreciate that.  I’ll give Bill a call in a second.  Did he point it at you, or anything like that?”

“No, Sir,” Jack replied.

“Do you think he meant to shoot you, or was he trying to scare you?”

“I think his goal was to scare us into wrecking, Mr. Dixon,” Amy stated.

“I think you might be right, Amy.  If he was going to shoot, I think he would have taken the shot.  But I don’t want to take any chances.  Let me call your dad.”

Ed called Bill and put him on speaker with the kids.  They talked about what happened and whether they thought it was likely to happen again.  After a few minutes of conversation, Ed decided to follow Amy and Jack back to her house, and then he would drive Jack home. 

Both fathers knew they needed to tighten up the surveillance of Paul Murphy.  He had stepped his threat level up a couple of notches by adding a weapon to the mix… even if his goal had been intimidation instead of direct action.