Easing through Summer by Paty Jager

In our neck of the woods, the last week of July was brutal! It was over 100 F for several days. We aren't used to that. Usually we have a week where we are in the 90s, hovering near 100, but never over. The good news about the hot weather, it kept myself and my cover designer inside. ;)

My latest Shandra Higheagle Mystery, Capricious Demise, book 15 in the series is published. I had the idea for the book about two Shandra books ago. Not the murders but the subplot. Once I figured out how to work that in along with a murder or two...the story was off and running.

It's funny how this story came to me as a scene in on of the secondary character's point of view. That scene helped me make the decision I did at the end of the book. I'm not telling you what that is, because it will spoil the book for you if you decide to read it. ;)

Capricious Demise

Book 15

Shandra Higheagle Mystery Series

Vengeance…Envy…Murder

Shandra Higheagle’s deceased Grandmother enters Shandra’s dream, showing her two lost children. Her grandmother never comes to her dreams unless there is a murder to solve. But whose? The children? Or someone related to them?

Ryan is called out to a suicide, that isn’t. While contacting next of kin, he finds the victim’s husband also murdered and their two children missing.

Using her dreams, Shandra helps locate the missing twins whom they take into their home as foster children. The hunt for the reason the parents were murdered becomes urgent when the children reveal they may have seen the killer.

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I'll have a novella from my Tumbling Creek Ranch contemporary western romance series releasing this month. It's titled Collateral Love and is the 4th novella in that series. The cover isn't finalized yet. Along this same line, I have also put the first three novellas from his series in a print book titled Love at Tumbling Creek Ranch. It will be available this month as well. 

8 Seconds to Love

The bull rider brought into Jared McIntyre’s ER is the girl he couldn’t get out of his head the last fifteen years. During his tour in Iraq, he lost another thrill-seeking woman, and he isn’t about to let this one destroy her life.

Love Me Anyway

Melanie Trask ran away from an abusive husband and found a job at a dude ranch with a wonderful caring cowboy, Brett Wallis. When they can no longer deny their feelings, Brett offers to help her divorce her husband. But she has one more secret she hasn’t revealed…

The Wrong Cowboy to Love

Ruby Cutter allows her cousin, the bride, to give her a makeover for the upcoming wedding because she wants to catch the attention of her high school crush. But while she’s infatuated with one man, she may be falling for another…

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My cover designer and I are also working on new covers for the Isabella Mumphrey  Action Adventure/Romantic Suspense trilogy. When those are finished I'll have a huge cover reveal sale and promotion. 

What I'm currently writing is the 6th book in the Gabriel Hawke Novels. In this book, Hawke is investigating a vehicle fire that happened in real life. The state trooper I rode with to get a feel for  Hawke's job showed me where a vehicle had caught on fire after "rolling' over a campfire. I told him I didn't see how the vehicle rolled on such a flat area. He said that was the conclusion all the investigators thought, but the D.A. called it an accident and that was as far as it went. In my book, it is a homicide and Hawke is digging up all the evidence to prove who did it.  

Because Hawke is Native American, I try to use titles that sound like Native American stories and always with a living creature in the title. Right now I'm stuck on the title. I know it will have turkey. My working title is: Turkey Struts Too Much-  Then this morning I thought about Gobbling or Strutting Turkey Fries. Still working on it. Any thoughts? 

Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 46 novels, 8 novellas, and numerous anthologies of murder mystery and western romance. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. Paty and her husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Oregon. Riding horses and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it. This is what Books a Plenty Book Reviews has to say about the Gabriel Hawke series: "The blend of nature tracking, clues, and the animals makes for a fascinating mystery that is hard to put down." 

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