A New Release from Paty Jager

I'm happy to let all of you know that book 10 in my Gabriel Hawke series is now available in ebook and print. My narrator is working on the audiobook. And he is doing a wonderful job. 

Last summer my sister-in-law and I did a road trip to see the area where this book is set in Montana. We had a good time visiting parks and museums, and crossing muddy, rocky roads to discover all I could about the area.  We even had a close encounter with a bear. The one on the cover. The photo we took of the bear worked perfectly for the cover of the book. 

Even if you haven't read book 1-9, I've been told these books do a good job of standing alone. You don't have to know what happened in book 1 to be able to enjoy this book or any other in the series that catches your eye.

Book 10 in the Gabriel Hawke Series

Greed, Misdirection, and Murder

Oregon State Trooper Gabriel Hawke’s sister, Marion, is on a corporate retreat in Montana when she becomes a murder suspect. Running for her life from the real killer, she contacts Hawke for help.

Hawke heads to Montana to find his sister and prove she isn’t a murderer. He hasn’t seen Marion in over twenty years but he knows she wouldn’t kill the man she was about to marry.

As they dig into possible embezzlement, two more murders, and find themselves trying to outsmart a wilderness-wise kidnapper, Hawke realizes his sister needs to return home and immerse herself in their heritage. Grief is a journey that must be traveled and knowing her fiancé had wanted Marion to dance again, Hawke believes their culture would help her heal.

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Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 54 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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A new short story collection about...death

In 2021, Amazon instituted a new author-to-reader platform called Kindle Vella. Based on the old serialized fiction series and books of the 1930s and 40s, Vella was a platform designed for authors to write serialized episodes of their latest fiction works and get them into the public eye without having to publish them the old-fashioned way - through print or ecopy.

I jumped on the Vella bandwagon a month after it started and I've never looked back. One of the nicest aspects of Vella is that once your story/book is completed, you can publish it through KDP if you want to broaden your audience.

I've had 6 books up on Vella at one time and I finally decided to take the plunge and put one of them into print. 

DEATH BETWEEN THE PAGES was released yesterday into the Kindle, KU, and print reading world.

A collection of short stories all centering on death, DEATH BETWEEN THE PAGES is not the usual romcom, feel-good-romance book I typically write. All the stories in the collection center around death, be it from murder, natural causes, accidents, or...something more sinister.

The stories were all written during a time in my life when serial killers and true crime stories occupied the bulk of my reading and television watching. Long before Netflix became a depository for documentaries about killers, I was an information junkie, soaking up everything I could about the likes of Bundie, Dahmer, Gacy, et al.

How I ever wound up a romance writer is a story for another day.... one filled with cosmos and chocolate.

DEATH BETWEEN THE PAGES is a fairly short read. Amazon has it listed under the category "2 hour reads." 

Here's the book blurb:

• A cheating husband.
• A group of widows.
• A priest.
• A landlady.
• A spider.
• What do they all have in common?

Death.

As mentioned, the collection is available in print or ecopy, and on KU. If you like twisted stories of the crazy things humans do to one another, this collection has your name on it.

And because we need to do this these days, there are a few triggers in the stories. Child abuse, spousal abuse, and cannibalism are all alluded to, but never specifically shown. No graphic sex or killing is shown, either. Amazon lists the book under the secondary category of psychological horror, but there's nothing in the stories that will keep you up nights or make it difficult for your to fall asleep.

Let's call it Stepehn King-lite. Very light. LOL

And just in case the trailer didn't copy so you can watch it, here's a link so you can: https://youtu.be/vcUBkjTowRg

DEATH BETWEEN THE PAGES released for #99cents for the ecopy - a price that anyone could take advantage of. Happy reading, peeps. ~ Peg

Peggy Jaeger is a romance author who pens stories about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can not live without them.

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