When Evil comes Knocking by Paty Jager

I don't believe in werewolves, vampires, and other dark world creatures. But I also don't like to read books or watch shows about them or anything that is scary and heinous. There's a reason I close my eyes and hide my face when commercials for scary movies and supernatural TV shows flash across my television screen.

Some nights without watching or reading anything that is ghastly I can be visited by vile ugly creatures in my dreams. And not just my dreams. Many nights I'll wake up and snuggle up to my husband after thrashing to wakefulness from being chased by the menacing creatures, and when I try to close my eyes and go back to sleep they are lurking behind my eyelids. Then I spend long hours with my eyes wide open so I can keep them out of my head.

I thought these were just my own fears attacking me until I had a long thoughtful conversation with one of my daughter's friends when we drove from Oregon to Montana to a wedding. It seemed she spent many nights being chased or chasing creatures who sounded a great deal like my creatures. But she was resigned to the fact her grandmother told her she was a keeper of the gates. That at night while she slept, she battled the creatures of Hell to keep them from entering this world and causing havoc. This young woman was completely sincere when she said, "I am a keeper of the gate and even if I lose sleep, I need to be there. It's why I am on this earth."

What she said sounded a lot like a paranormal book, but she was serious about her part in keeping the evil out of this world.

I don't know if I'm a gate keeper like she is, but I would like to think my running from the evil and staying awake is one way of thwarting them.

Paty Jager
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Halsey Brothers Series box set! by Paty Jager

Back during my early years of writing I was a complete seat-of-the-pants writer. I didn't outline, or write bios on my characters. I just got an idea, a hint of the hero and heroine, and I started writing. During that time, I wrote Marshal in Petticoats, a historical western romance. Several chapters in, I discovered the hero, Gil, had four brothers: Ethan, Hank, Clay, and Zeke. They didn't bodily enter the story until close to the end of the book. But in those short cameo scenes, I fell in love with each one of them and knew I had to write their stories.

Once Marshal in Petticoats was picked up by a publisher it was a no-brainer that each brother needed a story. And so the Halsey Brothers Series, or as some call it the Petticoat series, was born.

Now the books are available as separate ebooks or as an ebook box set.

Here are the condensed blurbs for each one:

Marshal in Petticoats

After accidentally shooting a bank robber, Darcy Duncan becomes marshal of a town as accident prone as herself.  And she’s not about to take orders from a corrupt mayor or a handsome drifter.  

Halsey discovers the new marshal is a passionate woman hell bent on proving the mayor is corrupt and dodging outlaws to clear her name.

Outlaw in Petticoats

Zeke Halsey has wanted Maeve Loman since he first set eyes on the prickly schoolteacher. Even as she thwarts his advances, he sees the desire burning in her eyes. Offering to help her find her father, he hopes they both live long enough for him to prove to Maeve he isn’t going anywhere.

Miner in Petticoats

Ethan Halsey, the oldest of the Halsey brothers, is determined to fulfill his father’s wishes to provide for his brothers. The only drawback is a feisty woman who refuses to part with the land he needs.

Aileen Miller has had two husbands. She isn’t about to allow another man to dictate her life or the lives of her two children.

Can they work together and achieve their goals or will their growing attraction shatter their dreams and disrupt their families?

Doctor in Petticoats

Dr. Rachel Tarkiel gave up on love after a devastating accident and settled for a life healing others.  Blinded by a person he considered a friend, Clay Halsey curses his circumstances and his limitations. Can their love overcome their internal fears and the obstacles life throws at them or will a mysterious man keep them apart forever?

Logger in Petticoats

Hank Halsey believes he’s found the perfect logging crew—complete with cooks—until he discovers Kelda Nielson would rather swing an axe than flip eggs. Strong and stubborn, Kelda Nielsen grew up falling trees, and resents any man who believes she’s not capable, until Hank. Will her deceit ruin Kelda’s chance at love or will hardheaded Hank realize it’s more than his love that puts a sparkle in her eye?

You can purchase the box set now at Kindle, Nook, and Kobo for $8.99, but if you wait, it will go on sale during October for $.99. The reason I'm practically giving away the box set is to get readers excited about the next trilogy set around the Halsey family. 

Readers have been clamoring for more and Jeremy's Story(Darcy's brother in Marshal in Petticoats) Laying Claim will be the first book from the Halsey Homecoming Trilogy about the three young men brought into the Halsey family through marriages.