Brandilyn Collins

Kaycee Raye is known for writing of her paranoia and fears in her newspaper column, but when her worst fears come true, Kaycee must determine if the danger surrounding her is real, or if she is descending into madness.

Exposure

In book one of this new suspense series, Annie Kingston moves to Grove Landing for safety and quiet--and finds herself face to face with evil when she is recruited to draw a composite of a murder suspect.

Brink of Death

Dark pursuit

When the dark secrets of her past resurface, Paige Williams must make an unthinkable choice when she comes face-to-face with death, while the town of Kanner Lake searches for a killer in their midst. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Violet Dawn

Deceit

In the early twentieth century, Russian director Constantin Stanislavsky transformed the acting world with a series of techniques he called ?method acting.' By discovering the inner life of a character, actors learned to bring emotional realism to their roles as never before. In Getting Into Character, Collins takes seven of the most eye-opening techniques of the Stanislavsky method and adapts them to the art of writing fiction. Like actors, writers learn how to personalise characters, determine their action objectives in a scene, write subtexted dialogue and much more. Collins concludes each chapter with excerpts from both a familiar classic and a modern bestseller to illustrate how top-notch authors'from Jane Austen to Steve Martini'have used these same techniques to great effect.

Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors

Getting Into Character

As a chalk-fingered child, I had worn my craving for Mama's love on my sleeve. But as I grew, that craving became cloaked in excuses and denial until slowly it sank beneath my skin to lie unheeded but vital, like the sinews of my framework. By the time I was a teenager, I thought the gap between Mama and me could not be wider. And then Danny came along. . . . A splendidly colored sidewalk. Six-year-old Celia presented the gift to her mother with pride---and received only anger in return. Why couldn't Mama love her? Years later, when once-in-a-lifetime love found Celia, her mother opposed it. The crushing losses that followed drove Celia, guilt-ridden and grieving, from her Bradleyville home. Now thirty-five, she must return to nurse her father after a stroke. But the deepest need for healing lies in the rift between mother and daughter. God can perform such a miracle. But first Celia and Mama must let go of the past--before it destroys them both.

Color the Sidewalk for Me

Assuming the adult responsibilities of caring for a home and her younger siblings after losing her mother, fifteen-year-old Jackie dreams of finding a love like that of her parents and interferes in her heartbroken father's relationship with another woman. Original.

Capture the Wind for Me

A course-changing event in one's life can happen in minutes. Or it can form slowly, a primitive webbing splaying into fingers of discontent, a minuscule trail hardening into the sinewed spine of resentment. So it was with the mill workers as the heat-soaked days of summer marched on. City girl Jessie, orphaned at sixteen, struggles to adjust to life with her barely known aunt and uncle in the tiny town of Bradleyville, Kentucky. Eight years later (1968), she plans on leaving---to follow in her revered mother's footsteps of serving the homeless. But the peaceful town she's come to love is about to be tragically shattered. Threats of a labor strike rumble through the streets, and Jessie's new love and her uncle are swept into the maelstrom. Caught between the pacifist teachings of her mother and these two men, Jessie desperately tries to deny that Bradleyville is rolling toward violence and destruction.

Cast a Road Before Me

When a man she stops to help at the scene of a car accident tells her a mysterious secret, Hannah Shire finds herself and her family targeted by dangerous people who want to kill them for what Hannah has been told.

Dark Justice

A Saturday morning celebration at Java Joint coffee shop for the Scenes and Beans bloggers turns into terror when three gunmen burst into the coffee shop. Their demand: the world's attention. The stakes: the lives of more than a dozen Kanner Lake citizens.

Amber Morn

Realtor Carla Radling finds herself on the run after a charming British gentleman client turns out to be an assassin hired to kill her.

Crimson Eve

Gifted with "the sight", Chelsea Adams' marriage and faith are tested after she witnesses a murder through the eyes of the victim and attempts to convince the police of what she saw, making her the killer's next target.

Eyes of Elisha

Amberly Collins

When a frightening murder occurs after one of her famous mother's rock concerts, sixteen-year-old Shaley tries to help the police find the killer and to determine whether her long-lost father has some connection to the crime.

Always Watching

A nightmarish vision and a murder in broad daylight connect forensic artist Annie Kingston with Chelsea Adams, who made headlines with her visions of murder. The two find themselves snared in a battle against time, greed, and a deadly opponent.

Web of Lies

Becoming involved in the trial of a famous California man who has been accused of murdering his wife, psychic Chelsea Adams begins to believe in the man's innocence and wonders how a missing baby, a guilt-ridden son, and an insurance policy may be involved. Original.

Dread Champion

When a mysterious series of killings occurs in the charming southern town of Amaryllis, Mississippi, three women, independent of each other, feel sure the murderer is someone close to them--but each suspects a different man. Original.

Gone to Ground

The whole thing couldn’t have taken more than sixty seconds. Bailey hung on to the counter, dazed. If she let go, she’d collapse—and the twitching fingers of one of the gunmen would pull a trigger. The rest of her group huddled in frozen shock. Dear God, tell me this is a dream … The shooter’s teeth clenched. “Anybody who moves is dead.” On a beautiful Saturday morning the nationally read “Scenes and Beans” bloggers gather at Java Joint for a special celebration. Chaos erupts when three gunmen burst in and take them all hostage. One person is shot and dumped outside. Police Chief Vince Edwards must negotiate with the desperate trio. The gunmen insist on communicating through the “comments” section of the blog—so all the world can hear their story. What they demand, Vince can’t possibly provide. But if he doesn’t, over a dozen beloved Kanner Lake citizens will die …

Something sinuous in the water brushed against Paige’s knee. She jerked her leg away. What was that? She rose to a sitting position, groped around with her left hand. Fine wisps wound themselves around her fingers. Hair? She yanked backward, but the tendrils clung. Something solid bumped her wrist. Paige gasped. With one frantic motion she shook her arm free, grabbed the side of the hot tub, and heaved herself out. Paige Williams slips into her hot tub in the blackness of night—and finds herself face to face with death. Alone, terrified, fleeing a dark past, Paige must make an unthinkable choice. In Violet Dawn, hurtling events and richly drawn characters collide in a breathless story of murder, the need to belong, and faith’s first glimmer. One woman’s secrets unleash an entire town’s pursuit, and the truth proves as elusive as the killer in their midst.

The day Shaley O’Conner has dreamed of all her life is shattered by a nightmare.On a lavish estate in California guarded from the media, Shaley’s mom, rock star Rayne O’Connor, is marrying her teen sweetheart and Shaley’s father, Gary Donovon. It’s a dream come true for Shaley, who has always longed for the father she never knew.But minutes before the wedding, Shaley is kidnapped. Who is this man who has taken her—and why? As Rayne and Gary race against time to find their daughter, Shaley’s abductor eludes the FBI at every turn. Fearing for her life, Shaley wills herself to stay strong. But as the days pass, she realizes that no one can save her but herself.

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