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“Powerfully heartfelt and knock-your-socks-off hilarious. I’m a fan!” —Janet Evanovich on Double Knot

“Archer’s bright and silly humor make this a pleasure to read. Fans of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum will absolutely adore Davis Way and her many mishaps.” —RT Book Reviews on Double Dip

“Archer navigates a satisfyingly complex plot and injects plenty of humor as she goes….A winning hand for fans of Janet Evanovich and Deborah Coonts.” —Library Journal on Double Whammy

DOUBLE KNOT

A Davis Way Crime Caper

By Gretchen Archer

“Fantasy, Mother thinks Burnsworth has been in her room.”
“Did you catch him?” she asked.
“No.” Mother shook her magazine. “But that doesn’t mean he’s not a serial killer.”

Hell is other people—and Super Secret Spy Davis Way is about to find this out the hard way in DOUBLE KNOT: A Davis Way Crime Caper (Henery Press, ISBN 9781635110296, Original Trade Paperback, April 12th, 2016), by triple USA Today-bestselling author Gretchen Archer.

Our favorite redhead is ready to take to the high seas in The Probability, a new, $500 million casino ship carrying 50 billionaires on its maiden voyage to the Cayman Islands. The Probability is partially owned by The Bellissimo Resort & Casino, which is why Davis Way, who is pregnant with twins, has a new mission to be the eight-months-pregnant casino owner Bianca Sanders’ body double for the ship’s festivities.

The trip immediately take a turn for the worst when Davis gets locked in a suite with her judgmental mother, who is ignoring the fact that Davis is pregnant with twins; Fantasy, her about-to-be-divorced best friend and co-worker; Jessica, the ship’s hostess who has a crush on Davis’s husband Bradley; Burnsworth, a creepy butler; and Poppy, a maid who appears and disappears eerily fast. Obviously it’s a system glitch and someone is going to show up to save them all soon… Until Davis discovers a note that Jeremy “No Hair” Coven, the head of security, been kidnapped.

“Sit back and settle in, because you’re not leaving your suite. Rest assured no harm will come to anyone as long as you follow these simple instructions: Do not attempt to escape or make contact with anyone… Not only is escape impossible, you will most assuredly jeopardize everyone’s welfare if you attempt any overt attention-seeking endeavors. In other words, Mrs. Cole, don’t start a fire. You’ll burn.”

It’s now up to Davis and Fantasy to save everyone’s skins, but finding a way out is proving difficult to find. Minutes turn into hours and hours stretch into days, especially with her mother driving everyone crazy. Can Davis race against the clock to determine why they’re being held and stop the people behind it?

DOUBLE KNOT is the most exhilarating Davis Way Crime Caper yet as secrets are revealed, antiquities are destroyed, relationships are becoming strained…and they’re running out of clean dishes.

About Gretchen Archer:
Gretchen Archer is a Tennessee housewife who began writing when her daughters, seeking higher educations, left her. She lives on Lookout Mountain with her husband, son, and a Yorkie named Bently. DOUBLE KNOT is the fifth book in the Davis Way Crime Caper series. Visit gretchenarcher.com for more information on Gretchen and her books.

About Henery Press:
Henery Press an independent publisher in the mystery and suspense genre focused on engaging stories with sharp twists and lively characters. To learn more about Henery Press, please visit www.henerypress.com.

DOUBLE KNOT
A Davis Way Crime Caper
By Gretchen Archer
Henery Press
Publication Date: April 12th, 2016
ISBN: 9781635110296
Original Trade Paperback & E-book
Price: $15.95
260 pages

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“Engaging, lyrical, and inspirational, this is a novel for anyone interested in American history, immigration, gender studies, agriculture, or just a good story about human relationships and all the different directions life can go.” —Julie Cantrell, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Feathered Bone

“Repatriation” has recently become a more familiar term and a subject of increasing national debate, due to Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency. Conflicts concerning our immigrant population—both legal and illegal—as well as refugees seeking asylum continue to rise. These current events, along with their surrounding rhetoric, eerily mirror a long-suppressed element of U.S. history: the series of deportations without due process that occurred over the course of the 1930s.

Karen Halvorsen Schreck was researching the Dust Bowl of the 1930s for her new historical novel when she discovered information about what happened to the Mexican and Mexican-American population in California at that time.  Schreck already knew she wanted to write about this place and time period, but she had not been aware of how much historical relevance the decade had for our country today.  Tapping into her own family history—her mother was from the Dust Bowl and traveled as a student to California in the 1930s—Schreck has crafted an epic story, BROKEN GROUND (Howard/Simon & Schuster; May 2016).

BROKEN GROUND

A Historical Fiction Novel

By: Karen Schreck

In BROKEN GROUND, Ruth, a woman who is newly married and crazy in love, abruptly becomes a young widow when her husband Charlie dies in an oil production-related accident near their home in Oklahoma.  Ruth is forced to move back in with her disapproving, chauvinistic father and a mother who tries to keep the peace.  When an opportunity to attend a university in California on full scholarship opens up, she packs her bags and boards a train for the Pacific Coast.

Ruth is attractive and smart, and eventually catches the attention of one of her professors who recruits her as his personal assistant.  Things continue to go well for Ruth when a family friend invites her to their home for the holidays, and she develops an interest in their disabled son, Thomas.  Upon returning to school, Ruth’s life turns upside down when her professor crosses a line, but she is blamed and summarily expelled.  Instead of returning home to her narrow-minded father, she boards a bus and arrives on Thomas’s doorstep, where she asks him to bring her into the fold in a Mexican workers’ camp, where he has a teaching job. 

The challenges of Ruth’s transition from student to camp worker slowly dissipate, and she soon earns the respect of the campers by attracting the interests of their children.  Eventually, Ruth teaches by Thomas’s side and helps plan ways to protest the unlawful treatment of the Mexican migrant workers.  Nighttime raids—where entire camps are bused back to Mexico—were all too common, and Ruth needs to ensure the security of the camp, workers, and her new friends.

Karen Halvorsen Schreck is the mother of two Latino children, which brings the treatment of the Mexicans today and in our country’s past closer to home.  She has a passion for these complex issues and hopes that BROKEN GROUND will not only entertain as a novel, but also enhance the conversation about immigration in the United States today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Karen Halvorsen Schreck is the author of the historical novel Sing For Me (Simon & Schuster), which was praised in a Publishers Weekly starred review. She received her doctorate in English and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Schreck teaches writing and literature and lives with her husband, photographer Greg Halvorsen Schreck, and their two children in Wheaton, Illinois. Learn more at her blog, http://karenschreck.com/blog/.

Broken Ground
A novel by Karen Halvorsen Schreck
Howard/Simon and Schuster
Publication Date: May 3, 2016
ISBN: 9781476794839
Price: $14.99

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“Carrie Rubin tackles obesity, fat-shaming, and bullying in this unique and original psychological thriller certain to keep you thinking long after you’ve finished reading.”

— Maddie Cochere, author of the Susan Hunter cozy mystery series

“A fast-paced thriller with a climax that nails it.”

— Frederick Anderson, author of I Am Cara, The Butterfly Man, and Hallbury Summer

The American food environment has exploded over the last three decades, with fast-food restaurants and junk-filled convenience stores populating nearly every street. Food manufacturers’ unhealthy combinations of fat, sugar, salt, and hard-to-pronounce ingredients have contributed to widespread obesity and food addiction. Carrie Rubin, a physician and public health advocate, explores this issue in her new page-turner of a medical thriller, EATING BULL, an exhilarating story of murder and a commentary on the reality of food addiction and the food industry’s role in it.

EATING BULL

A Thiller

By: Carrie Rubin

In EATING BULL, Jeremy is a lonely, obese teenager in Ohio who struggles with being overweight, bullying, a lack of friends, and an undesirable home life with his fat-shaming, offensive grandfather who regularly harasses him. Sue is a public health nurse with a rigid view of right and wrong and a long list of enemies. In the emergency room, Sue overhears another nurse belittle Jeremy about his weight, and she pulls Jeremy and his mother aside to persuade him to sue the food industry for contributing to his obesity.

Jeremy accepts Sue’s challenge, but when word gets out Jeremy is the plaintiff in the case, the students at school torment him even more, nicknaming him “Eating Bull” and calling him a coward for blaming others for his size. To make things worse, there’s a murderer on the loose who is stalking and killing overweight people—Darwin, an obsessive-compulsive germaphobe who is repulsed by the obese and who sees them as pathetic “sheep”. With Jeremy’s story saturating the media, Darwin chooses the teenager as his next target, making a statement to America that obese people are society’s weak link. As the murderer circles closer, it’s up to Jeremy to prove to Darwin, the nation, and himself that he is not the faint-hearted, overweight teenager everybody believes he is.

In a fight against the food industry that turns deadly, EATING BULL is a fast-paced and entertaining thriller with a unique exploration of the real-life issues of bullying, food addiction, and the food industry’s role in obesity.

About the author:

Carrie Rubin is a physician with a master’s degree in public health. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two sons, and is the author of The Seneca Scourge. Visit her website and blog at www.carrierubin.com.

EATING BULL
By Carrie Rubin
ScienceThrillers Media
Publication Date: November 2015
ISBN 9781940419107
Original Trade Paperback & E-book
Price: $14.99 / $4.99
310 pages

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