While connected to the mainline series and released in a specific sequence, these books are largely stand-alone fare and can be read in any order.
Sometimes the world gives you exactly what you need...
When college freshman and aspiring detective Reggie Harper met Maryanne Hillard—a brilliant, good-natured journalism student—each knew they had found exactly what they needed. They knew they would be together until the end, and immediately became the most important part of each other's lives. An importance that only grew in intensity as their relationship blossomed.
But Maryanne’s good nature masked a special kind of darkness.
Though the road they traveled was anything but smooth, Reggie and Maryanne tried with everything they had to hold on to the light their union created. They fought hard to rise above their struggles—personal and shared—in hopes that their devotion to one another might burn bright and unflappable, no matter the odds.
Bright enough to ward off that darkness all together.
Sometimes the world gives you exactly what you need, but it always takes it back in the end.
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There's little more important in this world than knowing someone has your back.
In the wake of her mother's murder, Elizabeth Harper fought hard against the pain the world gleefully hurls at those living in it. She fought hard against the innate darkness of human nature, vowing to keep her own light alive so that she may carry on in her mother's footsteps—a shining star of just goodness.
"Teenage Female", the dramatic prelude to "Among The Dirt and Bones" (volume two of "the HARPER mysteries"), chronicles portions of Elizabeth's own youth as well as her mentoring of a fourteen-year-old girl named Robyn Ackerman; A young girl who lost everything before she could even understand the concept of loss.
A young girl whose life could easily have been Elizabeth's.
Robyn floated from foster home to foster home her entire life until she finally wound up at SeaGate, a group home for at-risk girls. But life at SeaGate is anything but grand, and Robyn—try as she might—is all alone and at the end of her rope.
Elizabeth, on the other hand, had something the young miss Ackerman never did; A steadfast support system. Something she was determined to provide for Robyn at all costs.
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Investigative reporter Elizabeth Harper is on her own for the first time.
From the onset of her career, blog-centric, low-impact investigations were the order of the day. Thin, spur of the moment inquiries that paid next to nothing and meant even less in the grand scheme of things. Puzzles so obvious she could solve them in her sleep.
All that changed when the Seattle Searcher came calling.
Then, Elizabeth found herself thrust into a world of dangerous intrigue, posing as a student on a Washington college campus with the sole intent of getting to the bottom of a coverup—the seeming erasure of a string of violent, sexual assaults. Crimes that began making waves locally, then seemed to disappear all together.
Though her work started smoothly enough, the deeper Elizabeth dug, the more it seemed all paths led down a hard road: One with a cost far greater than she was willing to invest.
But if you have nobody—if you're truly alone—who do you turn to when things go sour?
Where can you look but within?
