It's still a book of my heart, it has a lovely new cover, and it's now Book 1 of Colors, the Harper Loch Trilogy. Book 2 will release in June. Because it's First in Series, Pieces of Blue is 99 cents.
I am excited again, just as I was the first time. I'm re-using some blogs from then, too. I hope you won't mind seeing this one again. And if you missed Blue in 2024, I hope you'll give it a look in 2026.
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It was funny. Well, to me, anyway. I’ve lived in the
same area my entire life. There were a few years of living in town when I was
single and appreciated such things as convenient restaurants, movie theaters,
and being able to walk to work because I didn’t have a car. Then a few more
years in a subdivision because it was nice and had a good elementary school and
the grocery store was just down the hill. Then—gasp—someone decided they’d
build houses in the vacant lots behind us and my rural-upbringing mindset began
to hyperventilate and we moved back to within five miles of my parents’ farm.
We’re still here.
Oh, I forgot. I said it was funny. To me. A couple of
years ago, someone mentioned Town Lake, saying it was less than 10 miles from
here. But I’d never heard of it. Surely that was impossible, I insisted to
anyone who would listen. I asked my sister about Town Lake. And she said,
“Sure. It’s been there for as long as I can remember.”
Still fairly sure I was right and everyone else was
wrong, we followed my sister’s directions. Off the highway onto the first road
south of town…no, not that one, the other first one…then turn right…in, oh, a
half mile or so. There might be a sign.”
There was. We had to back up to find it, but there it
was. We turned right onto a little bitty road, drove back a ways praying we
wouldn’t meet anyone, and voila! there was a lake! It was small and
private with houses scattered on its periphery. There was a field across from
it, a woods beside the road that led back to it.
By the time we turned around and headed toward home,
I knew there was a story. Maybe not Town Lake’s story, but mine.
And Maggie North’s.
And Sam Eldridge’s.
A friend named the lake Harper Loch, and Pieces
of Blue was born. I hope you like it.
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Life comes in shades of blue...
Self-imposed loner, Maggie North, has worked for bestselling author Trilby Winterroad her entire adult life, starting as simply his assistant and ending up as his ghost writer. Through ups and downs--including a divorce from an abusive husband--he has been the one person on whom she could always rely. So when Trilby dies suddenly, Maggie finds herself adrift, not sure what she’ll do or where she belongs in the world any longer. And the confusion continues when she discovers he’s not only left her his beloved dachshund, Chloe, but a house she knew nothing about, on a lake she’s never heard of.
It only takes one visit for Maggie to fall in love with both the house and the small lakeside community. The longer she’s there, the safer she feels and the more her life begins to expand...as do her feelings toward her friend and Trilby’s attorney, Sam Eldridge.
But is she really safe? Or are the glistening pieces of her new life about to shatter as an old danger returns?
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