He tugged me closer. “If it doesn’t, what’s the worst that can happen?”
I tensed, trying to hear Fate chortle over the pounding of my heart. It wouldn’t…would it?
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Other Fabulous Books
by Pauline Baird Jones
Girl Gone Nova
Doc—Delilah Oliver Clementyne—is on an impossible mission to the Garradian Galaxy. A genius/bad a** she does the impossible on a regular basis, but this time the impossible might be not possible. Then something truly whacked happens: she falls in love. Wrong time, wrong man, wrong everything. So why does it feel so right?
The Key
An Air Force pilot—the best of the best to be assigned to this mission—Sara Donovan isn’t afraid to travel far beyond the Milky Way on an assignment that takes her into a galaxy torn apart by a long and bitter warfare between the Dusan and the Gadi. When she accidentally discovers a mysterious, hidden city, it brings her closer to the answers she seeks—about her baffling abilities and her mother’s past.
Out of Time
What happens when a twenty-first century woman on a mission to change the past meets a thoroughly 1940s man trying to stay alive in the hellish skies over war-torn Europe? Melanie “Mel” Morton is an adventure reporter, who lost her grandfather in World War II. Enter Jack Hamilton, sexy octogenarian, genius/scientist and former WWII bomber pilot. What he tells Mel sends her on her craziest adventure yet—straight into the past to save her grandfather’s life—and change Jack’s future, if she doesn’t accidentally end it. All Mel has to do is outmaneuver the entire German army—and not fall in love with Jack. Unfortunately, eluding the German army is the easy part…
Do Wah Diddy Die
Luci Seymour—sexy & free spirited—returns to steamy New Orleans in search of the father she’s never met. She finds murder, mayhem, love and adventure when her timing puts her directly in the sights of an elderly hit couple and a con man’s last scam.
A Dangerous Dance
His whole career, Remy Mistral has fought for reform in a state where corruption is an art form. Now is his chance to quit talking about reform and make his move to change things, but two things stand in his way. One is a woman, the other a killer.
The Lonesome Lawmen Books:
The Last Enemy
Two men need her. One needs her dead. Romance author, Dani Gwynne is plotting her own survival, working against time, terror and her fear of heights. Deputy US Marshal Matt Kirby is the lawman in charge of finding her—and stopping the hit man hunting her. With the clock ticking on a macabre game of hide and seek, Dani must defeat a killer who won’t stop until he gets what he wants—or destroys them all trying.
Byte Me
Deputy US Marshal, Jake Kirby, is a top tracker who always gets his fugitive. Now he’s hot on the trail of a gang of cyber-thieves with an unusual agenda. That trail takes him to Colorado and a bar managed by the sexy, mysterious Phoebe Mentel. Instant attraction complicates this high tech chess game between two people who don’t know how to lose and are afraid to love.
Missing You
Denver Homicide detective, Luke Kirby is looking for peace and quiet in the mountains above Denver. Instead he finds a beautiful and mysterious woman bringing a storm of trouble for them both. Too bad she can’t remember what, why or who.
Lonesome Mama
Debra Kirby’s boys aren’t lonesome lawmen anymore, and now the long time widow finds herself pining for a bit of adventure and romance in her life. When Donovan Kincaid (introduced in Missing You) offers a plane ride to a friend’s wedding, neither expects to run into trouble—and the “Lonesome Mama” gets more than she wished for.
Non-Fiction:
Adapting Your Novel for Film
A nuts and bolts guide to adapting your novel for film.
Managing Your Book Writing Business (with Jamie Engle)
No one likes to hear that publishing is a tough business. We didn’t when we first poked our heads out of our writing holes and took a look around. We had unrealistic expectations of what it would be liked to break the publishing barrier. Those expectations included being showered with money and adulation. It would have been easy for those expectations to give way to discouragement when we got an unwelcome dose of reality on first contact with real, published authors. The consensus was, you’d better love writing or you’d better run, save yourself. This isn’t a business for the faint of heart.
Made Up Mayhem
A quick and dirty guide to writing the suspense novel.
ABOUT AUTHOR PAULINE BAIRD JONES
Pauline Baird Jones is the award-winning author of nine novels of action-adventure, suspense, romantic suspense and comedy-mystery. She’s also written two non-fiction books, Adapting Your Novel for Film and Made-up Mayhem, and she co-wrote Managing Your Book Writing Business with Jamie Engle. Her seventh novel, Out of Time, an action-adventure romance set in World War II, is an EPPIE 2007 winner. Her eighth novel, The Key won an Independent Book Award Bronze Medal (IPPY) for 2008 and is a 2007 Dream Realm Awards Winner. She also has short stories in several anthologies. Originally from Wyoming, she and her family moved from New Orleans to Texas before Katrina.
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