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Authors: Joanne Pence
Seems Like Old Times (41 page)
"Like old times?" she asked.
"No." Slowly, his face crinkled into the smile
she knew, and he said, "Much, much better."
His arms tightened around her, lifting her off the bench
as their lips met. Slowly, he let her slide down the length of him until her
toes touched the ground, their kiss never breaking.
The sun was high in the sky as the Red Sox players gave a
shout and ran onto the field. The first batter for the Tigers walked up to the
plate, tapped it with his bat, wiggled his butt,
then
lifted the bat high over his head.
The umpire shouted, "Play ball," and a new
season began.
--The End—
About the
Author
Visit
www.JoannePence.com
Joanne Pence was born and raised in northern California.
She has been an award-winning, USA Today best-selling author of mysteries for
many years, but she has also written historical fiction, contemporary romance,
romantic suspense, a fantasy, and most recently, a paranormal thriller. Her
historical and romance novels were first released under the pseudonym
"JoMarie Lodge." All of her books are now available as e-books, and
most are also in print. Joanne hopes you'll enjoy her books, which will bring
you a variety of times, places, and reading experiences, from mysterious to
thrilling, emotional to lightly humorous, as powerful tales of times long past.
Ancient
Echoes –
Coming soon!
Over two hundred years ago, a covert expedition shadowing
Lewis and Clark disappeared in the wilderness of Central Idaho. Now, seven
anthropology students and their professor vanish in the same area. The key to
finding them lies in an ancient secret, one that men throughout history have
sought to unveil.
Michael Rempart is a brilliant archeologist with a
colorful and controversial career, but he is plagued by a sense of the
supernatural and a spiritual intuitiveness. Joining Michael are a CIA
consultant on paranormal phenomena, a washed-up local sheriff, and a former
scholar of Egyptology. All must overcome their personal demons as they attempt
to save the students and learn the expedition's terrible secret....
For decades, the home built by reclusive artist, Paul
Squire, has stood empty on a windswept cliff overlooking the ocean. Those who attempted
to live in the home soon fled in terror. Jennifer Barrett knows nothing of the
history of the house she inherited. All she knows is she's glad for the chance
to make a new life for herself.
It's Paul Squire's duty to rid his home of intruders, but
something about this latest newcomer's vulnerable status...and resemblance of
someone from his past...dulls his resolve. Jennifer would like to find a real
flesh-and-blood man to liven her days and nights--someone to share her life
with—but living in the artist's house, studying his paintings, she is surprised
at how close she feels to him.
A compelling, prickly ghost with a tortured, guilt-ridden
past, and a lonely heroine determined to start fresh, find themselves in a
battle of wills and emotion in this ghostly fantasy of love, time, and chance.
When Lee Reynolds, nationally known television news
anchor, returns to the small town where she was born to sell her now-vacant
childhood home, little does she expect to find that her first love has moved
back to town. Nor does she expect that her feelings for him are still so
strong.
Tony Santos had been a major league baseball player, but
now finds his days of glory gone. He's gone back home to raise his young son as
a single dad.
Both Tony and Lee have changed a lot. Yet, being with him,
she finds that in her heart, it seems like old times...
Against the background of San
Francisco at the time of the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 comes a tale of
love and loss. Ruth Greer, wealthy daughter of a shipping magnate, finds a
young boy who has run away from his home in Chinatown—an area of gambling
parlors, opium dens, sing-song girls, as well as families trying to eke out a
living. It is also home to a number of highbinder tongs, the infamous “hatchet
men” of Chinese lore.
There, Ruth meets the boy’s father, Li Han-lin, the
handsome, enigmatic leader of one such tong, and discovers he is neither as
frightening, cruel, or wanton as reputation would have her believe. As Ruth’s
fascination with the area grows, she finds herself pulled deeper into the
intrigue of the lawless area, and Han-lin’s life. But the two are from
completely different worlds, and when both worlds are shattered by the
earthquake and fire that destroys San Francisco, they face their ultimate test.
The Price of Vengeance
Gabriella
Devere
wants
vengeance. She grows up quickly when she witnesses the murder of her family by
a gang of outlaws, and vows to make them pay for their crime. When the law
won't help her, she takes matters into her own hands.
Jess McLowry left his war-torn Southern home to head
West
, where he hired out his gun. When he learns what
happened to Gabriella's family, and what she plans, he knows a young woman like
her will have no chance against the outlaws, and vows to save her the way he
couldn't save his own family.
But the price of vengeance is high and Gabriella's
willingness to sacrifice everything ultimately leads to the book's deadly and
startling conclusion.
This is a harsh and gritty tale of the old West, in the
tradition of Charles
Portis
'
True Grit
and
Nancy Turner's
These
is My Words
.
C.J.
Perkins is trying to find her brother who went missing while on a Peace Corps
assignment in Asia. All she knows is that the disappearance has something to do
with a "White Dragon." Darius Kane, adventurer and bounty hunter,
seems to be her only hope, and she practically
shanghais
him into helping her.
With a touch of the romantic adventure
film
Romancing the Stone
, C.J. and Darius follow a trail that takes them
through the narrow streets of Hong Kong, the backrooms of San Francisco's
Chinatown, and the wild jungles of Borneo as they pursue both her brother and
the White Dragon. The closer C.J. gets to them, the more danger she finds
herself in—and it's not just danger of losing her life, but also of losing her
heart.
[This
is a completely revised edition of novel previously published as
Armed and
Dangerous
.]
The Angie Amalfi
Mysteries
Gourmet cook, sometime food columnist,
sometime restaurant critic, and generally "underemployed" person
Angelina Amalfi burst upon the mystery scene in SOMETHING'S COOKING, in which
she met San Francisco Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith. Since that time she's
wanted two things in life, a good job...and Paavo.
"Joanne Pence shows her talent as a mighty good mystery
writer." --
BookBrowser
Review
"Pence's tongue-in-cheek humor keeps us grinning." --
San
Francisco Chronicle
"Will have readers rapidly turning the pages...snatches of humor, real
life intrigue and sparks of passion." --
Rendezvous
Here are the Angie mysteries in the
order written:
Plus a Christmas novella:
The Thirteenth Santa