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Is the past ever really past? Can you truly ever trust anyone? These are the questions Sheriff Cammie Farnsworth must face when she is suddenly confronted with a past she thought she’d long ago left behind. As the first female elected sheriff of Clarke County, Maine, Cammie has finally found peace in her life. However, that peace is shattered when hockey legend Eli Kelley suddenly returns to Twin Ponds. He and Cammie were once involved, and when he left to pursue a sports career, he left with a secret that almost destroyed her. When he is found murdered and Cammie is forced to make an ...

Echoes of Twin Ponds’ past reaches out to the present with disastrous results. Two people have died in mysterious circumstances, sending Sheriff Cammie Farnsworth and her staff on a search for a killer who proves elusive and difficult to uncover. When Cammie almost dies, was she the intended victim? Or was the killer targeting someone close to her instead? Fast paced and suspenseful, return to Twin Ponds, Maine where winters are long, summers are short, and murder stalks its streets, seeking revenge for a crime that could destroy Cammie’s whole world. This is Book 2 in the highly ...

What is the price of perfection? Dr. Samuel “Doc” Westerfield comes from a family obsessed with perfection. When his cherished aunt is murdered, he and Sheriff Cammie Farnsworth begin a journey that takes them into the very heart of Boston’s wealthy society. As they search to discover what could have happened to his aunt, Doc is forced to confront his own dark secrets that he has kept carefully hidden away over the years. Is he willing to reveal those in order to find her killer? Or, will the need for perfection force Doc to keep buried the truth about his family, his aunt, and more ...

Sheriff Cammie Farnsworth and Jace Northcott are finally married. They no sooner begin their long-awaited honeymoon than Cammie is summoned back to Twin Ponds. Her receptionist/dispatcher Emmy Madachuck’s mother Evelyn has been found murdered, shot at point blank range. Lying just feet away is the unconscious body of Deputy Rick Belleveau, bleeding profusely from a head injury. With the eyes of the townspeople upon her, questioning her objectivity, Cammie must unravel the mystery of what happened to Evelyn Madachuck. In a moment of empassioned rage, did Rick kill the woman who swore to ...

During the construction of a new hotel, a skeleton is unearthed and all fingers point to Twin Ponds’ Mayor. Ten years before, Bill Barnes and George Peabody waged a vicious battle to be elected mayor. Did a campaign that threatened to destroy his reputation push Bill to do the unthinkable and murder his rival? Or did George’s wife, Bill’s lover for over a decade, kill her husband? Are they both responsible? As Sheriff Cammie Farnsworth and her staff delve into the 10 year old homicide, they uncover secrets better left hidden. Especially when those secrets cause the murder of another, ...

Peace on Earth ~ Goodwill to All. At least that’s what Sheriff Cammie Farnsworth is hoping for as she prepares to spend the holidays with her boyfriend’s parents. Who hate her. However, it isn’t long before she realizes something more is going on in the Northcott household that has nothing to do with their dislike of her. Furtive whispers and strained silences give way to panic when a body is found under the town Christmas tree and Harold Northcott becomes the prime suspect. Can Harold set aside his differences and allow Cammie to help him? Will she be able to unravel the complicated ...

After attending a law enforcement conference in Alaska, Sheriff Cammie Farnsworth and Dr. Samuel Westerfield decide to spend a few extra days enjoying the beauty of Denali National Park. Their vacation is shattered when a woman is poisoned to death at the lodge where they’re staying. Their situation grows worse when a sudden, unexpected blizzard hits that not only knocks out all communication, but snows them in with a murderer. With escape impossible, Cammie and Doc must do their best to uncover the killer before they strike again. Meanwhile back in Twin Ponds, Maine, Deputy Sheriff Rick ...

During a walk in the woods to find the settlement of the original witches of Salem, MA who, legend says, founded Twin Ponds back in 1692, a young couple uncover more than they bargained for. In a derelict cabin, they stumble upon the dead body of a man, tied spread eagle on a table, covered in blood. Sheriff Cammie Farnsworth and her team immediately begin their investigation. It isn’t long before they discover the deceased was an investigative journalist. But questions quickly arise. What was he doing in Twin Ponds? What kind of story would bring a man like that to such a small, remote ...

It is the eve of Sheriff Cammie Farnsworth and Jace Northcott's wedding. With Dr. Samuel Westerfield in charge of the event, it promises to be the wedding of the century in the small, remote town of Twin Ponds, Maine. Ten days before the wedding, while investigating a claim by ninety-two-year-old Cora Cameron that she is being stalked by a scarecrow, Cammie stumbles upon a homeless man who has been assaulted in the woods. Trying to piece together if the two are related, she is suddenly thrown into despair when Jace suddenly vanishes. To her horror, she discovers that a serial killer she ...

Sheriff Cammie Farnsworth and her boyfriend, Jace Northcott have travelled to the remote and, some say, cursed Coffin Islands off the coast of Maine to recover from the trauma of her last investigation. There, she unwittingly stumbles onto a murder that reaches back decades. Violet Munson has come to the Coffin Islands for the last time. Trying to pack up the vacation home before she puts it on the market, she slowly realizes there is an evil within its walls she cannot escape. When she uncovers a horrifying secret from her family’s past, her life is in danger from forces she cannot see, ...

Avid birdwatcher Poppie Beresford came to Twin Ponds to find a rare white crow seen in the surrounding forest. What she found instead was death. As Sheriff Cammie Farnsworth begins to slowly peel away the lies and misinformation the reclusive woman deliberately surrounded herself with, her discoveries lead her down an unexpected path that will shatter her beliefs about her parents, herself and the world she thought she knew.

Two hours from the mainland, in the fog shrouded Atlantic Ocean, lies the haunted Coffin Islands. For centuries, stories have abounded of the strange and inexplicable occurrences on these remote lands that have given rise to the belief they are cursed. When a woman is found murdered under suspicious and baffling circumstances, newcomer Deputy Ellis Martin must deal, not only with the locals’ wariness towards anyone who isn’t a native islander, but with the terrifying possibility the killer may not be human. This is Book 1 in the Coffin Islands Paranormal Mystery Series.

ENTER IF YOU DARE. So reads the sign at the entrance of a carnival that suddenly appears in the sleepy town of Millbrook, Massachusetts. Despite the ominous warning, Addison and her friends can’t wait to go. It isn’t long, however, before Addison realizes the warning isn’t just a publicity stunt. When she and her friends experience terrifying nightmares after visiting the carnival, she knows something is terribly wrong. What is real? What isn’t? What is frightening them all? And who is the strange man stalking her among the rides and arcades? Things take a dark turn when Levi’s ...

Psychic medium Dara Clemons is Eagla Island’s misfit. Her gifts, handed down through generations, have always frightened the islanders, leading them to ostracize her while treating her with fear and suspicion. However, life for Dara turns deadly when she begins to dream of murders. Murders that are coming true.When the mutilated body of Eagla’s most beautiful young woman is found in Watson Pond, Deputy Ellis Martin is called in to investigate. He is stunned by what he finds. Details of the murder perfectly match what Dara described to him just days before. Is she truly psychic? Or is ...

Deputy Ellis Martin is looking forward to the Honor the Founders Weekend Celebration on Sarke Island, a festival commemorating the island’s colonial past. It is also the official start to the summer tourist season. This year the parade is honored to have a very special guest. Mitt Bradley is the last surviving descendent of the Bradley family, one of the original settlers of Sarke Island. However, Ellis soon discovers there is a secret surrounding the Bradleys - a tale of revenge that stretches back centuries. Unwittingly caught in a horror that he cannot understand, much less defend ...

Sixteen year old Addison Monroe and her friends think they’ve hit the jackpot when they win a contest that will allow them to go on a televised ghost investigation with the nationally renowned TV paranormal investigative team, The Ghost Dudes. With cameras rolling, the two groups arrive at the infamous Meadowlark Asylum. Suddenly shut down nearly a half century before under mysterious circumstances, it’s become shrouded in stories and legends about the darkness, nicknamed Monster of the Asylum, that allegedly stalks its abandoned hallways. It isn’t long before Addison realizes ...

With Christmas fast approaching, 16 year old Addison Monroe struggles to accept the fact that, despite her misgivings, she can no longer deny that she’s a gifted psychic. Just when she thinks things can’t get any worse, she suddenly finds her younger sister’s best friend Becca standing on the lawn outside her bedroom window. A girl who died two years before. As she struggles to understand what’s happening, Addison uncovers a dirt encrusted doll in Kylie’s bed – a doll that was placed in Becca’s coffin on the day she was buried. Gathering together her friends and Aunt Juliette,...

It’s two weeks before Christmas, and 17-year-old Addison Monroe has suddenly received an invitation to visit her cousins at their remote farmhouse on a Vermont mountaintop. Having never been told of these cousins, she brings along her friends to help ease her shyness and awkwardness in meeting her new relatives. As soon as they arrive, however, it doesn’t take Addison’s growing psychic abilities to realize she’s made a huge mistake in agreeing to come. The farmhouse where they are to stay is falling apart. Worse, her two cousins are not only eccentric, but unnervingly strange. Her ...