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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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He’s stubborn. She’s tougher. His kid? Already picked the bride.


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A small-town second chance wrapped in danger, desire, and Sharon Sala heart.


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She came home to save the ranch… and found the cowboy she never forgot.


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From reality TV heartbreak to real-life reinvention.


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A missing twin. A deadly cartel. One K-9 team caught in the crossfire.


Next of Kin by Samantha Jayne Allen

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Also by Samantha Jayne Allen:

Next of Kin, May 2024
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Hard Rain, March 2024
Trade Paperback
Hard Rain, April 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Pay Dirt Road, April 2022
Hardcover / e-Book

NEXT OF KIN
By: Samantha Jayne Allen

Annie McIntyre Mysteries #3
Minotaur Books
May 2024
On Sale: April 23, 2024
Featuring: Annie McIntyre; Clint Marshall
352 pages
ISBN: 125086383X
EAN: 9781250863836
Kindle: B0C3YPG3WD
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
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Small Town | Mystery Woman Sleuth

From Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author Samantha Jayne Allen comes Next of Kin, a mesmerizing novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster.

At a gathering for her cousin’s wedding party, newly-licensed PI Annie McIntyre gets asked an age-old question: what really makes us who we are, nature or nurture? Clint Marshall, an up-and-coming musician and an adoptee at a personal crossroads, wants to hire Annie to find his biological parents, and that question is on his mind. Annie accepts his case, not knowing then that she, too, must decide if she really believes what she tells him that nightβ€”in essence, that people are in charge of their destinies. That people can change.

When Annie discovers her client's father is a bank robber who her granddad, Leroy, arrested back when he was sheriff, reverberations sound between the past and the present, igniting old flames and rivalries. When the brother of her client dies suddenly, his death ruled a suicide, Annie questions whether or not it was in fact homicideβ€”and who in this family of outlaws would rather some secrets stay buried.

As Annie sets out to find who killed the brotherβ€”and stays out of sight lest she be nextβ€”she finds herself searching abandoned, overgrown fields, scouring pool halls and roadside motels, wondering if she will ever escape the sense that her world in Garnett, TX expands and contracts in off-kilter ways, growing smaller and yet still more confounding. Fearing that in a place where everyone knows everyone, your enemy is always closer than you think.

Annie McIntyre Mysteries

Pay Dirt Road
PAY DIRT ROAD
#1.0 β€’ April 2022
Hard Rain
HARD RAIN
#2.0 β€’ April 2023

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