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Lynnette is proud -----
to announce
Love With A Welcome Stranger
Best Contemporary Winner 2009 Eppie
Award.
"From the first page, Lynnette Baughman
proves she's destined to be a star. LOVE WITH A
WELCOME STRANGER is the perfect blend of
outstanding characterization and page-turning
pacing. I hated to put it down. I can't wait to
read more from this wonderful new talent."
Pamela Britton, bestselling author of "Total
Control"
Order LOVE WITH A
WELCOME STRANGER from
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
The Wild Rose Press
Love with a Welcome Stranger won Best Single
Title
Contemporary in Write Touch Readers' Award
Contest, sponsored by
Wisconsin RWA.
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When Annie Riker and her sister inherit a
decrepit mansion from an unknown great-great
grandmother who struck it rich in the Klondike
Gold Rush, they move to Montana to turn it into
a bed and breakfast. Annie's primary goal is to
find a safe place to raise her young daughter.
Jack Cabrini, CEO of the construction company
working on Albion House, moves to Bitter Falls
to handle the project himself. His primary goal
is to find a safe place to raise his young
sister. When he gets to know Annie and her
little girl, his goal becomes to build a family.
But trouble follows Annie and Jack, and they
must confront danger and their growing
attraction head on.
This is the third (last) in the
Bitter Falls, Montana, stories. It's out now
from The Wild Rose Press in ebook and in print.
Like the other two Montana romances, you can
order it from
www.thewildrosepress.com, fictionwise,
amazon.com, or
bn.com.
Lovin' Montana available now!
Rand Monahan arrives in Montana with a bad
attitude. After a heart attack and three months
of cardiac rehab, the Wall Street millionaire is
on a "relax or die" vacation. The remote town of
Bitter Falls holds no charm for him--until he
meets the owner of a shop called Memories Mine
and discovers how powerful Montana moonlight can
be.
Luanne Holt knows she needs to look forward, but
she's mired in the past. After her fiancé
died--on their wedding day--she took up the
legal battle to get his valuable solar cell
patent back from the Wall Street scoundrels who
took it. She won't let herself love again until
the solar cell factory is open in Bitter Falls.
But Rand Monahan and the tidal pull of the
autumn moon are tugging her heart toward the
future.
Available in e-format from
The Wild Rose Press
AVAILABLE NOW!
"LOVE WITH A WELCOME STRANGER
by Lynnette Baughman tugged at my heart and made
me teary more than once." Wild On Books
She doesn't remember that the
handsome
Montana
rancher
was once a poor cowboy who
loved her.
He can't forget that she left him
and never looked back.
Mandy McCay's life as a
Hollywood starlet ended
with a bullet from a deranged fan. Miraculously,
she recovers, learns to walk and speak, but
there are gaps in her memory. Important gaps.
The years her face and figure were splashed
across tabloid pages are easy. But what happened
the summer before she left
Montana?
Like everyone in Mandy's
home town, Campbell West followed her medical
miracle on TV. He's not prepared for her to come
home more beautiful than ever, nor for the
sudden new attraction between them. At least,
Mandy thinks it's new.
Cam--God help him!--
remembers every inch of her body! When should he
tell her of their passionate love, her betrayal,
and his pain? Or can he risk forgetting it
all--and hoping she'll never remember?
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Mandy has a new obsession -- cooking.
Her brain injury has had an odd side effect: her
senses of taste and smell are heightened. She's
never cooked anything more complicated than a
grilled cheese sandwich, but now she's obsessed
with reading cookbooks and watching the Food
Channel. And since she grew up on a heritage
apple farm, the delicate flavor and texture
differences between varieties of apples attract
her attention. Check back here for
RECIPES and
links to farms that still grow old, old
varieties of apples.
Available now
The Wild Rose Press
in electronic format. Available from
Amazon.com
and
Barnes & Noble
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I live in
Sequim, Washington, with my husband, Bill, and a
sweet-natured mutt, Laddie. Well, Bill is sweet-natured,
too. After he retired from a long career as an analytical
chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I talked him
into moving from northern New Mexico to the home of my
heart, western Washington.
I was
born in Bremerton, but I had to move to a military post
near Las Cruces, NM, when I was six. My father had been
seriously injured while working on Ross Dam in Washington,
and although he recovered to some degree (after many
surgeries), he couldn't work in such a damp climate. So --
I was dragged from beautiful, green Washington to a
desiccated land of goatheads, cactus, tarantulas and
rattlesnakes. (On my first day in the trailer park at what
was then White Sands Proving Ground, I went outside
barefoot.)
I
earned a B.A. in English from New Mexico State University
and got married (to someone else -- Bill came later.) and
raised three daughters. I've lived in Fort Worth, Texas;
Dearborn, Michigan; and Las Vegas, Nevada. I lived in Los
Alamos, NM, too.
Sequim
is on the north shore of the Olympic Peninsula and is in
the "rainshadow" of the Olympic Mountains. Average
rainfall here is about 10 inches. Our house is one-half
mile from the shore of Dungeness Bay, which is walled off
from the Strait of Juan de Fuca by a natural sand spit.
Dungeness Spit is five miles long and on its eastern end
is the New Dungeness Lighthouse. From our dining room we
see the San Juan Islands and in the winter when the air is
very clear we can see the snow-covered peaks of Canada's
Coast Mountains beyond the islands. Twenty miles across
the Strait, north by northwest, is Victoria, B.C. On our
deck we can turn and look due east toward Whidbey Island
and farther to the beautiful, glacier-covered Mt. Baker.
Baker is the northernmost (in the U.S.) of the chain of
volcanoes that dot the west coast: Baker, Rainier, Adams,
St. Helens, Hood, Shasta, Lassen.
My
writing background: I wrote plays when my kids were small.
A few of them were published and I made money (in the mid
double digits). I started in journalism by freelancing for
newspapers in Las Vegas, Nevada. When I wrote a series
about the old families of Vegas in a six-month celebration
of the city's 75th anniversary, I interviewed dozens and
dozens of people. One who stayed in my mind was an old
lady who told me ribald tales of her glory days in
wild Las Vegas. Her family didn't want her to talk to me
or, failing that, they hoped I'd think she was making it
up. (I believed every word!) The seed was planted that
bloomed in my 4th mystery. In Vegas Centennial, a
writer gets enmeshed in a murder case while writing the
memoirs of a Vegas pioneer.
I moved
to Los Alamos in 1987 and worked as Lifestyles Editor for
the local paper. A lot of that experience is in my first
and third mysteries. The heroine of A Spy Within
and Lost Almost is a reporter for the Los Alamos
paper. After a few years at the paper, I quit and did some
work for magazines, including two features for The
Reader's Digest. But my heart is in fiction.
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A SPY WITHIN
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Second Book in Series LOST ALMOST |
THIN DISGUISE
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Second Book in Series VEGAS
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ISBN 0-9666366-4-3
Los Alamos, New Mexico -- When an old man who helped develop
the atomic bomb during WWII tells two women about an espionage
network hidden for 50 years, they discover his secret is deadly.
On their way home from the nursing home, in a blizzard, their
car is force off a mountain road. Newspaper reporter Patrice
Kelsey survives in spite of her injuries and is left to figure
out who murdered her friend.
Before she can discover who, she must ask, "Why?" Is the dark
legacy of a spy code-named Perseus worth killing for? And
will she live to publish the truth?
Available online from AMAZON and BARNES
& NOBLE
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ISBN 1-59088-907-X
The horrific Cerro Grande Fire in Los Alamos, New Mexico, was
just the beginning.
When reporter Patrice Kelsey follows the trail of stolen
infectious tissue to Washington, D.C., she finds herself playing
a life-and-death game on the world stage where biology,
medicine, politics and international intrigue intersect and
threaten to destroy all she holds dear.
"Lynnette
Baughman has follows up her impressive debut mystery, A SPY
WITHIN, with a chilling, well-researched, thoughtfully plotted
and beautifully written thriller that is as timely as today's
headlines." S. Derrickson Moore, Las Cruces (NM) Sun-News
Finalist, EPPIE Award in Thriller category, 2002
[Available
from Wings ePress]
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ISBN 0-929976-07-0
On her first day in Las Vegas, Olivia Wright arrives to apply
for a job writing the memoirs of Margot Farr, a fading movie
star famous for her carousel of husbands and her roller coaster
weight.
When Margot is murdered and Olivia discovers the detective is
her former lover, Mace Emerick, she agrees to be the homicide
department's secret witness inside the investigation.
Plenty of suspects stood to gain by Margot's death, but when
Olivia is exposed to the press as a witness and Mace is fired,
the two of them are on their own to solve the crime.
Available
online from AMAZON and BARNES & NOBLE
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ISBN 1-59088-684-4
100
years of secrets in Las Vegas ----
The wealthy McNamara clan -- plus a few angry ex-wives
-- gather on the eve of the city's centennial. When writer
Olivia Wright tries to add flesh and blood to the memoirs of the
family matriarch, she finds more blood than she bargained for.
One Las Vegas family's century of secrets leads to murder on the
eve of the gambling mecca's centennial celebration. Clara
McNamara will celebrate her 100th birthday on the same day that
the city of Las Vegas turns 100: May 15, 2005. And author Olivia
Wright is way behind deadline on the memoirs of the crusty
matriarch.
Clara's large family is gathering, a little like wolves, as the
time draws near to disperse the McNamara Centennial Trust.
[Available
from Wings ePress]
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