An Original Multi-Author Series of Suspense and Romantic Suspense 90-Minute Short Reads
About The Philanthropists
When authors focus on a theme or topic, and they are at liberty to follow their stories as they will, the stories get even better.
Story ideas come to authors in a myriad of ways. Each author addresses the topic or theme through their own prism or worldview. That makes for fantastic stories that are as unique and individual as the authors!
That’s what happened with The Philanthropists series. Authors were handselected and told a) you must include a philanthropist and b) the story must be a cleanread suspense or inspirational suspense that takes about 90-minutes to an hour to read.
leaves a lot of latitude for authors to express their creativity! And I hope you’re as thrilled with the resulting stories as we are! Six original 90-minute short read stories. One story every week from Nov 5 - Dec 10. Books
That can be read in any order.
Working closely with Aaron, Rachel soon learns Aaron is not only her champion, but also the one who donated the money anonymously to save the clinic from closing. As Rachel unravels the secrets from Aaron’s past that brought him here, she feels a connection to Aaron she hasn’t experienced since she’d lost her husband to war.
But with a killer on the loose and his victims mounting, she and Aaron must set aside their hopes for the future in order to bring the killer to justice before he disappears once more into the darkness in which he hunts.
For Rachel, almost watching a young woman die in front of her is a painful reminder of the one person she hadn’t been able to save. Her best friend from high school. Jasmine disappeared the summer before their graduation and was never seen again. Failing to find Jasmine, Rachel is even more determined to save the lost young women who have fallen through the cracks of society.
Dr. Aaron Carson’s once promising career as chief of surgery has gone up in flames because the mistakes of his past remind him of the lives he’s failed to save. First his best friend in Afghanistan, and then his Runningwife.away from his failures, Aaron finds himself hiding out from life among the Apache people of northern New Mexico. When a young hit-and-run victim is brought into the clinic where Aaron works, the boy’s death will lead him and Tribal Police Chief Rachel Altaha on a twisted chase into the seedy world of human trafficking to catch a killer.
USA Today Bestselling Author of The Champion
Mary Alford
Release Date: November 5th
Mary Alford is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author who loves to give her readers the unexpected. She and her husband live in the heart of Texas in the middle of 70 acres with two very spoiled cats and one adorable rescue dog. Mary is very active online and would love to connect with readers on Facebook and Twitter or any of the social media platforms listed at www.maryalford.net.
Vicki Hinze
But he had and he’d issued an ultimatum: return with him and Maddie, or never see her daughter again. Now, to inherit her husband’s share of the business, his former business partner wants her and Maddie dead.
Her brother’s nurse seeks help for Harper from a former patient…The Guardian: A man who changes her and her daughter’s life forever in ways she never dreamed possible, proving her daughter right. No matter how bad things get, you can never give up or give in or you’ll miss the good stuff.
USA Today Bestselling Author of The Guardian
Harper Adams Holt has been kicked in the teeth hard twice in two months. Her brother was assaulted and left for dead and has been in a coma four weeks with little hope of survival, and two weeks after that assault, her husband was murdered.Butis he really dead? Or will he return to torment her and their daughter, Maddie, yet again? If only when she’d left him before he hadn’t found her…
November 12th
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Vicki Hinze is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of over fifty novels, non fi ction books and seven years’ worth of columns for Social-In Global. Her work has been extensively published.FMI visit www.vickihinze.com.
Ann Malley Amazon Bestselling Author of The Protector Smothered yet trained like a Navy SEAL, eighteen-yearold Nina Benoit needs normal. She loves her naval commander daddy, but her buzz-cut babysi?ng detail has to go. Enter Daire Warren, an intriguing older man she meets while blowing off steam with Walther, her .9mm besEe. Will Nina be the face and fury of Daire’s chain of shooEng ranges? She’s of age. And there’s nothing like da E ng a thoroughly unacceptable man to put overprotecEve patriarchs in their place. But this father’s worst nightmare is not just a the billionaire playboy splashed on front pages. Daire is a CIA field operaEve tasked with turning a spy into a double agent. Nina is the perfect leverage to use against her father. She’s perfect period. A sass-mouthed pixie who puts Daire through his paces while demonstraEng a skill he never knew. MelEng his heart and earning his respect with every move. Car chases, bullets, Columbian drug lords, bawdy Bourbon St, a missing girl, and a brush with the supernatural are only part of this clean, interracial, undercover romance! Buckle up and take a ride!
Release Date: November 19th
Ann Malley writes inspired romantic suspense, clean romantic comedy shorts, and contemporary western romance. She ogles feral kitties when not getting cozy in her empty-nest with her hubby of 35 years and going. Her most recent adoptee, Peanut, keeps her feeling loved with nightly blanket dives and continued attempts to woo Queen Boo. Plunked off the farm to live the very pampered live that she deserves.
Adam Holt, a decorated former military helicopter pilot and single dad, is the voice on the radio. Every evening at midnight, he exposes the dark underbelly of the city and alerts his listeners to the evil he has discovered in the highest political and social ranks of a city in the bend of two rivers, the Mississippi and the Yazoo.
TheofAlly
At midnight in the Deep South redemption and depravity walk hand in hand.
Peggy Webb USA Today Bestselling Author
A chilling phone call, made in the dark of night, changes everything for Jena and Adam. When they join forces to take down the evil and save the innocent, they become targets of people who will stop at nothing to protect their power. But they also unexpectedly save themselves.
Every waking moment Jena Dahl re-lives the day the plane went down, plunging her husband and her little girl to their deaths while she was on a book tour, promoting the series that catapulted her to unexpected wealth and fame. To get through her grief, she formed the Grace Foundation, named for her daughter, and now gives away the money that cost her a family. A near-reclusive, she holes up in her home in historic Vicksburg with nobody for company except her dad, a cop, and the Ally, a voice on a talk-radio show.
Peggy Webb, award-winning, USA Today bestselling author, taught writing at Mississippi State University and has penned almost 100 novels in various genres. She also writes as Elaine Hussey and Anna Michaels. FMI visit www.peggywebb.com.
Release Date: November 26th
That changes when Bassitt's men capture her, and he comes to her rescue. Join Adrian and Shelby in THE DEFENDER as they work against time to save fifteen girls from being sold into human trafficking.
Patricia Bradley Award-Winning Author of
Billionaire Adrian Marshall is the head of a tactical rescue operation, and he has to stop Shelby before she interferes with his assignment to extract the girls from the compound. If he fails, the girls will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. He offers Shelby a job, but she turns him down because she doesn't trust him.
Professional photographer Shelby Adams is on a mission to rescue her sister and fourteen other girls from a human trafficking ring. When she's caught trying to sneak into Jason Bassitt's compound where the girls are being kept, she barely escapes with her life.
The Defender
USA Today best-selling author Patricia Bradley has penned fifteen Inspirational Romantic Suspense books set in the South. She and her two rescue kitties call Corinth, Mississippi home, and when she's not writing, she likes to throw mud on a wheel to see what comes out.
Release Date: December 3rd
Lady D has gathered a group of her fans at the inn for a mystery weekend. All goes well—until a murderer strikes. Can Ash solve the mysterious clues detailing the untimely death of The Patron, or will the murderer escape and walk away?
The Patron revolves around Bestselling Author Lady Denis D’Ever and Ashley Sands, owner of the mystery-themed Skullduggery Inn located on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay in Alabama.
USA Today Bestselling Author of The Patron
Kathy Carmichael
Release Date: December 10th
Bestselling and Award-Winning author Kathy Carmichael resides in Florida with her Scottish husband, one son, three cats and a herd of wild dust bunnies. FMI about Kathy and her books, humorous mysteries and romantic comedies, visit www.KathyCarmichael.com.
