<div>Thousands of miles apart, a man and a woman dream of each other, unaware that they&rsquo;re bound together by an otherworldly evil that will threaten everyone they love Tamara Whelan and her sullen adolescent daughter have just arrived in the isolated Wyoming mining town of Iron Mountain. The financially strapped single mother has accepted a teaching job, replacing someone who died under suspicious circumstances. As Tamara struggles to adjust to life among superstitious neighbors in an unforgiving place, she&rsquo;s plagued by horrifying night visions of a strange man and an unfamiliar beach that glistens in the moonlight. Unbeknownst to her, the man, Thad Alexander, is real. He lives in Belize and has been dreaming about her as well. These two strangers find their lives increasingly intertwined as mysterious and menacing extraterrestrial technology allows them to read each other&rsquo;s minds and become intimately familiar with each other&rsquo;s worlds. Amid natural disasters and inexplicable vanishings, Thad and Tamara find themselves at the tumultuous center of a titanic battle between love and destruction, waged by forces beyond their control. A novel that expands the boundaries of the paranormal, Nightmare Country tackles weighty issues of time, love, loss, and the impermanence of life.</div>

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Nightmare Country

<div>Reluctant psychic Charlie Greene is called on to solve the case when a horror-film director gets the ax&mdash;and Charlie&rsquo;s mother is the prime suspect Between doing lunches, making deals, and being a full-time single mom, Hollywood literary agent and part-time psychic Charlie Greene doesn&rsquo;t have time to solve crimes. But when the number-one suspect in the murder of schlock horror director Gordon Cabot is her menopausal mother, Charlie suddenly finds herself a major player in a real-life movie more shocking than any screenwriter could have dreamed up. Cabot&rsquo;s callous disregard for the teeming plant life and critters serving as extras in his overbudget new film has made him plenty of enemies, including Charlie&rsquo;s mother, a biology professor specializing in rodents of the high-desert plateau. In spite of their volatile relationship, Charlie&rsquo;s certain that her mother&rsquo;s hot flashes have nothing to do with the corpse chilling out in this remote stretch of Utah desert, and to clear her mom&rsquo;s name, Charlie teams up with swoonworthy superstar environmentalist Mitch Hilsten. Amid warring film crews, wild cliff glides, and fears that Charlie&rsquo;s agency is going under, she and Mitch race to catch a cunning killer of the lethal, two-legged variety in this electrifying novel.</div>

Murder in a Hot Flash

<div>Taken hostage by a man who isn&rsquo;t what he seems, a woman discovers her hidden survival skills on a road trip strewn with assassins and covert agents Desperate to escape bitter heartbreak and the fresh wound of her mother&rsquo;s suicide, Leah Harper leaves Chicago and heads west. When a storm forces her to seek shelter in a dilapidated motel in the Rockies, a gun-wielding stranger believing her to be someone else barges into her room and takes her hostage. Her kidnapper, Glade Wyndham, is also on the run. The only way for Leah to stay alive is to pretend she&rsquo;s Sheila, the assassin Glade believes her to be. Embroiled in a struggle between the FBI and her captor, Leah finds herself forging an uneasy alliance with a man who could be the most dangerous adversary of all. And there&rsquo;s absolutely no one she can trust. Featuring a cast of intriguing and unforgettable characters, Willing Hostage is a mysterious and suspenseful novel of adventure, second chances, and a woman discovering a confidence and inner strength she never knew she possessed.</div>

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Willing Hostage

<div>In this twisting time-travel thriller, a woman faints on the eve of her wedding&mdash;and awakens at the turn of the century in her grandmother&rsquo;s body . . . The night before she is supposed to get married, Shay Garrett has no idea that a glimpse into her grandmother&rsquo;s antique Chinese mirror will completely transform her seemingly ordinary life. But after a bizarre blackout, she wakes up to find herself in the same house&mdash;but in the year 1900. Even stranger, she realizes she is now living in the body of her grandmother, Brandy McCabe, as a young woman. Meanwhile, Brandy, having looked into the same mirror, awakens in Shay&rsquo;s body in the present day&mdash;and discovers herself pregnant. As Rachael&mdash;the woman who links these two generations, mother to one and daughter to another&mdash;weaves back and forth between two time periods, this imaginative thriller explores questions of family, identity, and love. Courageous, compassionate Shay finds herself fighting against the confines of a society still decades away from women&rsquo;s liberation, while Brandy struggles to adapt to the modern world she has suddenly been thrust into. The truth behind this inexplicable turn of events is more complex than either woman can imagine&mdash;and The Mirror is a tribute to the triumph of the female spirit, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. &ldquo;What happens will surprise you. In the meantime, settle down for a good read.&rdquo; &mdash;The Denver Post</div>

The Mirror

<div>West Coast literary agent Charlie Greene is on the case when an unexplained murder baffles the local cops&mdash;and brings out Charlie&rsquo;s blossoming psychic gifts Raising a fast-maturing teenage daughter, keeping up with the mortgage payments, and trying to launch a successful Hollywood career would be difficult for anyone. But Charlie Greene has an additional, more unusual challenge to deal with: her emerging abilities as a clairvoyant. And when Gloria Tuschman, the universally hated receptionist in Charlie&rsquo;s office and a practicing witch, is found dead in a garbage can&mdash;and pleads for Charlie&rsquo;s help from beyond the grave&mdash;the police turn to the reluctant psychic for clues. Charlie&rsquo;s colorful cast of colleagues, including Larry the Kid and Dorian the Dapper, are high on the list of suspects. And Charlie can&rsquo;t rule out members of Gloria&rsquo;s own coven. After someone else vanishes, Charlie starts attending s&eacute;ances and follows a trail of blackmail and guilty secrets in an effort to unmask a killer who&rsquo;s scattering clues in this world and the next. She must believe in her new powers if she is to match wits with the murderer in this unpredictable paranormal mystery.</div>

Death of the Office Witch

<div>In a small Midwestern town, a long-dead woman haunts her son and the woman he loves in this supernatural chiller by the author of The Mirror. When Lynnette got married four years ago, all she wanted was to flee the confines of her dull hometown deep in the heart of the cornfields of Iowa. After the death of her husband, Lynnette has now returned to her famine-plagued farming town to care for her widowed mother. Looking to escape the boredom of being back home, she visits Jay Van Fleet in the old and eerie Van Fleet house, long rumored to be haunted by the ghost of Nella Van Fleet, Jay&rsquo;s mother who died during childbirth. Jay, haunted by a horrific near tragedy that shaped his boyhood, has reluctantly returned to his family homestead to claim his inheritance. Both coping with loss, Lynnette and Jay find solace in each other until terrifying and strange events start occurring in the Van Fleet house. The ghost of Jake&rsquo;s mother, Nella, feeding off the presence of her adored son, grows stronger by the day. She has already killed once for him, and she will kill again to ensure that he belongs to her&mdash;and her alone&mdash;for all eternity.</div>

Nella Waits

<div>In this modern twist on a Gothic classic, a woman awakens in the desert with no memory of who she is or how she got there A screeching hawk circling ominously above rouses a woman from sleep. She finds herself immersed in total darkness, with no idea of who she is or what she&rsquo;s doing here. Only two things tether her to reality: the intriguing Westerner who gives her a ride into town, and a piece of paper tucked into the waistband of her trousers, containing the handwritten words Captain Michael Devereaux, Luke A.F.B. Soon she discovers that her name is Laurel, and Michael Deveraux is the husband she abandoned two years ago, along with their newborn son. She has no memory of these missing twenty-four months, or of how she ended up in the Arizona desert. She also has no memory of Michael&mdash;now a bitter, volatile stranger&mdash;or of giving birth to their son. But she makes her way to the remote Devereaux estate, where she begins to believe that she is who everyone says she is. As Laurel struggles to put together the missing pieces of her life, it gradually becomes apparent that the shadowy terrors of her past pose a very real danger to her present&mdash;one that threatens her life and the life of her child.</div>

Michael's Wife

<div>A doorway to the past reveals a warning for the future in this time-travel adventure by the author of Michael&rsquo;s Wife Just released from prison after serving time for a false drug charge, Aletha Kingman decamps to Telluride, Colorado, for a fresh start. One day when she&rsquo;s sketching an abandoned miner&rsquo;s shack, she encounters a young girl, Callie, who&rsquo;s been transported from the turn of the century. Aletha follows Callie back in time to the rough-and-tumble mining town where the impoverished girl faces a future of disrepute and her brother Bram is caught in the bloody conflict between hard-working miners and their bosses. Together with her newfound friend, the enigmatic Cree, Aletha is determined to use her foresight from the future to make a difference in the past. Suffused with the social and political history of the American West, The Threshold crosscuts between the disparate worlds of glitzy modern-day Telluride and its past incarnation as a gritty, turbulent mining town, brilliantly posing the question of whether we can&mdash;or should&mdash;alter the course of history.</div>

The Threshold

<div>Hollywood agent Charlie Greene gets tangled up in a world of holistic intervention, out-of-body experiences, and murder in this thrilling paranormal mystery Hollywood literary agent and single mother Charlie Greene heads out of town to fog-bound Moot Point, Oregon, to meet a client, reclusive New Age author Jack Monroe. But Charlie barely has time to sample a veggie meal and bond with Jack&rsquo;s bronze Buddha statue before she runs into trouble: Local gossip Georgette Glick and her Schwinn bicycle have just been found under the wheels of Charlie&rsquo;s Toyota&mdash;which makes Charlie the prime suspect in Georgette&rsquo;s murder. Luckily, Moot Point sheriff Bennett discovers that Glick was shot, not run over, so Charlie is in the clear. But there are still too many unanswered questions. Who delivered the fatal bullet to Glick&rsquo;s head? And why was the seventy-eight-year-old riding her bike on a night with zero visibility in the first place? Alongside Sheriff Bennett, whose interest in Charlie seems decidedly more than professional, she resolves to find the murderer among the town&rsquo;s eccentrics, who include the suspiciously nongrieving widower, a holistic veterinarian, the victim&rsquo;s terrified neighbor, and a Byronic artist whose painting of a century-old local shipwreck matches the one in Charlie&rsquo;s recent nightmares. With the killer still at large, Charlie may be tempting an out-of-body experience of her own in this quirky and suspenseful novel.</div>

Murder at Moot Point

<div>Detoxing turns deadly when Hollywood agent Charlie Greene vows to prove that her troubled friend is no killer Agreeing to accompany her old friend Maggie to San Diego&rsquo;s exclusive Marina del Sol spa is a no-brainer for harried Hollywood agent and single mom Charlie Greene. What could be bad about chilling in the spa&rsquo;s purifying, gently eddying waters? Or being wrapped in seaweed and pampered with a granite body scrub and deep-tissue massage? Plenty, it turns out, when, after a lecture on orgasm after menopause, the camera-ready motivational speaker, Dr. Judy Judd, is found dead in one of the spa&rsquo;s pools. Maggie becomes the prime suspect when it&rsquo;s discovered that she was the last person to see the celebrity doctor alive. Charlie can barely get a coherent word out of her&mdash;especially with Maggie doped up on a dizzying cocktail of meds for her depression and wild mood swings. Then another murder rocks the spa. Joining forces with her ex-boyfriend, studly movie-star-turned-director Mitch Hilsten, Charlie fights to clear Maggie&rsquo;s name. But she may not be able to stop the killer, who&rsquo;s loose among the pampered detoxers and preparing for one final cleanse.</div>

Voices in the Wardrobe

<div>A Hollywood literary agent and single mother is a reluctant sleuth&mdash;and psychic&mdash;in this delightfully quirky quartet of paranormal mysteries. Kicking off with the &ldquo;entertainingly oddball&rdquo; debut novel in the Charlie Greene series, this volume gathers four of Millhiser&rsquo;s best high-spirited whodunits (Kirkus Reviews). Murder at Moot Point: Charlie Greene heads to foggy Moot Point, Oregon, to meet with a client, reclusive New Age author Jack Monroe, who is currently experimenting with out-of-body experiences. But when a real body is found under Charlie&rsquo;s car, she must find the real killer before she goes out of her mind. Death of the Office Witch: Gloria Tuschman&mdash;the receptionist at Charlie&rsquo;s office and also a practicing witch&mdash;rubbed everyone the wrong way, so someone rubbed her out. With Gloria&rsquo;s ghost calling to her from the great beyond, Charlie has no choice but to find who did it before someone else gets a cold-blooded reception. &ldquo;Humorous, inviting . . . written in crisp, likable prose&rdquo; (Library Journal). Murder in a Hot Flash: Charlie&rsquo;s mother, biology professor and rodent specialist Edwina Greene, is in Utah consulting on a documentary. Unfortunately, she&rsquo;s also the prime suspect in the murder of a science fiction film director. Now Charlie must team up with a Hollywood hunk and track down the dirty rat who did the deed if she hopes to clear her mom&rsquo;s name. &ldquo;Likable protagonists and wry humor make this a hit &rdquo; (Library Journal). Voices in the Wardrobe: Charlie takes her dear friend Maggie Stutzman to an exclusive San Diego spa to get some much-needed R&amp;R. But tensions rise after a celebrity motivational speaker is found dead in one of the pools and Maggie is facing murder charges. Charlie will need to flush out the killer hiding among the spa&rsquo;s pampered elite if she hopes to save her friend.</div>

Marlys Millhiser
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Books By Marlys Millhiser (11 Books)

Nightmare Country

Murder in a Hot Flash

Willing Hostage

The Mirror

Death of the Office Witch

Nella Waits

Michael's Wife

The Threshold

Murder at Moot Point

Voices in the Wardrobe

The Charlie Greene Mysteries

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