A New Series Is Coming

I have a new series coming out next year. Can you believe that's less than two months away? But A Bird in the Hand, the first book in the Idioms & Cliches series, will release on February 4, 2022. The book is set in Pennsylvania in 1776. Jocelyn Wright would prefer to be outside with her twin brother instead of in drawing rooms and social events. She has had to hide her true self and pretend to be the young lady everyone expects. But as Jonas gets ready to attend Philadelphia College, the colonies’ rebellion against the crown heats up, her family is forced to quarter British soldiers, and Bennet Hart comes into the picture, changes come much too fast for even her. A Bird in the Hand is ready for preorder now, and you won't be charged until you get the book. The audible version is in production.

Link to A Bird in the Hand -  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09JWMLYSP

In Going the Extra Mile, releasing around April 2, Aaron Johnson gets caught in a blizzard in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina on his way home to western Virginia. Aaron is Jocelyn's grandson from the first book. When his horse makes it to a remote cabin, he has frostbite and is in bad shape. Meghan Scott nurses him, but circumstances, including a murder, conspire to keep him from leaving. Maybe God intends for Aaron to do more than make it home as quickly as possible. He's trained in the ministry, but he can minister anywhere.

A Few Bumps in the Road, the third book in the series, moves from western Virginia to Kansas. Judith Johnson, Aaron's daughter, takes her younger brother and goes to Kansas as a mail-order bride after her parents die. Her husband, although handsome and charming, turns out to have a drinking problem and is a womanizer. However, Calvin's older brother is stable and responsible, providing a home for them on the farm. If only Matthew wasn't so shy and withdrawn. This book will release on June 3. I'm still not 100% sure of the cover for this one, but I'll have it worked out by the time it's published.

In Got Your Goat. Robert Johnson, Judith's brother, goes home with his friend from the Civil War after the war ends. The Appalachian Mountains are beautiful, but so is Lomax's neighbor, Emily Rose Howard. When her friend comes from Greensboro to propose, an errant goat helps set things right. But Robert is confused and needs to go home to Kansas to see his family. Will the shadows from the war ever leave them? This book is planned for release on July 15.

The final book in the series, set to release on September 2, begins in Washington D.C. but moves to the Appalachian Mountains as the Great Depression hits. Gage Bradford has his life all planned out. He's a successful lawyer with a bright political future, but then, he loses everything in the stock market crash. Their best option is to go to his wife's property in the Appalachian Mountains.  Allison is Robert Johnson's granddaughter and has never been at home among the social elite of Washington. However, when they get to the Appalachian Mountains, their roles reverse, and Gage is the one who doesn't fit in. 

I am excited about this series. The characters move around, so the settings change, but the Appalachians have a part in each novel. It's the last long series I have planned. There's a western trilogy in the works for the end of 2023, but there probably won't be a series in 2024. That's as far as I have planned so far. I have all the books written for the Idioms & Cliches series, and my editor will be starting on Going the Extra Mile soon. Right now, I'm writing the rough draft for the first MAP (multiple-author project) I have coming out in February of 2023. I like working ahead like this. It allows me to have the audible book ready around the same time as the other versions and gives me plenty of time to tweak the books and get them right.

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