The Key by Lois Carroll

Could opposites really be attracted? 

Kari, an underpaid American social worker on vacation in England, and the owner of a manor house there, Jeffreys, a recluse since his wife and young daughter disappeared? 

Kari finds out when a spirit in his garden gets her attention by pushing her in a muddy stream. Drawn into the mystery of his missing family, Kari wonders if she is the only one to see the vision. 

What is the family trying to hide? 

More importantly, could she take the chance of hurting Jeffreys by acting against his wishes and following the clues left by the spirit?

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Lois Carroll has been writing since her childhood when she received a daily diary as a gift.  With a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and a master’s in Theater, she began her professional writing and editing career working at a publishing company.  Now a wife, mother, and grandmother, she writes full time. To date she has published three hard cover books, two paperbacks, over a dozen e-books, plus short stories and non-fiction articles in national magazines. She has this and two other novels, a hard cover and a paperback, coming out in 2010. You can read about her available books and email her through her web site at: http://home.roadrunner.com/~topromances/lois_carroll/

The Key by Lois Carroll

Can opposites really be attracted? 

Kari is an underpaid American social worker on vacation in England.

Jeffreys, the owner of a manor house,  has lived the life of a recluse since the disappearance of his wife and young daughter. 

When a spirit pushes Kari into a muddy stream in Jeffreys’ garden, his life of solitude is irrevocably interrupted, but was it Kari’s imagination or is there a dark secret concerning his family to be discovered? 

More importantly, can she take the chance of hurting Jeffreys by acting against his wishes and following the clues left by the spirit?

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Lois Carroll has been writing since her childhood when she received a daily diary as a gift.  With a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and a master’s in Theater, she began her professional writing and editing career working at a publishing company.  Now a wife, mother, and grandmother, she writes full time. To date she has published three hard cover books, two paperbacks, over a dozen e-books, plus short stories and non-fiction articles in national magazines. She has this and two other novels, a hard cover and a paperback, coming out in 2010. You can read about her available books and email her through her web site at: http://home.roadrunner.com/~topromances/lois_carroll/

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Echelon Press is pleased to welcome J.S Farthing to our team of authors. Echelon will be publishing her novel Deacon’s Deception. You can get to know a litte bit more about this up and coming author by visiting her web site at http://www.jsfarthing.com.

We also welcome Rob Tobin, author of the upcoming God Wars. We will also publish novels by Jon Gibbs, author of Fur-face in our Quake Division. In our Explorations division you will meet Marian Allen, author of Eel’s Reverence, and Ralph Hieb, author of Feeders (a vampire novel), and Jeanette Angell, Assignment Nepal.

Over the last couple of months we have also contracted works from Stephen Brayton, author of Beta, Una Tiers, author of Judge vs. Nuts, Gale Borger, author of Totally Buzzed, Pat Dueson, author of Superior Longings, Elaine Abramson, author of Thursday’s Child, Verna Clay, author of :11 ‘Countdown to 2012′, and The Theory of Everything, Jeremy Trible, author of Dream Runner, and J.F. Hilborne, author of Madness & Murder  and No Alibi. In our Quake division you’ll also see the publication of Empty Houses by John Paultis, The Wrong Guy by Claudia Whitsitt,  and Snowstorm by Connie Hullander.

If you are waiting for something from your Echelon favorites, you’ll be glad to know that we have new releases scheduled from several of our current authors. You’ll get Cape Seduction by Anne Carter (this is the follow-up to Carter’s Lighthouse novel Point Surrender). We’ll have Outwitted by newcomer Beth Solheim, Passions of the Dead, the fourth installment of the Detective Jackson mysteries by L.J. Sellers, Reunion, book two in the Jack Marston mysteries by the beloved Carl Brookins, as well as St. Martin’s Moon by our favorite fantasy author Marc Vun Kannon. And for those of you who need a touch of romance we’ve got The Key by Lois Carroll.

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Amy Winslow isn’t looking for a mystery; she doesn’t even like secrets. In fact, secrets have nearly destroyed her life. So, when a terrible accident forces her to take control of her brother’s mysterious California lighthouse, Amy finds herself immersed in its shocking past and uncertain future. Enchanted by the mystery, she refuses to rest until she finds out who died in the aging white beacon, and why. Case McKenna hasn’t quite reconciled his own painful history when he sails his crippled boat into Newburg Harbor, intending to stay only long enough to make repairs. His plans change when he becomes entangled with a local couple intent on restoring a long-shuttered lighthouse. Despite an overwhelming urge to flee, Case follows intrigue and passion, as he, too, finds himself drawn in by Point Surrender…