Sheila Mackey Collection

She must save a strange world with a gift she hates.Alex has felt like an alien long before she was sent to this academy. All she can do is stay silent and separate, inside her bubble of numbness. Then a weird storm whips up and the grown-ups are acting even weirder. She can't even get her bearings before the storm seems to pick her up and transport her into a truly alien world.If she's ever to get back to get home? she must accept another part of her and learn to use the gift of magic she's always hated and hidden.The Sheila Mackey CollectionLattimore Mountain (small town romance)Alex in Search (young adult fantasy)Make Believe (romantic suspense)What is the Sheila Mackey Collection?Sheila Mackey is the main character and lead sleuth in Patricia McLinn's cozy mystery series Secret Sleuth. Under another name, Sheila once was known as the author of a megabestseller book/cultural phenomenon . . . which was actually written by her great aunt. Now, her great aunt has retired from those books and booted Sheila out of the next (for her own good.)In Book 1 -- Death on the Diversion -- Sheila searches for a new path. And inadvertently finds it after discovering a fellow cruise passenger murdered in a deck chair.Starting in Book 2 -- Death on Torrid Avenue -- Sheila is in small-town Kentucky, building a new life, including a rescue collie dog named Gracie, a new best friend named Clara, and an ex police detective name Teague O'Donnell, who's clearly interested in Sheila . . . or in her secrets?As she builds her new life, Sheila recognizes an urge to write novels. But what kind? Her experiments in genres and styles are brought together for your reading pleasure here in The Sheila Mackey Collection.(Okay, okay, a fictional character can't write novels on her own. Though if there were a way to pull that off . . . But nope, these were written by Patricia McLinn with Sheila Mackey as a fictional / always in the back of the head collaborator. Some stemmed from manuscripts that didn't fit the rest of Patricia's catalog or from one-off forays into projects with other authors that also didn't fit the brand. All were extensively rewritten and none are AI.)And if you haven't read it yet, be sure to check out the Secret Sleuth mystery series.

Just like a movie . . . but you can't close your eyes. A murder? In her little Virginia town? Who would want to kill the town's gentle philanthropist. And why does Bryen Ann McMurphy have trouble believing the murderer everyone's chasing is the stranger she gave directions to on her way to work at the library?But she better believe it, because he's just car-jacked her old bomber, with her in it.Bryen quotes life lessons and adventure plots from the movies, but never expects such drama in her real life.She must solve this murder while on the run with . . . him. And she doesn't know if he's the villain or hero. She better decide right. Her life depends on it.The Sheila Mackey CollectionLattimore Mountain (small town romance)Alex in Search (young adult fantasy)Make Believe (romantic suspense)What is The Sheila Mackey Collection?Sheila Mackey is the main character and lead sleuth in Patricia McLinn's cozy mystery series Secret Sleuth. Under another name, Sheila once was known as the author of a megabestseller book/cultural phenomenon . . . which was actually written by her great aunt. Now, her great aunt has retired from those books and booted Sheila out of the next (for her own good.)In Book 1 -- Death on the Diversion -- Sheila searches for a new path. And inadvertently finds it after finding a fellow cruise passenger murdered in a deck chair.Starting in Book 2 -- Death on Torrid Avenue -- Sheila is in small-town Kentucky, building a new life, including a rescue collie dog named Gracie, a new best friend named Clara, and an ex police detective name Teague O'Donnell, who's clearly interested in Sheila . . . or in her secrets?As she builds her new life, Sheila recognizes an urge to write novels. But what kind? Her experiments in genres and styles are brought together for your reading pleasure here in The Sheila Mackey Collection.(Okay, okay, a fictional character can't write novels on her own. Though if there were a way to pull that off . . . But nope, these were written by Patricia McLinn with Sheila Mackey as a fictional / always in the back of the head collaborator. Some stemmed from manuscripts that didn't fit the rest of Patricia's catalog or from one-off forays into projects with other authors that also didn't fit the brand. All were extensively rewritten and none are AI.)And if you haven't read it yet, be sure to check out the Secret Sleuth mystery series.