Gretchen Rix

• May-2023
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Lumen could not move, but she could let her imagination run riot. So far there had been a David who wasn't really David, and a Sir Bertram who was a tiger, but the tigers weren't really tigers, not to mention Taylor Finch, with and without his hand. ...

• Sep-2022
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READ NOW, NAP LATER short stories for insomniacs. Welcome to my world (insomnia). I'm the author of the short story collections Ill Met By Moonlight, Baby Sings the Boos, and Twisted Rixter. Most of these READ NOW, NAP LATER stories are cozy-level my...

• Dec-2021
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For your consideration: A horror novel set in the Piney Woods of East Texas near the town of Palestine where a train has mysteriously stalled.It's 1885. The snow has finally stopped and the train's twelve passengers have just begun to realize they'r...

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• Sep-2018
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Having her will cost Junyur Wilde everything else he's ever wanted. Letting him go will force May Ling back into the whorehouse she's hoping to escape. The Cimarron Bride is their story, a western romance set against the backdrop of the very last Okl...

• Aug-2017
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All that stands between Captain Carmady and an exceptionally ugly death is his First Lieutenant Joan Chikage. And she will not budge. The Goodall Marauders, book three in the Goodall series of science fiction mysteries....

• Nov-2016
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Walking death, they're called.And those horrible macadamia trees.But their real names are Whig, Mary Jane, and Quetzalcoatl, just to name three of them.Trees don't walk. But here they do. In Ill Met By Moonlight they walk, they kill, they eat people,...

• Jul-2016
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The adventure continues for Lieutenant Joan Chikage of the USS Goodall. Surely, after all she'd gone through, he couldn't mean to put her back in the same boring assignment. Even if it was important in some way, she was done with that job. And ready ...

• Mar-2016
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All the normal sounds usually reaching the lower decks of the USS Goodall during routine subspace flight have just been cut off. As if someone at the controls suddenly wants the crew isolated. No loudly arguing male voices, no deliberately mishandled...

• Jan-2015
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In each of these original Boo and Baby stories from the author of The Cowboy's Baby and Talking To The Dead Guys, something always goes wrong. These tales introduce you to two of the quirkiest animals that Texas has ever seen.There's singing involved...

• Jan-2015
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How can you run a successful annual Writers' Tea party when your guest author turns up murdered, and when your choice for a substitute speaker might be the prime suspect? Think old timey British mystery novel, but set it in Texas and put some barbecu...

• Dec-2014
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Cannibals. Man-eating lions. Crocodiles. Pygmies. Monkeys. Lost Cities. Lots of naked people. Mr. Bryce, the best Great White Hunter of them all, rues the day he ever met one Miss Gafford from Texas. Darkest Africa may never be the same. Little does ...

• Jan-2014
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For your consideration--six devilishly twisted tales. For those who like them quirky.
SAINTS & SINNERS--On the cruise ship Ascendant, sinners play as heaven and hell hang in the balance. And saints? They toss, throw, push or shove people overboard...

• Nov-2013
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Following on the heels (and hooves) of the first novel in this Texas trilogy, The Cowboy's Baby Goes To Heaven kicks off a merry chase with more than a few twists, turns, and hi-jinks. Again, the author has included a modern adaptation of a classic f...

• Sep-2012
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A Texas mystery about a dog, strong women, and small-town living (or is it dying?). Shoot! I'll cut right to the chase. When me and my sister's mastiff Boo Radley drags me off my feet during the damned cemetery tour right onto a dead corpse, the dog ...

• Nov-2011
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As Daniel watched, Ramona crept closer to her former burden, telling herself she only wanted to see if the chains were broken and unusable. She didn't want to admit that it was talking to her again. "Nieta," it hissed. The snake head moved its dead j...

• Jul-2010
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As mischievous goats gleefully terrorize an outdoor charity event...When Sleeping Beauty meets Prince Charming and first takes her cowboy boot-shod foot off his chest...And friends scramble to stake their claim to true love's bliss...The Cowboy's Bab...