ANNOUNCING: SAPPHIRE BLUE PUBLISHING HAS CONTRACTED TO PUBLISH CLANDESTINE CARGO, final title, AS SOON AS THEIR EDITORS FINISH USING THEIR PRUNING SHEARS. This is any minute now!
Sapphire Blue is an internet publishing company, so look for this "moral, safe mystery novel" on their website. When the editing is complete, you'll find the first chapter for free on the Excerpt Page. This is an ebook and will be available everywhere ebooks are sold.
Clandestine Cargo, Copyright TXu 1-249-892
by Janet McGuire Hendershot
Who's trying to stop Mary Katherine (Katie) O'Quinn (new name for protagonist) from sending aid to struggling Americans stranded in today's Cuba? What is Katie O'Quinn actually sending to Cuba? Is it truly aid, or something more sinister?
What about the boy next door, (Buck Evans) who wears a promise ring along with Katie to pledge his abstinence until they marry? Will he wait for her to finish medical school and open her free clinic for impoverished children? Or will a delicate flower from Cuba snatch him from right under Katie's nose?
What are Katie's father, Jason and Buck, up to when they fly under the radar of authorities with their bogus fishing trips?
And what about Buck's alcoholic mother, Lora? Is she's another ring in Katie's circus, or is she the only one in the crowd who knows what's going on? Too bad she's never sober enough to be taken seriously.
Read Clandestine Cargo and find out. To be published soon!
It is only fair to tell you, that I have written five novels, and presenting them is the purpose of this site.
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Backyard Burial, "Who Done it" novel, a moral, safe mystery by Janet McGuire Hendershot. No sex, no profanity, just plot, and lots of it!
Copyright #TXu1-162-477 ISBN#1-4241-3372-6 Published by Publish America, May 2006 - Available in all local bookstores now and on all internet book web sites. To purchase directly from Publish America click here: Purchase my book online at PublishAmerica.com John Fleming, potential love interest of Matrina McCoy, who is a nine-eleven widow and lives in Sarasota, Florida, is arrested for murder one due to the discovery of a body buried in his backyard. Matrina must prove John innocent before time runs out. The frame is so tight, I was afraid for a long while he might actually be guilty. (Read Chapter 1 for free on the excerpt continued page.) Backyard Burial has been introduced at several booksignings at Barnes & Noble and Waldenbooks in Florida and southern Georgia. **********************************************************************************
Dangerous World, a moral, safe mystery - again, no sex, no profanity, just lots of plot by Janet McGuire Hendershot
Copyright #TXu1-093-931 (Unpublished at the moment.) Note: Dangerous World has been awarded second place in the Royal Palm Literary Award Contest for 2008 for unpublished mystery fiction. In Dangerous World, Matrina McCoy, nine-eleven widow, moves to Sarasota, Florida, with her children to begin a new life. She becomes involved in solving the case of a kidnapped teenager and must bring this child home before her captors prove that her world is more than dangerous. It is on the verge of becoming fatal. *********************************************************************************** And then there's: Power Down, copyright #TXu1-337-324, another Matrina book, still a moral, safe mystery, no sex, no profanity. Matrina is sent to work undercover at a nuclear power plant in Florida because al Qaeda is seen as a threat to the plant. She also becomes involved in a military payroll robbery, and the murder of a power plant executive. This is the most trouble Matrina has been in since she's been appearing in these moral mystery novels, but she survives. The bad guys do not.
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Yesterday Rising, just finished, first draft stage.
Matrina McCoy does battle with a college professor who is teaching students that our flag and our national anthem need to be changed to reflect our image of unity and peace. He teaches all men are not created equal, and therein lies the problem. In the middle of this, a Senator is murdered, and Matrina helps free the woman accused of the murder. In the middle of this new crisis, Matrina is in an accident and her mind rejects all things current. She is back fifteen years and looking for her husband who was killed on nine-eleven. Will she succeed in defending students against the propaganda of this professor? Will she help free the accused murderess? Will she regain her memory and know who her children are? Hopefully, Yesterday Rising will appear and the answers will hit you right over the head.