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The Book That Changes Everything

Raine Stockton wanted a small wedding. Instead, she got helicopters, private security, international guests, and a mystery before the vows.

When a suspicious new client appears at Dog Daze, Raine’s home is bugged and a security consultant assigned to watch her property is found shot after a crash. Cisco, her golden retriever search-and-rescue dog, makes the live find—but the rescue is only the beginning.

Someone is targeting Miles Young’s global business empire, and the threat has reached Raine’s mountain home. With the wedding hours away, Raine must untangle corporate sabotage, old military secrets, and a guest list full of suspects before the celebration turns deadly.

Bones From the Sky takes a beloved mystery series beyond small-town intrigue and into high-stakes romantic suspense, with search-and-rescue action, corporate sabotage, international danger, and a deadly threat to everyone Raine loves.

Available everywhere Sept. 24; pre-order for your Kindle now!

 

Jagged Edges: Raine Stockton Dog Mystery #17

 

Now available in paperback and for Kindle!  Audio coming soon. 

Raine Stockton Dog Mystery #17 

Dog trainer and search‑and‑rescue specialist Raine Stockton is trying to rebuild her life after a year she’d rather forget—one that included false arrest, public scrutiny, and more heartbreak than any small town should dish out. With her golden retriever partner Cisco by her side, Raine hopes the new year will finally bring calm.

It doesn’t.

When a frightened woman disappears, a battered dog is found abandoned, and a powerful outsider begins buying up land around the county, Raine is drawn into a case that hits far too close to home. What starts as a routine act of compassion quickly exposes a chilling network of kidnapping, murder and corruption—one powerful enough to reach far beyond the mountains and silence anyone who gets too close.

As snowstorms close roads and tensions flare, Raine must rely on her instincts, her training, and Cisco’s unerring nose to uncover the truth. But in a place where everyone knows your name, it’s the things no one talks about that can get you killed.

Jagged Edges is a gripping, emotionally rich mystery that blends small‑town secrets, a heroic search‑and‑rescue dog and high‑stakes suspense— where justice is hard‑won and deeply human.

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The Saga of The Hunter Concludes

A Flash of Shadow, the conclusion of the Saga of the Hunter trilogy, is now available in paperback, audio, and for your Kindle! Order from Amazon here .  Also available for Nook.

After two and a half long years, The Saga of the Hunter is complete! This is the first time characters from one of my mystery series have crossed over to another series, and with A Flash of Shadow(Dogleg Island Mystery #7), the Hunter's journey comes to an end. Thanks to all who made the conclusion of the trilogy the #1 new release in mysteries on Amazon!

To read more about each book in The Saga of the Hunter trilogy, check it out here. 

And you can read about the making of the trilogy at www.donnaballblog.com.

 

Dogleg Island Mystery #7 Coming Soon!

 

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Coming September 25

The Saga of the Hunter trilogy, which began with Dead Man's Trail (Raine Stockton Dog Mystery #16) and continued with Undefeatable: A Buck Lawson Mystery (Blood River series Book #3) concludes on Dogleg Island with A FLASH OF SHADOW.  Patrick Henry Jessup, who has left a bloody trail of victims across America's parks and national forests, returns to the Gulf Coast of Florida where he was born.  But has he come home to die, or to kill?

Even if you haven't read the other two books in the series (though I hope you do!) fans of Flash won't want to miss this one.  Changes are coming to Dogleg Island, and you'll want to be a part of them.  The paperback and hardcover editions will be available September 25, with the audio version coming shortly thereafter, but you can pre-order your copy for Kindle now.

  

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The Saga of the Hunter Continues with Book # 3 of The Blood River Series.

The quiet little south Georgia town of Mercy is rocked by the brutal murder of one of its most unassuming citizens. Within hours of the discovery of the crime, the remains of another victim are found in the Blood River. And then another.  Things like this simply don’t happen in Mercy.

Until they do.

Police Chief Buck Lawson is still finding his way around his new hometown and his new job, but he is no stranger to the savagery that appears to be stalking the residents of Mercy once again. The black waters of the Blood River have a reputation as a killing field that goes back centuries, and Buck has seen for himself the kind of predator they attract.

While struggling with civil unrest, departmental incompetence, and unintentional interference from state investigators, Buck comes upon a set of twenty-year-old crimes that suggest a pattern.  Has the same killer returned to Mercy now?  And has he done so many, many times in the past?  

Buck Lawson races against time to catch a killer and protect the town he has come to call home from the shadows that lurk beneath its surface.  As the hunter becomes the hunted, the line between predator and prey blurs, leading to a desperate confrontation in which only the most determined will survive.

Audible edition coming soon! 

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On the Trail Again…

Deep in the heart of the Smoky Mountain wilderness there are a thousand things that will kill you. One of them is human.

Wilderness expert and dog trainer Raine Stockton agrees to help lead a survival skills training camp for her fiancé’s executive team.  She is unaware that she and her tracking dog, Cisco, are walking into a hotbed of corporate intrigue involving espionage and stolen technology. Everyone at the retreat is a suspect, and no one can be trusted. And none of them is aware that, while their small drama plays out, a much bigger threat is stalking them.

On a routine survival exercise, the group becomes stranded in the wilderness with an ice storm moving in.  With all communications disabled, they are completely cut off from the modern world and being hunted by a man to whom killing is a way of life.   One by one their members are picked off and the survivors must rely on Raine and Cisco to lead them to safety.  But as the killer draws ever closer, even Raine is no longer sure where safety lies.

Don’t miss this thrilling first installment in The Hunter Saga, Raine and Cisco’s most harrowing adventure yet!

Coming in PRINT May 30, and on Audible this summer. 

 

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Also available for Nook

It's been two years since FLASH IN THE DARK and many readers had given up on ever finding out what happened to Aggie, Grady, Flash and friends.  But good news: they're back! FLASH OF FIRE takes place in the late summer following the events of FLASH IN THE DARK and before the events of THE GOOD SHEPHERD.  It may sound confusing, but don't worry-- it's all self-explanatory once you start reading.

Many people have asked why I chose to release THE GOOD SHEPHERD before FLASH OF FIRE. The answer is fairly simple.  With three ongoing mystery series, I knew it would be a long time between books for readers of the Dogleg Island Mysteries.  I didn't want readers to think I'd abandoned them, so I released a Christmas anthology of short stories from each series to tide readers over until the next full-length novel.  It seems to have worked well, and I may do it again from time to time.

In fact, once you finish FLASH OF FIRE, you may want to get in the holiday mood again with THE GOOD SHEPHERD.  It's available for Kindle for $2.99, or you can read the entire anthology, DECK THE HALLS: A HOLIDAY MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY in paperback or  e-book.