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Claire Riordan's lifelong mission to recover a portrait of her aunt, renowned artist Eva Riordan, takes her from a dull night job at the Kimbell Art Museum to the isolated Montana estate of a fading Hollywood icon.
Newly independent PI Sam Walsh needs clients, and she can’t afford to be picky. When her old boss sends a prospective client her way, Sam takes the case against her better judgment. Caught between a dishonest client and a shadowy foe, Sam will either solve her first case or die trying.
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Private Investigator Samantha Walsh has been in denial about her true identity for 25 years. When a terrifying figure from her past explodes back into her life, Sam will have to decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice to stop running from her father’s killers.
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Hike the high desert with Abigail and her faithful German Shepherd as they search for a man who doesn’t want to be found. Will her quarry have the answers she needs, or will he make her question everything?
Thanks to her boss, Agent Jim Camposanto, Anna finds herself caught between two deadly criminal cabals. Hang on tight with Anna as she descends into a web of lies and danger first woven over 70 years ago.
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Fresh off an unlikely triumph abroad, Anna thinks life is getting back to normal until a visit from an old enemy sets her on a collision course with danger once more. It’s true what they say: There’s always a Bigger Fish.
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Anna and her loved ones are trapped in the cross-hairs of an unhinged, transcontinental family feud. With no way out, they have no choice but to rely on Jim’s brain and Anna’s brawn to survive and make it home.
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Anna tries to achieve her childhood dream of becoming an FBI agent. Ensnared instead in an older agent’s grandiose schemes, she’ll have to focus on surviving long enough to get answers.
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Anna and her sister wanted a fun night out to celebrate Anna’s birthday. Instead they’ll make a new friend who may be crazy and who forces them to face their darkest thoughts.
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At 17 years old, Anna is starting to understand her place in the world when a high-school heart throb and his hard case friend accidentally team up to change her life, for better or worse.
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A sunny, Mediterranean paradise will be Anna’s home until her mission is over. Will she overcome danger and make it out alive, or succumb to self-doubt and perish far from home?
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The final chapters of Anna’s story are coming. In Book Five, Anna, Dude, Luke, and Jim — along with some new friends — return to the cabin where it all started to make their last stand against the enemies they’ve met along the way... and the ones they’ve created. The fifth and final companion prequel will tell the story of Anna meeting the most important and goodest boy: Dude.
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A woman moves to Helena for mysteries reasons and buys a huge, old house. She discovers a squatter, with whom she must contend while attempting to complete the job that brought her to the small Montana town.
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High school junior Miguel thought getting an underage drinking charge would derail his life at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, but when his new friends draw him into their world of pranks and mischief, he'll discover there's a lot more going on at NMMI than he ever imagined. Will Miguel maintain his hard-won GPA and graduate with a diploma that will open doors from him wherever he wants to go, all while learning how to mix a little fun into his busy life? Will his new friends have his back when things start to get spooky?
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All alone one night, Rodney is clearing out a storage unit. His biggest problem is his wife's massive book collection, at least until the lights go out and he realizes he's not alone. Something is living deep in the bowels of the storage facility, and it's about to make a break for freedom. Unfortunately for Rodney, he's right in the creature's path.
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A short memoir about budding author AK Weller's increasingly nonsensical attempts to fill a void in her life caused by an abusive relationship. From Oklahoma to Texas to Colorado, she hops from one distraction to another until she realizes the answer to her problem is starting over.
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AK started writing in middle school, when she and her friends swapped Sailor Moon and Redwall fanfiction. Hers was some of the most appallingly inept fiction ever committed to paper, and the memory of it haunts her to this day.
As one should always do, AK persisted in being terrible at her hobby until she became passable at it. One day she woke up, started writing, and discovered her writing was almost halfway decent; so she kept writing, beginning work on an early iteration of what would become her first published novel, Enemy Closer.
AK was getting a little bit good at writing. With her husband’s encouragement, she joined a novel review group and endured the first true criticism since her middle school friends dubbed her the “third best writer” in their group of three. Thanks to that group’s feedback, she was confident enough to start self-publishing her novels in 2022. They were okay.
From 2022 to 2024, AK published five novels and seven short stories. At the end of 2024, she unpublished everything; and in March 2025, she began anew with The Lost Portrait. The second edition of Enemy Closer was published in June 2025, with more second editions following in their own time.
AK writes thriller and mystery novels and short stories, with a few light science fiction and non-fiction short stories thrown in. Her writing is clean if occasionally blunt, and much like Lord of the Rings is scrupulously free of sex and profanity but contains some scenes of violence that aren’t appropriate for young audiences. Her favorite books to read over and over again were written by JRR Tolkien, Stieg Larsson, Sue Grafton, Michael Crichton, and JK Rowling.
AK draws inspiration from a life well and adventuresomely lived, from a peaceful childhood in the Bible belt to a decade-long first life as a homemaker and graphic designer in Texas, and from a new beginning as an investigator in New Mexico to her current life as a copywriter in Montana. She loves life with her husband, three dogs, and four cats.
The most believable aspects of her fiction are fabricated, and the parts that could only have sprung from the recesses of an overactive imagination are secretly true stories. Dive into The Lost Portrait or Enemy Closer (the first in a five-book series) and try to sort fact from fiction, and sign up for my newsletter to find out when new stories are published.
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