Butterfly Dreams

Currently I'm busy creating Butterfly Dreams. The book features romance and suspense, many twists, and a special surprise at the ending for my readers.

Ruby's Deadly Secret was nominated for best mystery in 2010 at the Preditors and Editors annual Poll. Results are in and Ruby placed eighth. I'm honored. Competition is tough as the most hard boiled detective, stiff as a dead body and rewarding as winning the lottery -- at least to a mystery writer. :)

Ruby's Deadly Secret -- available in five formats

Ruby's Deadly Secret

The second book in the Sheryl Locke Holmes Mystery Series is available Tuesday, November 23 in five different formats. Yippee!

Buy link: http://www.wildchildpublishing.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=83&products_id=329

Sheryl Locke Holmes: Book 2: Ruby's Deadly Secret

$2.99

Available November 23, 2010

by C.L. Exline

What do you get when you add a ruby, diary, secrets, and a mansion? A motive for murder. Sheryl Locke Holmes and her best friend, Dot Watson, have been offered an exciting opportunity to explore Bridgeside, a Victorian mansion, to search for items for their antique shop. Their adventure is short-lived when they discover a diary containing dark secrets and a newspaper clipping with a warning written in what appears to be blood. They get trapped in the attic, Dot is attacked and they find out the owner died inside the house. As if that isn't enough, Jake is spotted with another woman. Clues are pointing to Sheryl as the next target, no matter who gets in the way.

Excerpt from Ruby's Deadly Secret

by C.L. Exline

Sheryl gazed into Jake's eyes and caressed his cheek. "I'm sorry for overreacting. For a brief moment, I thought I had lost you. I know better, but I'd just been with Mrs. Wallace and listened to how much her husband's betrayal had hurt her. I wasn't thinking, not with my head. Forgive me."
"Take your hands off of me!" yelled a voice in the distance.
Sheryl and Jake looked over to see Dot being physically escorted out of the restaurant.
"Madam!"
"Look, you little toad, take your hands off of me."
"I better intercede before Dot gets physical." Jake hurried to smooth things over. "Lawrence, it'll be okay. I'll take over."
Lawrence let go of Dot, but glared at her before facing Jake. "She and that blonde friend of hers are not welcome in our establishment. Both are troublemakers. We run a reputable business and cannot have altercations disrupting our patrons."
"Like I care to go back in! I wouldn't go in that rat hole if my life depended on it," Dot said and rubbed her arm. "You better hope I don't get bruises from your manhandling me."
The man snorted before stomping back into the restaurant.
"You didn't hit Lisa, did you?" Jake asked.
"Lawrence wouldn't let me."

Butterfly Dreams

Working on my new book -- Butterfly Dreams.

Legend goes: if anyone desires a wish to come true they must capture a butterfly and whisper that wish to it. By making the wish and releasing the butterfly it will be taken to the heavens and be granted.

Abby has a wish. Maybe in her dreams, her heart's desire will come true. She follows the trail of the golden butterfly, what will she find?

Title of next book?

Expo was a success!!

Saturday was an awesome day for the Mystery Mountain Crafters Expo. Beautiful weather, lots of vendors, and lots of balloons, coffee and food. Here are just a few photos of that glorious day. The above photos are of my books and the props from the stories in the books.

Great Cove Baskets and Gifts

Something else to check out at the Mystery Mountain Crafters Expo, Sat., Oct. 2, from 10 to 4 p.m. at the Event Center, in Berkeley Springs, WV, is Great Cove Baskets & Gifts.

They also have fabrics which are made into awesome purses. Great Cove Baskets is located at 105 Lincoln Way East, McConnellsburg, PA.

For more information, call 717-987-9554.