For all of my friends celebrating Pascha, also known as Orthodox Easter, I hope you have a wonderful weekend. May you be blessed with fine weather, good health, and the Father’s protection and love.
I’m excited this morning because I’ve finally finished the last book in the Harvester Files series and it’s ready for you. As I tweak and polish, I hope you’ll find this book as enjoyable, and maybe a little disturbing as you did the first three. Book Four, The White Dahlia will be released May 10, 2021!
It started with an idea for a story. Top investigators try to stop a madman and his followers from murdering millions and imposing their fanatic beliefs on others. Just when you think it can’t get worse, it does. There’s always a new Harvester waiting to pick up where the other left off!
The first book, The White Carnation introduced the cult.
He’s watching, waiting…
The last person disgraced reporter Faye Lewis wants back in her life is Detective Rob Halliday, her former fiancé, the man she blames for ruining her career and breaking her heart. But when she discovers her best friend’s mother murdered, she doesn’t hesitate to call him.
Breaking up with Faye after she unjustly accused him of sabotaging her career was a crippling personal blow for Rob, but he coped by burying himself in his work. For the past year, his team has been hunting the Harvester, a serial killer who ritualistically murders new mothers and vanishes with their infants. What Rob doesn’t need is another case, especially one involving his ex-fiancée. But, when the killer’s newest victim resembles Faye, all bets are off.
When Faye is assaulted in her own apartment, Rob realizes that not only are these cases connected, Faye may be the key to finding the elusive killer, providing Rob can keep her out of the maniac’s hands.
Realizing her vulnerability, Faye agrees to set aside their past to work the case together, but the more they investigate, the more complex the situation becomes. The mad man has an agenda, one that involves Faye. Can they catch the Harvester before he finds Faye and reaps another prize?
Then came book two, The White Lily where the Prophet became more visible.
He’s back and he’s angry. Last year, the Harvester taskforce dealt the killer and the New Horizon Commune a bitter blow, but the mastermind known as The Prophet escaped. Now, he’s back to recover what he considers stolen property. FBI cult specialist Lilith Munroe lives in dread that one day the man who tortured her when a case went bad will find her again. Leaving her sanctuary in DC to join the Harvester taskforce in Boston is her version of hell. But what choice does she have? The Harvester is kidnapping babies, and Lilith’s profiling skills may mean the difference between life and death for society’s most innocent. Australian millionaire and Interpol agent, Jacob Andrews, former member of the New Horizon Commune, returns to the United States searching for his sister. Mistaken for his twin brother, he’s arrested. Instead of the happy reunion he expects with his sister, he discovers she is dead and all signs point to his twin’s involvement. Fueled by a need for revenge against The Prophet, the man who left him for dead years ago, Jacob agrees to assist the task force, knowing his skills and knowledge are critical in finding his former cult leader before the man implements his plan to kill millions. Uneasy partners, Jacob and Lilith must learn to trust each other to find the monster as they fight their growing attraction. When Lilith’s greatest fears materialize, can Jacob set aside his own rage to save the woman he loves?
But they weren’t done yet at the Prophet got ready to make his move in The White Iris.
Time’s running out for Special Agent Trevor Clark and the Harvester Task Force. No closer to discovering the Prophet’s secret identity. Trevor channels all of his energy into re-examining the clues to the Great Burning. As the Prophet and his newest Harvester make good on the second plague and the body count escalates, Trevor is convinced they will be facing a biological threat. In uncharted territory, he looks to the CDC and virologist Dr. Julie Swift for answers, but their past relationship won’t make it easy. Two years ago, Julie ended their engagement after what she saw as Trevor’s lies and betrayal. Unable to move on, she’s focused her efforts on her career. When Trevor asks for help and her superior authorizes it, she has no choice but to agree, a decision that may cost her not only her heart but her life. On the run, knowing a killer may be after her, trusting the man who hurt her isn’t easy, but when his Great Burning turns out to be a potential pandemic, Julie sets aside her emotions to stop the monster. Hiding in the wilds of Alaska, she waits and watches, searching for a vaccine to prevent the greatest epidemic since the Spanish flu. Julie puts her heart and her life into the hands of the only man who may be able to bring down The Prophet before he unleashes Armageddon. Will she lose them both, or will Trevor keep his promises this time?
With the threat and the cult eliminated, it should be over, but not quite. Not everyone was accounted for and while it’s taken them time to resurface, when they do, it’s worse than even in The White Dahlia.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Michael and Rafe Colchester escaped death in Alaska and eluded the FBI in Reno when the Harvester Task Force took down the Prophet and his son Adam, putting an end to the threat of the Great Burning.
Beth Reynolds, a member of the task force vowed to get them all, but with a trail as cold as the one they had, she had no choice but to go back to Boston. Unable to pick up the pieces of her life there, constantly on the lookout for those who’d served the Prophet, she joined NYPD, hoping the change would help her heal. Called a hero after stopping a crazed shooter in Central Park, she’s slowly getting it together again … until a vicious murder brings it all back. Recognizing the victim whose organs and blood are missing as a Missing Person, she calls for help.
Al Foster moved from St. Louis and joined the NYPD after his ex-wife went missing. He recognizes the body as one of his cold cases. With Beth’s insight, he begins to see things from her point of view and realizes his ex-wife could well have been one of this serial killer’s victims, making solving the case a joint FBI-NYPD operation. But where does the stalker find his prey with its specific blood type?
When forensic evidence points to the fact that this killer may be one of the Colchesters, the case becomes personal for both of them. As he works with her, Al must fight his growing attraction for the woman determined to bring down the Colchesters at all costs, but with Beth possessing all of the qualities they require in a woman, will she get them before they get her?
All of the Harvester Files books are available from Amazon. If you have read any of the series, please consider leaving a review! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NG1L645
The White Dahlia can be preordered now. It will release May 10 and is available from all Amazon retailers. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093XMWKRH
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