Jennifer Daniels Neal – författare

A short and sweet, feel-good love story by the award-winning author of The Locke Box.

When a bike wreck leaves Ginny wondering if she''ll lose her arm, Seth (the guy who wrecked her) visits the hospital every day with an old Army rucksack stuffed full of "survival magic" (one-handed activities to keep her spirits up). When it is revealed why Seth is so good at surviving, however, the magic will have to work both ways.

Sassy but sweet, sexy but clean, this novella tackles a big story with Neal''s signature humor and swoon-worthy characters. Think Breakfast at Tiffany''s meets crime story drama. Book description: Chef Reesie''s powerful wink and her delight in all things Audrey Hepburn seem to float her along, but secretly, she''s growing more and more afraid of her stalker ex-boyfriend. When police are summoned to her home, Officer William MacDougal (a man on whom her wink does not appear to work) presents a more enticing puzzle than the one he was called to sort out.

This Great Smoky Mountains cabin has been in my family for seven generations. When Jake died, and the bridge was flooded as it is now, we had to bury him on site. It was like losing my twin. I came back to move past the feeling that they buried me in that grave too-and I meant to do that by myself. But with the storm raging, my cousin''s handsome friend gets trapped here with me.

Things could be worse. The guy''s interesting, and he''s funny. And he''s got this thick beard that-but anyway when we discover several disturbing entries in the visitors'' log and an eccentric neighbor spying through the windows, we realize that Jake''s death was no accident, and ours may be next.

Playful and sexy, this mystery/romance delves into the backwoods oddities of the author''s Southern heritage. "The South Jennifer writes of is the William Faulkner and Flannery O''Connor South. Darkly romantic. Hot and humid. Haunted and gothic...grown slowly from some dark, rich soil." -The Performing Songwriter Magazine

"I''ve always had the sense that an unrestrained me would have lasting consequences."

Beam is not allowed to speak to her uncle-not since she was five and her dad found him catching her blood in a jar. She''s not allowed to do a lot of things, like ask about it. And she is certainly not allowed to entertain creatures no one else can see or follow injured mountain lions back to the reservation where she was born (no matter how intriguing they turn out to be in human form).

Today, though, everyone Beam loves is missing, and her late grandmother''s old Tribal lullaby pounds through her head like a warning.

"Uncle Joel? It''s happening."

Journey with Beam through the Badlands of South Dakota in a wildly imaginative adventure of courage, friendship, and the wisdom of blood. Drawn from Lakota folklore and heralded for the strength of its characters, The Elixir won Neal Serious Writer''s Writer of the Year award.

"There''s a larger story being written here than your own personal crisis. There is always a larger story."