She must save a strange world with a gift she hates.
Alex has felt like an alien long before she was sent to this academy. All she can do is stay silent and separate, inside her bubble of numbness. Then a weird storm whips up and the grown-ups are acting even weirder. She can’t even get her bearings before the storm seems to pick her up and transport her into a truly alien world.
If she’s ever to get back – to get home? – she must accept another part of her and learn to use the gift of magic she’s always hated and hidden.
The Sheila Mackey Collection
Lattimore Mountain (small town romance)
Alex in Search (YA fantasy)
Make Believe (romantic suspense)
What is the Sheila Mackey Collection?
Sheila Mackey is the main character and lead sleuth in Patricia McLinn's cozy mystery series Secret Sleuth. Under another name, Sheila once was known as the author of a megabestseller book/cultural phenomenon . . . which was actually written by her great aunt. Now, her great aunt has retired from those books and booted Sheila out of the next (for her own good.)
In Book1 -- Death on the Diversion -- Sheila searches for a new path. And inadvertently finds it after finding a fellow cruise passenger murdered in a deck chair.
Starting Book 2 -- Death on Torrid Ave, Sheila is in small-town Kentucky, building a new life, including a rescue collie dog named Gracie, a new best friend named Clara, and an ex police detective name Teague O'Donnell, who's clearly interested in Sheila . . . or in her secrets?
As she builds her new life, Sheila recognizes an urge to write novels. But what kind? Her experiments in genres and styles are brought together for your reading pleasure here in the Sheila Mackey Collection.
(Okay, okay, a fictional character can't write novels on her own. Though if there were a way to pull that off . . . But nope, these were written by Patricia McLinn with Sheila Mackey as a fictional / always in the back of the head collaborator. Some stemmed from manuscripts that didn't fit the rest of Patricia's catalog or from one-off forays into projects with other authors that also didn't fit the brand. All were extensively rewritten and none are AI.)
