Cold River (39 page)

Authors: Liz Adair

Tags: #Romance, second chance, teacher, dyslexia, Pacific Northwest, Cascade Mountains, lumberjack, bluegrass, steel band,

I love her like a mule a-kickin’.

Love her more than banjo pickin’.

More than Granny’s Sunday chicken,

You know I love that Sweetiebug.

Sweetiebug is the one for me,

Though she’s far above me.

Sweetiebug is the one I see.

I just want her to love me.

I love her like a mule a-kickin’.

Love her more than banjo pickin’.

More than Granny’s Sunday chicken,

You know I love that Sweetiebug.

When the last chord died away, the room erupted in applause. Strangers around Mandy smiled at her and reached out to shake her hand and pat her on the shoulder.

“I don’t get it,” Mrs. Wheeler said. “Who’s this Sweetiebug?”

“She’s somebody who came to Limestone with an attitude,” Mandy said. “But she found a new way of looking at things.”

Leesie leaned over and asked, “Would that be a new paradigm?”

“That would be a Tarheel paradigm.” As Mandy stood to applaud, she made a mental note to tell Grange that his song was infinitely better than flowers.

Books by Liz Adair

If you enjoyed Liz Adair’s writing and the way she puts you right in the setting, you might enjoy these books set in the red-rock canyons of Southern Utah:

Trouble at the Red Pueblo
, a Spider Latham Mystery

Interlude at Cottonwood Springs
,
a historical romance, set in the Great Depression

The McCarran Collection
,
a romantic suspense

A Kane County Christmas
,
a Spider Latham Christmas book.

Also set in the Pacific Northwest

The Mist of Quarry Harbor
, a romantic suspense

Other books by Liz Adair

The Lodger
,
a Spider Latham Mystery

After Goliath
, a Spider Latham Mystery

Snakewater Affair
, a Spider Latham Mystery

Lucy Shook’s Letters from Afghanistan

Hidden Spring
, a novella in the
Timeless Romance, Old West Collection

An Invitation to Post a Review

If you enjoyed reading
Cold River
I’d invite you to post a review on Amazon.

Don’t worry if you haven’t ever written a review before. Comments from ‘just plain readers’ ring true, and they’re a great help to people looking for a good read.

To get started, search for
Cold River
on Amazon.com and go to its page. Just under the title are the yellow stars and something like
xx customer reviews.

Click on the number of reviews, and at the top of the review section, to the right of the bar graph showing the number of stars, is a button that says
Write a Customer Review.

Click on that button and you’re on your way. At the end, you’ll need to hit the
Publish
button, and you’ll need to put in your Amazon password. It’s the one you use when you order books from Amazon. If you don’t have one, you can register for one with no obligation.

Thanks for doing this!

Liz Adair

About the author

A native of New Mexico and mother of seven, Liz Adair bloomed late as a writer. Her first Spider Latham mystery was published about the time she became an empty nester.

Though she lived in green, moist, northwest Washington State for forty years, many of her books are set in the southwest. To date she has published eight novels and two novellas. She’s a Whitney Award winner and finalist for the both the Willa Award and the Glyph Award.

Liz returned to high plateau country in 2012 when she and her husband, Derrill, moved to Kanab, Utah.

Liz had gone to high school in Kanab and neighboring Fredonia, Arizona, so moving there was like coming home. It was natural for her next book to be another Spider Latham mystery, even though ol’ Spider hadn’t inhabited one of her books for ten years. Writing about him again felt like coming home, too, and a Christmas story at the Latham’s was like Christmas with an old friend.

Liz followed up the two Spider Latham books set in Kanab with
Interlude at Cottonwood Springs
. The Cottonwood Springs of this title is located in fictional Willow Canyon north of Kanab. Also set in Kanab is the romantic suspense, The McCarran Collection.

Look for another Spider Latham mystery coming out the end of 2015 or beginning of 2016. You can check out Liz’s blog at
www.sezlizadair.blogspot.com
and be sure to sign up for her newsletter to find out about new releases.

About the cover designer

Marlene Barnes is a graphic artist living in Kanab, Utah. She specializes in digitally altered images, not in the typical sense which would be for purposes of correction, but as an intentional transformation of the entire image. The camera is only the first step in this process. Marlene doesn’t hesitate to use composites, special filters, textured papers and any other techniques to achieve visually interesting and unique pieces that allow her to express her vision. Marlene’s web site is
http://www.myalteredvisions.com