Maria Rachel Hooley
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WHEN ANGELS CRY (Women's Fiction)
Kaylee Renard has never taken the time for love. Independence and financial security have always been the top priorities. Besides, she believed there will be time for a relationship later, when she can fit it in. In light of a terminal cancer diagnosis, however, her views change, and when Kaylee passes out and falls into a pond, Bastian Connelly, alone and suicidal, goes in after her, hoping that in trying to save Kaylee's life, he will end his own. But life isn't done with Bastian, and neither is love. As Kaylee comes to love him, she wonders what she's missed and seeks to find whatever gifts fate might grant her.

 
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 OCTOBER BREEZES (Young Adult)

Skye Williams knows everything there is to know about mistrust.  Dad skipped out when she was five. And now  Warren Jacobsen tries to sweep her Mom off her feet.  But Warren's not the only concern rocking Skye's world. Devin Abbott, a guy she's known since kindergarten, has changed. He's become a tall, broad-shouldered guy she might date-if he wasn't her best friend. Skye swears there's nothing between them, but everyone else thinks differently. Devin doesn't act the way he used to, especially when Kellin Morgan, senior quarterback, asks Skye out. Flattered, she accepts, and, Devin sulls up-and he isn't the only one. Kellin's best friend, Tyler Rutherford, gets bent out of shape, too, as he's always wanted Skye for himself. When Kellin and Skye attend one of Tyler's famous parties, neither senses the impending disaster that will change not only her life but also that of everyone who loves her.

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NEW LIFE INCORPORATED (Science fiction/ Cyberpunk)

The Longevity Chip is a marvel of biotechnology-an implant that slows aging and ensures virtual immortality. It's safe, affordable, and guaranteed. Thousands have been sold, and thousands more are in production, quickly making New Life Incorporated the wealthiest, most powerful corporation on the globe.  The fountain of youth, it seems, has at long last been found.  But the Resisters aren't buying it; they suspect the Chip has some guarded, secret purpose, and seek the truth of its design. Still, truth often comes at great cost-as their increasingly violent confrontations with the Lifers, who defend the source of their newfound "salvation," attest. As far as Joe Ramsey is concerned, he'd just as soon stay out of it. But when he inadvertently thwarts the assassination of a key Resister, Joe is thrown headlong into a tangle of deceit, treachery, and intrigue that may prove New Life CEO Caleb Walker the most dangerous man on earth.

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SILENT SCREAM (Women's Fiction)

Ten years ago, Gabriel Martin's sister was brutally murdered.  He and his brother, Sam, have struggled to overcome the guilt, resulting in both of them taking dangerous jobs.  As a fireman, Gabriel's devoted his life to protecting others.  Yet no matter how many people he saves, he can't resurrect Jessie.  The pain never leaves, keeping him from understanding his own goodness.  It's only when he's the first responder to a brutal attack against Dr. Maddie Gilcrest that he realizes he can make a difference.  Still, there are ten years of pain Gabriel is sinking beneath.  Maddie struggles with her own fears.  She can't offer him absolution any more than he can change her past.  But sometimes love is enough.

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THE ONLY LIFE THERE IS (Mainstream Fiction)

 
All Sarah and Evan Davis have ever wanted was a child, but after two dangerous miscarriages, they face a childless future which seems unbearable. Against her doctor’s advice, Sarah allows herself to get pregnant one last time. Evan fears the pregnancy will kill her. Instead she gives birth to a son, Kade. A perfect child until she and Evan start seeing the signs of autism which begin to shut down their dreams one by one. Evan and Sarah struggle with the thought of never having a normal life until the unthinkable happens. Kade drowns, leaving Evan and Sarah to face a normal life once again, but that life is broken and scarred. It will take a miracle for their marriage to come through the dark passage of grief ahead.

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A SLEEP OF YEARS (Women's Fiction)

At sixteen, Jennifer Landry thinks the worst thing that can happen is getting pregnant, but when Waylan Thompson, her boyfriend of two years, suddenly dies in a car wreck and Jennifer miscarries, she thinks her life is over. Still, Sean, Waylan's older brother, manages to pull her through.

Although the two lose contact for years, Jennifer runs into Sean as she is raising her two teenage sons alone.  He, too, is divorced.  The years have allowed them both to heal into adults who share a mutual scar, and what was once simply a foundation of shared grief becomes more, especially as Jennifer faces another possible loss-her oldest son, who wrecks on an icy road.  It's going to take everything Sean has to save her again, and he has to: he can't imagine his world without her in it.

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TALISMAN OF SONG (Fantasy)

Kylie Tarnad has never known a normal life.  Her parents were executed for being 'Singers,' those who can physically alter reality with song.  Kylie shares that gift but hides it until one day she watches a little girl die and resurrects her with song.  From that point Kylie is hunted by King Roderick, who needs a singer to resurrect his dead heir.But Roderick has no love of singers and once he's finished with Kylie, she'll be slaughtered unless Roderick's banished son can save her and the kingdom from Roderick's oppression and cruelty.

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ETERNITY SYSTEMS (Science Fiction/thriller)
It’s 2035, and Dallas, Texas, has another serial killer with ties to Eternity Systems, a company specializing in memory mapping or creating virtual reality worlds where the living interact with dead loved ones.  Griffin knows there is a connection, and whatever that connection is, it’s become personal as the killer has now attacked Cherise, his wife, leaving her barely clinging to life.  He has no choice but to delve into the world of Eternity Systems to catch a sadistic killer, but it won’t be easy for Griffin to separate the two realities, not when the world of the dead might just hold more promise than the living if Griffin loses Cherise.


NOVEL DUE OUT IN 2010.


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THE RIVER (Fantasy, Horror, Inspirational)

When Diana Newport nearly drowns, she discovers a whole different world, Zigeth, and has the chance to mend things with her dead sister.  But when she returns to life, she quickly realizes that something is not right. In fact, Levi Harland, another who has also newly returned from death, has brought back the spirit of an executed serial killer, Ronald Truman, a spirit who can hitchhike from body to body.  Diana  races against time between the worlds to stop Truman's plan-releasing a deadly Eboli outbreak from the CDC.

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The Mach Band Region (horror, ghost story)

When Matt McKarey left McKarey's Bluff, Texas, after the woman he loved, Ariel Morgan, refused to marry him, he never planned to return. Yet ten years later, Ariel is dead supposedly by her own hand, and her younger sister, and Matt's close friend, Rachel, is spiraling toward the same fate. He returns back to a small town haunted by more than Ariel's death, and Matt is immediately sucked into the mystery as he begins to hallucinate. Or does he? He has returned to save Rachel, but as the days press on, he's not even sure he can save himself.
DREAMWALKER (Young Adult, Paranormal Romance)

Seventeen-year-old Misha Malloy has always dreamed of Ramsey, a beautiful teenager from a world called Alterna.  Ramsey has always been there to love and protect her, but even he could not stop the car accident which left her in a coma; however, six months later, Misha has recovered and quickly finds that her world and Alterna are blending.  Ramsey now comes to her in the flesh, and so does his brother, Elijah, who will stop at nothing to make Ramsey pay for an old transgression--including killing Misha.

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LEAVING THE NEST (Humor)
Jeff Weslin is tired of living with his brother, Conrad, who dresses in gaudy 70’s clothes and works as a stunt man on a soap opera. Annie Harris could also live without her nyphomanical twin, Abbie, who breaks more ‘errector sets’ than the average eight-year-old. In a desperate plot to get their equally annoying siblings to move out, Abbie and Jeff try seal a happily-ever-after which was built broken. Still, even if they can’t get rid of Conrad and Abbie, they do find solace in each other, and might actually fall in love if given the chance. 

DUE OUT IN 2010

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Life In Debris

A Collection of short stories that focus on the fault lines in the heart, and the unexpected stop-overs people make during journeys the never meant to take in the first place.  From a teenager coming into adulthood without her mother to a young woman learning years after her father's death how much he really loved her, it's about the moments we learn that love is everything and life isn't permanent, no matter how desperately we want it to be.

DUE OUT IN 2010

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SOJOURNER (Young Adult Urban Fantasy, PN Romance)

Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Moon has been dreaming of her murder her entire life, and in those dreams, a dark presence is there, watching. When she returns home to Hauser’s Landing, the very place her father disappeared, she comes in contact with a gorgeous boy named Lev Walker, and it’s not long before she’s falling in love. But there’s something wrong with Lev. When she realizes he’s the eerie watcher in her dreams, she’ll have to discover the truth. Is he a guardian angel or a sojourner, an angel of death who has come to collect her soul?

Book 1 of the Sojourner series

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COVENANT (Young Adult Urban Fantasy, PN Romance)
Sojourner Book 2

Lev Walker has fulfilled his purpose in Elizabeth Moon’s life, but it has come at a considerable price.  The bullet meant for Elizabeth has shattered Lev’s mortality and the forced separation from Elizabeth has scarred his spirit, so much so that Evan Walker has purged Elizabeth’s memory in order for Lev to start over.  Yet love is eternal.  What began with a saving Elizabeth’s life continues in healing Lev’s spirit as he is forced to remember what he has lost at the risk of everything.


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SECOND SIGHT (Young Adult Urban Fantasy, PN Romance)

Elizabeth Moon is desperate to find Lev Walker, the angel she fell in love with. She knows he is a Sojourner, or an angel who escorts souls to the next world, so she believes that if she looks hard enough, she will find him, no matter that a bullet meant for her took his human form away. She’s determined to find him, unaware that even angels wage their own wars that mortals aren’t supposed to know about.

Book 3 of the Sojourner series


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ANATHEMA (Young Adult Urban Fantasy, PN Romance)

Elizabeth and Lev believe the danger with the dark angels and the Dagger of Light are finally behind them, but with Elizabeth’s sacrifice comes a new more menacing threat as whatever power the dagger once possessed now possesses Elizabeth, endangering all those she loves most. In a last ditch effort to protect them, Elizabeth runs away, unaware her fate rests with a triune of angels who have come to judge her transgressions against others of their kind.

Book 4 of the Sojourner series

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RISING TIDES (Women's Fiction)

At twenty-nine, Kelly James is at a crossroads.  She's dying without ever having lived and desperate to make sense of her world.  She lives in a marriage shattered by her husband's infidelity.  Enter Tyler Adams, a man as comfortable with the ocean as he is with the world around him, including Kelly.  He offers her a sailing lesson and ends up healing Kelly's broken heart, unaware that loving her will forever change him.

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ON THE ROAD WITH OLLIE (Mainstream Fiction)

Death isn't the end of love; Katie Newman, grief-stricken over losing her father, knows this. Everyday she hopes for some kind of impossible resolution. Fate intercedes, not by supplying her father's dearly departed spirit but instead a sixtish hippy ghost who needs Katie's help with unfinished business. While she might have wondered about the afterlife, suddenly the afterlife is thrust on her in the form of Ollie Morris still clad in leather S& M pants, his final outfit. Ollie has been sent by Katie's father to help him move on in hopes that she will be able to do the same. In exchange for spooking her unfaithful boyfriend out of her life, Ollie asks Katie to drive him to Colorado to complete his unfinished business, and during the trip, they both realize that unfinished business, be it from the living or dead, rarely resolves as expected.

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Scattering Ashes

Twenty-two-year-old Jordan Carroway has a plan--marry his best friend, Alyssa, and start a family.  A month before the wedding, he meets Nicole O'Roarke during a physical education class.  Nicole--the woman who tips his canoe, steps on a cactus, and makes him laugh.  They fall madly in love, though neither confess it as they both feel the weight of responsibility.  Jordan ultimately keeps his promise and marries Alyssa.  Nicole also returns to her life, not realize that love its mark, and it's not through with either of them.


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