Kathleen Mix, Author

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River of Fear   After ten years shouldering heavy responsibility as her siblings’ guardian, fern farmer Annie Brenton yearns for an exciting and carefree future. Despite the repeated threats of a stalker, she refuses to cower in her house and compromise her long-awaited freedom. When widower Luke Erickson and his two young children turn to Annie for help and she takes them into her home, she believes her financial worries and stalker problems are solved. Instead, the stalker ratchets up his violence, and her developing feelings for Luke turn her world upside down. As Luke's past suddenly catches up to them, Annie is forced to make an impossible choice. Is loving a wandering sailor and his children worth the sacrifice of her freedom and the risk of a broken heart?

About The Author

For many years, I lived the conventional lifestyle. I graduated high school, married, raised a family and put my personal goals on hold. When my three sons started school, I returned to college and earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut. For a few years, I worked as a software engineer, consulting on applications ranging from submarine combat systems to biological research databases. Weekends and vacations were spent sailing Long Island Sound.

As an avid sailor and licensed charter boat captain, the itch to sail away into the sunset soon became to strong to resist. When our little boys became college students, my husband and I sold our house and furniture, waved good-bye to our shocked friends and relatives, and moved aboard our sailboat.

Since then, we have spend many years roaming the Southern U.S. coastline, exploring the Bahamas, and enjoying the tropical islands of the Caribbean and the offshore islands of South America. We have cruised as far north as Gloucester, Massachusetts and as far south as Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, east to Trinidad and Tobago, and west to Curacao.

I began my writing career with non-fiction articles. But my husband and I were sailing to lush, exotic islands under starry skies, walking on the most beautiful, white-sand beaches in the world, watching fiery sunsets, smelling nutmeg drying in the sunshine, breathing tangy salt air, eating juicy pineapples fresh from the fields, and feeling the wind blowing through our hair. How could my thoughts not turn to romance?

One day, while we were anchored in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the boat rocking gently in the trade winds, I started writing about a charter yacht crewed by a salty captain and a land-lubber chef. That novel, A Trade Wind Season, was released by Avalon Books two years later.

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Beyond Paradise -- Interview

Even the deepest love needs an air supply…

Dive shop manager Marina Hernandez is carrying a heavy load as she tries to save the family business. On one shoulder rides a bucket of red ink. On the other, her father’s age-old cultural belief that women belong in the kitchen.

Now that a cutthroat competitor has pushed her to the brink of bankruptcy, any chance she’ll ever win her father’s respect is fading fast. The last thing she can afford right now is the complication of a tempting man.

After years of building his practice, pediatrician Brett Sutherland has changed his focus. He seeks a more well-rounded life, including a woman who’ll devote herself to caring for a family. Workaholics need not apply. Then he signs up for scuba lessons, and Marina’s luminous eyes and spirited personality turn his neat, logical plan upside down.

Brett’s dazzling looks heat her blood, and his compassionate nature makes her yearn to build her own life—but not if it means letting the business collapse. A little harmless flirtation couldn’t hurt, though.

Yet with every kiss, she’s stretched thinner between the promise of Brett’s love and her father’s expectations. Until a critical decision pushes them both to the breaking point…

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Deadly Paradise, my thrilling romantic suspense novel set in the Bermuda Triangle, is available at Wild Rose Press.

Alicia Kincade’s two-year-old son is onboard her ex-husband’s airplane when it vanishes in the Bermuda Triangle. The authorities find no trace of the airplane and presume they’re dead, but Alicia is determined to continue searching. Brash pilot Jake Dawson accepts a search charter but vows to stay detached from Alicia and her problems. Yet every day he flies over the Bahamas with her by his side puts him closer to losing his objectivity. When clues indicate the boy is alive and mysterious accidents hint someone wants to kill Alicia, Jake resolves to protect her at any cost. He may run from love but not from trouble. Although Alicia refuses to be distracted from her search by Jake’s advances, she must team up with him to stay alive and save her child. Soon they find the danger to their lives is real, but so is the danger to their hearts.

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Secret Stranger

Kelly Salinger and Clay McCarthy are as different as satin and stone. She is a peace-loving resort owner seeking a refuge where she can heal the scars of her past. He has amnesia, and every clue to his identity suggests he’s been pursuing a life of crime.

The only thing they have in common is that they are trapped on a remote Bahamian island with a gang of dangerous jewel thieves. Kelly and Clay discover opposites do attract. But will this gentle woman and the gun-toting stranger she found unconscious on her beach live long enough to learn that their contrasting views are less important than their love?

Endorsements

"Tons of mystery...great characters...Twists, turns, and even a climactic ending...This is one read you will want to add to your bookshelf." -- Rated 5 CUPS by Coffee Time Romance
 

"Secret Stranger is a must read for anyone who enjoys a well-written suspense novel." -- Rated 4.5/5 by Night Owl Romance

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