Competitions and writing contests are great fun. They are also rewarding for the winners. We will be sponsoring contests from time to time. This is our first on this new site.
A promotion contest begins now for my new book to be released July 30, 2020. The book is Dead to Life – Sara Mason Mysteries Book Three. One monthly winner will receive TWO eBooks. If I receive a lot of comments, there could be two monthly winners! This contest will run through July 2020. Each winner will receive an eBook copy of Book One and Book Two in my Sara Mason Mysteries.
Since Dead to Life is Book Three in the series, let me tell you about the first two eBooks you may win.
River Bones – Sara Mason Mysteries Book One
A serial killer terrorizes residents among the lush orchards and farmlands of the Sacramento River Delta in California.
Sara Mason returns to live in her hometown area despite torturous memories of the drowning deaths of her alcoholic parents and younger sister. She purchases a verifiably haunted ramshackle Victorian, intends to make peace with her past, and then learns the elusive psychopath is stalking her. Skeletal remains are found near her property, and later, on the property. Sara’s dreams of rebuilding her life are hindered. More remains are found and she is ordered to live elsewhere during the investigations.
Sara Mason Mysteries Book One
Suspects include Crazy Ike who digs in graveyards; a vagrant caught wringing a cat’s neck, a window peeper, and numerous others connected to the twenty-eight known dead. The psychopath strangles his victims and snaps the hyoid bones in their throats, then buries each body with a small animal.
After escaping several attempts on her life, Sara discovers clues from previous victim burials and is the only person who can identify the perpetrator. She volunteers as a decoy for the Sheriff’s Department, and ends up with the maniac’s powerful hands wrapped around her throat.
The Howling Cliffs – Sara Mason Mysteries Book Two
Sara Mason’s dedication to solving missing person cold cases with love interest, Huxley Keane, (her love interest that we discover in Book One), includes accompanying him into the Vietnam jungle searching for his MIA brother’s remains. The search yields heartbreaking yet questionable fragments that await identification.
Sara Mason Mysteries Book Two
Sara has purchased a home on the island of Kauai for use as an R&R stopover by veterans who make frequent trips between the U.S. Mainland and Vietnam. She learns that a little girl went missing ten years earlier on Kauai. Strangely, dogs perform a death wail when taken high on the cliffs. Accompanied by a neighbor’s retired forensic dog, Sara wants to learn why they howl mournfully in the forest.
Someone wants the missing child cold case to stay cold. Attempts are made on Sara’s life and continue as she investigates the girl’s disappearance. Sara is near death after her car is forced to roll off the road. Later, she is pushed over a rocky cliff. Dazed and alone at night on a narrow ledge, she discovers a frightful scene. Then the forensic dog leads Sara and the police to a second disgusting site that explodes the case wide open and exposes an elusive murderer’s motives, revenge and victims.
Dead to Life – Sara Mason Mysteries Book Three
A desperate search to match a bullet-scarred key found in the Vietnam jungle that may identify Huxley’s MIA brother.
Sara Mason Mysteries Book Three
Sara Mason and love interest, Huxley Keane, follow a trail of clues in an attempt to match a bullet-scarred key found in the Vietnam jungle. An apartment key was given to Rocky, Huxley’s brother, by his fiancée. If sweet Emma Ellis kept a matching key all these years, it would prove Rocky is not an MIA but deceased.
Tracing Emma proves to be a perilous escapade. She doesn’t wish to be found. Emma’s corrupt history is revealed. She’s now streetwise, involved in drugs and human trafficking. She attempts to stop Sara and Huxley whose very lives are threatened. In separate incidences, both Sara and Huxley are left to die of their wounds. But Sara and Huxley are resilient and save themselves. When Emma is caught, horrifying truths about the woman send their sensibilities reeling.
The Contest Guidelines
Dead to Life is presently on Pre-Order, to be released July 30, 2020. One or two winners will be chosen for each of the months of May, June, and July 2020, after month end.
Do you love following a great series? Here is a chance to get in at the beginning of my Sara Mason Mysteries.
Winners will be randomly chosen from Comments left on this page. Enter early. All names are cumulative month to month.
State why you would love to win, or talk about my books. You can find all of my books on the Mary Deal Books page on this site. Click on the page name in the blue bar at the top of the page. That’s all you have to do! If you love mysteries, you may love my stories.
If I choose you, I will follow back on your photo image or link on your comment to find and notify you. You will be asked for your regular email address for Amazon to send your gift notification.
If interested to know more about my books, you may wish to go to Amazon to read the reviews for River Bones and The Howling Cliffs. Just click on the book image to get there. Good luck!
This looks like a great contest. Lots of winners. They are going to love your books.
I love mysteries and Mary’s book River Bones is the best one written. Not only is it a page turner, but it makes you want to know…who did it! I won’t give spoilers out, you’ll just have to take my word for it.
May was a short month for this contest. Only two people signed up and one, Ron Holte, had already read all my books. That left Sue Mydliak as the winner. The two eBooks she chose to receive are The Ka, a paranormal Egyptian suspense, and Sea Cliff, a contemporary romance set in San Francisco. By the way, I have just interviewed Sue Mydliak. Watch for the complete Interview of this very busy and talented author-plus.
You, too, could be a winner. Leave a comment for your shot at receiving two gifted eBooks.
I really love your books. Please, choose me, please choose me…
Luize Zemaite, you are the winner of the June 2020 competition. Please contact me within seven (7) days with your email address where I can send your Amazon eBooks.
An added note: Sue had already read River Bones so I gave her the choice of other books. However, new winners will receive copies of River Bones and The Howling Cliffs, as originally stated.
River Bones was a great Five Star read. I can’t imagine the next one being anything less. I’d love to read how the tale progresses, and if her new love is a passing emotion or a deeper for life commitment.
Having read at least three or four Mary Deal books, my comments on each are published as reviews on Amazon worldwide and Goodreads. Five stars all! And I would like to win the two free books because my inner writer loves the twists and turns that Mary Deal crafts within each book and the research that so sadly I cannot say is my forte. The characterizations are meticulously human with failings as well as redeeming qualities in even the most annoying of men and women.
Mary Deal is also a wonderful resource for her fellow authors and photographers, multi talented, and shares her talents generously with all. As someone who, at my ripe old age, still loves to learn and improve myself, she is an inspiration.
Perhaps someone more worthy ought to be chosen to receive the two books as you know – I’ll buy them anyhow, eventually!
And don’t forget, fellow readers, to leave a review, no matter how short, as reviews are like gold bullion to a writer’s heart!
Our July contest is the last chance to win the two eBooks listed above. Simply leave a comment and check back at the end of July to see if you’ve won. It’s that easy.