1 Aunt Bessie Assumes (29 page)

Bessie walked out of the
surgery and looked around at what qualified as "downtown” Laxey.
 
She’d have a short wander around the
shops and catch up on the latest skeet.
 
Of course, everyone would probably rather hear what she had to say than
tell her anything.
 

After that, she’d promised
that she would pop into the police station and let Doona buy her lunch.
 
Then she would go home and curl up with
a good book.
 
She smiled as she
slowly walked down the pavement.  She so loved her little island home.

Coming July
25, 2014

Aunt Bessie
Believes

An Isle of
Man Cozy Mystery

Aunt Bessie believes that Moirrey
Teare is just about the most disagreeable woman she's ever had the misfortune
to meet.

Elizabeth Cubbon, (Aunt Bessie to
nearly everyone), is somewhere past sixty, and old enough to ignore the rude
woman that does her best to ruin the first session of the beginning Manx
language class they are both taking.
 
Moirrey's sudden death is harder to ignore.

Aunt Bessie believes that Moirrey's
death was the result of the heart condition that Moirrey always complained
about.

The police investigation, however,
suggests that someone switched some of the dead woman's essential medications
for something far more deadly.

Aunt Bessie believes that she and
her friends can find the killer.

But with Doona suspended from work and spending all of her time with the
dead woman's long-lost brother, Hugh caught up in a brand new romance and
Inspector Rockwell chasing after a man that might not even exist, Bessie finds
herself believing that someone might just get away with murder.

Summer
Dreams

A Short
Story Collection

Edited by
Alan Seeger

(
with
the first ever Aunt Bessie short story)

Summer. It's the time when we take vacations, go
swimming, and generally veg out. Many people like to find some light summer
reading for the long, lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. If that's you, you've
come to the right place.

This collection offers up fifteen stories by a dozen
authors. Some are brief, and some are pleasant. Others are lengthy, and a
couple of them are downright disturbing. They're all going to stay with you for
a while.

Contains stories by: Lynne Cantwell,
Deborah Carney, Alesha Cary, Shawn Inmon, Chris James, M.M. Roethig, Carla
Sarett, Alan Seeger, Tabitha Ormiston-Smith, Catherine L. Vickers, Ashton-Kate
Wilson and Diana Xarissa.

Island
Inheritance

An Isle of
Man Romance

By Diana
Xarissa

Carly thinks her life is just about
perfect. She recently bought an adorable little house in her hometown in
Pennsylvania. She has a job she loves, teaching first grade at the same
elementary school she once attended. And she has the same boyfriend that she
fell in love with in that very school, when they were both in third grade.
He'll get around to proposing one day, she's just sure of it. Carly doesn't
want to change anything in her life.

Doncan thinks his life is just about
perfect. He's followed in his father's and his grandfather's footsteps and is
an advocate (lawyer) on the Isle of Man dealing mostly with estates and trusts.
This earns him a generous income that allows him to drive a luxury car and live
in a fabulous penthouse apartment. He's never short of female company and he
doesn't want to change anything in his life.

When Carly's grandmother inherits a
cottage on the Isle of Man, Carly makes the journey to the Island to settle the
estate.
 
Doncan wants the paperwork
signed and the cottage safely sold to his cousin who is ready to tear it down
and build luxury apartments in its place.
 
Carly falls in love with the old cottage and the beautiful Island, while
Doncan tries hard to keep her happy so she will sign on the dotted line.
 
Suddenly both of their lives are
changing in ways neither of them ever imagined.

Island
Escape

An Isle of
Man Romance

By Diana
Xarissa

Katie's life changes
dramatically only a few months before her planned wedding. With the wedding
cancelled, an unexpected opportunity to do some research on the picturesque
Isle of Man seems the perfect escape. She can get away from all the sympathetic
looks and gossipy remarks and focus on her career while nursing her broken
heart.

Finlo Quayle is the gorgeous
owner of the island's only charter airline. William Corlett is the intelligent
and sexy man who runs the Institute that is funding Katie's research. Katie
finds herself being fought over by two very different men, both of whom attract
her in very different ways.

Now the only
thing Katie is sure of is that she isn't going to let a ghost make any
decisions about her love life for her.

About the Author:

Diana Xarissa lived on the glorious Isle
of Man for more than ten years before returning to the United States with her
family.
 
Now living near Buffalo,
New York, she enjoys having the opportunity to write about the island that she
loves so much.
 
It truly is an
amazing and magical place.

Diana also writes mystery/thrillers set in
the not-too-distant future under the pen name “Diana X. Dunn” and
fantasy/adventure books for middle grade readers under the pen name “D.X.
Dunn.”

She would be delighted to know what you
think of her work and can be contacted through Facebook, Goodreads or on her
website at
www.dianaxarissa.com
.