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by Arline Chase

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Arline Chase  has published more than 500 short stories in national and regional magazines. Her short story, Final Exit: The First Jack and Jill Mystery, won first place in the A&E Cable Network's Mystery Writing contest in 1999. Click on the title for a free copy.
    Arline has also written a number of books ranging from mystery, to romance, and even
some "serious fiction." Her first collection of short stories, The Drowned Land, won the Governor's Award in Maryland in 1984, but foundno publisher. Some of those stories were published in Chesapeake Bay Magazine when she attended Salisbury State University. The Drowned Land was published by Connie Foster at ebooksonethe.net  in 1999 and was an Eppie* Finalsit in 2000. Later, two of the stories formed the basis for her period novel Killraven, an Eppie Finalist in 2005.
* Annual Award for Excellence in Electronic Publishing

Print Books

Period Mystery
ISBN 1-59431-157-9
Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF illus.
Cover Art by Maggie Dix






 

Ebook Price  $5.50

Spirit of Earth:
Book One of the "Spirit Series"
A Jack and Jill Mystery
by Arline Chase

   The story is fiction, but the volcano was real.

   Psychic Jill Abercrombie's family consider her stone mad. She may yet prove useful though, if they can marry 
her off to the right man. They're so intent that she mustn't embarrass them at their "Musical evening" they quite ignore the corpse in the garden along with the fact that one of their guests may be a serial killer.
  The new scullery maid understands that Jillian only has "the sight" Her brother, Jon, is so intent on his affair with a notorious actress that he pays little attention to solving the crime that may, or may not, be linked to a number of serial killings in the city.

Period Mystery
ISBN 978-1-59431-158-7
Perfect Bound, Trade Paperback, illus.
370 pages

Price     $  16.95   To order click on the price, then the "Buy Now" button

Historical/Mystery
ISBN 1-59431-066-1
Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF
Cover Art by Maggie Dix



 

Price $5.50

Spirit of Fire:
Book Two of the "Spirit Series"
A Jack and Jill Mystery
by Arline Chase

   When the most hated man in 1904 Baltimore is murdered, Jon Abercrombie searches for the killer as the city burns around him. The story is fiction, but the fire was real.
As usual, Jon's lawyer-father knows more than he should. Jillian, his psychic sister, offers her advice, but her warnings of fire make little sense.
    To make matters worse, the victim's wife, everyone's primary suspect, is an old childhood friend. Discovery of a blackmail scheme and more murders build the suspense. Then Jon's mother is kidnapped by the killer, who is convinced the detective knows more than he does. Can Jon track down the murderer in the midst of the greatest conflagration Baltimore has ever seen? Can he do it in time to save his mother?

ISBN 978-1-59431-067-X
Trade Paperback, Perfect Bound,
224 pages

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ISBN 1-59431-048-3
Mystery/Romance
Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF
Cover Art by Maggie Dix




 

Price $5.50

Killraven
by Arline Chase

   "A taste of Chesapeake Life as vivid as lemon pie"—Jeannie Butler, author of Bingo and other Great Words of God.  Four Stars, Scribes Word Reviews.
   Set in the 1890s, Killraven is the story of Hope Voeschell, a young woman brought up to believe in non-violence, and DeCoursey Rogers a Chesapeak Bay waterman who has known violence first hand. 
   As a killer stalks them both, they meet and fall reluctantly in love on Killraven Island.

Mystery/Romance
ISBN 978-1-59431-137-4
Perfect Bound Trade Paperback
240 pages

Price     $  16.95   To order click on the price, then the "Buy Now" button

ISBN 0-9706152-5-8
Fictional Biography
Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF
Cover Art by Louise Trellian

Price $5.50

Go Down, Moses:
The Story of Harriet Tubman
by Arline Chase

   After escaping to freedom herself, Harriet Tubman led more than 300 other slaves to freedom. Then, she spied for the Union Army during the Civil War.
   A fictionalized biography, based on her published interviews with her biographer, and on other source records.


Fictional Biography:                 
ISBN 978-1-59431-013-0
Perfect Bound, Mass Market Paperback
150 pages

 Price $11.95   To order click on the price, then the "Buy Now" button

ISBN 0-9704152-9-9
Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF
Cover Art by Maggie Dix





 

Price $5.50

Ghost Dancer
by Arline Chase

   A New York debutante travels west for her health and meets a Medicine Man.  
   Broken hearted, New York debutante Christianna Lawrence flees her home and meets a Blackfoot white captive on Montana's high plains.
   Saved from a flash flood as a boy, Rowan Cameron was destined to become a shaman. Divided by cultural misunder-standings, extraordinary lovers surpass contrasting beliefs  to unleash the magic and spirit of the Ghost Dance
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Romance/ Suspense: Trade Paperback, Perfect Bound
ISBN 978-1-59431-021-1
279 pages     Price $15.95

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Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF
Cover Art by Maggie Dix

Price $6.50 

How to Promote, Advertise & Market
Your Published Book
by Mary Cox-Bilz and Arline Chase

Here's how to get attention for your published book?-write press releases, arrange interviews, make speeches, set up book signings--can I do all that? You sure can, and get your book the attention it deserves! Marketing strategies that have been used by authors to pull their books out of boxes, onto book shelves, and into a customer's hands.

A step-by-step guide that offers tools you can integrate in your own marketing plan....Marketing strategies that have been used by authors to pull their books out of boxes, onto book shelves, and into a customer's hands. 104 pages

Spiralbound  104 pages     Price  $10.00
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ISBN 1-59431-180-3

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Sweet Invocation
by Arline Chase

    Leanna and Jamie married for convenience's sake. Now he's showing signs of restlessness, while she wonders how to tell him she is pregnant.
   Leanna is no stranger to a May-December marriage, after all she first met Jamie when he did chores for the older husband she had married right out of school. Later, Jamie left town under something of a cloud and by the time they met again, she was several years a widow. Now it's another May-December marriage, only this time Leanna is the older partner.
   Will they be able to work out their differences? Or will secrets from the past destroy their relationship?

Romance Novella:  Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF
Cover Art by Maggie Dix

ISBN 1-59431-178-1

Price $2.50

Late Bloomer
by Arline Chase

   Being a college freshman at 35 isn't easy for Beth Reily. The last thing she needs is to develope romantic illusions about her professor
  Beth has a teenaged son, a career, and a chance of a better position, if she can just get her hands on that piece of sheepskin. She's delighted with the opportunity of testing out of some of the basic classes. But Professor Rutledge tells her he won't tolerate a student who tries to cut corners with advanced placement tests. From then on, it's love--orwar.

Romance Novella:  Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF
Cover Art by Maggie Dix

Price $2.50

The Dream Lovers
by Arline Chase

   Apple and Junie were not only sisters, but the best of friends, until they quarrel over a man.
    With the man of her dreams MIA in Vietnam,Apple thinks it's best to make a life with the man at hand. That's how the love of her life comes home to find her married to someone else. She can understand his rage--and rejection. What she can't understand is why he's  dating her sister.

Romance Novella:  Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF
Cover Art by Maggie Dix

ISBN 1-59431-147-1

 

Price $4.50

The Drowned Land
by Arline Chase

   Written by the author of Ghost Dancer, this is a wonderful collection of sea-going short stories, set in the Chesapeake Bay area of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Two of the stories formed the  basis for the novel Killraven which became
an Eppie Finalsit in 2005
 
Short Story Collection:  Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF
Cover Art by Fanny Glass

ISBN 1-59431-176-5

Price $2.50

Second Fiddle
by Arline Chase

  Is the bond of blood stronger than that of matrimony? A novella of family, and love in Appalachia.
  The novella, Second Fiddle is the tale of twin sisters who both marry the same man--at different times of course. One twin learns from her mistakes, while the other falls victim to jealousy and envy.

Romance Novella:  Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF
Cover Art by Maggie Dix

ISBN 1-59431-004-1

Price $4.50

No Broken Promises
by Arline Chase

   The tale of a suburban housewife who tries to explian her youth in the '60s to her daughter
   In this novella,Chris McNeely had been a shy teenager in the sixties. The victim of an disdainful mother and a brutal rape, Chris had insulated herself against all feelings —good and bad. Then, thanks to Michael Dove and Janey Hewett, Chris's life changed and by 1987 she is a typical suburban housewife with a teenaged daughter of her own. Then Lacey starts to ask questions about the sixties--embarrassing questions--and Chris isn't sure how she can ever explain Woodstock and the "summer of love" to her daughter.

Romance Novella:  Formats: PDF, HTML, RTF
Cover Art by Maggie Dix