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Maureen Hartman

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Born and raised in Wisconsin, Maureen finished college and moved to the Pacific Northwest. She’s always been engaged with the outdoors but finds her greatest joy trekking along a wooded trail, paddling her kayak on a clear mountain lake, or getting her hands dirty in the garden. All of which allows for quiet thought to chew on plot points and character development for her novels.

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Average rating: 4.29 · 14 ratings · 8 reviews · 3 distinct works

	For All the Right Reasons 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Spirit (Spirit #1) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Why Midwestern Gothic Fiction is the Next Big Genre

First came SPIRIT, with its slowly building drama and Lucy's personal risk amid a white supremacist movement in a small Midwestern town. PERCEPTION followed, bringing Mia forward and revealing her Haitian childhood and the strained relationship with her father after she moved to his Indiana hometown where she had to navigate a radical cultural shift and the unwelcoming community who saw her an an Read more of this blog post »

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My Grandfather's Trunk

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“The anatomy of grief was too much to translate into words. You could argue that all lyrics failed, really. Words alone could not express the emotion that remained trapped inside a bruised and broken heart.”
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