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The Canary releases next week!
THE CANARY is almost here. Five more days!
I'm so thrilled to get this one out there. I've been working like a dog the past few months on this, and I hope you guys will love it as much as I do.
Paleontologist Jack Brenner enters a fake marriage with Sarah Ryan to protect her in the Arizona wilderness …
+ Marriage of Convenience
+ Medium Spice
+ Painted Desert Expedition
+ Dinosaur fossils
+ Walnuts
+ Bees
The Canary is Book 9 in the Wings of the West series but can absolutely be read as a standalone novel.
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Paperbacks are coming.
Read Chapter One
Here's an excerpt
“Dr. Brenner,” Ralph said. “This woman is looking for you.”
Jack turned and gave a slight nod, trying to ignore the jolt to his senses when he met her gaze.
“Dr. Brenner?” she said, her green eyes shiny with excitement. She extended a hand. “I’m Sarah.”
He was glad the white glove she wore kept their skin from touching. It had been a long time since a beautiful woman had caught his eye. Not since Betsy, really. And he didn’t need a repeat of that.
“I’m so pleased to meet you, sir,” she added, a big smile lighting up her face.
The “sir” caught his attention, and it all began to click into place. She thought Jack was his father. S. Ryan had been hired by Mrs. Parks for the dig.
But maybe he was wrong. Maybe this woman was here for another reason.
He cleared his throat and said, “Sarah …?”
“Sarah Ryan.”
I'm so thrilled to get this one out there. I've been working like a dog the past few months on this, and I hope you guys will love it as much as I do.
Paleontologist Jack Brenner enters a fake marriage with Sarah Ryan to protect her in the Arizona wilderness …
+ Marriage of Convenience
+ Medium Spice
+ Painted Desert Expedition
+ Dinosaur fossils
+ Walnuts
+ Bees
The Canary is Book 9 in the Wings of the West series but can absolutely be read as a standalone novel.
Pre-Order Now
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon CA
Amazon AU
Apple Books
Nook
Kobo
Google Play Books
Paperbacks are coming.
Read Chapter One
Here's an excerpt
“Dr. Brenner,” Ralph said. “This woman is looking for you.”
Jack turned and gave a slight nod, trying to ignore the jolt to his senses when he met her gaze.
“Dr. Brenner?” she said, her green eyes shiny with excitement. She extended a hand. “I’m Sarah.”
He was glad the white glove she wore kept their skin from touching. It had been a long time since a beautiful woman had caught his eye. Not since Betsy, really. And he didn’t need a repeat of that.
“I’m so pleased to meet you, sir,” she added, a big smile lighting up her face.
The “sir” caught his attention, and it all began to click into place. She thought Jack was his father. S. Ryan had been hired by Mrs. Parks for the dig.
But maybe he was wrong. Maybe this woman was here for another reason.
He cleared his throat and said, “Sarah …?”
“Sarah Ryan.”
The Most Favorite Books I've Written
By Kristy McCaffrey
THE WREN and DEEP BLUE
Both of these books were “firsts.”
THE WREN was the first book I ever wrote, along with being the first book I published. The story was inspired by a vision I'd had at the age of fifteen of a girl and two young men.
This was in high school, when my creative impulses were pushing me to write but I didn’t have a clear direction for what that meant. I didn’t come back to this idea until I was thirty-three years old and a young mother feeling very frazzled raising four young children.
Writing THE WREN became an escape from the long but very rewarding days of taking care of my babies. The vision turned into Molly, Matt, and his brother Logan. While I’d always been a big reader, I’d never studied the craft of writing, so THE WREN was a true seat-of-my-pants endeavor, and I wrote a story that I wanted to read.
DEEP BLUE was the first book in a new series that I wrote six years ago. Until then, I’d been writing western romances, but I’ve always loved marine science along with high adventure and wanted to try my hand at this kind of story.
I also loved contemporary romances where the heroine was quite capable but found her match in an equally capable hero. Inspiration for this project ran the gamut of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to “Jaws 3-D” (I really liked the love story between Bess Armstrong and Dennis Quaid).
Both books are favorites because they represent my attempts at doing something I’d never done before, which was not only to write a book but tackle subject matter I wasn’t entirely familiar with.
(For THE WREN it was the Comanche abduction storyline, and in DEEP BLUE it was understanding great white sharks beyond their reputations as man-eaters.)
Thanks so much for reading!! Kristy xx
THE WREN and DEEP BLUE
Both of these books were “firsts.”
THE WREN was the first book I ever wrote, along with being the first book I published. The story was inspired by a vision I'd had at the age of fifteen of a girl and two young men.
This was in high school, when my creative impulses were pushing me to write but I didn’t have a clear direction for what that meant. I didn’t come back to this idea until I was thirty-three years old and a young mother feeling very frazzled raising four young children.
Writing THE WREN became an escape from the long but very rewarding days of taking care of my babies. The vision turned into Molly, Matt, and his brother Logan. While I’d always been a big reader, I’d never studied the craft of writing, so THE WREN was a true seat-of-my-pants endeavor, and I wrote a story that I wanted to read.
DEEP BLUE was the first book in a new series that I wrote six years ago. Until then, I’d been writing western romances, but I’ve always loved marine science along with high adventure and wanted to try my hand at this kind of story.
I also loved contemporary romances where the heroine was quite capable but found her match in an equally capable hero. Inspiration for this project ran the gamut of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to “Jaws 3-D” (I really liked the love story between Bess Armstrong and Dennis Quaid).
Both books are favorites because they represent my attempts at doing something I’d never done before, which was not only to write a book but tackle subject matter I wasn’t entirely familiar with.
(For THE WREN it was the Comanche abduction storyline, and in DEEP BLUE it was understanding great white sharks beyond their reputations as man-eaters.)
Thanks so much for reading!! Kristy xx
Author Kristy McCaffrey
Kristy McCaffrey writes western historical and contemporary romances. She and her husband live in Arizona with their two dogs. Visit her online at kristymccaffrey.com.
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