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MY BOOK BEGINNING
When it was over, Kate Dalton vowed to abolish the phrase "if only" from her vocabulary and make peace with what they did to survive.
-- Sea of Regret by Carolyn J. Rose. That opening sentence gives me chills!
This is the second of the Carolyn J. Rose books I got a couple of weeks back. This one is the sequel to An Uncertain Refuge, set on the Oregon coast and starring Kate Dalton.
The other book I got was Through a Yellow Wood, set in the Catskill Mountains and the sequel to Hemlock Lake, a series featuring Dan Stone.
Rose and her husband, Mike Nettleton, are both authors and even have written a couple of books together. Rose has written several mysteries, set on the Oregon coast or in the Catskill Mountains where Carolyn grew up. She and Nettleson also blog together at Deadly Duo Duh.
Rose is leading a workshop on the elements of mystery at the Wordcatcher conference in Kalama, Washington on Saturday, April 20. Click the link for details or to sign up for the conference.
