It Sounded Normal In My Head

A dead trainer. A drugged Thoroughbred. In the high-stakes world of Victorian horse racing, the truth lives under the skin…

Newmarket Heath, 1887. To the public, the fatal gallop of legendary trainer Henry Ashmore was a tragic accident. A horse spooked by a drainage ditch, an aging rider losing his seat. Case closed.

But Henry’s daughter, Nell Ashmore, doesn’t read the public form book; she reads the horse. With a ledger behind her eyes and a unique, ancestral gift for reading an animal’s pulse by touch, Nell examines the four-year-old colt Domine’s Pride. The horse’s pounding heart and dilated pupils tell a terrifying story: her father’s horse was systematically poisoned before he ever put his foot in the iron.

A Deadly Conspiracy in the Betting Ring
Inheriting the honest yard but facing a wall of skepticism from the elite Jockey Club, Nell must manage the stable while hunting a killer. With the help of the methodical Inspector Thomas Kell, she uncovers a brilliant, cold-blooded betting coup running right through her own tack room. Someone has been falsifying work-watch logs and placing dark money across distant rings, keeping a champion horse dark to strike a fortune.

The numbers don’t lie, but the people do. As the Queen’s Golden Jubilee approaches, the field of suspects narrows to those closest to home. To secure her father’s legacy and save her yard, Nell will have to out-handicap a mastermind who has already proven that a human life is a price worth paying to fix the odds.

There are those born with powers beyond comprehension. Some call them blessings, proof that the gods favor their owners and chose them to rule. Others call them an offense, citing the cost of bearing them as proof of divine punishment.

For Carter, they’re another commodity to trade. Everything has a price, and their price is years and lives. Legal or not, the empire’s laws are barriers to maneuver around, not to heed.

For others, the empire’s many barriers are too great to let stand, and they seek his help, promising him great rewards. But regardless of his plans, everything has a cost too.

Dealing in Shadows is a deep look at what moves people. At what they’re willing to do for what they believe is right. At what they’re willing to do for what they believe they want. At the outcomes no one expects.
If you wish to enjoy a realistic fantasy in a rich world with impossible questions through a compelling story carried by a wide cast of flawed, vivid characters, read this book.

Her husband framed her. Her career is over. Her life is in ruins.

When her prestigious art career implodes Julia flees to Tides Inn hoping to disappear. But innkeeper Jane Miller has a sixth sense about troubled guests, and this coastal community has its own way of turning things right.

Soon Julia finds herself being adopted by the other guests at the inn, a retired magician, genealogy-obsessed twins, and a bird-watching librarian who see right through her lies — and don’t care.

Julia fools herself into thinking she can fit in and make genuine friends, building a quiet new life where no one knows her past — until her secret is exposed and everything changes.

But when she gets ready to flee again, Jane, Maxi, Claire and Andie will haven none of it. Instead, they roll up their sleeves ready to take on corporate lawyers, powerful ex-husbands, and anyone else who thinks they can destroy one of their own, because in this town, lost souls find families willing to fight for what’s right.

New York audiobook narrator Peter Larson and his wife Hannah head to his hometown of Maple City to help Peter’s ailing father and to put a recent tragedy behind them. Though the small, Midwestern town seems the idyllic place to start afresh, Peter and Hannah will soon learn that evil currents flow beneath its surface.

They move into an old farmhouse on the outskirts of town — a house purchased by Peter’s father at auction and kept secret until now — and start to settle into their new life.

But as Peter sets up his recording studio in a small basement room, disturbing things begin to occur — mysterious voices haunt audio tracks, malevolent shadows creep about the house. And when an insidious presence emerges from the woodwork, Peter must face old demons in order to save his family and himself.

SHORT VERSION – TEN MINUTE ROUTINE

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