Veronica Helen Hart

Doll and The Blenders are visiting Mongolia when two of them are mistakenly kidnapped by mystery men who think they took two executives in an elaborate ransom plot. When Doll is unable to get help from the police, she decides it is up to her to find her friends. Before long, as her friends struggle to survive in the wilds of Mongolia, Doll, assisted by her fianc and one of the other Blenders, races against time and the elements to discover where her friends are. Will she find them before they disappear into the desert?

Despite the pursuit of a handsome man who wants to marry her, Doll Reynolds is forever expecting her missing husband to return. She buys a house, so he will have a place to plant a garden. Except, the current homeowner balks at all attempts to remove her belongings which threatens Doll's dream of having a place for her husband begin to fade. The Blenders, though still peeved at her plans to move away, come to her rescue when Doll is injured during a yard sale. As they try to help her with the recalcitrant previous homeowner, Doll and the Blenders discover a corpse in the swimming pool of her new house...the homeowner. Now Doll is the police's primary suspect. Can Doll and her friends find the real killer before the killer finds Doll?

Doll Reynolds receives word that her missing husband, Barclay, has been discovered teaching in a South African university. Rather than call the school, she arranges a trip to confirm the information for herself. Six of her Blender friends join her for support. Old Howard arranges a luxurious safari as a side trip to either celebrate finding Barclay or to console Doll if she doesn't. Either way, the trip leads to murder.

Desperate to save her son, the American born heir to the kingdom of Kushawa, Moira Robbins hides him in an age-qualified retirement community, Keegan Bay. Where else could he be safer then surrounded by senior citizens? Doll Reynolds has suspicions about the goings on at her neighbor's. When her investigation leads to dark revelations, she unifies The Blenders, a group of feisty senior citizens, to engage in a battle of wits and tactics with the Kushawan Alliance of Royal Princes (KARP) who are determined to eliminate the heir. As Doll and The Blenders pull together to protect the boy's hiding, his mother risks her life to lure the KARP assassins away from Keegan Bay. Doll and The Blenders need to use all of their experiences to save the life of an innocent child. Will it be enough?

Elizabeth Killington, recently widowed at age twenty-seven, flies to England to claim her late husband, Lord Horace Killington's estate. She finds she not only owns a grand manor house in the country, but also the "crowds of people" who made Lord Killington avoid home for many years. As she meets and recognizes characters from her favorites books, and some she never heard of, she learns a wonderful secret from her lady's maid, Bridget. Is it possible that all stories can have a happy-ever-after ending? About the Author Veronica Helen Hart is an award-winning author of eleven published novels and multiple short stories, including "Recovery" in the 2016 Alvarium Collection, Return to Earth. When she met her husband, Robert, forty some years ago, he asked her what she really wanted to do with her life. She replied, "Write." He said, "Then why aren't you?" She enrolled in a correspondence course. "Writing for Children and Young Adults." During the program, she sold her first submitted short story and was motivated to carry on. She is currently a Regional Director for the Florida Writers Association, a member of Sisters-in-Crime, and is the moderator of two writing groups in Daytona Beach. Q. This is obviously based on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Why did you choose this book? A - If you've read the book in its entirety, then you know how it ends. Even if you saw the movie, which is very much an abridged version of the novel, it still ends tragically. I first read the book as a teenager, then again in my twenties and one more time later, perhaps in my forties. I watched the movie only once, finding the portrayals shallow and silly, but no matter what, I always wanted the ending to be different. The Masters Reimagined provided me with the opportunity to set things right for Anna. Q - What is The Masters Reimagined? A - In The Masters Reimagined, ten authors unite to bring something new to the classic stories of literature we all know so well. Masters like James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, and Shakespeare inspired the authors of the Alvarium Experiment in their quest to reinterpret, reinvent, and reshape the stories and characters through speculative twists and turns. This is the third project by the Alvarium Experiment, a consortium of accomplished and award-winning authors. Q - Where should a reader start when selecting a short story to read in The Masters Reimagined? A - Each story is self-contained and can be read in any order. The reader is free to select any of the stories at random to begin their experience. The book description will explain the premise for each particular story.

SILVER MEDAL WINNER IN THE 2018 FLORIDA BOOK AWARDSMarianna Edgewater finds a knife in the furnace room of an abandoned Georgia school building she bought to use as a studio for her interior design business. The knife terrifies her. She hears the voice of a girl murdered on the school grounds over thirty years ago. The voice insists her killer is still at large, but still isn't sure who it was, only that it wasn't the man who was convicted. Marianna begins having accidents as she questions the local people about the long ago murder. When she receives a letter from the convicted killer, "... I want you to know that I did not kill her and that the person who did must still be around . . .," she is determined to learn the truth. The Knife, a paranormal cozy mystery, was a 2018 Finalist in the Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition, the annual event sponsored by The Florida Writers Association.

From characters that disappear to odd occurrences to open endings, the masters who penned today's literary classics left a lot of room for speculation. Have you ever wondered what inspired Kipling to pen The Jungle Book? Who else Macbeth's witches influenced? Why Mr. Rochester's first wife went mad in Jane Eyre? How the events of Treasure Island would unfold if the pirates flew spaceships instead? If Eveline were escaping Earth instead of Ireland? What an American free spirit like Holly Golightly from Breakfast At Tiffany's might encounter in her new life as a Brazilian wife? How Anna Karenina might have escaped her death? What the Count of Monto Cristo and Alice In Wonderland might be like together? If Jonah's whale had been a submarine? Why Ishmael never mentioned Mr. Bulkington again after the Pequod left Nantucket on the hunt for Moby Dick? Escape into the speculative worlds of ten award-winning science-fiction and fantasy authors for answers that will fire up your imagination as you discover the essence of these timeless tales in stories that invite you to re-think everything you know about the classics, whether you've ever read them or not.

Sixteen-year-old Janice Parker flies to Iran to spend time with her archeologist father in the desert of Iran. When she arrives, she finds herself caught up in the throes of an impending revolution. After her father is injured, it is up to her to rescue him from prison and, with the help of her new friend, Amir, escape from Iran. Silver Medal winner 2011, Royal Palm Literary Awards, Florida Writers AssociationQuarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards - Young AdultJudge's comments: The novelty of a story about a young woman's adventures in the evolving Iran of 1978 is a breath of fresh air. The evocative writing makes the airport in Tehran visible; the apparent chaos and noise, disorienting to an uninitiated foreigner, bring another culture alive to the reader, as does the night drive through soldier-filled streets and the strangeness of the oasis in the desert. I was so pleased to at last read a real, involving, exciting tale about a young person on the verge of a stupendous event. This beats any oh-dear-what-about-high-school-and-my-parents-are-creeps stories I've been reading. Janice is about to enter a world she couldn't imagine in her wildest dreams and become involved in a story so exciting that, if she survives it, will take her through life handily and make her able to surmount any obstacle.-