Jennifer Daniels Neal
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Jennifer Daniels Neal is a performing songwriter, author, and teaching artist out of Lookout Mountain, Georgia, who has released nine music albums, three novels, and two humans into the world. She enjoys writing for (and with) kids and adults, and so she and her husband co-founded the week-long literacy initiative Songwriting IS Writing! which is receiving international attention.
"The South that Jennifer writes of is the William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor South. Darkly romantic, hot and humid, haunted and gothic...grown slowly from some rich, dark soil." Performing Songwriter Magazine “Jennifer's sound wanders from alt-country to haunting folk-rock delivering her poetry with an urgency to match its message.” Paste Magazine
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The Elixir: a paranormal adventure of courage, friendship, and the wisdom of blood
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Young Adult Paranormal Romance
Beam hasn't been allowed to see her uncle since she was five, and her dad found him catching her blood in a jar. She’s not allowed to do a lot of things, like ask about it. And she is certainly not supposed to follow injured mountain lions back to the reservation where she was born (no matter how intriguing they turn out to be in human form). Today, though, everyone Beam loves has vanished, and her late grandmother’s Tribal lullaby pounds through her head like a warning. So all the rules must be broken. Journey with Beam through the Badlands of South Dakota in a wildly imaginative adventure of courage, friendship, and the wisdom of blood. Drawn from Lakota folklore and heralded for the strength of its characters, The Elixir won Neal Serious Writer’s Writer of the Year award and debuted as #1 New Release in Amazon's Teen and Young Adult Native American Fiction. 
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The Locke Box, a sensual but clean mystery romance
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Mystery, Romance
A bizarre crash leaves two strangers running for their lives with an orphaned baby and the key to a lost family heirloom. Sensual and sweet, smart and funny, suspenseful and satisfying. Young sign language professor Emma longs for someone who will stick around. Her dad left when she was fifteen, and now the only creature she trusts is the stray cat she feeds every day. But this morning, while exploring a beautiful old cemetery, Emma meets Locke, a man who defies her doubt. Today marks one year since Locke lost his brother to an apparent suicide. He visits the grave full of unanswered questions and dark thoughts. When Emma appears, with her wild orange hair and fiery disposition, she's a welcome distraction. Minutes after meeting, a car crash sends them fleeing from shadowy intruders and corrupt police. Their survival depends on a lost box full of family secrets.
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The Bridge to Isla Sofia, a genre-bending mystery/romance with Southern gothic flair
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Mystery, Romance
This Great Smoky Mountains cabin has been in my family for seven generations. When Jake died, and the bridge was flooded as it is now, we had to bury him on site. It was like losing my twin. I came back to move past the feeling that they buried me in that grave too—and I meant to do that by myself. But with the storm raging, my cousin's handsome friend gets trapped here with me. Things could be worse. The guy's interesting, and he's funny. And he's got this thick beard that—but anyway when we discover several disturbing entries in the visitors' log and an eccentric neighbor spying through the windows, we realize that Jake's death was no accident, and ours may be next. Playful and sexy, this mystery/romance delves into the backwoods oddities of the author's Southern heritage.
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The Soubrette, a romantic novella
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A Romantic Novella
Sassy but sweet, sexy but clean, this novella tackles a big story with Neal's signature humor and swoon-worthy characters. Think Breakfast at Tiffany's meets crime story drama. Book description: Chef Reesie's powerful wink and her delight in all things Audrey Hepburn seem to float her along, but secretly, she's growing more and more afraid of her stalker ex-boyfriend. When police are summoned to her home, Officer William MacDougal (a man on whom her wink does not appear to work) presents a more enticing puzzle than the one he was called to sort out.
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