Juliet Rose
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By the time she was ten years old, Juliet Rose knew she wanted to be a writer. She entertained neighborhood kids with her stories after school and with the support of her mother got her first typewriter. Life had other plans and after the death of her mother when Juliet was eleven she put those dreams on hold. Over the decades she has picked up the proverbial pen time and again, writing about her life experiences including the cancer diagnosis and subsequent passing of her four-year-old daughter.
Focusing on fiction currently, she is driven to bring to life characters from many walks of life and the struggles faced in modern society. Her writing style is open and fluid, giving the characters the ability to shine as the truth of their own story. Her works are honest and sometimes brutally painful but in the end, her characters are given the voice which needs to be heard. Juliet is a New York native living in the mountains of Georgia. She has lived all over the United States and Mexico and doesn’t plan to stop seeing the world beyond her front doorstep. She spends her time rescuing animals, painting, and writing. Her dream is to get an RV to explore hidden gems and find the best vegan restaurants. 
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Do Over
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Contemporary Literary Fiction
Samantha Rutliff has spent her life trying to stay in the middle of the road, running when things got tough and suffering from an undiagnosed dissociative disorder. After committing a terrible act, she ends up hundreds of miles away in a random beach town, with a large knot on the side of her head and all of her belongings in the back of her car. Determined to stay and start over, she takes a job at a beachside restaurant, which leads to forming a friendship with Smitty, a local lifeguard and surfer. However, when a body is found in the ocean, a dark underworld of teen and young adult ketamine abuse surfaces, with Smitty at the center of it. Sam and Smitty lean on each other to cope until a secret comes out which threatens to tear them apart. Sam has to decide if she is finally ready to stay and fight for something she believes in or save the tiny bit of herself she has managed to find. 
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We Don't Matter
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LGBTQ/New Adult
At fifteen years old Aidan Osher lost his older brother to a drug-induced suicide. Now, at twenty-two, about to graduate from film school in Seattle, he is struggling with knowing who he is or where he belongs. A chance meeting with another skateboarder, Zeke, launches Aidan into an unfamiliar world both inside himself and out. As their friendship unfolds, Aidan is drawn to Zeke in a way he can’t explain. Zeke’s openness about his own homosexuality and abuse from the family and church he was raised in, makes Aidan question feelings he has long since buried. They find themselves intricately woven and their connection deeper than friendship. Aidan finds in Zeke answers to himself, his place in the world and a love he didn’t know could exist. Recent tensions in Seattle, place Aidan, Zeke, and their friends in a situation where they have to decide between their own safety, or standing up to police intimidation and violence against the residents of a nearby homeless encampment. Footage of police brutality Aidan catches on film, puts them all on the run, fearing for their lives and their future. Zeke and Aidan flee to his brother’s best friend in North Carolina, which opens the door to his past he had closed to save his sanity. Reopening these old wounds forces both Aidan and Zeke to have to face what their true purpose is, and find the best way to fight together, against an oppressive system determined to keep them silent. 
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Prick of the Needle
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Contemporary Literary
Former heroin addict and prison inmate, Wren Meyer, finds herself on the outside as a wildland firefighter, in one of Arizona’s most deadly fire seasons in years. Through a program designed to offer post-release inmates a chance at a new skill, Wren finds herself face to face with not only her past but a future she is unsure she belongs in. While she thrives off of the adrenaline firefighting gives her, using it to replace her desire to use heroin again, she struggles with finding her own purpose in life. Life unexpectedly changes when volunteers from other areas join the fight, including a crew from the nearby Navajo Nation. As a crew supervisor, Wren steps forward to offer guidance to the new crew members and finds herself at odds with, yet strangely drawn to the Navajo crew leader, Elijah. Elijah is a single father and type one diabetic, who holds Wren away at arm’s length, for reasons she can't comprehend. Elijah’s and Wren’s pasts force them to come to grips with what is drawing them towards one another, however, keeping them apart at the same time. Only through depending on one another, will they be able to find a clear path out of the fire. 
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Through the Surface
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Supernatural Horror
Two tragedies, a few months apart and multiple states away from each other, leaves four people dead with one fighting for their life. As a result, this uproots the lives of teenagers Ledger Elliot and Iris Brubaker, who know nothing of each other. Fifteen years later, their paths cross when Iris moves to the small Maine island Ledger has lived on his whole life. After her grandmother's death, Iris inherited a lodge on the island and intends to reopen it as a hotel. Unbeknownst to Ledger and Iris, their lives are about to collide, and their dark pasts will come to haunt them with the help of the history and possession of the lodge. Through an unexplainable draw they are cast together and find themselves fighting for their lives, and the protection of the island residents, against unseen foes. Demonic forces which followed them from their pasts, are determined to take over the lodge and reopen a portal to hell. Through this battle Ledger and Iris discover they were sent to stop one another, yet through their connection unleash a power they'd never known existed. 
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Trigger Point
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Contemporary/Literary
Zoey Sanders is completing her internship as a paramedic with the Mountaintop Search and Rescue in the Beartooth Mountain range of Montana, when a new dog handler arrives to join the team. The handler, Micah Byrne, is deaf and he and Zoey form an immediate connection, even though she only knows the sign language alphabet and a few words. They are drawn to each other through friendship, their love of dogs, Search and Rescue, and something deeper. An avalanche ties the team together through an unexpected tragedy, but a sudden loss drives Zoey away and almost out of her mind, making her turn on everything she once loved. Including Micah. She is consumed by rage and loneliness, lashing out because no one is held accountable for her loss. Her family has to reassess everything they'd once taken for granted and discover a strength in themselves they'd never known. Zoey and Micah must bare their souls and tell their truths in order to find their way back to one another. 
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Carrying the Dead
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Visionary, Metaphysical Suspense
Six months after the sudden loss of an unplanned pregnancy, Hannah Moore is almost ready to think about living again. That is until one fateful day when a reckless, young motorcyclist changes the course of both their lives forever. One terrible, momentary decision ends his life at Hannah's unwitting hands, sending her down a spiral she can't find her way out of. Even a brief stint in the mental hospital does not release Hannah from that which insists on haunting her waking moments, and the nightmares telling a hard, painful truth she isn't ready yet to face. At every turn, Hannah sees the dead motorcyclist, flesh hanging off his decomposing frame, and thinks she hears her deceased baby crying in the night. Through a new friendship with Buzzy, a healthcare worker at the mental hospital, Hannah learns her nightmares carry a sinister message embedded in ancient culture. She comes to the realization she must take a trip to Mexico to discover the meaning of her visions. Through this journey, Hannah uncovers a thread to her past and a horrible secret that bridges the gap between the deaths of her baby and the motorcyclist. SAMPLE PDF 
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