Award-Winning Author
trilogy
“Three may keep a secret...
if two of them are dead.”
— Benjamin Franklin,
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Mystery
For forty years Johnny Duval kept a gut-wrenching secret... ‘til it killed him. Three days later, his estranged son, Jesse, returns for the funeral and learns his dad buried his 1948 Indian Chief motorcycle in the backyard. Perplexed, Jesse digs—and finds a body!
Homicide detective Charlotte McKane (Charlie) and her surly partner, Cal Simpson, arrive and suspect the yard could be a body farm. But clues are as cold as the body and the only ones with answers are dead. As they investigate they discover the truth is buried in secrets and lies. And Charlie keeps her own secret. She hunts her mother’s killer, not to arrest him, but to get revenge.
Meanwhile, Charlie is stalked by a hitman from her past who, like her, wants revenge. As the case heats up, so does an unwise attraction between Charlie and the buried victim’s son. But she must resist—or she could lose her job with its license to hunt killers.
Compelling page-turner · Shocking twists · Unforgettable characters
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Romantic Thriller
It’s her job to hunt killers—but now they’re hunting her!
Homicide Detective Charlotte McKane (Charlie) works the case of a girl buried in a backyard—a girl no one knows. Charlie investigates and unearths a shadowy world of depravity, and predators who will kill anyone that interferes. But there is no stopping now—or more children could die!
The predators are not the only ones who want Charlie dead. Someone from her past is stalking her to get revenge. In a dark twist of fate, he and Charlie are more alike than they realize. She is secretly hunting her mother’s killer—not to arrest him—but to get revenge!
Then there’s Jake, the frustratingly irresistible detective assigned to protect her. Feisty and stubbornly independent, Charlie refuses a bodyguard. Her boss insists, knowing her propensity to take chances. She resists—until Jake moves in—and the line between duty and desire melts.
Sparks and bullets fly in this heart-pounding romantic thriller that will keep you guessing until the final, unforgettable pages when Charlie takes one too many chances—and pays the price.
Spicy romantic thriller · Gripping page-turner ·
Heart-stopping
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Thriller / Suspense
Fast paced and explosive. A gripping page-turner.”
On a cold and misty October morning in Ireland, Detective Maeve Delaney loses her family, her home—and her identity. But the terrorists want more. They want her dead. British Intelligence whisks her to an airport—only to learn she is afraid of flying. After soaring over the ocean in a cargo plane, she has a change of heart—and a new name she hates—Fiona McFae.
Fiona is six feet tall, a boxer, and a sharpshooter with nerves of steel . . . except when it comes to flying. She lands in Florida and joins the homicide team of Charlie McKane and Cal Simpson from Books 1 & 2. Charlie senses what Fiona lacks and encourages her to embrace her feminine side . . . and that complicates everything.
They investigate the high-stakes case of a murdered scientist and as they dig deeper, people die. And the tables turn when the conspirators discover Fiona’s true identity—and contact the terrorists! In a heart-stopping airport showdown, Fiona must use every skill she has to save the team and herself . . . or can she?
Bullets. Betrayal.
Resurrection delivers pulse-pounding suspense to the very last page.
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Early Years:
Ahni was born in Jacksonville, Florida and moved to Louisville, Kentucky where she attended the University of Louisville and earned a B.S., M.A.T., and Ed.D. She earned a Ph.D. in Parapsychic Science from the American Institute of Holistic Theology. While at U of L she supervised student teachers, taught part time for the Math Department, and lettered in tennis and field hockey. After returning to Florida, she taught part time at the Florida Community College at Jacksonville. She has been an avid runner most of her adult life and is a Kentucky Colonel.
Young Adult Book:
Her young adult book, Beyond the Road, won three literary awards—the 2006 RPLA Book of the Year; First Place Young Adult and Children’s Literature from the Florida Writers’ Association; and the Mayhaven Award for Fiction. Ahni’s YA pseudonym is M. Howe Bugbee.
Adult Books:
EVERYONE BURIES SOMETHING—Where secrets never stay buried.
Book 1, Revelations
Book 2, The Reckoning
Book 3, Resurrection
Resurrection has received two literary awards: The RPLA Silver Award for Thriller or Suspense and the Killer Nashville Claymore Judges’ Top Pick.
Ahni’s first job !
Literary Affiliations
Central Virginia Sisters in Crime; Grand Canyon Sisters in Crime; Writers House; Florida Writers Assoc., and the James River Writers. Ahni founded the Florida First Coast Sisters in Crime Chapter. Through Sisters in Crime she had the opportunity in 2006 to fly to Los Angeles and pitch her young adult book to Sony Pictures.
Metaphysical Background:
Ahni had a number of profound psychic experiences and realized she was destined to follow in the footsteps of her English grandmother who had been a medium. She studied at the world-renowned Arthur Findlay College in Stanstead, England and became an international psychic medium and channel. She channeled two advanced and digitally recorded notices of world disasters that subsequently occurred as described. She recorded a meditation CD entitled Your Soul Knows and channeled the following books: The Message, The God Magic Within You, and The Journey Home: An Allegory.
Ahni has an extensive background in shamanic energy healing and co-founded the Mountain Mystery School in North Carolina where she taught a shamanic training program.
Personal:
Ahni loves to learn, travel, garden, and write. She has two grown sons who live in the Louisville area and she and her husband Paul live in Keswick, Virginia where she is a llama-mama and a beekeeper of 200,000 bees.
Ahni and the llamas!
