Endangered

Sam Westin Mystery Series #1

1st Place Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Contest

*****5.0 out of 5 stars – Grabbed me from the start! – Lori Caswell, Top 1000 Reviewer, Amazon Vine Voice

*****5.0 out of 5 stars – Terrific wildlife investigation – Harriett Klausner, Amazon #1 Hall of Fame Reviewer

*****5.0 out of 5 stars – An excellent wilderness mystery – S. Warfield, Amazon Top 1000 Reviewer

Meet wildlife biologist and writer Summer “Sam” Westin, whose dream of saving the cougars is complicated when a boy vanishes from a campground in Utah. When two-year-old Zack Fischer vanishes from a campground, the television news instantly convicts the park’s cougars. Sam is forced to battle a media blitz, the hysterical public, and a flash flood to expose the human kidnapper she believes is hiding in the Utah wilderness. Includes discussion questions for readers and book groups.

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Bear Bait

Sam Westin Mystery Series #2

Daphne du Maurier Award Winner

*****5.0 out of 5 stars – Fasten your seat belts and hold on tight!!
– Lori Caswell, Top 1000 Reviewer, Amazon Vine Voice

Wildlife biologist and writer Summer “Sam” Westin loves the wilderness. But her latest attempt to protect nature may just get her burned. She is working on a twelve-week project for the National Park Service as a biologist and a volunteer firewatcher when, one night, she hears an explosion and fire lights the sky. When the blaze is finally extinguished, a body is discovered in the embers. It’s a young woman who was working on the park’s trail crew for the summer—and she’s still clinging to life.

Who started the fire? Was the young woman involved? Does this have something to do with an old gold mine? Is the recent sighting of an illegal bear hunter just coincidence? Sam wants the answers—but someone else wants her out of the way before she finds them…

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Undercurrents

Sam Westin Mystery Series #3

*****5.0 out of 5 stars – A Great Escape – Under water!!!
– Lori Caswell, Top 1000 Reviewer, Amazon Vine Voice

Scuba diving off the Galápagos Islands, wildlife biologist and freelance writer Summer “Sam” Westin is not only out of her element—she’s plunged right into a dangerous conflict between fishermen and environmentalists.

When Sam is hired to cover a marine survey expedition to the Galápagos, she jumps at the opportunity—though she has to fudge the truth about her diving expertise. But amidst the giant tortoises, marine iguanas, and schooling hammerheads of Darwin’s enchanted islands, Sam gets caught up in deadly game of survival of the fittest, and her dream assignment turns into a nightmare.

When her diving partner’s air supply is contaminated with carbon monoxide on their very first dive, she wonders if someone is trying to sabotage the expedition. Sea cucumbers and shark fins are valuable commodities in the Asian market. How far will the poachers go? With no one watching their backs, Sam starts to suspect they may already be in over their heads—dealing with human predators more deadly than any shark.

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Backcountry

Sam Westin Mystery Series #4

Kim and Kyla, two of Sam’s best friends, ran a wilderness therapy program for troubled teens. After the two women are murdered on a popular hiking trail, Sam reluctantly takes Kyla’s place as a field guide on the company’s last expedition of the year. While Sam is at home in the Cascade mountains of Washington State, she is unnerved by the violent deaths of her friends, and decidedly out of her element in dealing with six teenagers whose histories include drugs, bullying, and suicide attempts.

It’s a daily struggle to provide protection and leadership to the group, especially when Sam begins to see signs that the killer may be stalking them in the wilderness.

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Borderland

Sam Westin Mystery Series #5

Wildlife photographer Jade Silva’s last text message is a photo of a rare jaguar at the US-Mexico border wall. When Jade vanishes, her fellow Southwestern Research Station volunteer, Sam Westin, agonizes that something terrible has happened. But finding Jade seems an almost impossible mission in a rugged area overrun by undocumented immigrants, Border Patrol agents, vigilantes, construction crews, human traffickers, drug smugglers, and violent cartel thugs. Meanwhile, the ever-increasing militarization of the Arizona-Mexico border is destroying ecosystems and trampling the rights of US citizens. Trying to rescue her friend, Sam is sucked into a maelstrom of desperation, deceit, and danger.

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Cascade

Sam Westin Mystery Series #6

Just as society celebrates the fade of the Covid quarantine restrictions, Summer “Sam” Westin’s life shatters. While she and her friends enjoy a spring snow outing in the majestic north Cascades, an earthquake launches multiple avalanches to wreak destruction on the slopes. Skiers are dead. Sam’s lover Chase Perez is fighting for his life.

Sam knows that she can’t blame two wolverine poachers for the cascade of events that killed and injured so many in the mountains. But if Sam hadn’t answered the call to rescue a trapped wolverine, she wouldn’t have been buried, and her friends would have been safely off the mountain and back home. Criminal associates of her troubled young protégé Maya wouldn’t have trashed her house and injured her cat.

Why did two teens want to capture a wolverine, and why has nobody come forward to claim their bodies? Are baby wolverines, still hidden beneath the snow, starving because their mother was murdered? How can Sam protect herself and her friends from Maya’s violent associates? Sam, shadowed by her annoying but effective TV reporter friend Adam Steele, has to find the answers to bring some sanity back to the world.

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