We are all thrilled here at Murder She Writes about our new anthology,
GUNS AND ROSES.

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We wanted to share why we wrote this book:

FOREWORDSynergy is a remarkable phenomenon. From the Greek synergia, meaning to work together, synergy is one of the most powerful forces on earth, driving chemical interactions at the molecular level, taking sports teams to world championships and keeping the kitchen of a five- star restaurant cooking with fire.

On a personal level, the book you are about to read is a quintessential example of synergy, a product greater than the sum of its parts, when ten like-minded, but completely different, creative brains work in partnership toward a single goal. In this case, our goal was simple: to entertain the hell out of you.

We are the authors behind the long-running (and, we say humbly and happily) quite popular MurderSheWrites blog. Started in 2005, the MSW blog has always enjoyed a large and lively audience of readers, writers, and publishing industry experts.

All of us are primarily, but not exclusively, writers of romance and suspense, enjoying a wide spectrum along both those popular bands. Among us, we have over 150 published novels, numerous appearances on the New York Times Bestseller lists, dozens of industry awards, and, yeah, over twenty kids. Thanks to amazing and palpable synergy, we are also close friends who love, respect, admire, and depend upon one another.

So, it was through the marvel of that synergy that the anthology Murder She Writes Presents: Guns and Roses was born.

This is a collection of ten never-before published short stories and novellas, each penned by one of the Murder She Writes bloggers exclusively for this collection, all inspired by our mutual love of suspense and romance. Some of them are dark and tense; others are light and wild and might give you a few new laugh lines. Most are loosely connected to existing popular series, yet all stand entirely alone. Many will make you chuckle, one or two might make you cry, and there are a few that will require the use of a fan and cold water.

We couldn’t be more excited about this groundbreaking project, hoping to give a treat to our loyal readers and open the door to new ones. At the end of each story, you’ll find the author’s bio, with a link to their website, and in the back of the book, there’s a list of each author’s books, should you want to explore more of their works.

The synergy that created this project is alive and thriving every weekday at Murder She Writes —come on by and say hello. Stay to laugh, learn, sigh or cry… we all have a different perspective, but one very special voice.

And now, sit back, click to the next page, and behold the synergy of romance and suspense.

All the best,
Lori, Allison, Josie, Toni, Sylvia, Laura, Sophie, Rocki, and Karin

GUNS AND ROSES is a meaty anthology, full of short stories and novellas, nearly 160,000 words for your reading pleasure! Included:

LORI ARMSTRONG “Dead Flowers”
PI Julie Collins trails cheating lovers, which leads to questions about her relationship with Tony Martinez.

ALLISON BRENNAN “Above Reproach” — (excerpt)
Sex crimes detective Selena Black puts her career and life at risk to prove that high-profile attorney Greg Keller is the brutal River City Rapist before he strikes again.

JOSIE BROWN “The Housewife Assassin’s Bloody Valentine”
CIA contract assassin Donna Stone’s idea of Valentine’s Day?A couple’s massage with her mission’s leader Jack Craig—not breaking out of a Mexican prison, then stopping a massacre by an international terrorist cell.

TONI McGEE CAUSEY “Bobbie Faye’s Whacked Out, No Good, Really Sucky, Hot Mess of a Wedding”
Bobbie Faye Sumrall, Cajun Contraband Days Queen, gun expert, and ultimate professional in being in the wrong place at the wrong time, absolutely, positively does not want to go through with the wedding that Trevor’s forcing her to agree to, but she soon finds out she has more important things to worry about—like surviving the plot to make her disappear when she’s set up as a fall guy for the theft of a priceless religious icon.

SYLVIA DAY “Blood and Roses” — (excerpt)
When insurance investigator Anastasia Miller sets out to retrieve the rose-hued pink diamonds stolen in a recent heist, she finds herself working alongside former flame, deputy U.S. Marshal Jake Monroe—the man she loved enough to leave behind.

LAURA GRIFFIN “Nightfall” — (excerpt)
Alone on an icy road at nightfall, Holly Henriksen puts her trust in a charming stranger and soon discovers he is keeping a dangerous secret.

LORELEI JAMES “King of Hearts,” A Rough Riders short story
Deputy Cam McKay deals with a murder/suicide case on Valentine’s Day.

SOPHIE LITTLEFIELD “A Punishing Night” — (excerpt)
While investigating the stabbing death of a student at his own alma mater, Detective Joe Bashir confronts painful memories and makes an intriguing new acquaintance.

ROXANNE ST. CLAIRE “Pick Your Poison,” A Bullet Catcher Novella — (excerpt)
When Bullet Catcher Benjamin Youngblood sets out to track and trap an assassin, he’s forced to trust a sexy flower farmer who could be as dangerous as her homegrown poison.

KARIN TABKE “Rebel Rose” — (excerpt)
For Detective Cash Cantrell, hunting down a University serial killer is as routine as strapping on his gun each morning. Until he comes face to face with meddlesome coed, Rebel Yell Culpepper. He doesn’t know if he should arrest her or kiss her, but one thing Cash knows for sure, Rebel is key to finding the murderer, and the killer knows it too…

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