{"title":"Shannon Baker","description":"Shannon Baker is the award-winning author of The Desert Behind Me and the Kate Fox series, along with the Nora Abbott mysteries and the Michaela Sanchez Southwest Crime Thrillers. She is the proud recipient of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2014 and 2017-18 Writer of the Year Award. Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1. She now lives on the edge of the desert in Tucson with her crazy Weimaraner and her favorite human. A lover of the great outdoors, she can be found backpacking, traipsing to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, skiing mountains and plains, kayaking lakes, river running, hiking, cycling, and scuba diving whenever she gets a chance. Arizona sunsets notwithstanding, Baker is, and always will be a Nebraska Husker. Go Big Red.","products":[{"product_id":"scorched-line-paperback","title":"Scorched Line - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen her estranged mother becomes the target of a killer, Kate must decide whether blood truly outweighs betrayal.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Baker is skilled at telling her story... A really solid read.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e --First Clue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarguerite Fox is back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree years after vanishing without a word, the woman who shattered Kate's family has returned to the Sandhills--and this time, someone wants her dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA shot fired. A chase through open country. Suddenly, Kate is forced to do the unthinkable: face a past she thought was buried. With her siblings on edge, threats circling closer, and trust wearing thin, protecting her family might mean protecting the one person she can't forgive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Marguerite has secrets buried deeper than prairie roots--and she's not done making deals. As loyalties shift and old wounds rip open, Kate must choose between justice and family... before someone else makes the choice for her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e___________________\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Shannon Baker: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"...terrific series...\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Catriona McPherson, multi-award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eA Gingerbread House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"...Baker knocks the wind out of you...\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Carolyn Ridder Aspenson, USA Today bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eDamaging Secrets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Shannon Baker gets better with every book.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Amazon Charts bestselling author Jess Lourey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"...winning characters and a stunning setting...\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Mystery Scene\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A wonderful western mystery not to be missed! 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[an] engaging locked-room mystery.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e --First Clue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Fox has her hands full when her sister Louise and her father's latest ex-girlfriend, Deenie, show up at her doorstep just as a freak snowstorm comes bearing down. But when the sheriff--snowbound and stranded out of town--calls on Kate to assist a van of bird-watchers stuck along the road, she has no idea what she's signed up for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the help of Deenie and Louise, Kate settles the stranded group in the local high school gym, hoping they can ride out the storm together. But as the blizzard howls and cell service dies, Kate and the eight quirky tourists find themselves utterly isolated. 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