After months in preparation,
Rubicon Ranch, a collaborative novel that will be written online by authors of
Second Wind Publishing, is just days away!
Recently widowed writer/photographer
Melanie Gray finds the body of an eight-year-old child in the desert. Was it an accident? Or . . . murder! But who would want to kill Riley Peterson? It could be anyone in this upscale housing development. Everyone is hiding something. Everyone has an agenda.
The girl’s parents,
Jeff and Kourtney Peterson have an eight-year-old secret they will do anything to defend, perhaps even going so far as to kill their own child. If she is their own child.
Honor student
Dylan McKenzie has a secret life that gives him a feeling of empowerment. Does he find murder even more empowering?
Psychologist
Mary “Moody” Sinclair, has already killed one child. Is she adding to her resume?
Sleepwalker
Cooper Dahlsing is afraid he might have killed the girl. But is she his first victim? Or his second?
The motto of private investigators
Mark and JamieWestbrook is: “Make a quick buck, and don’t get caught.” Could murder their way of making a quick buck, or perhaps their way of not getting caught?
Self-appointed neighborhood guard, eighty-two year old
Eloy Franklin keeps watch for anyone who dares to endanger
his Rubicon Ranch. Was Riley a danger?
Sheriff
Seth Bryan, a recent transplant, is overqualified for his job. Still, he finds compensations, his most recent being the mysterious Melanie Gray. Does she have something to hide? Or is she only protecting herself . . . from him?
So whodunit? We don’t know and won’t know until the end. With so many great authors involved, anything can happen! To make the unveiling of the killer even more interesting, after all the evidence has been presented, you can tell us who you want the killer to be.
We will post one chapter every Monday, beginning October 25, 2010, at:
Rubicon Ranch. We hope you’ll enjoy reading the novel while we are writing it. To make sure you don’t miss a single chapter, you can subscribe by email at the
Rubicon Ranch site:
http://rubiconranch.wordpress.comPlease join us on our adventure -- it will be fun for all of us.
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