LacyndaMathes

My debut novel... coming February 14, 2024

eBook available at Author Lacynda Mathes (worldcastlepublishing.net)

Forget Me Not - Kindle edition by Mathes, Lacynda. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

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Finding herself without any memory after awakening the victim of a bizarre crime, Miranda Davis navigates repairing a strained relationship with her mother, coming to terms with her father’s imperfections, falling in love with her brother’s best friend, and grieving the death of her twin brother, while she and Deputy Sheriff Dan Bradley work to solve the mystery of three jewelry boxes and the string of murders that have them at their center. As she slowly recovers from her amnesia, her memories of her twin brother lead her to the answers and peace she seeks. Meanwhile, Dan must search the recesses of his own lost early memories to confront the truth behind his own tragic history. They discover their lives are inexplicably intertwined with each other and with the life of a Chicago socialite 50 years their senior in a plot that threatens the lives of them all. Motivated by false pride and greed, the criminals responsible escalate their assaults on anyone and everyone who stands between them and a vast fortune. Unfortunately, Miranda and Dan are squarely in their crosshairs.

Book 2 in series... coming 03/26/2024

Forgive Me Not https://a.co/d/4VrBsg4

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forgive-me-not-lacynda-mathes/1145065263?ean=2940186189985

As Christmas approaches, Deb Bradley is compelled to confront the infidelity that destroyed her marriage while she faces the disappearance of her mother during a devastating apartment fire.  In the course of searching the rubble, the city of Batavia, Illinois is thrown into tragedy as a sniper takes aim and kills Batavia Police Lt. Mark Redmond and two others.  Additionally, another officer is critically wounded, and a neighbor is shot in the leg.  To confuse matters further, someone, likely the same person, is stalking Miranda Davis.  Master Sergeant Gavin Mahoney of the Illinois State Police works with Deputy Dan Bradley to unravel the twists and turns of this case before anyone else dies.   As Gavin and Dan dig into the past, they uncover tales of monsters, murder, patricide, armored truck robbery, missing money, and a few long lost relatives.   They race to stop a madman hell bent on revenge and fueled by obsession.  Merry Christmas!

Book 3 in the series... Available June 3, 2024

Forsake Me Not - Kindle edition by Mathes, Lacynda. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

As Deputy Dan Bradley and his bride-to-be, Miranda Davis, prepare for their wedding day, a new threat to their happiness looms large. The man who raped Miranda in college emerges out of the past to threaten their future together.  Seemingly obsessed with Miranda, he kidnaps Dan's son with his ex-wife, Deb.  

Meanwhile, Deb Bradley inexplicably finds herself falling in love with Master Sergeant Gavin Mahoney, despite her better judgment.

Dan and Gavin join FBI agent Tom Mathews on a manhunt and in a deadly investigation that leads them from Chicago to Virginia and back again, exposing more of Dan's mysterious past.  Along the way, they discover corporate secrets and conspiracies that shaped and threaten their lives.

Can a madman destroy them forever?  Or will love conquer all? 

Coming August 5, 2024 

Gavin Mahoney and Deb Bradley, having committed to their burgeoning relationship move to a new city and state to start a new life together.  Gavin, having been head hunted to teach Criminology at the University of Mary Washington in historic Fredericksburg, Virginia, attempts to step away from law enforcement to make his beloved happy, while she insists that she only needs his happiness to achieve that goal.

But unbeknownst to them, out of the past steps a nightmare with an ax to grind, drawing Gavin back to law enforcement when a neighbor's 10 year old son is discovered murdered in their apartment building's dumpster.  Accepting a position with the Fredericksburg Police Department, Gavin embarks on an investigation into a diabolical serial killer known as the Songster...who seems to know a little too much about Gavin Mahoney.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHL9NG8J

Coming November 18, 2024!

During an investigation into a school bus hijacking and bombing in Fredericksburg, Gavin Mahoney discovers that his ex-girlfriend has been hiding the existence of his biological son from him over the last six years.  Once again, a developing bizarre crime spree appears to be all about him! 

Off to a rocky start as a parent, not only to a child he's never met, but to newborn Essie with his wife Deb, attempting to iron out his paternal rights with Shannon, and caught off guard, Gavin is critically wounded in a shooting that leaves him hospitalized and Shannon murdered.  

During his convalescence, he is called home to Sterling, Illinois, to attend his Abuelo's funeral.  Being home has an odd effect on Gavin.  Despite being at home among people who love him, he is haunted by events from his youth and years in the 82nd Army Airborne in Afghanistan.

And when the evil seeking to hurt his child follows them...he and Deb learn that together they can face whatever demons they each need to fight...the hidden inner ones, as well as living, breathing ones, who seek to harm a small child just to hurt his father.

Ghosts https://a.co/d/5wBWoch

COMING JANUARY 27, 2025

Deb and Gavin Mahoney start their first Christmas with their new blended family, seven-year-old Hal, five-year-old Jason, and eight-month-old Essie, by attending the Davises' annual Christmas party.  The joyous celebration is marred by Gavin's having to reveal a scary secret about his health, as Deb confronts a friend's deep betrayal of her trust.
As they each are haunted by numerous ghosts from their pasts, Gavin confronts accusations of morally unethical behavior for a police officer, the truth behind what happened to him and his cousin Horatio in Afghanistan, and a diagnosis of a devastating disorder that costs him his career.
His personal struggles are forced into the foreground when he thwarts an attempt on Sam and Connie's lives by a pair of criminals seeking Deb's spider ring.
Once again Gavin and Deb are drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a deeply disturbed criminal with a vendetta against Gavin Mahoney.
Over the next five days, Gavin works to uncover who is out to steal Deb's spider ring and what it has to do with a five-day blackout he suffered after a violent skirmish in Afghanistan 13 years prior.  Can he figure it all out before he pays the ultimate price?

Declan Mahoney is retained by the Grand Egyptian Museum to negotiate the return of the Worker's Contract, a valuable and historically important archeological artifact, to Egypt from the Smithsonian.  But from the moment he meets his lovely assistant Mary Cummings his life is forever changed.  Something or someone dearly departed compels him to protect Mary and her adorable toddler twins, Dani and Randy, at all costs.

When named partner, Howard Fox at Fox, Goodwin, and Kane, Attorneys at Law, is mysteriously murdered and a shooter takes aim at Mary, Declan springs into action to save the pretty woman who has captured his heart, revealing he's more than just an attorney.

With his cousin, Gavin Mahoney, he races against time to reveal the culprit trying to kill his new love and extended family before a terrorist attack in Cairo kills hundreds of children.

He speaks to me in silent noise.

His vocabulary is in his eyes,

His oration expressed in his smiles

Or in his tears.

Pure emotion doesn’t translate

To impure English.

But his love breaks the noise

My brain can’t decipher.

My heart reads the silence

And understands.