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THE KNIFE                                                            
    Marianna Edgewater finds a knife in the furnace room     of an abandoned Georgia school building she bought to use as a studio for her interior design business. The knife terrifies her. She hears the voice of a girl murdered on the school grounds over thirty years ago.The voice insists her killer is still at large, but still isn’t     sure who it was, only that it wasn’t the man who was convicted. Marianna begins having accidents as she questions the local  people about the long ago murder. When she receives a letter from the convicted killer, “… I want you to know that I did not kill her and that the person who did must still be around..." she becomes determined to learn the truth.
          Silver Medal Winner
          Florida Book Awards
Now available in audiobook at Audible.com     Narrated by Dara Kramer
VERONICA H. HART WAS AWARDED A SILVER MEDAL FOR THE KNIFE IN POPULAR FICTION CATEGORY AT THE FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS DINNER IN TALLAHASSEE:

Through a generous gift from Wayne and Shirley Wiegand The H. Roland and Norma Abitz Endowment Fund was established to support "The Abitz Family Dinner," an annual event to honor the recipients of the Florida Book Awards.

"The Abitz Family Dinner honors the love of reading they instilled in me," said Shirley Wiegand of her parents. "Mom and Dad always encouraged me and my sisters to read, and visits to our local public library were a weekly routine."

Uppity women Press Publications

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THE RELUCTANT DAUGHTERS: Historical Fiction, - Elizabeth Ackert-Riis is furious when she sees her nemesis is running for president of the United States. After spending thirty-five years in denial, to the point of rejecting her own daughter, she now sees her duty and is determined to seek revenge. Set during the 1900 elections, the story moves from Albany, New York, to New York City and then to Kansas City where the Democratic Convention is being held, Elizabeth brings her colleague, Ledger, her daughter, Mary Ellen, and her granddaughters, Barbara and Lily, to the confrontation.

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ELENA - THE GIRL WITH THE PIANO: Historical Fiction.
​In 1943, Elena's family must escape Leningrad to survive. They embark on a hazardous journey through war-torn Russia.

FINALIST: Royal Palm Literary Awards, EPIC Awards
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​ESCAPE FROM IRAN: Adventure 
Christmas, 1978, visiting her archaeologist father in Iran, Janice Parker finds he has been arrested. She must find and rescue him. Join her in her quest to rescue him and escape the country, a task not easy to achieve with the secret police in search of them. Follow her through the streets of Tehran and into the mountains as she and two local colleagues of her father struggle to keep him alive.
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 BOY COMES HOME - Mainstream
Captured as a child, Brandon has lived in a North Korean work camp for twenty years. When he is freed, he faces a changed world and a changed family. He faces danger at every turn.    

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2021 Royal Palm Literary Award
​Gold Medal for Mainstream Fiction 
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SILENT AUTUMN - Future/Science Fiction.
Power, absolute authority, and food. The East has the first two, the West, the third. And Taylor Female 8635 knows what is about to happen.
Finalist in the Royal Palm Literary Awards
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THE PRINCE OF KEEGAN BAY - BLENDERS BOOK I - Humorous Thriller Life in a retirement community takes on a twist. International assassins not welcome.
GOLD MEDAL Winner for Humor at the Royal Palm Literary Awards.
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THE SWIMMING CORPSE - BLENDERS BOOK II - Cozy Mystery
​Doll Reynolds runs into murderous problems when she buys a house outside the community.
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SAFARI STEW - BLENDERS BOOK III - Cozy Mystery
Doll Reynolds receives word that her missing husband, Barclay, has been discovered teaching in a South African university. Rather than call the school, she arranges a trip to confirm the information for herself. Six of her Blender friends join her in support. Old Howard arranges a luxurious safari as a side trip to either celebrate finding Barclay or to console Doll if she doesn't. Either way, the trip leads to murder.

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MIDNIGHT IN MONGOLIA -BLENDERS BOOK IV - Adventure/Humor.
​Two of the Blenders, Al and Larry, are mistakenly kidnapped and then deliberately abandoned in the Gobi Desert. It is up to the others to find and rescue them.

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 WEDDING AT KEEGAN BAY - BLENDERS BOOK V - Adventure/Humor
Will the arrival of a newly discovered granddaughter spoil Doll’s wedding? The wedding is a week away and Doll is having second thoughts as she observes Michael’s reactions to her quirky family.

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alvarium experiment 

The Alvarium Experiment, is a consortium of accomplished and award-winning authors
​who publish speculative fiction anthologies together.
​The stories vary in length from short to novelette length.​
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​RECOVERY: Science Fiction. When a virus threatens the lives of everyone on board a transfer station for intergalactic travel, it's up to Dr. Candace Bertram to retrieve the only known vaccine from Earth. The risky, untested method of transport could mean catastrophic mission failure, and grave danger for Dr. Bertram. 

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ANNIE KARENINA: Speculative Fiction. In 2017, Beth Killington is widowed and finds herself the owner of a manor house in England filled with the "crowds of people" her late husband, Lord Horace Killington, used as his excuse to never take her to his home. As she meets these people, she understands his reluctance. Is it possible to change the course of the lives of fictional characters?
WINNER of a Royal Palm Literary Award 2019
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STOREY'S ORPHANS: Time traveling Grunsberry Murphy appears as a twelve-year-old in 1878 London in time to save Winifred and Laurance Allen from certain death when two ships collide on the Thames River. When she goes in search of their parents, the children disappear.     When they turn up at Alexandra Orphanage, she has already arranged to be working in the front room where all children are received on arrival. Mr. George Storey has arranged to paint one of his London life scenes at the home and captures the arrival of Winifred and Laurance, as seen in “Arrival at the Orphanage.”

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MALICE: Mapimiran of Planet Kirospatos, aka Mary Alice of Planet Earth, is on a mission to collect a set number of humans from around the globe for display as specimens in Earthworld where they are expected to live in a “natural habitat”. While on Earth she takes on employment as a lab tech, drawing blood as part of her effort to find humans with the right genes; she also draws an online cartoon using a play on her own name, “Malice.” First, she must face the judge after she accidentally kills one of her specimens.

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