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Sometimes a single card can make or break a hand.
But how you ultimately play those cards will decide who wins or loses.
Dashira Coffin

a vintage, brown-edged ace of spades

The Coffin Chronicles

The Coffin Chronicles is a paranormal mystery series, part of the August Grove Collection. The opening trilogy introduces Dashira Coffin, her family and friends as Dash returns to August Grove after being away since she was fifteen, ten years ago.

Book 1 :: HOLE CARDS

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In Book 1, Dash returns home in answer to a plea from her cousin and best friend, Ardis Canaday. Children are being kidnapped, and Ardis believes her young son will be next. It’s up to Dash to figure out who and why, and where the missing children are.

But what if the danger does not arise from the kidnapping of babies, but from getting Dash to return to August Grove. Dash has a lot of people tracking her. Has one of them finally come up with a scheme to catch the elusive Dash Coffin and her magical deck of poker cards?

Book 2 :: STACKED DECK

And it’s all about the cards in Book 2.

Well, almost.

book cover mock up of Stacked Deck Book 2 has action, drama, suspense, and magic as Dash, after deciding to remain in August Grove until, sets out to find answers to her many questions. But another game is at the table, and she soon finds herself running not only for her freedom, but for her life. She’s a fugitive, accused of murdering one a New Orleans assassin sent to kill her. With a huge bounty on her head, and every cop and vigilante on her trail, she’s running out of places to hide.

So she keeps running, with only her cards to help her.

But the cards…

When perhaps she needs them most, even her faithful friends are unreliable. The deck is bewitched, compromised, and she can no longer trust it. What’s a girl to do when all the cards are stacked against her?

Book 3 :: Dealing from The Bottoms

It’s a showdown, a face to face battle with minions from The Community, as Dash decides it’s time to find out what that insidious group wants with her, her cards, and with August Grove. Book 3 brings the return of the infamous Maurice St. John Delacroix, and this time, Dash has to question whose side he’s on. The defenders of August Grove, including Tabitha Spencer and the team from FOG3 Investigations, must bring their best efforts to a fight for their beloved town. Magical powers, wisdom, and strength are their best draws, because this is a game where the winner takes all.