ON THE BOOKSHELF
Stories with Heart,
Humor & a Little Chaos
Colorful places. Complicated people. Questionable decisions.
My novels are rooted in a strong sense of place, filled with memorable characters, messy families and the kind of situations that rarely go according to plan.
MYSTERY • FLORIDA FICTION
Killer Shine
Moonshine, murder & one very colorful little Florida island.
Put your finger on the Florida/Georgia state line and drag it east until you hit the ocean. Right there is Crab Island — a tiny slice of paradise where Southern traditions and Sunshine State style have collided. Seafood comes with sweet tea, kudzu grows beside the sand,
and palm trees obscure the workings of a moonshine still.
Jacqueline “Jac” Dawson returns home after a ten-year absence and one ill-advised marriage, settling with her six-year-old son, Milo, into her family’s twenty-room magenta monstrosity, The Pink Mermaid Motel. Privacy is in short supply, but the familiar chaos may be exactly what Jac needs to start over.
Back on her feet, Jac lands a new job and a new relationship while Crab Island settles comfortably around her again. Then one foggy
October night changes everything.
Moonshine and murder split the island at its seams. Old family grudges wash ashore, gossip slips between the palm fronds and Jac finds herself caught in a web of secrets and lies where the stakes become far more personal than she ever expected.
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HOLIDAY FICTION • ST. AUGUSTINE
Ancient City Christmas
Family drama, holiday disasters & one spectacularly complicated Christmas.
Bailey Hamilton is — literally and figuratively — in quite a bind. It’s Christmas Eve, and she’s being held by airport security after causing a ruckus in the ticketing terminal on one of the busiest travel days of the year. But according to Bailey, none of this is really her fault.
Her family has more than two decades of Christmas catastrophes to prove it: a shotgun wedding, a mid-nativity divorce decree, epic dinner battles, blasphemous parade floats, last-minute weddings and her stepmother’s newly invented “Peacemas” holiday.
Bailey would have escaped Florida much sooner if not for the fading possibility of rekindling things with Memphis, her childhood best friend and old flame.
Desperate to get back to the peace of her tiny Boston apartment, Bailey recounts her family’s colorful Christmas history to Tony, the security guard standing between her and freedom. But between an old flame, an old tragedy and a family that may be impossible to leave behind, getting on that plane might not be quite as simple as she thinks.
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BEHIND THE BOOKS
Written by Shannon O’Neil
Give me an interesting place & I’ll find some trouble to put in it.
I’m a Florida native living in Colorado, and place has always found its way into the things I create. My first two novels are rooted in Florida’s coastal towns; my next is taking me west to Colorado. Wherever the story lands, expect colorful characters, complicated relationships, humor and at least a little chaos.
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