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Matt McLaren was only a boy when Indians
killed his parents and kidnapped his three-
year-old sister. Blaming himself for the
tragedy, Matt sets out on a journey of the
heart to find little Mandy. He doesn’t get far,
however, before he’s held as a virtual slave
by a cruel innkeeper. Sick and barely alive,
he’s rescued by a kindly old man who takes
him in and teaches him the rudiments of
survival in the wilderness.
When the vengeful innkeeper guns the old
man down, Matt kills him. On the run and still
seeking his sister, he heads through the
Cumberland Gap into the Can-tuc-kee Indian
Territory, where he joins a group of
adventurous long hunters. He plans to
amass enough skins to buy land and make a
home for him and Mandy. But fate steps in.
Mat is captured by Indians.
After weeks in captivity he escapes at last,
and learns a great deal more about survival.
He returns through the Gap to the Virginia
frontier, where he helps settle the rugged,
majestic land he has come to love.
Ultimately, he learns what “home” really is …
and where it resides.

Brenda Maxwell’s new interior design
client tells her to “paint, wallpaper,
whatever” his hundred-year-old landmark
mansion, “but for God’s sake, don’t go
overboard.” When she figures her
grandiose plans will fit handily into his
edict’s “whatever” section, she launches
them into a constant head-bumping
mode.
Brenda’s poor money management skills
(that’s his view, but what does he know?)
and lawyer David Hasbrough’s ridiculous
need to control her life (that’s her well-
reasoned evaluation of the situation)
combine to keep the battle going. Add a
dollop of “the other woman’s"
interference, throw in secrets about the
house and both their pasts, fold in a dab
of parental abuse and a pinch of good old-
fashioned mistrust, and you have a recipe
for disaster. Is this couple’s romantic
goose cooked?
Well, he is a great guy. Headstrong,
maybe, but she can’t be near him without
sparks flying and goose bumps popping
out everywhere.
Yet–well, that mansion has to be done
right!

Kim Howell has two weeks to make prom dresses
for three classmates, but her brand-new sewing
machine goes totally ape. When she hears strange
jabbering in her bedroom closet she realizes unseen
“Otherworldies” had come in with the sewing
machine.
Whoops . . . her life will never again be the same. The
problem is, when she’s sure things can’t get worse . . .
they do!
Trouble begins in earnest when two classmates
attack her as they try on their dresses. Then the third
dress is stolen from an overturned pickup on a lonely
gravel road. A strange shawled woman spies on Kim
from various hiding places, magic paper flowers have
strange affects on her other classmates, life-
threatening flames threaten to consume her—these
and other weird happenings make her life almost
unbearable.
Kim’s mom takes her to a psychiatrist, and Kim
doubts her own sanity. Then an invisible Otherworldie
lets it slip. Something major—make that earth
shattering, perhaps even world-ending—is to happen
at the prom.
What is it? And whatever it is, can she stop it?
Kim uses her brains, humor, a huge amount of street
smarts, great will power and the love of her boyfriend,
as she fights to foil the Otherworldies’ ghoulish plans.
Will she succeed? If not, her very life—and the world
itself—will never be the same again!

Three new novels from Don McNair.
Proof of his editing expertise.

Don McNair's first book of fiction, a hardback novel titled The Long
Hunter, was released in 2006 under his own name by Medallion Publishers.
Reviewer Harriet Klausner called this novel, which won him PAN status in
Romance Writers of America, "a fabulous insightful historical thriller."

His second and third novels, Attack of the Killer Prom Dresses (a young adult)
and Maxwell's Mansion (a romance), were released in late 2007 and summer
2009 under his pen name, Donna McClaire. (Get it? Don McNair, Donna
McClaire?)

The Long Hunter

Maxwell's Mansion

Attack of the
Killer Prom Dresses*