E.M. Stewart
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Published January 31, 2025
The Wind Speaks No Evil
A year has passed since Bee--once Bevy Ritter, now living under the alias "Beatrice Rathborne"--lost everything. Now, she stands to lose it all again.
Bee was forced to enter Witness Protection following a traumatic kidnapping which left her hands crushed and tongue severed. The supposed perpetrator? Her ex-fiancé, Collin. But when the U.S. Marshal assigned to her case informs her that Collin is believed to be dead--and the assailants who carried out her kidnapping, within county lines of her alias's remote cabin home--her very understanding of reality is shattered.
With no safe place to go, she has no choice but to return home in the midst of a record-breaking blizzard. Once again, her illusion of safety is broken when she finds an armed intruder in the place she once thought her safe haven.
Nico Faulkner, a deaf drug mule left stranded in the surrounding wilderness by a deal gone awry, seeks shelter from the deadly storm. That, and a clean slate from his near-fatal life choices still far from reach.
Nico knows his clock is ticking. And, whether it be his vindictive employers or hostile buyers which come back to finish the job of killing him, they won't care that the woman occupying the cabin he thought deserted is an innocent bystander--or, his estranged best friend.
It's been ten years since Nico irrevocably broke Bee's trust. Now, as they discover it is the very same crime ring hunting the both of them, she must trust him in spite of their fractured past--their survival of the present depends on it. And soon, a threat much closer to either of them than they know will scream the truth: time does not heal all wounds.
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Blood on the Ice
If the truth hurts, will you keep digging for it?
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Sterling yearns to prove everyone wrong: that he can be a champion, and has not wasted his adolescence training as a figure skater instead of a hockey player. But when budget cuts force his university’s skate club to cut available spots for the season’s qualifying competitions, stealing his last chance at a single—and he is only selected to compete with his soon-to-be-ex pairs partner, Lorrie, who has flaked out of practice—he resigns to let his dream go.
MJ, Lorrie’s best friend since childhood, is also forced to face the music after likewise being snubbed of a figure skating single and being ousted from the university’s hockey team following a traumatic concussion. After losing the only things that give her life purpose and suffering a gut-wrenching betrayal by Lorrie, MJ leaves the rink planning to drink herself to oblivion.
However, when she and Sterling discover her former lifelong friend’s dismembered corpse, any chance to escape reality vanishes. It doesn't help that they both possessed motive to kill her themselves.
Desperate for answers and to prove her own innocence, MJ embarks on an obsessive research journey which leads her to the name of a recently released serial killer whose victims bear an eerie resemblance to her ill-fated friend. When Sterling tells her it's a crazy idea to try and hunt the suspect down herself, she offers him a deal: in exchange for helping her pin down Lorrie's killer, MJ will take her place as his skate partner.
As MJ and Sterling further entangle themselves in their college town's dark past, they discover painful truths about the present life Lorrie led in her final days.
Whether or not their drive for justice can protect any future victims remains unanswered.
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About E.M. Stewart
E.M. Stewart is a painfully introverted woman whose brain short-circuits when asked to share anything about herself. She was born and raised in Central Georgia, where she lives with her husband, 3 cats, and molly fish. Her writing career began with an awful handwritten "novel" which spanned roughly 50 pages in a blue-suede covered notebook at age 11, and she has been honing her craft ever since.