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Lisa's Newest Novels
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Love Ya, Kid
LOVE YA, KID is an upmarket suspense thriller set along Interstate I-44 in rural Missouri, where deer season means more than anyone in Stella Stanley's town wants to admit. Stella is twenty-three, a diner waitress with a police academy dropout's instincts and a mouth she can't always control, when her father is killed on the opening morning of hunting season. The county rules it an accident. Stella stumbles onto a clue that says otherwise and that curdles fast into obsession.
What starts as one woman's refusal to let her father's death get filed away becomes something far larger. The pattern she uncovers stretches back thirty-five years: a killer who has used the cover of deer season to disappear into the woods along the corridor every November, unnoticed because nobody was looking for a pattern in what always looked like accidents. Untangling it means reopening a case that already sent one innocent man to prison, a wrongful conviction Stella has to unravel with the same evidence that's leading her toward her father's killer. And the clock is not abstract. She has one year to build a case against a man who has never once been caught, before the next deer season gives him exactly the cover he needs again.
Complicating everything is a university police officer whose growing role in the investigation Stella didn't ask for and can't quite keep at arm's length, and a mother who has been carrying her own quiet certainty about the wrongful conviction for years, never spoken aloud.
Part rural noir, part slow-fuse procedural, LOVE YA, KID is about what it costs to keep asking the question everyone else has stopped asking, and what's left of a person once they finally get the answer.
The Intruder
The Intruder is a dark urban fantasy thriller following Maeve Callahan, a woman with a dangerous ability... she can "drift" into the bodies of unconscious people, experiencing their memories and controlling their actions. What started as a way to escape her own painful past has become an addiction she can't shake, and she's been using her power to hunt predators the justice system has failed to stop. But playing vigilante comes with a cost. Each drift pulls her further from her own identity, and she's starting to lose track of where she ends and her hosts begin.
A detective begins connecting her victims and she learns a shadowy organization called Lucent has an unsettling interest in her abilities, Maeve finds herself caught between the hunt she's been running and becoming the hunted. Complicating everything is Jonah, a man whose unexpected connection to her threatens to expose vulnerabilities she's spent years burying. As the walls close in, Maeve must confront not just the monsters she's been chasing, but the one she might be becoming.
Part psychological thriller, part supernatural noir, THE INTRUDER explores addiction, identity, and the seductive danger of losing yourself in pursuit of justice.
REBECA
REBECA is a psychological horror novel that reimagines Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca for the near future. When a young data analyst meets the charismatic Max DeWinter, a tech CEO still haunted by the death of his brilliant wife Rebecca, she's drawn into his world... and into Mandertech, his sprawling estate controlled entirely by an AI system called REBECA (Recursive Emotional Biometric and Environmental Command Assistant). The AI, created by the late Mrs. DeWinter, monitors every room, anticipates every need, and seems to hold secrets about its creator that no one is willing to share.
As the protagonist tries to build a life with Max, she finds herself constantly measured against his late wife's impossible legacy, and not just by the people around her, but by the house itself. REBECA's presence is everywhere: in the walls that pulse like veins, in reflections that move a split second before she does, in a voice that's smooth, cold, and artificially perfect. What begins as unease slowly becomes something far more sinister as she realizes that in this place, the line between memorial and prison may not exist at all.
Lisa French
Started writing for fun in 2012. Now with 5 full novels under her belt, she has decided to share them with the world. She is seeking publication through traditional means only.