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Author: Dale Mayer | Website

Freelance writer Dale Mayer lives in the beautiful Okanagan valley in British Columbia, Canada. She’s multi-pubbed in nonfiction but her true love is the stories that weave through her mind. For the past nine years, she’s written around the daily responsibilities of being a single mother of four and still squeezes in time to produce new fiction manuscripts each year.

In fiction, she writes taut psychological suspense with romance and paranormal elements. She has recently branched out into both mystery and urban fantasy books for young adult with the occasional vampire book thrown in just for fun.

She’s prolific with her nonfiction work as well. 


Published Works & Book Reviews

Hide'n Go Seek

A twisted game of Hide’n Go Seek forces an unlikely alliance between a no-nonsense FBI agent and a search-and-rescue worker.

Celebrated search-and-rescue worker Kali Jordon has hidden her psychic abilities by crediting her canine partner Shiloh with the recoveries. But Kali knows the grim truth—The Sight that she inherited from her grandmother allows her to trace violent energy unerringly to victims of murder. No one knows her secret until a twisted killer challenges her to a deadly game of Hide'n Go Seek that threatens those closest to her.

Now she must rely on FBI Special Agent Grant Summers, a man who has sworn to protect her, even as he suspects there's more to Kali and Shiloh than meets the eye. As the killer draws a tighter and tighter circle around Kali, she and Grant find there's no place to hide from themselves.

Are her visions the key to finding the latest victim alive or will this twisted game of Hide’n Go Seek cost her…everything.

Reviewer: M Whelehan
Review: Dec 7, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Romantic Suspense
I was extremely surprised when I first started reading this book. I did not get a chance to read the first book, but I am glad I had the opportunity to read this one first. This book drew me in from the very first page. I found it interesting about what Kali's profession is. I also enjoyed learning that she had a dog to help her. She also had a power in which she called The Sight to help her on her jobs. Kal

Every Witch Way But Wicked

This compilation is 60,000 words. Proceeds go to Kids Need to Read - Nathan Fillion's charity that promotes literacy and ignites imagination.

Foreword by Amanda Hocking Take twelve paranormal authors. Toss them together in one anthology. Add a dash of romance, a pinch of humor and a dollop of mystery. Stir in a few ghosts, a handful of sorcerers and garnish with magic for the perfect witch's brew.

Reviewer: A.M. Donovan
Review: Dec 7, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal / Supernatural, Seasonal / Holiday, Mystery, Witches, Charitable Cause
This is a wonderful collection of good witch tales, without being heavy on the moralizing (only a little) and leavened with humor. It's done as well as one of Martin Greenburg's collections. It's not primarily humorous, but definitely left me with a smile, while introducing me to some authors that I will have to look out for in the future. All the proceeds from sales of this book go to Kids Need to Read, a

Entangled

Ghosts, vampires, demons, and more! Entangled includes ten suspense-filled paranormal short stories from authors Cynthia Eden, Jennifer Estep, Edie Ramer, Lori Brighton, Michelle Diener, Misty Evans, Nancy Haddock, Liz Kreger, Dale Mayer, and Michelle Miles, plus a Seven Deadly Sins novella by Allison Brennan.

Stacia Kane contributed the foreword. Formatting and cover art were also donated to the project by Lori Devoti and Laura Morrigan.

All proceeds go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Reviewer: ELF
Review: Oct 18, 2011
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy, Anthologies
"Entangled" is an anthology that features eleven paranormal tales by a group of extremely talented authors who have united to produce a fascinating volume that will benefit breast cancer research. Some of the stories contribute to established series such as Jennifer Estep's Mythos Academy which is featured in "Halloween Frost" as Gwen succumbs to peer pressure and goes on a unforgettable night of trick-or-tr

Vampire in Denial

Like being a sixteen-year-old vampire isn't hard enough, Tessa's throwback human genes make her an outcast among her relatives. But try as she might, she can't get a handle on the vampire lifestyle and all the...blood.

Turning her back on the vamp world, she embraces the human teenage lifestyle—high school, peer pressure and finding a boyfriend. Jared manages to stir something in her blood. He's smart and fun and oh, so cute. But Tessa's dream of a having the perfect boyfriend turns into a nightmare when vampires attack the movie theatre and kidnaps her date.

Once again, Tessa finds herself torn between the human world and the vampire one. Will blood own out? Can she make peace with who she is as well as what?


Tuesday's Child

What she doesn’t want...is exactly what he needs.

Shunned and ridiculed all her life for something she can’t control, Samantha Blair hides her psychic abilities and lives on the fringes of society. Against her will, however, she’s tapped into a killer—or rather, his victims. Each woman’s murder, blow-by-blow, ravages her mind until their death releases her back to her body. Sam knows she must go to the authorities, but will the rugged, no-nonsense detective in charge of tracking down the killer believe her?

Detective Brandt Sutherland only trusts hard evidence, yet Sam’s visions offer clues he needs to catch a killer. The more he learns about her incredible abilities, however, the clearer it becomes that Sam’s visions have put her in the killer’s line of fire. Now Brandt must save her from something he cannot see or understand…and risk losing his heart in the process.

As danger and desire collide, passion raises the stakes in a game Sam and Brandt don’t dare lose.

Reviewer: Laurie-J
Review: Sep 4, 2011
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense
This book grabbed me from the get-go and never let up! The story unfolds brilliantly, transporting the reader on a horrific journey. Samantha Blair, an untrained psychic, has unwittingly become witness to a deranged serial killer's mad spree. Her "gift" exacts a terrible toll mentally and physically. What happens during her visions is truly the stuff from which nightmares spring. When Sam reports her vis

Dangerous Designs

Drawing is her world...but when her new pencil comes alive, it's his world too.

Her...Storey Dalton is seventeen and now boyfriendless after being dumped via Facebook. Drawing is her escape. It's like as soon as she gets down one image, a dozen more are pressing in on her. Then she realizes her pictures are almost drawing themselves...or is it that her new pencil is alive?

Him...Eric Jordan is a new Ranger and the only son of the Councilman to his world. He's crossed the veil between dimensions to retrieve a lost stylus. But Storey is already experimenting with her new pencil and what her drawings can do - like open portals.

It ... The stylus is a soul-bound intelligence from Eric's dimension on Earth and uses Storey's unsuspecting mind to seek its way home, giving her an unbelievable power. She unwittingly opens a third dimension, one that held a dangerous predatory species banished from Eric's world centuries ago, releasing these animals into both dimensions.

Them... Once in Eric's homeland, Storey is blamed for the calamity sentenced to death. When she escapes, Eric is ordered to bring her back or face that same death penalty. With nothing to lose, can they work together across dimensions to save both their worlds?

This is book 1 of the story, with several sequels coming soon. The story leaves on a hook. Not to worry, book II picks up where book one ends.

Reviewer: Black Rose
Review: Aug 8, 2011
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal / Supernatural
I enjoyed this great YA novel by Dale Mayer. The main character, Storey Dalton, is strong and does not let anything get in her way. Storey is the type of main character that I like to see in my stories. Once she gets something into her head she doesn't let anything stop her from doing what she thinks is right. She likes to help fix the messes that she creates even if it is an accident. The co-main char

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