Lyn Miller LaCoursiere

I remarried later and had some wonderful years, but after eight months of struggling with an illness my husband died. It was then I joined a grief group and learned the value of journaling. Finally I was on to something! I wrote volumes using yellow legal tablets and Pilot pens. I felt close to God and began writing spiritual poems. Then I saw an ad for "The Center for Developing Writers" at the Hennepin Technical College. I attended that first night on shaky legs, my poems gripped in my sweaty palms. Maureen LaJoy met me at the door and in her sweet voice welcomed me to her class. I looked at her with awe. A real writer! I studied her clothes; her long skirt, belted over-blouse, boots and dangling earrings. So, this was how a writer dresses. I was smitten. I was going to burn my sweat-shirts and jeans and dress glamorously just like her.

That first night I read my work and bless her, she gave me the encouragement I needed. After some time I thought I'd try my hand at contemporary prose, and bravely used the f-word, Maureen gasped at my change of genre, then urged me on with a twinkle in her eye.

Writing opened up a new world for me, and after writing numerous short stories, I used a favorite I'd created with characters Lindy Lewis and Reed Conners and bravely kept on going. Using bits and pieces of my life, people I'd met, places I'd been and of course embellishing, I wrote my first book. I called it Nightmares and Dreams. That was more than ten years ago. In the process of maturing as a writer I'm happy to say it still gets me up and moving most mornings as I am finishing my fourth book about the star crossed lovers.

So here it is, after years in the back of the closet I hope you enjoy my book as Lindy and Reed began their tumultuous journey.

I eagerly look forward to hearing what you, my readers think about this first book. Please e-mail me lindylewis1@msn.com

 

 

 

NIGHTMARES AND DREAMS is a blend of murder, money and romance. Of two people unable to break the ties of young love.

LINDY LEWIS now a feisty adventuress, is forced to face life alone in the mansion her husband and she had lovingly renovated.  Alone and insecure about the future after he dies and believing she would find contentment again if she is rich, feels life has forced her to take some drastic measures.  She commits a crime.  

REED CONNERS a successful retired lawyer, now an investigator has one downfall, Lindy Lewis. The same woman he loved in college decades ago and much to his chagrin, can still manage to bring havoc to his life.

The two come face to face again in a casino in Northern Minnesota as Lindy escapes from a killer who threatens her life and her newly acquired precious fortune.  While Reed has been assigned to investigate a fraudulent crime to his company, he is stunned to discover the the offender is none other than his ex-lover, Lindy Lewis.  This sets off a series of dangerous encounters as once again their lives become entangled.

 

 

 

 

TOMORROW'S RAIN will take you down another journey of intrigue as a woman searches for her inner peace and a man's harbored passions are pushed to the limit.

CLUTCHING HER FORTUNE Lindy has left Reed Conner’s bed in the north and escapes to her beloved south.  As she frolics in sunny Savannah, Georgia, another house fire steals her tranquility and again she takes to the road.  She settles by the ocean in Newport, Rhode Island.  Here her journey into the mystical world of ghosts, visions and clairvoyance begins.  She has a vision of Reed, the investigator who has been hot on her trail to reclaim the million dollars for the insurance company they say she defrauded.  He’s been shot and in a coma, and now beyond a doubt, Lindy believes it’s her turn to help him.  She rushes back to his side. The FBI enters the picture and an inevitable prison term looms ahead, unless she testifies in court that she witnessed an international drug dealer murder one of their agents in cold blood!”

     “I can’t do it,” she wails, “He will kill me!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excerpt from Lyn's "Sunsets," released November 2009:

 

The courtroom was silent as death as the prosecutor repeated the question.

 

"Miss Lewis, would you please tell the court what you saw when you looked out the porthole of the yacht?"

  

The color drained from Lindy's face, and a chill numbed her limbs.  She felt the deadly threat in Mario's eyes pierce the short distance in the room as she sat just a few feet from him.  but she didn't have a choice: testify for the FBI or face prison for her fraudulent insurance claim.  And, of course, hand over the millions of dollars!

 

Oh, lord, this was so much worse than she'd imagined.  Tension raced across the planked floor in the courtroom then, but she choked down the dread and said, "I saw Mario D'Agustino shoot a man!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUDDENLY SUMMER  Now Available!
Excerpt from Lyn’s book four

Suddenly Summer takes the reader on another hair-raising journey when Lindy Lewis saves the life of the Mayor of Monterrey, Mexico. “I know all about your deceptive life,” he threatens when she rejects his advances. In desperation to get away, she flees back to the US. She is soon kidnapped by Mario D’Agustino’s henchmen and left in a forest to die as payback for testifying against him in court for the FBI. Antagonist Reed Conners, always doubtful of her clairvoyance, is finally convinced the she may be on to something when she has a vision of the place a psycho has taken his best friends wife. And later identifies the two men found drowned in his home town lake. 

 

 

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