Upcoming Release--MISSTEPS MENDING DEVILISH WAYS Publication Date: October 27, 2026 ARC copies at Netgalley & Booksprout Available for pre-order: amazon.com/dp/B0HCM2HRZ7 Excerpt Chapter 29- Amazonia 1930 With boots tied around her neck, she affixed her heavy backpack and pushed out the bay door. Mist rose from the water, and a strong and blinding sun beat upon the silver aircraft, which floated twenty yards from the riverbank. —“Mind your members,” Alexandra teased the men. Stepping out onto a pontoon she jumped into the shallows. The water came up to her navel. She trudged forward, a hand pressing the fabric of her khaki linen pants over her private parts. Local legend spoke of a minuscule, needle-thin fish called the candiru, which could swim up one’s urethra, where it would fester and grow until the host’s death. First on dry land, she unslung her rifle and scouted the bank while the others waded over. Rondon granted her permission to borrow the Mauser on the strict condition that she refrain from shooting an Indian, even if her life were imperiled. His construction crews operated under that commandment, and those captured by cannibalistic tribes living deeper in the rainforest likely proved delicious.