My Second Drifter Series Novella has been Released
by Jackie Taylor Zortman
The second novella in my Drifters Series, JAKE-Winds of Change was recently
released on Amazon.com. The first was called JAKE-Whiskey, Water & Wildfire and was enthusiastically
received by my readers. Both novellas are eBooks and when the third is
published, it will be a large trade paperback containing all three books in the
series, also available as an eBook.
Jake is a wildland firefighter with a Harley who stays in
top physical shape for his profession and is blessed with the kind of good
looks that make women yearn to be his lover and men envious, being what is
known as a “man’s man”. He’s a drifter who
travels until some town mentally signals him that he should stop and stay
awhile. A pending disaster is usually the reason he is needed. Once the need is
fulfilled, he rides again until another town flags him down. He once left a
heartbroken woman in his wake and their relationship haunts him, having always
been single and dedicated to remaining that way forever.
A ski trip to Telluride inspires him to remain in
southwestern Colorado. He fails to find a job as a firefighter, so takes the
Colorado law enforcement exam and becomes a police officer. He lands a job with
the small Sierra, Colorado PD and is hired as their Fire Investigator.
Renting one of only
two apartments in the historic Wander Inn, his neighbor in the other apartment
is a gorgeous single woman named Kioni and they develop a sizzling, mutually
agreeable no-strings-attached romance. Jake’s first friend in Sierra was
Kioni’s mother, Yvette, a strangely mystical and magnetic older woman who works
part-time in the local bookstore.
On a three-day road trip with Kioni, Jake unexpectedly
manages to gather the loose ends of a case that has been his focus since the
first moment he noticed the strange person of interest’s suspicious activities
in Sierra. Unexpected twists and turns lead the case back to the Sierra PD and
reveal shocking ties to the department’s detective.
Jake has a tremendous secret that is eventually revealed in
each novella. Find out what his secret is at
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jackie lives in a bustling
Colorado mountain tourist town with her husband and Siamese cat. When the deep
snows blanket the terrain outside her windows, it becomes the perfect spot in
which to write. She’s an avid reader and loves being outdoors. She’s had numerous
short stories and articles
published for twenty-six years and is the author of
a non-fiction book called We Are
Different Now-A Grandparent’s Journey With Grief, two award-winning fiction
novels featuring homicide detective Max Richards called Footprints in the Frost and
Snow Angel and the first two of three Drifter
novellas – JAKE-Whiskey, Water & Wildfire and JAKE-Winds of Change.
In addition, she is a contributing author to
the anthologies, Felons, Flames &
Ambulance Rides, American Blue, Recipes by the Book: Oak Tree Authors Cook; Echoes From the
Silence; Dusting Off Dreams and The Centennial Book of the National Society of
Daughter of the Union 1861-1865. She is a Charter Member of The Public
Safety Writers Association and a member of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. She
has won ten writing awards in the last six years.
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