Gwen Hunter writes standalones, mysteries, thrillers, as well as the DeLande Saga and the Rhea Lynch MD medical thriller series. Under the name Faith Hunter, she writes urban fantasy and post-apocalyptic urban fantasy.
DeLande Books
Betrayal
BETRAYAL is set in an exotic, violent world where storms crash in from the Gulf, where crushing vines of wisteria are drenched with pungent lavender, where gators growl by night in brackish waters full of secrets. A suspense-filled tour de force about a woman who defies a threat honored through the generations. The first novel in the DeLande Saga.
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False Truths
Boniebelle Sarvaunt always knew she didn’t belong in the backwater Louisiana swamps of her youth. Fair-haired and pale-skinned in a Cajun domain, raised by her withdrawn ant and uncle, she was endowed with a generous allowance-and an extraordinary talent for painting. When Bonnie turned 15, The Man bought her a box sealed by her mother before her death. Inside is a death certificate-for Bonnie. So begins the tale of Bonnie’s search for herself.and for the mother she believes may still be alive, somewhere.
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Law of the Wild
Deep in the heart of the Louisiana Badlands dwell the LeMays, a breed apart from the rest of the 21st century world. A family of ancient bloodlines and renegade minds. But someone is out there in the night, full of hatred, seeking to destroy their clan.
Mara LeMay has her own battles to fight; she is young, beautiful, independent, and born into a race of virtual slaves. For as long as she can remember the LeMay women have been bred as concubines for the DeLande Family, and now the Eldest, the most powerful of them all, is coming to claim her as his own. Despite her attempts to resist her destiny Mara dangerously attracted to Miles DeLande. But the prospect of loving a man from a family shaped by generations of deliberate inbreeding and debauchery fills her with terror.
And there is another man, out there in the bayou, who wants Mara—and vengeance. She knows he will not rest until she is dead. And she knows she must fight to save her family and herself from the evil of the WildKin.
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Rhea Lynch, M.D.
Delayed Diagnosis
Dr. Rhea Lynch left a suffocating life in Charleston to practice medicine in the ER of a small South Carolina Hospital. Now, Dawkins County is her home, a place that holds the only real family she’s ever known. But when she returns from vacation, Rhea is shocked to discover that her best friend, Marisa, is near death and unable to communicate.
The official diagnosis: a paralyzing stroke. Despite the family’s attempts to keep her away, Rhea is determined to make her own diagnosis. In a surreptitious examination, a hideous truth is revealed. Then a man is brought into her ER with similar symptoms. And then another. Each one of her patients has been willfully, brutally, silenced in a most inhuman way. Desperate to find answers, Rhea must determine who she can trust, as a powerful conspiracy threatens the people she loves-and perhaps the entire community.
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Prescribed Danger
Working in the ER of a small South Carolina hospital, Dr. Rhea Lynch has seen it all—most of it at 2:00 a.m. But when an interracial couple is rushed in, beaten and bloodied by a mysterious hate group, the patients show signs of a fast-acting pulmonary infection Rhea has never seen before. Within hours, it proves fatal.
Soon, more victims are rushed in, and an epidemic has Dawkins County in an icy grip of terror. As the puzzling illness claims more lives by the hour, Rhea begins to draw some startling conclusions about the nature of the illness . . . and about its connections to the military.
How could something like this have happened in this peaceful community? Can it be stopped? Every second counts as Rhea desperately tries to fit the pieces together—and soon realizes that she is dealing with something bigger and more terrifying than she could ever imagine.
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Deadly Remedy
As a physician in the ER of a rural South Carolina hospital, Dr. Rhea Lynch is a dedicated healer, a woman of science, and to some degree, a skeptic. But her most fundamental beliefs are put to the test with the arrival of a traveling faith healer, whose “cures” produce some baffling mysteries: a young quadriplegic woman can suddenly move her arms; a chronic pain sufferer begins to dance again.
Events go from bizarre to deadly with the arrival of a gravely injured but violent young woman determined to practice a dark, deadly magic. As the pieces of this puzzle begin to fall into place, Rhea will find her beliefs, her skill and her understanding tested in unfathomable ways as she enters a realm where science and strange faiths collide.
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Grave Concerns
Life in a small town can take some interesting twists–especially for ER physician Dr. Rhea Lynch. When the chief coroner is shot in a hail of gunfire that leaves a man dead and a teenaged boy searching for clues to his missing sister, Rhea is deputized as an assistant coroner.
Then a mass grave is discovered–along with a killer’s baffling clue. Although she is a doctor dedicated to saving the living, Rhea is suddenly forced to find answers from the dead. Soon her skill and courage put her back on the front lines of the battle she fights best: a race between life and death.
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Ashlee Davenport Books
Ashes to Ashes
Ashlee Chadwick Davenport has been a widow for only a month when she finds disturbing evidence suggesting that her husband Jack—pillar of the community, church deacon, principled businessman—might have been much less honorable than he seemed. There are recordings of anonymous phone calls alleging Jack was involved in unsavory business transactions. Records of shady land deals. And she finds letters that hint at even darker dealings.
Worse, from an emotional standpoint, Ashe discovers racy photos of her deceased husband with her best friend. She feels as if her life and her marriage have been ripped away from her. Her whole existence has been built on lies.
All she has left is her daughter and the farm that has been in her family for generations. Then, suddenly, even those things are threatened. Jack’s death has left her holding something that someone wants very badly. And they’ll do anything to get it.
Ashe must draw on her ever-growing anger to find the strength to fight Jack’s final legacy: an unknown, unseen enemy.
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Ashlee Davenport, Out of Print
Sleep Softly
Four little girls–each blond, each on the verge of adolescence–stolen from their families.
Their bodies discovered months later in shallow graves, surrounded by trinkets they never owned, clutching a scrap of paper bearing a cryptic verse.
As a forensic nurse in rural South Carolina, Ashlee Davenport Chadwick acts as both caregiver and cop, gathering evidence from anyone who arrives in the local E.R. as the result of a crime. It’s a tough job, both physically and emotionally draining, but deeply satisfying.
Then a child’s red shoe is discovered on Davenport property. The evidence leads Ashlee to the body of a missing girl and her work suddenly invades every aspect of her life. As an expert and a witness, she must call upon all her resources. And when the killer’s eye turns to her, she becomes intimately involved with a crime that tests her mind and her spirit…and the price of failure will be another child’s life.
This title is currently out of print.
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Standalone Books
His Blood Like Tears
When Mary of Magdala is healed, she remembers nothing about her years possessed by seven demons. What she recalls is the death of her family—supposedly at the hands of Romans. Homeless, a widow, she joins the traveling disciples of Jesus of Nazareth and develops friendships with all of the followers, but especially with Thaddeus and Simon the Zealot.
Thaddeus is looking for a teacher with knowledge greater than his own, a man with wisdom and purpose, but he never expects his life or lifestyle to change. When he finds Jesus, the new Rebbe is a man like none other, with a mission and a ministry that opens vistas, relationships, and a future Thaddeus had never imagined.
Simon the Zealot is a man of violence, vengeance, and hatred. When he meets Jesus, he is transformed, finds a new purpose, and becomes a new man. When he meets Magdalene, he finds friendship and a final healing.
But the disciples and Magdalene are all too human. Though they travel and learn from the great Teacher, they are not completely free of the shadows in their pasts, until they face the greatest betrayal and horror of all—the death of their friend on the cross.
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Bloodstone
An attack at a trade show. A ransacked hotel room. An ominous message on her answering machine. The threats come out of nowhere. And they cannot be ignored. Tyler St. Claire has long tried to disregard her family’s “gift” of second sight, but when she learns of her older brother David’s mysterious abduction, she begins to understand that she can no longer afford to deny her legacy.
Instinctively she knows that there is a connection between her family’s uncanny abilities and David’s disappearance. Grudgingly accepting the help of Evan Bartlock, an off-duty cop, Tyler uncovers information on a shadowy organization that once employed David. Now Tyler must trust her family, her friends and, most of all, herself to unlock a dark web of conspiracy and murder — and confront an enemy who “sees” as well as she does.
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Blackwater Secrets
Geneva Deveraux Stone swore that she would never return to the Louisiana Delta or to the Deveraux Estate. Never return to her hard-fisted father in the land of her birth, and the veiled mysteries, the memories of violence and murder. Over thirty years ago Helena Deveraux and her infant son died, the secret of their violent deaths buried by the powerful Old Man Deveraux. Their deaths were never investigated, explained or solved.
Now, however, her father is dying, and so is Gen’s marriage to wealthy financier Barry Stone. Cast adrift from the life she has built in New York City, hounded by the paparazzi, Gen breaks a lifelong vow and flies back to the South, deep in the bayou country of Southern Louisiana. Back into the fading power of the Old Man Deveraux, back to the unanswered questions, back to her past.
Waiting for Gen is her sister Lily and her beloved niece and nephew, her old nanny, Della, her dying father, the old mystery, and Starnes Templar, the teenage love she left behind when she ran away to the big city and a new way of life. Now, Geneva must confront the riddles of her youth, the questions of her own identity, and the yawning chasm that is her future.
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