Cozy Wednesday with M.L. Rowland – Author of Murder On The Horizon – Giveaway too!

I am super excited to welcome M.L. Rowland back
to Escape With Dollycas today.
I love her Search and Rescue Mysteries.

Cheap Thrills
by M.L. Rowland

Because I write adventure mysteries and base much of what I write about on my own experiences, I was asked recently, “What’s the most adventurous thing you’ve ever done?”

Since the answer to that question was long and involved and complex, and included some boring topics like “perceived risk” and “managed risk,” I decided to rewrite the question into “What’s the earliest adventurous thing you remember doing? What’s the one experience that started it all?”

When I was fourteen, my father, who at the time was working as a marine zoologist, accepted a research assignment on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa. My mother–not to be left behind for the summer–plucked my two older sisters and me out of our cocoon in a conservative western-Michigan town and flew us 5700 miles west to the tiny island in the south Pacific.

It didn’t take long for my sisters, ages 18 and 20 and, to pal up with some of the island palangis (whites)–university students manning a satellite tracking station. If anyone minded little sister tagging along, no one ever said anything to me.

It was a summer of adventure firsts for me: my first close encounter with a shark–while snorkeling the airport lagoon, my first mountain climb–to the top of Matafao, the island’s tallest peak (only 2100 feet of elevation gain, but, hey, it was my first one). But one adventure stands out above the rest.

At that time, only one plane departed the island each day–at 1 o’clock in the morning. I don’t remember why or how I was out so late at night, but I do remember crouching beside my sisters and three or four young men behind the heavy vegetation lining Pago Pago airport’s one runway. Off to our left, the Pan Am jet moved into position, its lights brilliant white starbursts in the darkness. The jet lumbered forward, engines growing louder and louder until it rolled by us. As a group, we ran from our hiding places and lay down half-on, half-off the runway pavement. At the end of the runway, the jet made its turn, then surged back toward us for take-off. I squeezed my eyes closed and pressed my hands over my ears to shut out the screaming engines.

I can still feel the blast of heat and stones from the massive jet engines as the wing passed right over our heads.

~M.L. Rowland

You can find out more about M.L. Rowland on her webpage here and on her blog here.

Murder on the Horizon
(A Search and Rescue Mystery)
3rd Book in Series
Mystery/Suspense
Setting – California
A Berkley Prime Mystery (August 4, 2015)
The Berkley Publishing Group
Published by The Penguin Group
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
SBN-13: 978-0425263686
E-Book ASIN: B00QH83240

The Search and Rescue mystery series returns readers to Timber Creek, where the hot, dry Santa Ana winds are blowing. But more than just the threat of wildfire endangers the tiny mountain community…

Gracie and her Search and Rescue teammates are searching along the highway in the middle of the blisteringly hot Mojave Desert when they make a grisly discovery—a trash bag containing human body parts. Not long after, Gracie’s growing friendship with a ten-year-old runaway draws her unwittingly into the secretive, hate-filled world of the boy’s family—a group of gun-toting extremists. As a wildfire roars into Timber Creek, Gracie finds herself caught up in an explosive plot that, unless she stops it, will destroy countless innocent lives.

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