Series: Oliana Mercer #1
Publication date: August 21st, 2017
Synopsis:
Oliana knows that every family has a secret, but she never expected hers to come from the grave...
High school senior Oliana Mercer dreams of attending the prestigious Reyersen Drama Academy and pursue her acting career. But when tragedy strikes, Oliana discovers secrets hidden from her by her adopted parents, dimming the lights on Oliana's perfect world.
As the sins of the past surface, Oliana finds herself caught up in a tug-of-war between two families while the love for her boyfriend is tested.
Determined to find some form of happiness in life, Oliana focuses on her role as a student director in the high school's senior play. When her best friend, Devin Worthy, dies during dress rehearsal, Oliana is re-cast as the lead.
Everyone thinks the death was a suicide, except Oliana, whose search for clues may be enough motive for the killer to murder again.
Series: Oliana Mercer #2
Publication date: September 29th, 2017
Synopsis:
It's been two weeks since Oliana Mercer learned a horrible family secret and witnessed the death of her best friend. Two weeks of heartache, secrets, and lies. While Oliana wants to move on, graduation day is a turning point for her, but for the worse.
Austin wants Oliana to stay and not attend Reyersen Drama Academy, a relative from the past wants her forgiveness, the custody battle for her little brother moves forward... and then there's James whose recent drug habit landed him in trouble. Now he's missing. After a charred body, believed to be James is found in a dumpster behind the high school, Oliana receives a text from James' phone.
When Oliana turns to the police for help, she is pulled into a conflict that makes her question whether to obey the law while fighting for the family who abandoned her.
Series: Oliana Mercer #3
Publication date: July 18th, 2018
Synopsis:
Settling into campus life at the posh Reyersen Academy acting school, Oliana Mercer prepares for an audition for a lead part in a play called Cold. She soon discovers that her new roommate, Mya, is not only vying for the same role but is related to the actress who was murdered in the East Wing. As more stories surface, including the one about a student who went missing a year ago, Oliana wants to find out what's going on. With hardly any clues, she starts snooping around and descends into Reyersen's forbidden East Wing, which mirrors the set for the upcoming play. As Oliana learns more about the school's past, she begins to suspect people around her might be involved and finds out that acting will be her best chance for survival.
Series: Oliana Mercer #4
Publication date: October 15th, 2020
Synopsis:
Her brother does not know she exists. An A-list director is obsessed over her...
It's bene five months since eighteen-year-old Oliana Mercer discovered she had a twin brother and left Reyersen, the film school of her dreams to escape the bad memories. All she wants is to put what is left of her family back together and launch her acting career.
After signing with a reputable talent agency, auditions have been plenty, but the callbacks, not so much. Just when Oliana is ready to give up, her agent informs her that a director wants her to play the lead role in a thriller movie, which she accepts.
During a table read with other castmates, Oliana realizes the director wrote it just for her, and soon his reasoning to have her as the star is made painfully clear. Once the camera starts rolling, each scene reaches a dangerous climax forcing Oliana into a game of role-playing as she tries to find a way out. But it's too late. A plan to kidnap her has been set in motion.
Hoping to survive, Oliana asks for help from the one person who wants her dead. Will Oliana be able to escape?
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Excerpt from Shadowed Seats
Numbness held me in place as I closed the notebook and tucked it inside the wig. What did this mean? Is the Oliana mentioned in the notebook me? It had to be. But what was this about being set free? My bio parents died in a car accident.
For a second, I felt like I was standing next to a furnace, smoldering in its waves of heat. I hurried out of the attic and stood outside, trying to catch my breath.
Rain pelted my face as I glanced up at my parents' window on the second floor, then at the driveway where Mom's minivan and Dad's pickup were parked. Inside the house, the lights were on in the kitchen. Probably doing what they always do together, cooking dinner.
Grief hollowed my insides. Now was not the time to confront them about what I found. Besides what was I going to do? Tell Mom, I was snooping and found something that freaked me out? The problem was I wanted to go in there and disturb their happiness, so I could get answers about what I'd read. Answers about the handwritten note to Mom by the woman I believed was my birth mother.
When MARGUERITE ASHTON was in her twenties, she took up acting but realized she preferred to work behind the camera, writing crime fiction. A few years later, she married an IT Geek and settled down with her role as wife, mom, and writer!
Her blog, Criminal Lines: Settled Writer Past 40 is her outlet while building dollhouses and plotting out her next book.
Marguerite lives in Wisconsin and enjoys RVing.
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2023 goals! Savoring every word in what is shaping up to be one of my favorite new series and writers!
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