Books by Gail Priest

A COLLINGSWOOD CHRISTMAS

It’s been two years since Kyle Keephart lost his young wife and the last thing he’s looking forward to is the holidays. But when his sister convinces him to attend his twentieth-class reunion, he reluctantly agrees.

Having recently left her husband, Megan Murphy intends to spend the holidays licking her wounds while she hides out at her childhood home. Her mother, however, insists Megan attend her high school reunion, hoping she’ll reconnect with old friends.

Destiny intervenes when Kyle and Megan both show up to the reunion one night too late. They catch up over dinner, and old high school attractions reignite. One date leads to another, and just as their hearts begin to open and risk falling for each other, Megan’s husband comes to town. He promises to change and wants Megan to come home.

Megan feels obligated to give her marriage one more chance, but her heart wants only to stay with Kyle. Kyle fears his heart that never fully recovered from the death of his wife is about to be shattered again.

But what that’s saying about holiday magic?

For Kyle and Megan, maybe, just maybe, A Collingswood Christmas will bring a second chance at true love.

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SOUL DANCING

When ninety-year-old Shirlene Foster dies, she is shocked to wake up in another woman’s body. Even more surprising, she’s in a hospital delivery room, about to give birth. Fearing no one will believe her, she attempts to hide her true identity, but acting like a twenty-year-old proves impossible, and she realizes she must tell someone.

Cameron Michaels vowed to raise his niece after his brother abandoned his pregnant girlfriend, Rain. But after Rain has the baby, she changes… drastically. When Shirlene confesses she is inhabiting Rain’s body, Cameron hesitates to believe such a wild story, but it does explain Rain’s complete transition.

While adjusting to her new life and relishing her second chance at motherhood, Shirlene struggles to keep her growing attraction to Cameron in check. But Shirlene soon discovers that her new body may not belong to her for long.

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THE ANNIE CROW KNOLL TRILOGY!

Annie Crow Knoll: Sunrise (Book 1)

Annie Crow Knoll: Sunrise is a story of loss, grief, survival and the healing powers of friendship and nature. Annie is a strong-minded girl, who battles with her secretive mother to uncover the truth about her grandmother’s suicide. At nineteen, she goes against social convention and trusts and relies on Bo, her family’s African American friend and her surrogate father, as she struggles to save the fourteen summer rental cottages left to her by her parents. When the family legacy of depression emerges in her early adulthood, and Annie faces estrangement from her husband and young son, will she be able to embrace the love and acceptance that is offered by someone who has been there all along?

Annie Crow Knoll: Sunrise is the first novel in a literary fiction series by Gail Priest. In this family saga, the ties that bind and tear us apart twine together the people whose lives are changed by Annie’s fierce determination and the beauty of her knoll nestled along the head-waters of the Chesapeake Bay.

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Annie Crow Knoll: Sunset (Book 2)

Return to Annie Crow Knoll . . . a place where people come to restore their spirits, heal their pain and reclaim their lives. Annie Crow Knoll: Sunset is the second novel in this literary fiction series by Gail Priest. In this family saga, the healing powers of nature, art, and friendship offer courage to those facing loss and grief.

Nate Bidwell blamed his mother Annie for his parents’ divorce. Buried hurts and resentments between mother and son make Nate reluctant to risk his heart when his childhood friend Beth Ann offers him her own. Instead, he allows himself to fall in love with the fragile and dependent June, and Annie’s opposition to their marriage reignites years of unresolved conflict with her only child. Nate swears that he will never return to Annie Crow Knoll, his family home on the Chesapeake Bay. Instead, he opens his dream restaurant in Manhattan and tirelessly works to build his career as a chef.

When near-tragedy strikes their lives, though, Nate is forced to return to the one place he hopes may save his wife: Anne Crow Knoll. There, surrounded by the love and support of his mother, their friend Packard, and Beth Ann, will Nate and June be able to face their doubts and fears about themselves, their marriage, and their future?

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Annie Crow Knoll: Moonrise (Book 3) Can be read as a stand alone

Return once again to Annie Crow Knoll . . . a place to grieve loss, accept change, and rebuild a life worth living.

Breezy and Jemma, are world-class cyclists until violence at a race leaves Breezy with permanent physical disabilities and kills the man she loved. With her Olympic dream shattered, guilt and shame threaten to destroy her future happiness. Her sister Jemma escapes with only minor injuries, but the psychological damage she experiences shakes her self-worth, her Olympic potential, and her capacity to accept love.

The young women return to Annie Crow Knoll, their childhood home on the Chesapeake Bay, to heal and reclaim their lives, and with their parents and grandparents, struggle to make sense of life after this tragic and irrational incident.

Annie Crow Knoll: Moonrise, the third novel in this fiction series by Gail Priest, is a story about the power to reinvent life after surviving loss and trauma. (Can be read as a stand alone.)

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Annie Crow Knoll Complete Collection! Get the entire trilogy as an e-book.

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Whether you’re in the heart of the Eastern Shore or the Eastern Shore is in your heart…

Eastern Shore Shorts

The characters in this collection of short stories visit familiar restaurants, inns, shops, parks, and museums as they cross paths through the charming towns and waterways of the Eastern Shore. From a female barber who runs into an old flame to a man who’s held out for love for too long, and from a cranky dog trainer to a meddling mother-of-the-bride, these folks will make you laugh, cry, and cheer as they follow their hearts and their dreams.

Eastern Short Shorts is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble and the following stores:

Inkwood Books, Haddonfield, NJ; Twigs & Teacups, Chestertown, MD; The News Center, Easton, MD; Candleberry Shoppe and the Chesapeake Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD; Tilghman Island Country Store, Tilghman Island, MD; The Treasure Chest, Oxford, MD; Fishing Creek Barber Shop and Honey Bee Trading, Cambridge, MD; Delmarva Discovery Center, Pokomoke City, MD; Victorian Charm, Berlin, MD; The Book Bin, Onley, VA; Sundial Books, Chincoteague, VA; Bethany Beach Books, Bethany Beach, DE; Seaside Country Store, Fenwick Island, DE; The Ward Museum, Salisbury, MD; and Browseabout Books, Rehoboth Beach, DE.

ANTHOLOGY

50 Over 50 is a superb collection of poetry, essays, and fiction by women over 50. All of the work has something funny, thoughtful, and compelling to say about sex, family, loss, and love. A selection from Annie Crow Knoll: Sunset is included in this beautiful anthology.

“In a society obsessed with the cult of youth, 50 Over 50 is a refreshing, powerful, unapologetic celebration of the feminine voice, seasoned by time and wisdom. At times heartbreaking, at times uplifting, and always profoundly beautiful, it explores existence through the eyes of women who have lived long enough to have intimate acquaintance with birth, death, heartbreak, childhood, parenthood, love, and the fine art of being human.” Tawni Walters, author of Beauty of the Broken, Siren Song, and The Long Ride Home.

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