Louise Hathaway

Saturday, June 25, 2022

Fighting Demons: A New Orleans Mystery

In this romantic and suspenseful murder mystery, a serial killer in New Orleans is chased down by New Orleans Homicide Detective Yvonne Dauphin who has just checked herself out of a psychiatric hospital when the story opens. She is determined to prove to her boss and coworkers that she still is up to the job and fights her bipolar demons while trying to find and arrest him. At the same time, she's hoping to get back together with her ex-husband.

Will they get back together? Will she find the killer? And is she strong enough to withstand both the pressures of her job and her love life? Find out in this intriguing mystery.

Five Star Review: "A must-read! I couldn’t put it down and read the eBook in a day. Louise Hathaway writing talent shines through her characters, plot, and ending. The dash of romance was just the right amount of seasoning to enhance the flavor of this story."

Five Star Review: "A double-edged fictional story, with more than one demon at work stealing lives. If you are interested in learning a thing or two about the challenges experienced by anyone with bipolar disorder and how those kinds of challenges can spill over to help others, then this is the story for you! Highly recommended."

Five Star Review: "The characters are well written, likable, and 3 dimensional."

Five Star Review: "Great Detective Story. Highly recommended. Murder, Mystery, Romance, and so much more. I couldn’t put it down."

Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Smashwords, Google Play, Kobo, and more online bookstores.

Price:

ebook Link at Amazon for $2.99:

https://amzn.to/3nAfmwB

Paperback Link at Amazon for $3.84

https://amzn.to/3yey9T5

Saturday, June 11, 2022

A Historical Civil War Romance Inspired by The Life of My Husband's Grandfather

Torn Between Two Lovers:

A Civil War Romance

Louise Hathaway

My historical romance novel entitled “Torn Between Two Lovers: A Civil War Romance” is loosely inspired by the story of my husband’s great-grandfather who fought in the Civil War and barely survived after the steamboat he was on exploded from a boiler accident on board. The accident was the worst maritime accident in US History. Thousands died in the accident. The steamboat was called The Sultana. My husband’s great-grandfather was thrown off the steamboat into the Mississippi River. As luck would have it, he landed on a coil of rope that was floating on the river. After he came home from the war, he became a doctor and had several descendants, including my husband’s grandmother.

In my novel, “Torn Between Two Lovers: A Civil War Romance,” my husband’s grandmother inspired my main female character. I took some artistic liberties with her story in my novel.

My novel is about a young woman who lives near Memphis and has just lost her husband in the war. When the story opens, she is so distraught that she tries to drown herself in the Mississippi River. She almost succeeds but is stopped in her tracks when she sees a man lying on a coil of rope that is floating in the river.

He is barely conscious, and she takes him home and tries to help him survive and ultimately ends up saving his life.

His condition worsens and she takes him to the hospital. While he’s recovering, he almost dies in the hospital, and she ends up falling in love with his good-looking and wealthy young doctor.

She loves both men equally. Which man will she choose to marry?

Find out in “Torn Between Two Lovers: A Civil War Romance” by Louise Hathaway.

Are you interested in reading it? If so, it’s available as an eBook and also as a paperback on Amazon.

To purchase the eBook for $2.99, here is the link:

https://amzn.to/3HcpzIm

To purchase the Paperback for $4.54, here is the link:

https://amzn.to/3Qbl8ln

For those of you who don’t know, I write under the pen name “Louise Hathaway”.

Thank you, friends and family, for reading this post!

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Civil War Romance Novel

Here's a 5 Star Review for "Torn Between Two Lovers: A Civil War Romance"

"This was a wonderfully done historical romance. The characters were what I wanted from this and they felt like they belonged in the time period. I had a lot of fun reading this."

Available on Amazon.com as an ebook and a paperback.

Buy the ebook on Amazon for $2.99.

Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/3H5WQ8a

Buy the paperback version on Amazon for only $4.54.

Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/3HavptD

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

High School Sweethearts on the Coast Starlight

Description:

This love story, a cross between The Notebook and Last Tango in Halifax, is about an older couple who are reunited after being away from each other since high school. In her late 60s, Madeline has been diagnosed with cancer and told that she has only a few months to live.

She takes a scenic long-distance train trip aboard The Coast Starlight, where she once again sees Jay, her first love, and they pick up right where they left off and have a wonderful time in Seattle, where he proposes and gives her a whole new lease on life. How long does she have left to live? Readers will be pleasantly surprised.

Available at: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Google Play Books, Smashwords, Kobo Books, and Scribd.

Amazon Links:

eBook $2.99 : https://amzn.to/3RJiaW2

Paperback $5.99: https://amzn.to/3ySeU1Y

Saturday, December 4, 2021

Nancy Drew for Christmas

Thank you "The Sleuth: The Original Nancy Drew Fanzine" for featuring and reviewing my Nancy Keene Mysteries in a 6 page spread in the November/ December 2016 issue.

Written as homages to the Nancy Drew books, these five humorous and PG-rated cozy mysteries star teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene, and especially target women baby boomers who grew up reading and loving the series. Gently poking fun at Nancy’s obscure knowledge, perfectionism, and need for control, these books take place in some of my favorite travel destinations.

Here are the titles in the Nancy Keene Mysteries:

The Buried Treasure on Route 66

The Ghost in the Plantation

The Stolen Mask

The Stolen Masterpiece

The Missing Bachelor Farmer

They are available online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, and Kobo.

Some of them are also available as paperbacks at Amazon.

Here are the buy links at your favorite online retailers:

Amazon: https://amzn.to/343kcWE

Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/2PjoPGI

Smashwords: https://bit.ly/2LCXnmy

Google Play: https://bit.ly/2RynyP8

Kobo: https://bit.ly/2RwhN4g

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Small Business Saturday

It’s “Small Business Saturday”—a big day for all kinds of indie business people, including those of us who write and sell their books. Sandy and I don’t have a brick-and-mortar bookstore, but our 33 books are available online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, and Kobo.

We write in several genres including murder mysteries, cozy mysteries, time travel stories, historical fiction, train stories, romance, and more.

Here’s our Amazon page where you can see the titles and descriptions of our books. After reading any book, posting a 1-5 Star Rating for it or a short review (of a few sentences) at the online store where you purchased it is greatly appreciated.

https://amzn.to/3nUltwo

Sunday, November 7, 2021

Our Trip Aboard Amtrak's Coast Starlight

My husband and I just came back from a wonderful trip aboard the Coast Starlight, traveling from LA up to Seattle and back.

Highlights: viewing the unspoiled California coastlines from our sleeper car bedroom, admiring the fall leaves in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, and being lucky enough to see the snow-capped top of Mount Shasta peeking through the clouds as the train rolled on and we ate a delicious lunch in the diner car.

It was our second trip on the Coast Starlight; we traveled to Salinas two years ago and when I came home, I wrote this bittersweet love story about two ex-lovers who unexpectantly meet again aboard the Coast Starlight.