Off the Grid

INTRODUCTION BY ALEX KAVA

INTRODUCTION BY ALEX KAVAOver the years I’ve written several short stories and a couple of novellas. All have been published either in anthologies or as larger ebooks. All but one of these short works includes FBI profiler, Special Agent Maggie O’Dell. And although you may have read one or two of them, I’m very excited to finally offer them as a collection for the first time.

When Deb Carlin started putting this collection together I realized that not only do these Maggie short works have a chronology, but all of them can be read as companion pieces to my Maggie novels. For example: A Breath of Hot Air takes place the first night that Maggie arrives in Pensacola, Florida, after spending the day with the Coast Guard flight crew of Damaged. The novella Electric Blue sets the stage and provides background for the novel, Breaking Creed. And in the novella, Cold Metal Night I purposely bring Nick Morrelli and Maggie back together one more time for readers who love Nick.

So for those of you who have read my novels as well as those new readers who are picking up this collection and reading my work for the first time, I thought it might be fun for you to know where these short works fit in with my novels. Of course they can be read and enjoyed individually.

Here’s the list of the Maggie O’Dell novels with the short works inserted where they were meant to be:

A Perfect Evil

Split Second

The Soul Catcher

Goodnight, Sweet Mother (short story)

At the Stroke of Madness

A Necessary Evil

Exposed

Black Friday

A Breath of Hot Air (short story)

Damaged

Hotwire

Cold Metal Night (novella)

Fireproof

Stranded

Electric Blue (novella)

Breaking Creed

Silent Creed

Reckless Creed

Thank you again for buying and reading this collection. I am hoping that if you enjoyed it you would take a few minutes to write a review. A review helps other readers to find new authors for the first time.

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