Safe Keeping
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They say the ghosts of your past will come back to haunt you. They say those ghosts will get the last revenge.
SAFE KEEPING
COMING THIS SUMMER.
A psychological thriller for fans of Lisa Gardner’s Find Her and Chevy Stevens’ Never Let You Go.
Since the accident that killed her husband, Quinn Saunders has been seeing things. A barn owl studying her from the yard. A photo falling with no one there to bump it. Her husband’s voice, closer every day—steady, familiar, urging her to pay attention. Is it her grief, her drinking, or a dire warning? Her daughter Taylor wants justice for her father’s death but her mother is falling apart, and she doesn’t recall the details of the accident.
Neither knows the other is being stalked by someone from Quinn’s past. As the threat closes in and Quinn’s grip on reality slips further, she’s the only one who can see what’s coming for both her and her daughter. Will anyone believe her before it’s too late?”
What if the dead aren’t haunting you? What if they’ve come back to save you from the living?
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A missing informant. A fragile undercover operation. A detective one misstep from losing control. Deepest Secrets.
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Detective Morgan Jewell is sent undercover to Pine Bluff, Wisconsin to investigate the disappearance of Jake Verninac—an informant who vanished days before delivering critical evidence. His last known contacts tie him to a local drug network with suspected connections to a larger operation. To get close, Morgan has to earn trust by stepping back into habits she fought hard to break. As she reconstructs Jake’s final movements, the case is anything but stable. Witnesses are unreliable. Evidence is thin. The community closes ranks.
The case stalls and pressure builds. Mandatory psychotherapy forces her to revisit the night her best friend was murdered… and the version of events she’s never fully believed. But Morgan now draws on her unsteady memory to find a nugget of truth.
Back in Pine Bluff, the evidence doesn’t add up. Someone is lying.
Someone is protecting something.
And the truth is closer than it should be.
In this case, the biggest break may already be in front of her—hidden in plain sight.
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Deepest Secrets
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BEST KEPT SECRETS
Book One in the Detective Morgan Jewell Trilogy.
An AMAZON Best Seller in Female Detectives, Serial Killers and the Kindle Store!
Secrets weigh on you, no matter if you are a psychopathic killer or a seasoned homicide detective with trauma in your past.
Morgan Jewell requests access to a crime outside her jurisdiction. The similarities to what happened in her past are too similar to ignore. Though her partner Donnie James knows this is part of that old obsession, he agrees to tag along.
Morgan is haunted by her best friend’s murder. The event—just before they moved into college dorms together—changed Morgan’s life. Fay Ramsey held a secret in her final days, but Morgan, now a homicide detective, has failed to connect the dots. Nothing makes sense.
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Best Kept Secrets
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Forewarned
A Paranormal Thriller
For 15-year-old Daphne Ann Post, the summer of 1976 at Lake Carlson should be filled with new friendships and carefree late-night parties. But something darker lurks beneath the surface—her chilling premonition that someone is going to drown.
Wishing she could escape the shadow of her fractured family and her mother’s too-soon rebound relationship, Daphne reluctantly heads to the family lake house in Northern Indiana. The tension with her mother is thick—especially when Daphne is the only one who knows her mom’s boyfriend is hiding a dangerous secret. But Daphne’s burden is far heavier than family drama. She harbors an unsettling gift—an ability to know the hidden truths of anyone she touches.
Last year that same intuition failed her when her best friend ignored Daphne’s warning before a tragic accident. Now everyone at school blames Daphne for what happened. Haunted by guilt, Daphne is determined to keep her ability a secret. READ MORE
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Forewarned
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Litbop is an annual literary journal published by Timothy Chapman. It contains short fiction, poetry, art, and photography. This issue touches on the theme of loss. Tracey S. Phillips contributed On Angel Wings, a short story she wrote after losing her mother to long-term illness.
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Ten members of the Blackbird Writers group, masters of crime and mystery novels, take flight, as they offer memorable characters and suspenseful plots. Gritty, cozy, modern, or historical, the stories in this anthology create page-turning intellectual and emotional puzzles that stimulate the mind and touch the heart.
Forbidance a short thriller by Tracey S. Phillips - Boys mean trouble. Melanie Ann Matula hears her mother's voice as she breaks curfew to meet Larry, a boy she hardly knows. On the way, Larry's friend joins her. Melanie didn't know he invited someone else to their secret meeting. What else is up his sleeve? It's dusk and getting darker. Her mother's voice plays on auto repeat. Only killers and criminals stay out after dark. Will Melanie prove her mother wrong?
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About Tracey
Tracey S. Phillips has played the piano since age three and attended Berklee College of Music. She considers herself a serial artist who gardens, teaches piano lessons, and loves to draw. She writes psychological thrillers and spicy romantic suspense.
In 2020 she founded Blackbird Writers, authors flying under the mystery umbrella. Their YouTube channel with author interviews has won the eLit gold medal for exceptional digital creation. Tracey’s mantra: Cross promotion helps authors soar.
BEST KEPT SECRETS won a Hugh Holton Award in 2018. Tracey’s manuscripts, Mother of Secrets, and Forbiddance were finalists for the Claymore Award for unpublished fiction. Her short story, Forbiddance, was a finalist for Writers’ Digest Genre Fiction awards. On Angel Wings is published in LitBop Vol. 1, issue #2.
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The Big Thrill
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When inexperienced private investigator Corrie Locke goes looking for a killer, she digs up a mismatched bunch of clues and a family of real characters in this southwest murder mystery. Matriarch and landowner, JoJo Means, died in her sleep. Or so the medical examiner says.
Psychic Heidi Honeyman believes there’s more to it. Corrie Locke is a hardcore skeptic of paranormal telepaths, but she needs this job. Read More Here.
Music, Musings and The Muse
Are self-sabotaging beliefs keeping you from celebrating your work? Recognizing and changing your patterns could help you overcome it.
I suffer from anxiety and imposter syndrome. I’ve had it my whole life, and even as I type this, I worry what readers will think of this post. I’m not accredited with any degrees – I didn’t graduate from college – and I’m not an expert on . . . well, anything. What I do know is I am a writer and I have a voice. And maybe by sharing the small steps I’ve taken to overcome my fears and anxieties, I can help someone in a similar situation. Read More Here.
Midwest Writers Room Podcast
Season 2, Ep. 19 – Tracey Phillips, Recorded on Nov 03, 2024
In this episode, Tracey talks about her publishing journey and how she formed Blackbird Writers in the height of lockdown during the pandemic. Click here to listen.
103.5 Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Public Radio
Interview with Rex Owens
The interview aired on Monday, August 1st, 2022. Click here to listen!