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Trust Not the Heart: An Eden Beach Main Street Novel

Cassie Franklin, a custom jeweler in the small town of Eden Beach, California, is ready to risk it all to save her business from greedy realtor, Carla Towne. But when Tate Garner, handsome owner of the exciting new restaurant around the corner, walks in, she discovers the biggest risk will be falling in love.

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Dangerous Visions: An Eden Beach Crime Novel

Stacie Capella, owner of The Bell, Book and Crystal, in Eden Beach, California, has spent her life denying her gift of Second Sight. But when she is targeted by a serial killer, she must convince skeptical cop Ben Robard not only that her gift is real, but that he is the love her great aunt foretold.

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Sing Me The Rain: An Eden Beach Main Street Novel

Sarah Barton’s dream comes true when she becomes a partner in a multi-million-dollar colored gemstone business in Eden Beach, California. But when her partner dies, his grieving family spreads slanderous rumors that threaten to destroy her. Then a humiliating internet video surfaces, and she must fight to save her future—even if loses the love of David Kellerman, the boss’s son.

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    Route 66 Trip Countdown

    Hard to resist the call of the open road.

    Where has the time gone?

    I just realized I have less than a month before I head to Chicago to meet Dash and head out on Route 66. And so much yet to do! We’ve been actively researching since spring of 2021, yet suddenly, time is short, and there is a rush to finish the planning stage and start the traveling stage. How does this always happen?

    We have all of our hotel reservations made, special events along the way ticketed, lunches with friends scheduled. We’ve made lists of hoped-for stops, consulted maps and websites, and planned roadside cemetery searches. We’ve included history, architecture, iconic Route 66 motels, diners, and kitsch.

    I also have a list of locations to scout out as research for a series of novels: The Route 66 Steal. More on that this month as I get the website for it set up. We had hoped to leave room for serendipity, and although I’m sure Route 66 will force serendipity upon us, it may have to stand in line because we have a jam-packed itinerary.

    I’ll be keeping everyone posted here. So follow my blog if you want to follow Dash and I on our adventure on the Route! Pack your bags! I’ll be packing mine soon.

    April 28, 2022 By Liz Hartley
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  • In Liz Travels: Route 66

    Dreaming of the Mother Road

    No doubt eighteen months of lockdown and cautious venturing out have left its mark on all of us. One of the marks it’s left…

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  • In Liz Writes

    Newsletter Away!

    I’m very happy to announce that my first quarterly newsletter went out in August. If you’d like to be put on my mailing list,…

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  • In Liz Writes

    If Steinbeck had trouble…

    “When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can…

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  • In Gems & Jewelry

    Gem-Medicine

    Can gemstones heal? Gemstones that have been known in the world for millennia have collected any number of myths about their mystical and medicinal…

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  • In Gems & Jewelry

    Birthstone Friday: Magic, Mystical, Medicinal Rubies

    A little wine with your rubies? In times past, rubies, among other gemstones, were considered medicinal and magical. Hold them under your tongue, wear…

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  • In Liz Reads

    Re-Embracing the Art of Idleness.

    Bring back those lazy, hazy days of summer. My favorite memories of summer—and probably yours—are those idle days of doing nothing: climbing a tree…

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    Birthstone Friday

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  • In Liz's Life

    Arctic Deep-freeze, February 2021

    I woke about midnight to hear the wind chimes hanging from my oak tree clanging wildly and the deceptively shy “ticking” on the windows.…

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  • In Gems & Jewelry/ Liz Writes

    Sherlock Holmes and the Blue Carbungle

    What writer can resist? I love Sherlock Holmes’ mysteries. I discovered the original short stories and novels in a massive volume on my parents’…

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Liz Hartley

Liz Hartley

Sherlock Holmes called gemstones the “nucleus and focus of crime.” But they are also at the center of many love stories. In my Eden Beach novels, love and crime are always entangled with jewelry and gemstones. I hope you enjoy them.

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