When I said infrequent, I meant it!

It’s been thirteen months since my last newsletter. I’m thinking that’s infrequent enough. My excuse—I dropped Transplant Legacy more than halfway through when life began imitating art, then resumed work on Angel’s Legacy.

After finishing Angel’s Legacy, I decided I didn’t care so much about life imitating art, so I went back, slightly adjusted, and finished a solid first draft of Transplant Legacy. By the end of 2022 The Linc Malloy Legacies should have six books.

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Here is the new, fifth book in the Linc Malloy Legacies, with another great cover by Maddee James of xuni.com. Angel’s Legacy is a direct sequel to Angel’s Salvation, in which her heartbreaking Guatemalan backstory is revealed and taken into the present.

Twelve-year-old orphan, Angela Puentes, has a secret.

A secret even she does not know she holds.

After Angela’s perilous rescue from human traffickers in New Mexico, Linc Malloy and his clan attempt to adopt her into their family. Tragically, her US asylum application is denied. She is captured and returned to her uncle in Guatemala.

As her uncle and his men desperately search for the secret she unknowingly holds, Angela is held a virtual prisoner at his luxurious highland hacienda. A cushy prison is still a prison, and trapped behind a high wall with an army of guards, she yearns to be reunited with the Malloys.

What fate awaits Angela should her uncle uncover the truth?

With a tiny bush plane, a dubious ally, a battered teddy bear, and more guts than sense, ex-Air Force pilot Lincoln James Malloy the Third and his crew chief, Marshall Grahame, risk their lives and freedom to save little Angela before her secret is revealed.

From the rolling hills of northeast Washington State, over subtropical seas, and across Central American skies, they daringly descend into Guatemala’s high country. Slogging through wet cloud forests, facing a private army, and dodging a CIA rogue, they struggle once again to rescue a young girl who has stolen their hearts and to uncover Angel’s Legacy.

Ongoing work

I’ll be spending the spring polishing Transplant Legacy  (Linc Malloy Book 6) in which Linc is hired to transport a human kidney and becomes embroiled and imperiled in a search for a domestic terrorist. The quest takes Linc and Marsh across the continent to the other Washington and back west to the wilds of Oregon.

Jiangnan Legacy (Linc Malloy Book 7) is about halfway through plotting with a few rough scenes, and development will continue while I polish up Book 6. Jiangnan refers to a shipyard in mainland China. 

Work will also continue on a few long-term projects. A paranormal psychological thriller entitled, Entangled, taking its name from the quantum physics effect.

A science fiction tale of Lincoln James Malloy the Twelfth which, if ever published, will likely NOT retain the Malloy moniker, though it’s a fun gimmick for now. (The female-only generations honored the tradition, but went by the nickname Connie or Lindsey).

Lastly, I’ll be keeping notes for a Do No Harm sequel. It's begging for it.

So many words; so little time.

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As a reward for enduring this newsletter to the end, you can download the third Edwerd Short Story. Another weird little tale with a macabre edge, about an odd kid and an old woman knitter. Collect the whole set! Feel free to share with others.If you missed the first two and want them, email me.

Thank you for your time,

Domenick Venezia