"What is your book about?"

The Author Em Brooks

About Em Brooks: Em is an author of fiction intertwined with romance, mystery, and adventure. She has so far written 12 books, including a duology, two series, a novel, and a collection of short stories.

Q: “What is your book about?”

Along The Way/Wherever It Goes -- A duology involving life, friendship, and relationships set in a small city. Chris Enright is used to being the leader and setting the social pace when it comes to hanging out with his two life-long best friends. Months away from his own wedding with Mackenzie Evans, Chris's insecurities, and his need to control life threaten to undo everything he worked toward when he realizes that one of his best friends, Ryan Carson, has a mind, and plans, of his own with Chris's co-worker, Angelina Sutton.

Portrait of an Unlikely Affair series -- A six book adventure that entangles the reader in life, love, and honor (and has nothing to do with extra-marital sneaking around.)  

An adventure of improbable events begins…. 

She captivates the public simply by being herself. Avonlea Stone is the sweetheart of film and television, living a fairy tale in the eyes of her fans, the public, and the media. Being part of a prominent family who own their own production studio, Avonlea is well aware of what is expected of her. But her life suddenly changes at the age of nineteen when she is attacked by a stalker. She promptly ends her engagement to her co-star Dave Garton and goes into hiding, avoiding the spotlight in her own life until she decides to take a chance on dating again. However, she never expected that Connor Jones, her new boyfriend, would be the key to finding the very thing she did not know she was missing when he asks her to go home to meet his parents who reside in a small mining town called Cable Glen in northwest Montana. Today’s the day Connor and Avonlea arrive to meet Connor’s mother Jan and her husband, Tom Ridley. 

Cable Glen is a complicated small town with its truth hidden in plain sight and it takes a lot to keep it that way. The town’s patriarch is Judge Thomas Ridley and as usual Tom has a lot on his mind. Being a judge is just optics. His real role is a general in a very classified military unit that makes its home in Cable Glen. But today is a special day as Cable Glen is going to have the deadliest soldier in the world stationed there.  Known as 249, this soldier has long been designated as a weapon, not a human, and is the only surviving soul of the feared unit known as Oscar Company.  249 holds answers in his mind, solutions to the massacre of his Company, as well as specialized training that died with the very people who created him. 249 also has a rare terminal disease and time is ticking. Tom knows that the loss of 249 will be a devastating personal blow to him as he knows 249's actual identity – Brian, Tom’s middle son. Now Tom is bringing his son to Cable Glen so he can oversee whatever time his son has left, and today Tom has forgotten that he is meeting his stepson Connor at the airport until the jet makes its descent. 

With movie royalty and a classified weapon inbound on the same day, two worlds such as these were never meant to collide. 

This is just the beginning of a six-book adventure that entangles the reader in life, love, and honor. It  becomes a wild ride that shows Brian for both the person and warrior that he is and will become. It also shines a light on Avonlea and her love for him, a love that everyone accepts but no one understands. With family, ghosts of the past, Oscar Company, and some other-world situations, this series keeps you hooked until the very end.

The Allegheny Chronicles series -- The Ghost Team of the secret military unit call Allegheny is a mix of less than perfect individuals. In Eden & the Alchemist, Colonel Eden Magnuss is tasked with taking their teenaged prodigy known only as The Reaper and overseeing his training with a very mysterious man called The Alchemist, who has a cantankerous reputation, abilities that defy science and logic, and holds answers to her husband's tragic death. In Veil Falls, veteran Mason Beaudrie is living one day at a time. He has a good job, he has a family that loves him, and a woman he is crazy about. Unfortunately, that woman is not his girlfriend. He is also hiding two very heavy secrets -- the first is what really happened before he left the Marines and the second is the telekinesis ability he has had since he was a small child. But right when his life seems to be falling in place, it suddenly becomes unraveled. It is only then that he discovers he isn't the only one with secret abilities. 

Could've Been Something -- A collection of nine short stories that were written over a span of three decades. They stretch from different perspectives about life to romance, mysteries, and historical fiction. This collection also features "One Hell of a Best Seller" which inspired The Allegheny Chronicles: Veil Falls.

The Mysterious Happenings at Greenwood's Castle -- It's 1990 and the Westminster family has made the leap of faith to live their dreams in a small rural town in a home that will become their retirement plan -- Operating a bed and breakfast. The house, known by outsiders as 'Greenwood's Castle' and by the protective locals as 'the Castle', has everything the Westminsters want -- acreage, a pond, garden, and a rich and full history. It has sat empty for a decade since the elderly owners' stepfather passed away and the house is 'too big' for the twin sisters to properly care for. But to the Westminsters, they will make it paradise.

However, the moment the very logical Dr. Adam Westminster, his historian wife Dr. Georgia Westminster, and their teenage daughter begin to settle into their home, they uncover a tragic mystery that had been very intentionally hidden for over sixty years, and sets in motion events the Westminster family never bargained for.

What is the truth to the mysterious happenings at Greenwood's Castle?

This story has dual timelines, dual plots, and one goal -- The love of family.

There is always an adventure in an Em Brooks book.

Find them in eBook, paperback, and hardcover at www.amazon.com/author/embrooks; www.barnesandnoble.com; and most e-reader devices including Apple Books and Kobo.