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We welcome you, and your magnificent mind, to Carson Cove. Dip a toe, wade forward, or dive fully, into the cool waters of your fluid imagination; allow the flow to whisk you away into the great escapes of our fiction. Or, choose to ground yourself in the fulfillment of our non-fiction offerings.

Strike that right balance between fueling your soul—growing your passions—and that delicious reward of a thrilling escape. Drive headlong into your personal enrichment; or steal a secret liaison with a story that will grip you tight, and never let you go.

Treat yourself. Choose your Carson Cove adventure. We dare you.

Start now. Try our featured novel, Pieces of Ivy by Dean Covin.

Ivy Turner’s murder was just the first piece …

A series opener that will take you to dark places with nowhere to run, Carson Cove features Dean Covin’s gripping paranormal thriller Pieces of Ivy.

A horrific murder.

A town with secrets. A forest with far worse.

And nowhere to run.

After breaking free from her powerful father and a paralyzing childhood terror, Vicki Starr makes a hard-fought name for herself at the bureau. Only to step away from the most sensational serial-killer case of her career when a stolen glance at an incoming file unravels everything.

The brutal slaying of a small-town schoolteacher draws Vicki in, coerces her to partner with the disgraced Special Agent Hank Dashel and traps her in an inescapable paranormal snare—ever more immersed in the young victim’s grisly fate as forces outside and inside New Brighton, California, threaten to destroy Vicki and the world she thought she knew.

Are some truths simply too hard to bear? Are some fates so terrible that death can’t come soon enough?

Dean Covin’s engaging paranormal thriller lures you to the line just past comfort and then gives you a hard shove from behind. His twists on this story of a cruel small-town murder are made ever more enticing by its bevy of distinctive characters. A little salting of humor lightens the sharp edge of the horrific turns lying in wait as Dean’s tight craft and quick pace keeps the pages turning. Pieces of Ivy’s immersive tension and shocking revelations promise to evoke sweat and snatch your breath.

Uncomfortable, in all the right ways, Pieces of Ivy is the first book in the Vicki Starr thriller series. This is not your typical crime thriller—Ivy introduces a shocking paranormal bent. The brilliance is how this supernatural element is weaved into play without consuming the story.

And while the lead characters share salient glimpses into what tragedies created who they are, beyond whom they are trying to portray to the world—with enough withheld to keep us hungry for the continuing saga—Ivy’s secondary characters jump out in full 3D; making even their momentary scenes memorable.

Themes of trust and judgment, of self-definition and reactions to life’s preamble, play out in Pieces of Ivy; as does our society’s diametrically opposed obsessions with beauty and sex, and the visceral hate that it musters. And in the fictional town of New Brighton, and of her citizenry, Mr. Covin has created an intriguing setting that you wouldn’t rush to visit.

Pick up this intense, gut-wrenching, read; curl up in your favorite corner and get lost in the dark tale of Ivy Turner’s demise and the disquieting surrounds of New Brighton.

Buy your copy of Pieces of Ivy today!

Read more reviews on Amazon and GoodReads.

Stepping into the dark with author Dean Covin.

Mr. Covin comes to Carson Cove with a dark tale of torment, invoking terrifying twists on one FBI agent’s grisly murder investigation.

Dean Covin is not afraid to push past comfort and delve into the dark places of the malicious, but he does so with an anguish that draws you into the despair of his characters that neither dwells on nor glorifies the graphic horror.

Writing scenes that are visually intense or challenging to his characters gives Dean an outlet for his inner wrathful god. Who doesn’t secretly desire to manipulate a world, create seemingly insurmountable obstacles and play out their hero’s drive to overcome? And, like his readers, Dean is always holding out for those happy endings … though they don’t always come.

Often, he enjoys developing archetypal characters who present a recognizable face on the surface, but, just when you think you have them pegged, they hint at something deeper during the slow reveal.

Dean chose to write Pieces of Ivy because certain observations about society started to bother him and he wanted to tell a tale that would tease out those possibilities without preaching the obvious on a wide scale. The story that unfolded offered so many additional avenues for covert thought on subjects that are important to him that he has planned out a series of at least two more novels beyond Ivy.

All of us at Carson Cove Publishing are excited to see how this riveting Vicki Starr series evolves and look forward to many more Dean Covin novels in the future.

You can learn more at www.DeanCovin.com.

Pick up your copy of Pieces of Ivy today!

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