When I was unsatisfied with a book that didn’t read like it was promoted, I lamented to a writer
friend who told me to write the type of book I’d hoped to read when I picked up the one that
dashed my hopes. And that is how Doctor Isabella Mumphrey Anthropologist came to life. We
brainstormed on a trip to a writer’s retreat and by the time I arrived home, I had the character
seated in my mind and I was ready to start writing her adventures.
Isabella has a genius IQ and a photographic memory. She is a bit socially inept due to her genius,
but she is willing to try anything and uses her Taekwondo lessons to get her out of trouble along
with an Altoids tin full of survival items. She specializes in Native American cultures which
reach from the northern most part of Canada down to the tip of South America.
In her first book she meets a hot Venezuelan, Tino Kosta, who guides her into the Guatemala
jungle. She’s been called in by a colleague to translate a tablet found at a dig. But to her surprise,
her guide isn’t a guide—he’s a DEA agent and there are artifact thieves stealing items that the
crew are uncovering.
When she and Tino get into some tight spots, her ingenuity and survival tin get them out. Writing
a genius IQ character is a stretch for my poor little brain, but finding ways to get her out of
trouble is kind of like piecing a puzzle and I’ve been enjoying the challenge.
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Secrets of a Mayan Moon
Romcon Reader’s Choice Award
What happens when a brilliant anthropologist is lured to the jungle to be used as a human
sacrifice?
Child prodigy and now Doctor of Anthropology, Isabella Mumphrey, is about to lose her job at
the university. In the world of publish or perish, her mentor’s request for her assistance on a dig
is just the opportunity she’s been seeking. If she can decipher an ancient stone table—and she
can—she’ll keep her department. She heads to Guatemala, but drug trafficking bad guys, artifact
thieves, and her infatuation for her handsome guide wreak havoc on her scholarly intentions.
DEA agent Tino Kosta, is out to avenge the deaths of his family. He’s deep undercover as a
jaguar tracker and sometimes jungle guide, but the appearance of a beautiful, brainy
anthropologist heats his Latin blood taking him on a dangerous detour that could leave them both
casualties of the jungle.
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Secrets of an Aztec Temple
Revenge is not always sweet…
Isabella Mumphrey can’t leave a puzzle alone. This time she attempts to use her anthropology
knowledge to uncover who is stealing priceless artifacts from an Aztec Temple in Mexico City.
She believes the discovery will prove her worth to the World Intelligence Agency.
Tino Constantine is also in Mexico City. He has infiltrated a drug lord’s organization to find
enough evidence to not only prove the man’s illegal activities, but to bring him down for
numerous deaths. Namely those of Tino’s family.
But when the love of his life, Isabella, strolls into his enemy’s home, Tino is challenged with the
choice of saving her or fulfilling his revenge.
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Secrets of a Hopi Blue Star
The truth doesn’t always set you free…
Landing in the underground world of human trafficking, anthropologist Isabella Mumphrey
learns her own past is as sordid as the predicament she’s uncovered.
No one is who she’d believed them to be—not her parents, her cousin, her aunt. The only
constant in her life is her fiancé, Tino Constantine, and now their enemy is using her to lure Tino
to his death.
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Bio
Award-winning author Paty Jager and her husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Oregon. On
her road to publication she wrote freelance articles for two local newspapers and enjoyed her job
with the County Extension service as a 4-H Program Assistant. Raising hay and cattle, riding
horses, and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it.
She has published twenty novels, three anthologies, and seven novellas. All her work has
Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging
characters. Her penchant for research takes her on side trips that eventually turn into yet another
story.
You can learn more about Paty at her blog; Writing into the Sunset her website;
http://www.patyjager.net or on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/#!/paty.jager , Goodreads
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1005334.Paty_Jager and twitter; @patyjag.
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