Chris Barnhart

Smashwords Interview

Who are your favorite authors?
I cut my teeth on the classic SciFi authors Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clark, C.S. Lewis, JRR Tolken, then just kept on reading, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ben Bova, Margaret Weis, Anne McCaffrey and Ursula K. LeGuin. Recently, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, Clive Cussler and Brad Thor.
What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
Well, I co-own an electrical contracting business with my husband, have several writing projects in the works including Blood Sword, the sequel to Bloodstorm and Solfire, I sing in a local blues band, and when I have a spare moment I sing in my church choir, and occasionally oil paint.
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Books

Pretty Dead
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 76,300. Language: English. Published: March 15, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
Turning eighteen should be a wonderful milestone is a young girl's life. For Maralee Carver it was a nightmare. Someone wanted her dead. Someone was bent on making sure that a young woman raised in trailer parks in agricultural communities in central California would never celebrate her eighteenth birthday. s
Ridge Route Annie
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 110,100. Language: English. Published: September 11, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
19-year-old Annie was jilted. Left at the altar that spring of 1958. A flood of emotions swept through her in a fury: embarrassment, devastation, shame, anger, hatred. the another emotion stopped her cold. Fear. What if something horrifying had happened? She had to find out if it took everything she had.
Solfire (Fire Crystal Legacy Book 2)
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 134,430. Language: English. Published: December 14, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
Book 2 of the Fire Crystal Legacy series finds Triya and her companions in the dead world of Elcomhara trying to stop Lord Toloban's poison from killing everything and everyone in their home land of Toor.
Domino
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 78,000. Language: English. Published: October 18, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
Witness protection wasn't supposed to be like this. Alone and hiding in a homeless shelter, Clarissa Hayden is stripped of everything, her wealth, her identity, even her smart phone. A paid assissin, two of her lover's henchmen and a jealous secretary are all trying to keep her from testifying to a high profile murder.
Bloodstorm (Fire Crystal Legacy Book 1)
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 130,920. Language: English. Published: October 7, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
The bloodstorm is coming. No one can stop its awesome destruction. In a race against time, six companions must find the forbidden red magic to save their land from total devastation.