Meet Crystal Caudill at Rendezvous ’24

Join authors and readers at JustRead Rendezvous on November 15, 2024, near Chicago, to celebrate stories and enjoy encouraging fellowship. Meet Crystal Caudill, a 2024 finalist for The Christy Award in the Short Form category and a participating author, and discover what she’s reading!

About the Author

Crystal Caudill is the author of “dangerously good historical romance,” with her work garnering awards from Romance Writers of America and ACFW. Her debut novel Counterfeit Love was a 2023 Carol Award finalist, and her novella, “Star of Wonder” is a Christy Award finalist. She is a stay-at-home mom and caregiver, and when she isn’t writing, Crystal can be found playing board games with her family, drinking hot tea, or reading other great books at her home outside Cincinnati, Ohio. Find out more at crystalcaudill.com.

You can learn more about Crystal Caudill and her books on her website at crystalcaudill.com.

Genre: historical romance, historical romantic suspense

Currently reading: A Thieving at Carlton House by Erica Vetsch (print), The Scarlet Ribbon by Naomi Stephens (kindle), North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (audio)

About the Featured Title

Written in Secret

In the heart of nineteenth-century Cincinnati one woman holds the power to rewrite history.

What happens when fiction becomes reality? In the corruption-infested Queen City, danger lurks in every shadow, but Lydia Pelton refuses to stay silent. She writes under a pseudonym, E. A. Dupin, crafting crime novels to exact justice and right the wrongs she sees in society. When a serial killer decides to be the sword to her pen, Lydia is confronted with the consequences of her words. Four men are dead, and the city blames her.

With murders on the rise, Officer Abraham Hall’s only lead is Lydia’s fiction, and he is thrust into an investigation with the “Killer Queen of Romance.” Despite his misgivings about the woman, he realizes that even with his reputation for catching elusive criminals, he needs her help. But his unexpected attraction to Lydia proves as difficult to manage as the woman herself.

As the mystery unfolds, Abraham and Lydia race to rewrite the ending, not only for Cincinnati’s citizens, but for their own hearts too.

“Danger, mystery, hidden identities, villains, heroes, and gallantry! Everything you would expect in a dime novel, but better!”
–Erica Vetsch, author of the Of Cloaks & Daggers series

Also Available: Counterfeit Love, Counterfeit Hope, Counterfeit Faith 

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Have you read any of Crystal Caudill’s books? Let us know your favorites and which titles you add to your TBR!