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Banished Threads (Volume 3) Kindle Edition

by Kaylin McFarren (Author), Amanda Tomo Yoshida (Illustrator), Jodi Henley (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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A valuable art collection disappears turning a treasure-hunting duo into crime-stopping sleuths committed to vindicating family members in Kaylin McFarren's action-packed suspense novel, Banished Threads.

While vacationing at the stately Cumberforge Manor in Bellwood, England, Rachel Lyons and Chase Cohen attend an elegant dinner party hosted by her uncle, Paul Lyons, and his aristocratic wife, Sara. Before the evening ends, a priceless collection of Morris Graves's paintings are stolen from her uncle's popular gallery, throwing all suspicion onto his wife's missing granddaughter.

Determined to clear Sloan Rafferty's name and, in the process, win Paul's favor, Chase scours the countryside looking for answers. In his absence, the police accuse Rachel's uncle of an unsolved murder and secrets surrounding her grandmother's death and the deaths of Sara's former husbands turn his wife into the most likely suspect. With the true villains hell-bent on destroying Paul Lyons and his family, solving both crimes while ensuring her uncle's freedom not only endangers Rachel's life but that of her unborn child.

Will Chase save them before the kidnappers enact their revenge or will the ultimate price be paid, as predicted by a vagabond fortuneteller?

Book Awards: 2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards - First Place Genre Fiction Series

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Severed Threads (Volume 1)
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Buried Threads (Volume 2)
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Banished Threads (Volume 3)
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Twisted Threads (Volume 4)
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Kaylin McFarren is a rare bird indeed. Not a migratory sort, she prefers to hug the West Coast and keep family within visiting range. Although she has virtually been around the world, she was born in California, relocated with her family to Washington, and nested with her husband in Oregon. In addition to playing an active role in his business endeavors, she has been involved in all aspects of their three daughters' lives - taxi duties, cheerleading coaching, script rehearsals, and relationship counseling, to name but a few. Now she enjoys spending undisciplined time with her two young grandsons and hopes to have many more. Although Kaylin wasn't born with a pen in hand like so many of her talented fellow authors, she has been actively involved in both business and personal writing projects for many years. As the director of a fine art gallery, she assisted in furthering the careers of numerous visual artists who under her guidance gained recognition through promotional opportunities and in national publications. Eager to spread her own creative wings, she has since steered her energy toward writing novels. As a result, she has earned more than a dozen literary awards and was a 2008 finalist in the prestigious RWA(R) Golden Heart contest. Kaylin is a member of RWA, Rose City Romance Writers, and Willamette Writers. She received her AA in Literature at Highline Community College, which originally sparked her passion for writing. In her free time, she also enjoys giving back to the community through participation and support of various charitable and educational organizations in the Pacific Northwest.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0191RJQZM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Creative Edge Publishing LLC (20 March 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1763 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 266 pages

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Kaylin McFarren has received more than 70 national literary awards, in addition to a prestigious RWA Golden Heart Award nomination for FLAHERTY'S CROSSING - a book she and her oldest daughter, New York Times/USA Today best-selling author Kristina McMorris, co-wrote in 2008. Prior to embarking on her writing journey and developing the popular THREADS psychological thriller series, she poured her passion for creativity into her work as the director of a fine art gallery in the Pearl District in Portland, Oregon; she also served as a governor-appointed member of the Oregon Arts Commission.

Her award-winning time-travel adventure, HIGH FLYING, asks challenging questions that will linger long after the final twists are revealed. Jumping to the supernatural-horror genre, Kaylin's clever GEHENNA series leads readers into the pit of Hell, through the mechanisms of secret societies, and across the Earth’s crust, ever raising the stakes for her leading duo—a wicked demon and guardian angel presented with shocking revelations.

With each story she writes, this author delivers unexpected twists and turns and keeps her readers on the edge of their seats, leaving them guessing and thoroughly entertained. When she's not traveling or spoiling her two pups and three grandsons, Kaylin enjoys giving back to her community through participation and support of various charitable, medical and educational organizations in the Pacific Northwest, and divides her time between her homes in Portland, Oregon and San Diego, California.

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Kaylin is proud of the fact that her great aunt Bessie B. Cordell, an evangelistic missionary during WWII, was instrumental in opening an orphanage in Tientsin, China and also wrote two published novels, Precious Pearl and Blossoms of the Flowery Kingdom, documenting her dangerous, harrowing experiences.

She keeps a glass of wine close by while writing love scenes, Kleenex on her desk while writing heart breakers, and has been known to empty a box of chocolates when she's completely stumped.

A consummate "pantser" and perfectionist, she writes and edits as she goes, and uses photographs of models and actors from tabloid magazines to visualize her characters.

She loves her husband of 50 years dearly, however, if Josh Holloway, Hugh Jackman or Ian Somerhalder came knockin', well... their marriage just might be put to the test.

For more information about Kaylin McFarren, visit her website at www.kaylinmcfarren.com.

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Four Stars

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Secrets, action, sensuality, a cerebral plot, a ticking clock w/a killer who needs a unique revenge = gripping psyc. thriller

Reviewed in the United States on 27 March 2016

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Art theft and long-buried secrets haunt Chase Cohen and Rachel Lyons, proving that navigating family relationships can be as treacherous as international treasure hunting.

In the third novel of the "Threads" series, Chase and Rachel travel to England on board the Stargazer, intent on enjoying a week of vacation and receiving her uncle’s blessing for their marriage. Though this should be a joyous time for the couple, all is not well.

Rachel is four months into a difficult and unintended pregnancy, and she’s feeling ambivalent about becoming a mother. Chase, though pleased about the baby, is having mixed feelings about his proposal of marriage, regardless of how much he loves Rachel. Rachel is acting distant, and he’s wondering whether a marriage with someone who doesn’t seem as committed as he is has any hope of succeeding.

In addition to his troubled thoughts surrounding their relationship, Chase knows he faces an uphill battle with regard to receiving Paul Lyon’s blessing. Paul blames Chase for the drowning death of his brother, Rachel’s father, and odds are good that he’ll never forgive Chase. Chase is well aware that Rachel holds the power to persuade her uncle to approve of their marriage, but to do that, she’ll have to convince him that she’s truly in love with Chase, a fact even Chase isn’t all that confident of.

When a thief makes off with a priceless collection of paintings from Paul Lyon’s estate, Chase seizes on the opportunity to help solve the crime and win back the good graces of his soon-to-be uncle-in-law. But the theft becomes complicated by unsolved murders, both in the present and from the past. The police are taking a close look at Paul Lyons and his wife, Sara, for those murders, and Chase is terrified that Rachel and the baby will be the killer’s next victims.

In "Banished Threads," McFarren proves that relationships can be just as treacherous as international treasure hunting, and that evil exists everywhere, not just in the form of the criminal organizations. McFarren has a gift for portraying complex family dynamics, the baggage people bring into relationships, and the unintended consequences of dysfunctional behavior.

The author deftly immerses the reader in those complex relationships, revealing the real killer in a surprise ending that will leave the reader gasping. Family secrets, a need for revenge, the heat of romance, a cerebral intriguing plot, and a ticking clock with a killer who needs to exact a unique form of revenge makes "Banished Threads" a gripping psychological thriller.

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Ian J. Miller

Emotions, introspection, and thrills.

Reviewed in the United States on 9 April 2016

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This is a romantic mystery thriller that starts with Gwen going to a cliff face in a storm and being pushed off, to her death. The next quarter of the book introduces a number of dysfunctional relationships and families, together with many descriptions and expressions of feelings. There are even two couples, both women pregnant, and neither knowing what to do next. In this respect this is more a woman's book, and I found this part somewhat over-written. As the book continues, something of a mystery develops, although part of the mystery is trying to work out what is going on. This is not helped by characters who do obviously silly things so as to get themselves in danger, and while there are some hazardous situations to keep the tension up, I found many of them to be too contrived. In the second half there is an art robbery, suggestions of a black widow, some kidnappings, in short now there is plenty going on. Some of the action scenes are quite well-written, but one or two of them descend into the cliché type, and the last one, which involves the type of scene often seen, is resolved in what I consider an unlikely way. My personal view is that long introspective "will I, won't I marry X?" sits awkwardly in a thriller. However, it is well written, and if you want a thriller with plenty of emotional expression and introspection, this will be as good as most.

John H. Manhold

5* Mystery to very end, in dramatically active mystery/romance; 3* pragmatist conclusion

Reviewed in the United States on 5 April 2016

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Banished Threads, ISBN: 9781518806919, Creative Edge Publishing, Threads
Series-Book #3, is a romance/suspense e-book by Kaylin McFarren.
The book opens with a prophetic (?) poem featuring a ‘fallen woman’ and the action of the Grim Reaper followed by Oscar Wilde’s “The truth is rarely pure and never simple”. Then a Prologue provides the picture of a young woman savoring the approaching night while standing at the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. Suddenly she senses an approaching figure. She turns, sees the figure with a drawn knife, steps back and falls to her death dropping a gold earring as she does. The causer of her demise smiles, picks up and places the bauble in the pocket of a yellow-hooded slicker “- a marvelous souvenir to be added to the prized growing collection.” Then: smiles at the thought that her married lover would be joining her next “Since it had become a moral right and obligatory to dispose of the unworthy and undeserving disloyal money grubbing fools at Cumberforge Manor.”
Plot and characters: Several completely interwoven. Chase Cohen, Captain of the treasure hunting ship Trident approaching England where he and his partner, wealthy owner of the ship and hopefully soon to be wife Rachel Lyons, are en route to obtaining Paul Lyon, her uncle’s blessing. Paul is an old curmudgeon who Devon, crew member and hopefully future brother-in-law, believes probably will be unwilling to provide. Paul arrived at his position of wealth, owner of a leading Art Gallery, and husband of philanthropist Sara who is the immeasurably wealthy owner of Cumberforge Manor in a most unusual manner. His attitude goes back apparently to an earlier Chase-Rachel relationship which soured and actually is causing some ambivalence on Rachel’s part, even though pregnant. Earlier relationships among Chase, Rachel and other earlier close relationships between then and other women and men, also become part of the involvement. A granddaughter, Sloan, who is incorrigibly into drinks, drugs, and other mischief also is involved as are her friends Sky, Damien and Veronica. Numerous others become involved as the reader is introduced to kidnapping, interwoven sexual liaisons, switched babies, an art heist worth millions, drugs, Chinese ‘hoods’ a touch of the occult and even a good cop.
Discussion: Quite frankly, presenting a review of this book is perhaps one of the more difficult tasks I have undertaken. This is a story about the activities of members of an almost totally dysfunctional group of people including family members and/or acquaintances as they interrelate among themselves and with these other psychologically disturbed individuals in an intricately, convoluted plot. The action is high grade and the mystery continues to the very bitter end. If this is your ‘cup of tea’, PLEASE get the book and enjoy, but STOP HERE! DO NOT read my personal conclusion!
CONCLUSION: This reviewer’s overall impression is of not particularly well-fleshed-out characters attempting to solve extended, unnecessarily complicated self-initiated problems, in a series of activities offering little substance but an abundance of suspense. It is similar to the numerous soap operas of another era that were adored by millions. Granted, I have read only this one volume of the trilogy and from the ratings provided by other reviewers admittedly and regrettably, I may be totally in error. I have read and enjoyed numerous books in this genre. Please understand that I appreciate the author’s writing ability. It is unfortunate that for my more pragmatic thought processes, too many ‘holes’ have been left.

Glorianna

Could have been great, but didn't deliver

Reviewed in the United States on 6 August 2016

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Found the storyline confusing at best. Strange transitions, emotional scenes alternating with stilted ones. No continuity with character development or continuity.

That being said, this author displays promise of eventually getting it together and crafting am interesting story that rings true. I did finish the entire book, probably more in hopes of it making sense than anything else.

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