Cathi Colas Audiobooks and High Horse Press Presents

Tune in today for Episode 11 of "Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery.  Changes abound in Avonlea> Mr. Phillips, you remember Mr. Phillips (kind of mediocre teacher) leaves the school.  The church also gets a new minister and that minister has a wife. Said wife takes over Anne's Sunday School Class and she lets them ask questions! What a concept! Marilla invites the Allans ov...

I was fortunate to spend yesterday morning talking with Nikki Stern, author of "The Wedding Crasher". We talked about what inspires her writing, her creative process, what success looks like for her and so much more.  For those of you that are enjoying "The Wedding Crasher" tune in and here what Nikki has to say.    I hope you have been enjoying these episodes as much as I enjo...

Tune in today for Episode 11 of "The Wedding Crasher" by Nikki Stern.  In today's episode Sam spots a suspicious figure in a hoodie. She and Terry give chase only to get shot at as the suspect escapes The unexpected gunplay in the mall parking lot infuriates the Nashville chief.   Terry is called back to his field office in Florida leaving Sam feeling as if she's spinning her w...

Tune in today for Episode 10 of Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. Diana uses the signal system she and Anne created, to get Anne to come over. When she meets up with her friend, Diana tells her she wants to take Anne to the Debating Club concert for her birthday. She invited Anne to stay overnight and said they can sleep in the spare room, which Anne considers a high honor. However, Marilla...

Sam attends Emily Upshaw’s funeral and finds herself eyeing a number of potential suspects. A tip from a Nashville PD contact sends them racing to a shopping mall to see if the target of a planned sting to catch a serial molester might be their killer. While they begin as observers, they become dangerously involved when Sam sees a shadowy figure in the surveillance camera. I hope you have been enj...

One afternoon, Anne spies Diana outside beckoning to her. Anne rushes out, and Diana tells her she is still forbidden to play with Anne so she has come to say goodbye. The two have a sentimental, melodramatic parting. When Diana cries that she loves her bosom friend, Anne says, “Nobody ever has loved me since I can remember. Oh, this is . . . a ray of light which will forever shine on the darkness...

Sam is back at her desk, trying to compare Emily Upshaw’s murder to Bitsy Newsome’s (“the same and not the same,” she thinks) when she gets a frantic call from her aunt. The gunman whose actions took the life of Sam’s father and brother and critically wounded her mother has been released from a psych ward after twenty-five years. Sam calms her aunt, but when she returns home late that night, someo...

Though Anne has received little schooling prior to her arrival at Green Gables, she winds up being the smartest girl in class. Although she likes being intelligent, she would much rather be good looking. Diana tells Anne about the smartest boy in class, Gilbert Blythe, who is soooo handsome, Anne couldn’t give him the time of day. Later Marilla lets Anne invite Diana over for tea. Marilla said the...

Today, we see that Emily Upshaw’s death brings an unprecedented level of national attention to Pickett County. To add to the pressure on the investigators, Emily’s grief-stricken and well-connected father reaches out to a family friend, the district’s congressman. His involvement may or may not be politically motivated, but his presence promises to make things difficult for Sam, Terry and their bo...

Anne returns home one afternoon to tell Marilla about an upcoming Sunday school picnic. It’s too exciting for words and oh, and there's going to be ice cream there, which Anne's never had before. Marilla says Anne can go but when she realizes her amethyst brooch is missing, Anne may not be going anywhere for a long time.  I hope you have been enjoying these episodes as much as I enjoy br...

Today we are  introduced us to Emily Upshaw, the self-aware daughter of Tom Upshaw, a well-connected local builder. Like all teenagers, she has her moments of rebellion. Unfortunately, her actions have consequences for the entire family, as we learn in the next chapter. Meanwhile, Sam is pulled across county lines and into another homicide that may or may not be the responsibility of the serial ki...

Anne is going to Sunday School and Marilla made sure Anne had some clean, serviceable dresses. Anne leaves the house embarrassed by how plain they are and decides to accessorize.  Even though Anne might've looked boho chic by today's standards, the Avonlea girls in her Sunday school class think she looks ridiculous (how rude). They have no ‘scope for imagination’.  When Anne returns home...

Sam revisits Dr. Jayne Sommers, the psychiatrist attached to the Nashville police department, where she once served as a homicide detective. We learn that Summers may have her own set of problems involving a threatening outsider curious about Sam’s issues. Later, Sam discovers yet another possible suspect when she joins a monthly poker game that includes several prominent local figures. Is this th...

So Mrs. Rachel Lynde arrives at Green Gables, and after describing her illness (grippe) to Marilla in great detail, she brings up Anne., and even before seeing her, Mrs. Lynde doesn't approve, reminding Marilla that she has no idea how to raise a child. Mrs. Lynde tells Anne the Cuthberts couldn't have chosen her for her looks. She calls her skinny and homely (meaning ugly), points out h...

Sam, along with a Nashville detective assigned to the Bitsy Newsome case, interviews Bitsy’s  fiancé, a shrewd, self-possessed attorney who may have underlying rage issues. Interest in the case cools, leaving Sam alone with her nightmares and her suspicions that there might be more to Bitsy’s death. But what? I hope you have been enjoying these episodes as much as I enjoy bringing them to you.  Re...

Marilla realizes that Anne does not know how to pray. At the asylum, she was taught that God is “infinite, eternal, and unchangeable,” a description she thought grand. She explains that she rejected God because Mrs. Thomas told her God gave her red hair on purpose. Anne launches into the stories of her former "friends,"  Katie Maurice, a reflection in the glass in front of a book case, t...

Sam and Terry reunite, the first time in a brief fling several years earlier. Though the reunion may be awkward on one level, Sam is relieved to find their working rhythm is intact. They’ll need to have each other’s backs as they assemble a task force with representatives of myriad state agencies. That meeting is a cakewalk compared with their first encounter with a fearful public, a hungry press,...

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Tune in today for Episode 3 of "The Wedding Crasher" by Nikki Stern​. In the following chapter, Special Agent Terry Sloan makes his way up from the FBI field office in Tampa to Byrdstown, Tennessee. Along the way, he thinks about love past and present, but mostly about his obsession with bringing The Wedding Crasher to justice. Meanwhile, Sam and Abdi visit the shop selling vintage weddi...

Marilla is shocked when a young girl shows up with Matthew. They were expecting a boy! Anne is devastated by the fact that she is once again "unwanted". The next day, Anne slowly begins to win over the reluctant Marilla, but she is still going to go to Mrs. Spencer's and try to rectify this mistake. I hope you have been enjoying these episodes as much as I enjoy bringing them to you...

Sam is back in her office, preparing to alert her staff about the newest victim. There is concern amongst the deputies, not just about the possible return of a serial killer, but also about the fact they may have to take a backseat to the FBI. Sam’s feelings on that subject are mixed.  Following a restless night punctuated by recurring nightmares, she returns to the office to work with her right-h...

Set in the late 19th century, this story is about the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who is sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada.  I hope you have been enjoying these episodes as much as I enjoy bringing them to y...

T his 3 book series centers around Sam Tate. In “The Wedding Crasher” we meet Sam as a yoga loving, poker-playing, bourbon- drinking county sheriff in Tennessee trying to catch a serial killer. The Wedding Crasher, (the killer’s moniker) has a penchant for murdering brides to be and dressing them up in vintage wedding gowns. In this episode we meet a young woman shopping in Nordstrom’s for her wed...