For fans of Janet Evanovich, Lisa Scottoline, and Kristin Hannah, the second Emily Bernal mystery, where the adoption is almost hers and everything is in the way. Emily Bernal has a plan: finish foster care classes, find an apartment, get Betsy back. Simple. Achievable. Completely derailed within forty-eight hours by two runaway teenagers who witnessed a murder, a corrupt cop who stole her phone, a stolen saddle that turns out to belong to Jack Holden's dead wife, and a Christmas Eve murder victim she finds in someone's backyard. Betsy is with the Hodges — an ultra-religious foster family with twelve children, a suspicious amount of monthly income, and a foster mother who is the sister of the most corrupt officer on the Amarillo PD. Emily is not legally allowed near the school. She watches from the parking lot anyway. This is not helping her adoption case. The runaway case winds from Amarillo to Wrong Turn Ranch in New Mexico to a warehouse complex in Alamogordo where a bent cop holds Ava Butler at gunpoint and Emily shoots him with her Glock. The adoption case winds through Christmas Eve church services, a passionate kiss on a porch, and the discovery that Jack Holden has been keeping a secret about Emily's father that changes everything she thought she knew about both men. Earth to Emily is the second book in Pamela Fagan Hutchins' Emily Bernal Series — bigger, faster, and more emotionally complex than Book 1, with a New Mexico Christmas and a proposal in a snowdrift. Written by an author who knows this territory from the inside. She was this close to getting her girl. Then everything happened at once — which, for Emily Bernal, is just a Tuesday. Praise from readers: "Unputdownable." "Fair warning: clear your calendar before you pick it up." "Hutchins is a master of tension." "Intriguing mystery… captivating romance." "Fast-paced, spellbinding, and can’t put down!" Grab Earth to Emily today and hang on tight for a high-octane, heart-pounding mystery! "You won't be able to put it down." -- Ken Oder, author of Old Wounds to the Heart "Full of heart, humor, vivid characters, and suspense." -- Gay Yellen, author of The Body Business "Hutchins is a master of tension." -- R.L. Nolen, author of Deadly Thyme "Intriguing mystery . . . captivating romance." -- Patricia Flaherty Pagan, author of Trail Ways Pilgrim "Everything about it shines: the plot, the characters, and the writing." -- Marcy McKay, author of Pennies from Burger Heaven About Pamela: 2020 Amazon Top 15 Best Seller 2020 Amazon Top 100 Author 2018 USA Today Best Seller 2017 Silver Falchion Award, Best Mystery 2016 USA Best Book Award, Cross-Genre Fiction 2015 USA Best Book Award, Cross-Genre Fiction 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarter-finalist, Romance Praise for Pamela's other books: What Doesn't Kill You: Katie Connell Texas-to-Caribbean Romantic Mysteries "An exciting tale . . . twisting investigative and legal subplots . . . a character seeking redemption . . . an exhilarating mystery with a touch of voodoo." -- Midwest Book Review Bookwatch "A lively romantic mystery." -- Kirkus Reviews "A riveting drama . . . exciting read, highly recommended." -- Small Press Bookwatch" "Katie is the first character I have absolutely fallen in love with since Stephanie Plum!" -- Stephanie Swindell, Bookstore Owner What Doesn't Kill You: Michele Lopez Hanson Texas Romantic Mysteries "Immediately hooked." -- Terry Sykes-Bradshaw, author of Sibling Revelry "Spellbinding." -- Jo Bryan, Dry Creek Book Club "Fast-paced mystery." -- Deb Krenzer, Book Reviewer "Can't put it down." -- Cathy Bader, Reader What Doesn't Kill You: Maggie Killian Texas-to-Wyoming Romantic Mysteries "Maggie's gonna break your heart-one way or another." Tara Scheyer, Grammy-nominated musician, Long-Distance Sisters Book Club "Nails that Wyoming scenery and captures the atmosphere of the people there." -- Ken Oder, author of Old Wounds to the Heart "I thought I had it all figured out a time or two, but she kept me wondering right to the end." -- Ginger Copeland, power reader What Doesn't Kill You: Ava Butler Caribbean Romantic Mysteries "Just when I think I couldn't love another Pamela Fagan Hutchins novel more, along comes Ava." -- Marcy McKay, author of Stars Among the Dead "Ava personifies bombshell in every sense of word. -- Tara Scheyer, Grammy-nominated musician, Long-Distance Sisters Book Club "Entertaining, complex, and thought-provoking." -- Ginger Copeland, power reader The Patrick Flint Series Transports readers deep into the mountains of Wyoming for a thriller that has it all--wild animals, criminals, and one family willing to do whatever is necessary to protect its own. Hutchins writes with the authority of a woman who knows this world. She weaves the story with both nail-biting suspense and a healthy dose of humor. You won't want to miss it." -- Danielle Girard, Wall Street Journal-bestselling author of White Out "As many t