Marissa Shrock

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Marissa Shrock is a survivor of many awkward blind dates and many years of teaching middle school. Both provide excellent inspiration for her fictional yarns.

Since childhood, she’s loved to read a variety of genres, so her own work includes dystopian thrillers and cozy mysteries. She’s the author of the Emancipation Warriors Series and the Georgia Rae Winston Mystery Series. Her debut novel, The First Principle, was a Carol Award Finalist.

Marissa enjoys playing golf, baking, and traveling to new places. Her home is in Indiana, where she’s surrounded by corn and soybean fields.

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Deadly Heartbreak

Georgia Rae Winston believes she’s found her happily-ever-after. But life is about to prove her very wrong. Georgia is looking toward a blissful future with her boyfriend. But when a package containing a beef heart shows up at her door with a note that reads, “A dead heart for Georgia Rae the Heartbreaker,” they sense their lives are about to shift into fifth gear. Then, Georgia discovers a limerick scrawled on the wall of her kitchen that dares her to solve a mystery designed specifically for her. A mystery that promises to be quite deadly. For her. For her boyfriend. And for anyone who gets in the murderer’s way.

  • Deadly Hideaway

    All Georgia Rae Winston wants is a little vacation from her unsettled love life. Some time at her friend Laura’s lake house. At first? Perfect. Until a day on the water ends with Georgia discovering a dead body in the lake.

  • Deadly Harmony

    Georgia hosts her stepsister and her friend, Quincy, during a college chorale tour—and Quincy steals Georgia’s car and disappears. When her car and a cryptic note turn up in a cemetery, Georgia digs into the mystery—and Quincy’s tumultuous past.