Books with author C.B. Christiansen

Sixteen years ago, Eva Thomas’ mother fled New Orleans with her only child. Constantly on the move, the two traveled the country from one small town to another, never setting down roots and never returning to New Orleans. Now, two months before her 17th birthday, Eva is being sent home to her birthplace to fulfill a promise to her father and learn the secrets of her past and inevitable future. The year is 2010, the New Orleans Saints are on the verge of winning the Super Bowl, and Eva’s father has sent handsome Jackson Durieux to both protect and teach his daughter about the world of immortals she is destined to lead. The result of a nearly impossible union between her mortal mother and immortal father, Eva struggles with her desire to remain normal, her increasing addiction to the immortal Jackson and her fate that was predetermined at her birth. Following a timeline of real events, The Bend in the Bayou weaves a mystical world into the threads of present-day New Orleans. Filled with evil adversaries, first love, local history and lots of coffee, this book takes the reader on a fantastical journey through an already enchanted city.

This book is a contemporary clean and wholesome romantic suspense suitable for teens and up. It is a mystery under the definition of: something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain and not a mystery novel with clues.Story-line: High-spirited Daniela Estrada is tired of waiting for life and love to come to her in her poppa’s butcher shop. She wants to open her own doggie grooming business on Merchant Street and live her own life. Instead while deer hunting, her Uncle Benito goes missing and the area is swarming with aggressive black bears.Practical Duston “Buck” Cooper, who owns the Bird Dog Gun Shop, has helped the police on cases with his German Short-haired Pointer and is training a Karelian Bear dog. Duston adores Daniela but secrets about his brother prevent him from getting close to anyone. He believes that if something is meant to be, it will.Can Daniela recruit Duston to find her uncle, and will the two stop waiting for happenstance and attack what they both want—love?

Everyone has heard of plays like "Macbeth" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". But why do we know so little about the man who wrote them? Who exactly was William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon, and why do so many people believe that he was not the person he seemed to be? This book is an exciting detective story, which goes back over 400 years to the dramatic events of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and explores the way that a brillian and ambitious young man was caught up in a violent world of murder, revenge and treason.