JR Hopkins

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Angel of Death, A Knight & Dey Murder Mystery, Book 1

Nita Rose Olander just wants to be loved—just like everyone else. Her half-brother, Dalton Knight, newly divorced Alaska State Trooper living in Anchorage, wonders what went wrong in his marriage and just wants to be loved, too. They have different fathers, same mother, he is 12 years older than she is. They haven't seen each other in twenty years. Will their reunion be a happy one?

When a series of female bodies and one male body is found in the dense forests in and around a tiny SE Alaska town and it appears a serial killer is on the loose, Dalton Knight, is sent back to his hometown of Sitka, he couldn’t wait to escape from in his youth, to help solve the murders. With the help of his sister, Nita Olander, resident plant expert and her best friend, Georgia Dey, police dispatcher, they work closely together to help solve the homicides.

When Dalton returns and sees Nita, does he feel guilty for having left her when she was only five years old? Does she blame him for leaving her alone to fend for herself against their alcoholic mother? Will either of them find love or will he end up as one of the killer’s victims?

A Psychological Romantic Suspense, watch for Herring Season, book 2 coming soon, but you can read it here as a serial read.

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Gone Catfishing - Online Dating Scams

Have you ever been scammed online through, what you thought was a legitimate dating site, only to find out the man or woman wasn't who they portrayed themself to be? Perhaps they stole someone's identity and they want you to be their sugar baby or have a way for you to live comfortably with money provided to you if you send them money first. It it's too good to be true, it usually is.

Now days, people are using every social media site out there to meet people online and to scam people out of their hard-earned money. This book is a tell-all of the author's account of how men tried to scam her out of money using at least four of those social media sites. What she did was keep them on the hook to find out how their scam worked so she could tell you in this book. They had been catfished by the author, hence the title Gone Catfishing.

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Life Lessons, Words of Wisdom Buried In A Box

A chance discovery. Words of wisdom buried in a box of papers.

Prior to his death, a father shares his life lessons through colorful anecdotes of a well-lived life. Some are humorous, some profound, on a myriad of subjects from hot peppers to cars to lying. This assembly is a daughter’s tribute to her father’s recollections on lessons he learned, sparking her own retrospection.

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Life Memories, A Memoir of Surviving Life and Preserving Memories!

A memoir of surviving life and preserving memories! Life can sometimes be overwhelming. This book is an account of the two years during which I looked after my mother, who had dementia, and the stress it entailed. It is about how I learned to cope and how I sought to preserve happy memories and banish bad ones, so that I could carry on with my life. I hope this book gives peace and solace to others who are caring for or may have to care for a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s. It is to help you seek and find joy and happiness in overwhelming and sometimes overpowering circumstances we may all have to face at some point and how to deal with it. If my book helps you in any way, I hope you will drop me a line or you can contact me.

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An Alien’s Embrace, A Shared Space World Collective and Annalyn’s Story – Snowed in Duet, Books 1 & 2

An Alien’s Embrace What does a young Cheyenne medicine woman in 1636 in the northern territories and a Milieuan alien, Leith Srallister from planet Betelgeuse, have in common? Life, love and pursuit of happiness buried under frozen snow in this snowed in, close proximity romance set on earth and in space on planet Betelgeuse. This is part of the A Shared Space World Collective series.

An Alien’s Embrace, Annalyn’s Story When Annalyn Srallister goes to earth in a separate spaceship from her brother, Leith, it's a mission to save their kind on planet Betelgeuse. When she gets into earth's atmosphere, thinking she was landing in 1636, something happens and she ends up going through a wormhole to the future of 1986 and crashes her ship, where she meets Tarin Sailish, who has volunteered to work in a forest service lookout tower to get away from his last breakup. Together, can they find what they are looking for on earth if he can't get her spaceship fixed or in space if he does fix it? Where will they live?

Lisa Vandiver and I created the Shared Space World when we were on Vella. There were a total of six authors who were writing stories to the Collective. Lisa and I each have a total of 6 books in the series: An Alien's Embrace - JR Hopkins An Alien's Embrace, Annalyn's Story - JR Hopkins Christmas on Canopus - Lisa Vandiver Milieu: Last Hope - by both of us The Milieu Wolf - Lisa Vandiver Vanilie's Trip Home - JR Hopkins

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Vanilie's Trip Home, A Shared Space World Collective, Book 6

When Commander Vanilie Buck loses power to her space shuttle and has to set it down on Earth during a rescue mission to get as many humans off as possible, she encounters outlaw, Trip Srallister, on a mission to get off Earth before it explodes, and the law catches up to him.

After Trip repairs her ship, they take off and get out of the Earth's atmosphere just in the nick of time. Stunned at seeing the planet disappear in a gazillion little pieces right before her eyes, she also learns Trip killed someone when lawman and Trip's childhood friend, Jeff O'Connor, stows away onboard and reveals himself. She now must decide what she's going to do with the humans—hide one, kill the other, or take them both to the prison planet Rigel.

But not before their ship is thrown off course by a large chunk of Earth's debris when hits her ship and propells them into another galaxy, where they meet Vanilie's distance cousin, Alura, who helps them escape from her planet after crash landing on it. Do they all get off planet Chonope safely and make it back to Milieu Solar System in the Giga Solus Galaxy with battle ships on their tale? And decisions must be made where they are going to live now that Earth no longer exists.

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Milieu: Last Hope, A Shared Space World Collective, Book 4

This book is part of A Shared Space World Collective. This second book is an introduction to the Milieu Solar System in the Giga Solus Galaxy and an introduction to the Milieuans who live on nine other planets in space. Earth is dying and the Milieuans are their only hope for survival. Join them as they make an aggressive rescue mission to save the humans before Earth is gone forever. To pronounce the title and the aliens it is May-lay and May-lay-ans. There are six authors who have written their own books to this shared space world. Watch for the following books by JR Hopkins - Vanilie's Trip Home, An Alien's Embrace and An Alien's Embrace - Annalyn's Story and by Lisa Vandiver - The Milieu Wolf and Christmas on Canopus.

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The Pirate's Hope

On the island of Jamaica, in 1815, triplet sisters, Hope, Faith, and Charity, are young and carefree, living with their father, Bart, on their family’s sugar plantation. But all of their lives are about to change one fateful night at the ball their father is hosting in hopes to find suitable husbands for his daughters.

Coming face to face with a vampire, and not leaving the encounter, unscathed, the sisters must flee for their lives and the island aboard the pirate ship, the Sea Rambler, and under the protection of its captain, Pirate Captain Slyden“Sly” Van Erten on a thirty-day voyage to England. But, can he be trusted? Hope worries about their safety aboard the ship full of scurvy pirates, that is, until the captain starts pulling at her heart. What are these new, strange feelings she’s experiencing for Captain Van Erten? And does he feel the same toward her?

Join Hope and her sisters aboard the pirate ship as they explore what a new life without Jamaica looks like. There may be future books added to this story universe, so be on the lookout for that.

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Cookin' With The Hopkins, Growing up in the 70s

The following recipes are a collection of my favorites regularly made by Mom while growing up during the 1960s and 1970s in Colorado and Idaho, in a household where we sat at the table as a family for almost every meal—at least until we were teenagers and Mom went to work. There’s a little story with some of the recipes: either my own thoughts about the recipe itself, or how or why I included it, or how it affected me and/or my family. There are also some photos, but not with every recipe and not all are of food. I wanted to write a cookbook that was different than what’s available out there, and I hope you enjoy my style.

Soon to be updated with recipes I cooked by while married and having children.