C Hope Clark Books in Order

This early nonfiction guide looks beyond royalties and shows writers where money can come from. Clark focuses on practical options like contests, grants, markets, and other paying opportunities that can support a writing life.

Clark's early guide speaks directly to writers who dread crowds, networking, and self-promotion. It offers workable ways to build a career, stay authentic, and face the public side of writing without turning into someone else.

Carolina Slade reports an attempted bribe and ends up in the middle of a sting operation she does not fully understand. When the plan unravels, the danger reaches her job, her family, and anyone she trusts.

Written for introverts, this guide helps writers handle promotion without pretending to be someone else. Clark covers speaking, signings, blogging, interviews, and the mental side of putting your work in public.

When Carolina Slade's closest friend is suspected of embezzlement, a shrimp boat explosion turns the mess into murder. Drugs, stolen produce, and deep water secrets push Slade into a case that keeps widening around her.

This practical guide explains why writers need more than talent and solitude. It walks through critique partners, readers, editors, and other support roles that help a manuscript, and a writing career, get stronger.

Widowed former Boston detective Callie Jean Morgan comes to Edisto Beach looking for refuge and finds her childhood mentor murdered. When the killer starts taunting her at home, stepping back from police work is no longer an option.

Carolina Slade gets pulled into a nasty mix of political secrets, drug trouble, and a deadly history tied to peanuts. The case reaches into a governor's family and gives Slade one of her messiest, most dangerous investigations yet.

A psychic warns of restless spirits, then a guest dies at a beach house party. Callie Morgan and Chief Mike Seabrook must find a very human killer before summer crowds and rumor turn Edisto upside down.

New police chief Callie Morgan suspects a rookie officer's marsh death was no accident. As clues pile up, family drama and old secrets pull her deeper into a case that refuses to stay buried.

A corpse in Big Bay Creek links Callie Morgan to an old abduction and a new wave of trouble on spring-break Edisto. Grief, a rogue FBI agent, and town politics make this one especially personal.

This compact collection gathers essays and how-to pieces from Clark's long-running writer resource. It mixes straight talk, motivation, and practical advice on topics like pitching, appearances, and building a working writing life.

A dead landowner at a notorious lovers' spot sends Carolina Slade toward fraud, blackmail, and murder in Newberry. Forced off the case by office politics and juggling an unplanned pregnancy, she has to fight from the sidelines.

When a famous travel blogger washes up dead near Indigo Plantation, Callie Morgan takes the case as a favor and quickly finds murder. With Carolina Slade and Wayne Largo helping, she must untangle poison, politics, and plantation secrets.

A body on a vacant lot wrecks Callie Morgan's birthday and throws Edisto's Christmas week into chaos. While she investigates murder, she also has to sort out burglaries linked to the folk legend of Edisto Santa.

Clark breaks down writing contests without the fluff, showing when they help, how to choose wisely, and how to enter with purpose. It is a practical guide for writers who want better odds and fewer expensive mistakes.

Carolina Slade and Callie Morgan team up when a young federal agent disappears and turns up dead near the Salkehatchie. Swamp land, farm country, and buried secrets make this crossover a tense hunt for a killer.

A domestic job pulls Quinn Sterling into school board politics, a land fight, and a trail of arson and murder. As greed turns neighbors against each other, Quinn realizes the case threatens her farm and the people closest to her.

Ex-FBI agent Quinn Sterling returns home to run her family's pecan empire and keep digging into her father's unsolved murder. When a fellow PI is killed and a missing man case lands on her desk, past and present crash together.

A reunion retreat forces Callie Morgan to reopen memories of a high school murder and suicide. When a classmate vanishes after threatening a true crime exposé, the cold case suddenly feels very alive.

Out of uniform and full of regret, Callie Morgan is pulled into a fresh mystery when the Edisto Witch turns up dead and her replacement chief lies about it. Solving the case may mean choosing Edisto and the badge all over again.

After a string of fires rattles Edisto Beach, Police Chief Callie Morgan must hunt an arsonist while shielding an easy suspect, a young man who adores law enforcement. The town wants a quick answer. Callie wants the truth.

Wedding plans take a grim turn when Carolina Slade finds a body near Lake Murray and suspects a pattern in a string of farmer deaths. Working off book and away from her fiancé, she has to follow the money fast.

At the Sterling farm's Fourth of July celebration, Quinn Sterling expects family, food, and heat, not murder. When Ty Jackson is blamed for his ex-wife's death, Quinn crosses county lines and personal ones to prove he's innocent.

Callie Morgan is already juggling burglaries and small-town trouble when a vigilante starts beating her to the criminals. The methods feel uncomfortably familiar, and the line between helpful and dangerous gets thinner by the day.

An eightieth birthday gathering for the Poe family turns poisonous when an heir is sickened during a vicious fight over the will. Callie Morgan steps into a family feud full of grudges, recipes, and very real danger.