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   Kathryn Meyer Griffith on September 5, 2012 at 8:54 am

   Claudine,
   and along with all the above great new releases I've released my 16th novel this week…a romantic SF/horror book called DINOSAUR LAKE by Kathryn Meyer Griffith  http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaur-Lake-ebook/dp/B00943P0JK/ref=sr_1_46?ie=UTF8&qid=1346360346&sr=8-46&keywords=Kathryn+Meyer+Griffith  . You've got to see the stunning cover!  Below is a blurb and an excerpt. I'll be here on CoffeeTime Blog Oct. 1 with more Halloween treats! Warmly, author Kathryn Meyer Griffith rdgriff@htc.net  http://www.myspace.com/kathrynmeyergriffith  http://www.authorsden.com/kathrynmeyergriffith
   Blurb of DINOSAUR LAKE:
   An ancient predator has been reborn in the caves beneath Crater Lake
   …and it’s hungry.
   Ex-cop Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for eight years and he likes his park and his life the way it’s been. Safe. Tranquil. Predictable. But he’s about to be tested in so many ways. First the earthquakes begin…people begin to go missing…then there’s some mysterious water creature that’s taken up residence in the caves below Crater Lake and it’s not only growing in size, it’s aggressive and cunning…and very hungry.
   And it’s decided it likes human beings. To eat.
   And it can come up onto land.
   So Henry, with the help of his wife, Ann; a young paleontologist named Justin; and a band of brave men must not only protect his park and his people from the monster but somehow find where it lives and destroy it…before it can kill again. ***
   Excerpt:
   Out of nowhere, the red-haired woman blurted out, “Have you ever seen the creature in the lake, Ranger Shore?” She was snacking on a big bag of M&M’s and between her words she crunched on the candies.
   “What creature?” Henry was smiling.
   “Oh, the serpent creature…the one that lives in the lake? My friend, Martha, was here last summer and she told me she saw this…thing…swimming in the lake one night. Looked sort of like a huge snake, only with a shorter neck and a fatter body. She swore it was greenish in color, and scaly. A water serpent. Just like that thing in Loch Ness, only smaller. Loch Ness, in Scotland, you know?”
   Henry could only nod. He couldn’t believe the woman was going on and on about a lake monster. There were no such things. Into his mind stomped the image of Godzilla climbing out of Crater Lake, spiked tail swinging and beady marble eyes scowling as it frantically waved around its tiny, clawed front arms. Henry had to stop himself from laughing.
   “My friend said the creature nearly scared her to death. She’d gotten separated from the rest of her tour group exploring Wizard Island, and saw the thing in the water off shore. It circled three times glaring at her. She was terrified it was going to come up on land after her. She wasn’t the only one who saw it, either. Herman, her boyfriend, saw it, too.”
   “Did she get a photograph of it?”
   “Well, no. She was so scared she forgot all about her camera, and by the time she remembered the creature was long gone. She said it was really fast.”
   All eyes were on Henry. He didn’t know what to say. Was the woman a crack-pot, or what? She seemed normal enough, no drooling or twitches, but one could never tell.
   He sighed, trying not to appear rude. “Ma’am, as far as I know there is no serpent, no huge creature of any variety in Crater Lake. And believe me, if there was one, I’d be the first to know it,” he insisted, with a casual shrug. “One of my rangers would have seen and reported it long before this. They patrol the lake every day.”
   The woman grunted in a dismissive way, didn’t say anything else, but her eyes kept squinting out at the water from under her raised palm. The sun was beginning to set in all its splendor. The whole park was bathed in a mist of golden pinks and yellows. Clouds raced across the sky like candy-colored wisps of cotton.

   What bizarre things people can come up with, Henry thought.***

    

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