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Wendy R Williams is a versatile author whose work spans multiple genres, captivating readers with rich storytelling and dynamic characters. From adult thrillers to children's and young adult fiction, her books offer something for everyone, blending suspense, adventure, and romance into every page.
Murder Series
Murder at the Top of the Stairs: A Caleigh O’Neill Story
"Murder at the Top of the Stairs: A Caleigh O'Neill Story" is the first book in the series. It tells the story of a four-car pileup between the insulated worlds of New York society, Texas royalty, a Bulgarian crime family, and various law enforcement agencies with differing levels of competency. After Caleigh and the Prince of Something or the Other heat up the bathroom of a downtown nightclub, she flees the club with no cabs in sight. Caleigh grabs a Citibike and rides up First Avenue towards her Upper Eastside apartment. Pedaling past the UN, she stops to take a moonlit photo of two men standing at the top of the stairs leading to Ralph Bunche Park when she sees one man stab the other, and a body falls over the railing, through the trees, and into the park. Unfortunately for Caleigh, the body that fell into the park belonged to the son of the United Kingdom's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. The murderer is the son of the head of a Bulgarian crime family, and she is now the "witness" and beamed into a world where being an innocent bystander is not an option.
Murder in Mallorca: A Caleigh O’Neill Story
"Murder in Mallorca: A Caleigh O'Neill Story," by Wendy R Williams, is the second book in the Caleigh O'Neill series. Texas-born heiress Caleigh O'Neill fell through a rabbit hole when she witnessed a murder at the top of the stairs in a park across from the United Nations. She became a pawn in a firestorm between the worlds of New York society, Texas royalty, a Bulgarian crime family, and the FBI. By the end of the game, Caleigh had blood on her hands and was forced to join a quasi-government terror-fighting agency. Book Two finds Caleigh working undercover in Europe to take down a human trafficking ring. Caleigh reunites with her mother, who is married to Ruben, a Spanish billionaire with a doubtful past. Using her mother's connections, Caleigh finagles an invitation for a cruise from Barcelona to Madagascar on the yacht owned by Ruben's arch-rival, a Ukrainian billionaire with a more than doubtful past. The game is on, the hand is dealt, and Caleigh is the prey! "Will you walk into my parlor? said a spider to a fly." Mary Howitt.
Murder in the Leeward Islands: A Caleigh O’Neill Story
“Murder in the Leeward Islands: A Caleigh O’Neill Story” is the third novel in “The Caleigh O’Neill Stories,” a series of romantic suspense novels about an heiress who is blackmailed into joining a shady undercover government agency. Book Three finds Caleigh, mission unaccomplished, on her way back to Barcelona to reunite with her new husband, Anton Dubec, a Ukrainian oligarch with a more-than-doubtful past.
Caleigh is overcome with lust for Anton and an overwhelming desire to make him pay for forcing her to marry him. She concedes that she lost round one in the marriage wars but is determined never to play on the losing side again.
Caleigh makes an unexpected trip to the Caribbean, where she is surprised to find out that she has a stepsister, Ruben’s daughter Alia. But as soon as she meets Alia, she needs to play big sister to protect her from one of Anton’s henchmen, Maksym Andrich, who arrives to rescue Caleigh and is hit with a thunderbolt when he sees the eighteen-year-old Alia.
Murder in Windsor: A Caleigh O’Neill Story
Murder in Windsor" is the fourth book in the Caleigh O'Neill series. Caleigh has reunited with Anton, her on-again-off-again husband, and they are hosting a party in their mansion on the outskirts of Windsor in honor of Alia and Maksym's wedding. Anton is now officially a tech billionaire and has secured his position in the top echelons of European society by marrying Caleigh. The good times are merrily rolling along when a gang of Bulgarian mobsters kidnaps Maria, Alia's doppelgänger and maid of honor.
Anton and his henchmen suit up and return to the arena of their criminal past to fight off the Bulgarians and rescue Maria, while still maintaining the illusion that they are Eastern European oligarchs enjoying London's laissez-faire pursuit of dodgy wealth.
And who is Maria? Was Maria ever an orphan subject to the rule of finders' keepers? And how can an orphan Mexican girl look so much like Ruben's Lebanese daughter, Alia?
Murder Outside Oxford: A Caleigh O’Neill Story
“Murder Outside Oxford: A Caleigh O’Neill Story” is the fifth and last (?) book in the Caleigh O’Neill Series and tells the story of the final battle between Caleigh’s new but dodgy family and the Zorićs, a Bulgarian human trafficking ring.
Caleigh’s husband Anton’s campaign to recreate his image into that of a charitable Ukrainian oligarch with ties to the European aristocracy is tested when an old friend’s daughter, Katrina Popov, is kidnapped by the Zorić crime family off the streets of Oxford. Anton’s men rescue her and bring her back to his mansion, where they are forced to lock her up again because the Zorićs brainwashed Katrina into believing that Anton is the head of their human trafficking ring, making her a poison pill if she talks to the police. Katrina is kept in a beautiful room, where her jailers treat her kindly, even spoil her. But posh or not, prison is still a prison.
To ensure Katrina’s loyalty, Anton orders one of his associates, Marko, to seduce her, making him both her lover and her jailer. But Katrina isn’t just a victim; she grew up in Kyiv and is a street fighter disguised as a show pony.
Posse Books
The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New York
“The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New York” is an action/adventure story for kids of all ages. It is only a children’s story if “The Lord of the Flies” is only for children.
“The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New York,” tells the story of four kids trapped in New York City after a terrorist attack. In the spirit of “The Wizard of Oz,” they become a band of travelers, adding new friends as they flee the City. By pooling their skills, they discover what happened to the City and escape.
Twelve-year-old Amanda was dreading a boring afternoon at a Broadway theater, babysitting her ten-year-old brother Peter and watching her cousin Cindy perform the lead role in an Off-Broadway production of “Annie.” As they wait in Cindy’s basement dressing room after the show, something unimaginable happens—the theater, and perhaps the entire City, explodes above them! Armed with a laptop, un-working phones, and backpacks, the terrified-but-determined tweens manage to escape through an old door in the men’s room and climb down a Prohibition-era stairway to the subway.
When they emerge, they are stunned to find an empty city where the streets are choked with abandoned cars and plagued by looters running wild. They dodge thieves and muggers, making their way to Grand Central Station, where they find an explosion of white powder. What happened? Is it a terrorist attack?
The tween posse quickly expands, adding characters they meet along their way: Mr. Garvain, a true New York eccentric; his sister Miss Virginia, proprietress of an extensive costume wardrobe; Thibodeaux, a twelve-year-old New Orleans boy turned New York City rapper and clothing designer; and Auntie Tina, Thibodeaux’s guardian.
Amid the nonstop thrill-ride, the now expanded posse learn to trust each other and stay together to save the City.
“The Big Apple Posse: Escape from New York” is the first of a three-book series, “The Big Apple Posse Trilogy,” which follows the posse’s journey from victims to witnesses in the terror trial of the century. The second in the trilogy, “The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New Orleans,” was published in December of 2011 and is for sale at Amazon.com. The third book, “The Big Apple Posse: Escape from Los Angeles,” was published in September of 2012 and is also for sale on Amazon.com. “Solange’s Song,” the young adult sequel to the “Big Apple Posse” books, was published in January of 2014.
The “Trilogy” books and “Solange’s Song” were re-edited and updated in March of 2021.
The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New Orleans
“The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New Orleans” is the sequel to “The Big Apple Posse” and the second book of “The Big Apple Posse Trilogy.” Last October, Amanda and her brother Peter from Greenwich, Connecticut, were trapped in New York City after terrorists blew up several buildings, including the theater, where they were waiting with their cousin Cindy to be picked up after a show. They escaped and formed The Big Apple Posse to figure out how to leave a city where nothing worked – no busses, subways, taxis, phones, or internet. With the help of one of their new friends and posse members, Thibodeaux Botrain (a teenage boy who lives in Harlem with his Aunt Tina), they found proof that the so-called terrorists were a gang of South African diamond thieves.
It is now the end of February, and Amanda and Peter live in New Jersey with a former FBI agent, hiding until they can testify in the “terrorist trial of the century” in June. One afternoon, Amanda sees one of the terrorists hiding in the trees, watching her play soccer. She grabs Peter and travels into the City to seek help from Benedicte Trudeau, Thibodeaux’s Auntie Tina’s lawyer.
Mr. Trudeau arranges for Amanda, Peter, and Thibodeaux to travel to New Orleans to hide with some of Thibodeaux’s relatives. They arrive in New Orleans and soon find that Amanda, Peter, and Thibeaux are supposed to live in an apartment on New Orleans’ funky Magazine Street, watched over by Thibodeaux’s beautiful seventeen-year-old cousin, Solange (an aspiring ballet dancer and singer), and one of Mr. Trudeau’s sons, Michael, a twenty-three-old intern at his brother’s hip-hop label. The posse has arrived in New Orleans just in time for Mardi Gras, and they fall into a world of music, dance, Vodou, and romance. New Orleans is a cultural stew where no one “stands out,” but are they safe? Can anyone successfully hide in a world of Facebook, Google, YouTube, and facial recognition software? And can the posse escape a gang of terrorists who will do anything to prevent them from testifying?
“The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New Orleans” is the second installment of “The Big Apple Trilogy.” The first book, “The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New York,” was published in February of 2011. The third and final book of the trilogy, “The Big Apple Posse: Escape from Los Angeles,” was published in August of 2012. “Solange’s Song,” the young adult sequel to the “Big Apple Posse” books, was published in January of 2014. All the books are available on Amazon.com.
The “Trilogy” books and “Solange’s Song” were re-edited and updated in March 2021.
The Big Apple Posse: Escape from Los Angeles
“The Big Apple Posse: Escape From Los Angeles” is the third book in “The Big Apple Posse Trilogy.” Amanda and Peter have been on the run ever since they discovered who bombed New York City and became witnesses in the “Terror Trial of the Century.” The terrorists who blew up the City will do anything to keep them from testifying. And every time they run, they add new members to their fugitive posse: Thibodeaux, Michael, and Solange. They escaped from New York and New Orleans, and now they are on their way to hide in Los Angeles. But will they ever be safe? Can anyone truly disappear in a digital age where all you must do to find someone is, get on the internet and search? And how can anyone who can’t stop running ever be normal or find time for romance?
“The Big Apple Posse: Escape From Los Angeles” is the third book in “The Big Apple Posse Trilogy.” The first book, “The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New York,” was published in February of 2011. The second book, “The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New Orleans, ” was published in December 2011. “Solange’s Song,” the young adult sequel to the “Big Apple Posse” books, was published in January of 2014. All the books are available on Amazon.com.
The “Trilogy” books and “Solange’s Song” were re-edited and updated in March of 2021.
The Big Apple Posse Trilogy
“The Big Apple Posse Trilogy is a series of action-adventure novels that follow a group of teens and tweens and their expanding band of travelers as they are trapped in New York City after a terror attack and then forced to flee from the terrorists who are determined that the posse does not live to testify. The posse “hits the road,” first hiding in New Orleans, where they fall into the world of Vodou and music. After the terrorists find them in New Orleans, they travel cross-country to Los Angeles and their personal “Gunfight at the OK Corral.” The “Trilogy” asks the question: Can anyone truly disappear in a digital age where all anyone needs to do to locate someone is open Google and search? And where everything anyone does anywhere is filmed by satellite and available through Google Earth. The “Trilogy” books are available for sale individually at Amazon.com: “The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New York,” “The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New Orleans,” and “The Big Apple Posse: Escape From Los Angeles.” “Solange’s Song,” the young adult sequel to the “Big Apple Posse” books, was published in January of 2014. The “Trilogy” books and “Solange’s Song” were re-edited and updated in March of 2021.
Solange’s Song: Sequel to The Big Apple Posse Trilogy
“Solange’s Song” is the Young Adult sequel to “The Big Apple Posse Trilogy.” The trial of the century is over, the terrorists are in prison, and Solange has moved to New York City to restart her life. Then one day after dance class, Solange meets a handsome stranger and is immediately transported back into the world of Vodou, terror, and revenge. Because nothing in life is ever really over, and being an innocent victim only buys you an amusing epitaph for your gravestone.
“The Big Apple Possee Trilogy” books are available in trilogy form and also as individual books: “The Big Apple Posse: Escape From New York,” “The Big Apple Posse Posse: Escape from New Orleans,” and “The Big Apple Posse: Escape from Los Angeles.
” The “Trilogy” books and “Solange’s Song” were re-edited and updated in March of 2021.
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