Marilyn Barr's Other Published Work

It's so great to have you on The Wylder West blog this week! Thank you for joining us! 

We've heard a bit about your Wylder story and I think it's fair to say you've got most of us completely intrigued! This one is definitely going on my must-read list. 

Do you have any other published work? 

My opus is the Strawberry Shifters series which begins with my own voice’s novel, Bear with Me. Alison the Green Witch has sensory processing disorder like me and hides behind her workaholic, Pharma Exec husband (which I have been guilty of as well). Alison and Grant’s marriage is strained to the breaking point when they move to Strawberry, KY for one last chance. Alison hides her status as a green witch from logical Grant because she doesn’t trust that he will believe in her magic. Too bad Grant’s new job is managing shifters, collecting data from the night shift (who are vampires), and leading a territorial war against the Sluagh (Celtic Mythological Monsters). If you loved high-strung Olive’s bear shifter shenanigans, you would love Strawberry Shifters Book 1: Bear with Me.

Maybe it was Nartan’s spiritual prowess that drew you into Dance to a Wylder Beat instead. Let me introduce you to The Spiritual Spy Duology, coming October 2021. The two novellas follow Sergei Chekov who went from teenage runaway, to kidnap victim, to burnt-out vigilante. In The Spy Who Was Out Cold (free with newsletter subscription), Sergei has one last mission before he can leave the institute which organizes his rescue operation for child victims of human trafficking. He must take down Ito and Telepath Katya who took over the organization which held him captive as a teen. However, it is not so simple as Katya and Ito were prisoners too. Are they victims or villains? When Sergei’s mission goes pear-shaped, he ends up out cold…

The second half of The Spiritual Spy is The Spy Who Loved My Russian Tea Cakes. Reiki Practitioner Cassie Morgan is the black sheep of her family. She would rather work over the Christmas holidays than answer her family’s interrogation about her non-existent love life and career choices.  She assures herself it has nothing to do with the handsome coma patient, Sergei Chekov who stars in her dreams. Sergei wakes from blackness and dreams of a siren’s call.  He isn’t sure who he can trust when the woman from his dreams walks into his room with his favorite childhood treat to jog his memory.  Despite his attraction to her, he must escape to safety. Cassie is heartbroken and left with nothing but questions. Who was the woman who convinced her to wake Sergei?  Why is the FBI involved? And will she ever see Sergei again or will she be left to pine over the spy who loved Russian tea cakes? Coming 11/30/2021 from The Wild Rose Press.




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