TIMBERLINE ROAD PUBLISHING EVELYN MARIESHANTZ

CHRISTMAS DAY · DECEMBER 25, 2026

NO ANGEL
CAME

FIVE STORIES

A hospital form. A dry acequia. Six calls before morning. A casino table.

Five women encounter truths inside work and ordinary life that others fail to understand. Each story stands on its own.

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No Angel Came: Five Stories by Evelyn Marie Shantz
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The Six Days Before

Los Angeles, January 1947. Elizabeth Short has six days left to live. This novel keeps the camera on the living woman before the newspapers take possession of her body.

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Timberline Road

Oregon, 1982. A missing teenager, a slaughtered family and an actress whose career is controlled by the man who hurt her tighten around the same fight over evidence and belief.

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The Last Solos

Vancouver, October 1959. Errol Flynn arrives sick and broke with seventeen-year-old Beverly Aadland. Then Glenn Gould hears what every adult in the room needs the girl to keep quiet.

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The Silk Bird: Lyon ’68

During the first week of Lyon’s general strike, a disgraced queer artist prepares to surrender her studio, destroy selected evidence and die on Saturday. A young revolutionary artist copies a silk motif Claire presented as her own nineteen years earlier. When the poster reaches the former lover who actually designed the motif, four women are forced into a struggle over the artwork, the archive and the version of history that will survive Claire.

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FIVE STORIES. FIVE WORLDS.

Five standalone stories about women.

Intimate suspense, political crime, a western murder puzzle and a nonlinear night thriller. Each story turns on evidence hidden inside women’s work.

01 OF 05 · STANDALONE STORY

No Angel Came

At 4:10 on the Friday before Christmas, Helen Bittner finds thirty-two dollars and forty cents that does not belong anywhere. What looks like a small discrepancy forces a woman who knows the work to decide how closely she is willing to look.

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02 OF 05 · STANDALONE STORY

The Dry Ditch

In April 1894, photographer Harriet Leland follows a dry acequia through New Mexico Territory, where diverted water, altered records and local knowledge point in different directions. As her camera gives her confidence faster than truth, the search tests her bond with Dr. Almira Keene and who gets to control incomplete evidence.

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03 OF 05 · STANDALONE STORY

Six Calls Before Morning

In rain-soaked Vancouver, six women at the Night Owl answering service face a dead police sergeant, a running recorder and a switchboard that will not stop lighting up. Before morning, every call tightens the pressure around what they know, what they owe one another and what the city expects them to surrender.

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04 OF 05 · STANDALONE STORY

The House Rule

Las Vegas, 1960. While Ocean’s 11 is being filmed along the Strip, a skilled female card dealer is welcome before the cameras but barred from the casino tables. Her lover discovers the record behind that hypocrisy and must decide whether knowing the truth is enough.

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05 OF 05 · STANDALONE STORY

Written in Blue

At a postwar Hollywood studio, stenographer Adelaide Bennett slips a private account of a vanished love into a script routed to film editor Beatrice Malloy. As pages marked in blue travel through a workplace built to erase women’s contributions, discovery risk opens the possibility of being known by another woman.

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THE FICTION

She understands the evidence before the room does.

Evelyn Marie Shantz writes contemporary women’s fiction, historical fiction and psychological suspense about women whose knowledge, desire and work matter.

Evelyn Marie ShantzEVELYN MARIE SHANTZ

THE AUTHOR

Evelyn Marie Shantz

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Contemporary women’s fiction about women, for women, with historical fiction and psychological suspense.

Her published books include The Six Days Before, Timberline Road and The Last Solos. No Angel Came: Five Stories is forthcoming December 25, 2026.

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Stop Killing Her for Heat

A dead queer woman is not automatically a serious story. Sometimes the writer only wanted a wound and an easy motive.

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