JoAnn Smith Ainsworth received runner-up status for her WWII paranormal suspense novel, Expect Trouble, in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie 
Book Competition. Check out the promo video.
And her latest book, Expect Deception, the second book in the Operation Delphi paranormal suspense series, won a finalist position in the 2016 Best Book awards in the Fiction/Mystery Suspense category.
CONGRATS JoANN!
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth experienced food ration books, Victory Gardens and black-out sirens as a child in WWII. These memories help her create vivid descriptions of time and place, which put you in the middle of the story as a participant in a fast-paced journey through paranormal realms as U.S. psychics hunt down Nazi spies.
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