Mary Elizabeth Fricke

Mary Elizabeth Fricke

Mary Elizabeth Fricke has lived her entire life within five miles of the Missouri River. She and her husband of 44 years have lived 40 of those years on a farm that has been consistently owned and operated by his family for five generations. They have two grown sons, married to wonderful women, and two beautiful grandchildren.

A graduate of the Writer's Institute of America and a member of the Heartland Writers Guild, she has published a number of articles in various forums and magazines.  She is also a prolific ghostwriter.

Her stories, based in rural mid-western areas, concern the unique but quickly vanishing way of life on the family farm as well as other mysterious intricacies that evolve life from generation to generation. Romance is her preferred genre.

Shattered Image

By: Mary Elizabeth Fricke

As a child she was called 'Betsy'.  In college, she became 'Liz' and 'Elizabeth' as a woman of independent means ─or so she portrayed herself to others. The image of the child often taunted as 'the convict's daughter' to the woman known as 'the ice queen' was shattered in the realization that no matter what the name, what the image, underneath it all, everyone was not who others believed them to be. Especially not those she loved the most.

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Birds In Peril Complete Series

By: Mary Elizabeth Fricke

Five women met, fell in love with and married men who aided the arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Sheldon Humsler. Even though the events that disrupted their lives, did not necessarily involve Humsler, they certainly invoked the conviction that one day Humsler would find a way to enact his revenge. All of these women and the men they married are in some way closely connected to Humsler’s arch enemies, Benton Cromwell, T.J. Harvester, and Thad Hunt. Because of Humsler, Benton Cromwell’s life and livelihood have become so precarious that he now lives as an invalid on borrowed time.  However, his friends, T.J. Harvester and Thad Hunt, continue to grow in family, and in deed. Both ...
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