Kim Garee

Author Bio:

Kim Garee has been working with words all her life: first as a newspaper reporter, then as a high school English teacher, currently as a school librarian, and – most recently – as an author of inspirational fiction. She was inspired during her years covering the Buckeye Lake area to set her first book series in post-World War II Buckeye Lake, Ohio, when it was a thriving amusement park. The first book of that series, Pressed Together, will be released May 1, 2024 through Mt. Zion Ridge Press and offers romance with a twist of suspense. Kim has been married to her husband, Brent (also an educator) for 26 years, and the couple has three children. Kim is also a portrait artist and miniature enthusiast, and she loves to hike and bike with anyone who will go with her.

Pressed Together

World War II is over at last, and the pier amusement park at Buckeye Lake, the “Playground of Ohio,” is lit up, loud, and ready to welcome a summer of better days. The energy of dance hall and roller coaster, though, is disorienting for Sgt. Drew Mathison, weary from battle and trying to track down…