Book Tour: Up The Creek

 

Up the Creek: A Florida Eco-Mystery by Shelley Marsh

About Up The Creek

 

Up the Creek: A Florida Eco-Mystery Mystery Stand Alone Setting - Florida Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sibylline Digital First Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 2, 2026 Print length ‏ : ‎ 300 pages Digital ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8897409136 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0H79D1LLY Paperback ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8897409143 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0HF1GB458

In the Florida marshlands, Amanda finds herself in a fight that’s personal, political, and deadly

After losing her research grant, marine botanist Amanda Wright returns to her Florida hometown and takes a job at her family’s eco-tour business. But the quiet marshlands she once loved are under threat from a flashy new resort and a suspicious rezoning effort on protected land. Then a fellow scientist dies under mysterious circumstances, and a rare aquatic plant is found that may hold the key to stopping development.

As buried secrets come to light and her long-absent mother resurfaces with regrets of her own, Amanda must decide what kind of person and protector she wants to be.

A suspenseful, emotionally layered mystery set against a lush coastal backdrop, Up the Creek explores the fragile balance between progress and preservation, and one woman’s determination to defend the place she still calls home.

Praise for Up the Creek

“Sharp writing, a clever mystery, entertaining characters, and the tropical Florida setting will entice readers to pay more than one visit to author Marsh’s Mysteries.” —Ellen Byron, author of the Golden Motel Mystery series

About Shelley Marsh

Shelley Marsh is the author of the Estate Sale Mysteries, including Dying to Live Here, More Than She Bargained For, and Everything Must Go. She writes character-driven mysteries set along Florida’s coast, where community ties, hidden motives, and shifting loyalties shape the story. With Up the Creek, she expands into eco-mystery, blending environmental conflict with political intrigue and emotional stakes. When she’s not writing, she can often be found exploring the beaches and marshlands that inspire her fiction. She lives and writes in coastal North Florida.

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Teaser: The Last Holiday Home

🌲𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋 🌲

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 by USA Today bestselling author Ginger Scott releases on December 1st.  Check out this teaser! 

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What to expect: 

❤️ Former Crush

🎄 Small-Town Christmas Romance

🏡 Coming Home for the Holidays

✨ Forced Proximity

❤️‍🩹 Healing Together

🎭 Saving the Community Theater

BLURB:

Sometimes falling apart is the only way to find your way home.

When I return home to Middleton for the holidays, everyone assumes it’s just a temporary stop before I launch my big-city journalism career. They don't know about the cheating ex who stole my dream job at The Times, or that I’ve secretly dropped out of school to work at our small-town paper. Defeated and desperate to protect my pride, I vow to keep my secrets locked tight through the holidays. No need to be everyone’s Scrooge. 

Then I run into Zack Cooper. Former high school star quarterback, local golden boy, and the one who got away, Zack is back in town trying to figure out his own path after a life-altering knee injury. And when we start talking, I get the feeling he’s just as lost as I am. 

When my younger sister needs help saving the town’s beloved community theater, and, by extension, her starring role in the holiday play, Zack and I are pulled back into each other’s orbits. Long days turn into longer nights spent working side by side, and soon, old sparks begin to flicker, then burn. 

But I should know better than to believe in second chances. Just when I start to feel hope, a blast from my past and the small-town rumor mill step in to dash it. With the clock ticking toward New Year's Eve, Zack and I must decide if we're willing to heal from our pasts to build a future together, or if this is really our last Christmas home.

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Teaser: Holiday Spirit

🌲𝕋𝔼𝔸𝕊𝔼ℝ ℝ𝔼𝕍𝔼𝔸𝕃 🌲

𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓 by Amber Kelly releases on November 12th. Check out this teaser! 

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What to expect:

🏔️ Haunted Mountain Resort

👻 Meddling Ghost

🎿 Sexy Ski Instructor

✍️ Romance Author FMC

❄️ Forced Proximity

❤️ She’s Sworn Off Love

Blurb: 

I’m supposed to be taking a break.

After five years of writing contemporary romance on a relentless release schedule, I’m burned out. My last two books have barely made a ripple, and for the first time in my career, I’m not sure I have another love story in me. So when my agent offers me a secluded stay at the luxurious Belicourt Resort in the Teton Mountains, I’m ready to say yes.

The resort’s general manager, Porter Garrison, wants me to write the story of the Belicourt’s most famous resident: The Lady in Red, a mysterious spirit who has supposedly haunted the hotel for decades. But the project offers something more—a chance to step outside my genre and create an entirely new series. Maybe it’s exactly what I need to fall in love with writing again.

Then Gaige Keaver gets in the way.

The ridiculously sexy ski instructor has a habit of appearing whenever I’m trying to work—and making it nearly impossible to remember why I swore off men, romance, and happily-ever-afters. And the Lady in Red seems determined to meddle in my life, too, leaving clues to her own mysterious past and somehow nudging Gaige and me closer together.

Soon, I’m not sure whether I’m writing the Lady in Red’s love story…or living one of my own.

Maybe I came to the Belicourt to find my next story.

Maybe I came to find my happily-ever-after.

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Teaser: Smoke Ring

✨TEASER: SMOKE RING by @authormaggiegates releasing December 1st!  

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Why you will love this book…

🎁Best Friends to Lovers

🌲Fake Engagement

🎁Golden Retriever MMC

🌲Reverse Grumpy Sunshine 

🎁Childhood Crushes

🌲Holiday Romance

For as long as I could remember, Eloise Lawson had been my girl.

Growing up in a quaint North Carolina beach town, the two of us were inseparable. Ellie and I were thick as thieves. But with our last names came pressure and responsibility.

At eighteen, we went our separate ways, but we never lost each other. The two of us shared a bond that couldn’t be broken—not even by distance or decades.

But when Ellie returns to our small town under a smokescreen of scandal and secrets, our past might be the only thing that can salvage the life she's worked so hard to build.

I’ve never kissed her, but now I’m calling her my fiancée. Our engagement is the headline of Page Six.

Ellie was my first friend. My first crush. My first love.

I would do anything to be hers forever.

The question is: will the girl of my dreams finally become my wife? Or will the weight of our names drag us down?

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Best friends to lovers? Check. Fake engagement? Yes, please. The son of a millionaire and the daughter of a billionaire wrapped up in small-town romance? Absolutely. Smoke Ring is the long-awaited romance between Giovanni DeRossi and Eloise Lawson.

This book is a complete standalone and is not part of the Beaufort Poker Club series.

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Teaser: When The Sun Sets

✨TEASER:  WHEN THE SUN SETS by @sheabrightonauthor releasing December 1st!

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You will love When the Sun Sets if you love… 

🔥Small Town

🔥Second Chance at First Love

🔥Forced Proximity

🔥Workplace Romance

🔥Immediate Re-Attraction

🔥Sex for Closure

🔥Chef MMC

🔥Large tight-knit family

I never thought I'd see my first love again...let alone have her back in my bed.

 

The Henley legacy is built on blood and family. Unfortunately, I'm not blood. This wild dream of ours—to make our property a destination—is all that matters. Not my place in the family and certainly not love. I had my shot.

 

I never expected the woman heading our project to be the girl who drove off our mountain and never looked back. Ivy Booker had been my friend, my confidant, my girlfriend…my everything. Then she broke my heart. Now she’s back and in my kitchen every day.

 

Fifteen years should have changed things between us…and they did. I wanted her even more. The kids who reveled in first love were gone. In their place were adults who couldn’t deny the attraction between them and, quite frankly, didn’t want to.

 

Closure, that’s what we agreed on. Because Ivy’s future isn’t in Henley Falls and mine isn’t anywhere else.

 

So why did it feel like this second chance was one I needed to take?

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Teaser: Wrath

✨TEASER: WRATH by @devonmccormack releasing December 4th! 

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You will love Wrath if you like…

⚡️MM Romance

⚡️Paranormal Romance

⚡️Double Bi-awakening

⚡️Friends-to-Lovers

⚡️Hurt/Comfort

⚡️Spicy Magic

⚡️Third in Series

⚡️Queer Witch Covens

⚡️Fighting Evil Entities

PRESTON

We call ourselves the Saints, but we were the bad guys.

Or I guess the real bad guy was the entity—the one that made us do horrible, unspeakable things to each other.

We were tortured.

Terrorized.

Abused.

Some of it was sex magic. Some of it was just perverse.

Finn got the worst of it.

I know because my body did it to him.

When we were put through the nightmare, we would cling to one another in our minds.

I saw his strength, his resilience.

His darkest secrets and fears.

He saw mine too.

Now we’re free, and after what happened, we should never want to touch again, but touching is the only thing that can soothe the pain, keep the trauma at bay.

Maybe it’s just the magic, but I don’t give a damn.

If this is the end of the world, I’m spending what’s left of it in his arms.

In his beautiful mind.

* For adventurous readers who want to dive right in or those who’ve been reading in order and want a quick refresh, the beginning of this book will contain a recap of the previous two installments. Since Wrath is not intended to be read as a standalone, it’s best to start with book one.

CW: During the book’s preorder period, the complete CW can be viewed via the author’s website. Upon publication, it will be listed at the start of the book.

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