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Mustang Ridges isn't a town, a stripper, or some old western movie. She's a feisty, single mom living in the small town of Lakeside, Texas where money does buy happiness and keeping up appearances is much more important than the truth. Six months ago on her thirtieth birthday, her husband decided that married life, fatherhood, and his job as the Lakeside Chief of Police weren't as exciting as a permanent vacation to Grand Cayman with his mistress and a million dollars in diamonds he stole from the police evidence lockup.Mustang is a pariah in a Lakeside full of piranha. But she refuses to leave-this is her home, and she figures that if she can't join them, then she'll beat them at their own game. With a little luck, some intimidation, and the help of her good friends Monica and Haley, Mustang presides over her own little slice of Lakeside, the Bee Creek Elementary Parent Teacher Organization.All is quiet in Lakeside until Molly Miars, the kindergarten teacher, is found dead. According to the new police chief, she overdosed on heroin. That doesn't explain why her head was the only body part to make it to her funeral. Mustang and her fellow PTOers don't buy the heroin overdose for a second.Vowing to do right by Molly, the PTO decides to investigate.Quickly they find that Lakeside isn't the quiet, sleepy town it appears to be. There is a dark side-money laundering and drug trafficking. When Mustang's name turns up on a contract killer's hit list, things go from bad to worse. Can she and the PTO stay alive long enough to find out who killed Molly Miars?

From International Bestselling Author Katie Graykowski comes a love story about friendship, laughter, and Louisiana politics. Charlotte Guidry, Charlie, is Louisiana royalty. Her ancestor, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne De Bienville, settled New Orleans and someone from her family has been running either the city or the state ever since. Her father, The Honorable Thaddeus Thibodaux governor of the great state of Louisiana, is up for reelection and Charlie is in charge of his campaign.Wagner Scott will do anything to help his candidate, Jerome Breaux, win the governorship including wining and dining the competition's campaign manager. It certainly isn't a hardship taking Charlie Guidry out on the town, in fact, he's enjoying this assignment. He's never met a woman quite like Charlie. She's anything but dull. Soon, she comes to mean more to him than just a means to an end. He has feelings for her.Can he sacrifice everything he believes in for love? Can she forgive him?Fans of Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Rachel Gibson won't want to miss this story full of laughter, love, and ranching.

From International Bestselling Author Katie Graykowski comes a love story about fate, fame, and football.Coco Robbins has spent the last fifteen years falling out of love with Seth Charming. What started out as a schoolgirl crush, grew into a full-fledged fantasy. Too bad, he had no idea she even existed. Now as an orthopedic surgeon who's spent the last four years working with Doctors Without Borders, she ran halfway around the world to get away from Seth only to find herself right back where she started.Seth Charming is the quarterback of the Super Bowl winning Texas Lone Stars. He has the world at his feet, several women at his side, and all the fame and fortune he could ever want. Only something's missing. He wants a family. Unfortunately, he has yet to meet the right woman.When Coco Robbins strolls back into Seth's life, he knows immediately that she's the one he's been waiting for ... only now he has to convince her that she's in love with him.

From International Bestselling Author Katie Graykowski comes a love story about love, laughter, and ranching. Rosie Gomez is an event planner with a wedding to plan and nothing or no one will stand in her way. She has moved into a cottage at the Texas Rose Ranch, but ranch life doesn't really suit her. Her high heels sink into the mud, her cell phone only works in one square foot of the cottage, there are mosquitos the size of VW Beetles, and Dallas Rose-third son of the Texas Rose Ranch-treats her like she has the plague. She can't wait to get back to Austin.Dallas Rose can't get Rosie Gomez out of his mind. She's a straight-talking city-girl who doesn't belong on the ranch, but somehow, she fits right in. The minute he laid eyes on her, he knew she was the girl for him. Unfortunately, whenever he sees her, his mouth stops working.Can he convince her to take a chance on love and make the ranch her home?Fans of Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Rachel Gibson won't want to miss this story full of laughter, love, and ranching.

From International Bestselling Author Katie Graykowski comes a story about love, laughter, and stiletto boots.Hope Cross is back in the one place she'd vowed never to return ... Roseville, Texas. Her life hasn't exactly gone as planned. As soon as she turned eighteen, she'd headed to Hollywood to become a movie star. Unfortunately, the only films she'd gotten to make were of the adult variety. Thank God, she'd stayed behind the camera as the script supervisor. Now at twenty-nine, she's broke and moving back in with her mother. Her only vocational options are waitressing at the Roseville Caf during the day and tending bar at The Dirty Dozen bar at night. She keeps telling herself that she can stand this one-horse town long enough to save up money to move anywhere else. And, she flat-out refuses to acknowledge that she's still in love with Worth Rose.Fort Worth Rose is a man of few words. He loves Jesus, family, ranching, football, cold beer, and Hope Cross. His one regret in life is that he broke her heart. If he could only find her, he'd love to make it up to her. The last he'd heard, she moved to California and never looked back. When he walks into the Roseville Caf and runs right into her, ice tea explodes down the front of his shirt, chicken fried steak and gravy slide down his pants, and Hope lands squarely on her bottom right in front of him. His whole world turns bright and shiny.He's going to make it up to her whether she likes it or not.Will she forgive him?Or will she punch him in the gut and run away like she did last time?Fans of Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Rachel Gibson won't want to miss this story.

From International Bestselling author Katie Graykowski comes a hilarious tale of love, laughter, and a high velocity potato cannon.The last thing Susie Sweet expected to find while out for her early morning run was a movie star. But when she comes across a stranded motorist and knocks on the driver's door to offer help, she finds herself staring into the caramel-colored eyes of Hollywood's favorite romcom leading man, Dane Bennett.Dane needs time away from the filming of his latest movie. His passion for photography takes him way out into the central Texas countryside, but a tire blowout leaves him with no choice but to wait for the kindness of whoever should happen along.The zip of attraction that shoots up Dane's arm when he shakes Susie's hand is nothing he's ever felt before. Susie isn't prepared, either, for the chemistry that sings between them. Things get serious, fast. But Dane's life in Los Angeles can't be put on hold forever.Can they trust each other enough to make a long-distance relationship work? Will his career get in the way of his happiness? Will she ever show him the secret to the perfect potato cannon?Fans of Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Rachel Gibson won't want to miss this laugh out loud funny book.

Christmas, Texas has as much magic as it has charm and only reveals itself to those who need it. The town was settled 1820 by the original Winter Texan, Santa Claus. He kissed the snowy North Pole goodbye and moved his whole operation to the sunny Texas Hill Country where there are never blizzard warnings and the only thing icy is his iced tea.When Lana Green crashes her car into the Welcome-to-Christmas-Texas-you're-not-lost-you're-exactly-where-you're-supposed-to-be, sign she doesn't necessarily agree with the town slogan. She was on her way to Fredericksburg for a business meeting when she got lost in a thunderstorm. Since she has no intention of sleeping in her car during a thunderstorm and she has zero cell reception, she pulls her suitcase out of the trunk and marches toward town. When it comes to hating Christmas, she could give Ebenezer Scrooge a run for his money so visiting Christmas, Texas the week before Christmas is bound to be a lesson in torture.Sheriff Nick Van De Berg is out on patrol when he runs across a Lexus wrapped around the Welcome sign. But the car's empty. Surely the driver didn't walk to town through the thunderstorm. As the storm gathers in intensity, so does his fear that something bad has happened to the driver. After checking the fast-swelling river, lower water crossings, and every single road in town, he stops by the Christmas Tree Inn where he finds Lana Green, his college sweetheart and the one that got away, sipping a mug of hot chocolate.His Christmas wish every year since they broke up has been a second chance with Lana. Now his wish has finally come true.Can he convince Lana to take a chance on him and on Christmas, Texas?

When Mustang Ridges receives a severed penis in the mail, she knows it's going to be a bad day. She's sure there's a body to go along with the penis, but she can't find it.While on the hunt for the owner of the penis, she stumbles across a dead body. It's Jane Dough, a substitute teacher at Lakeside Elementary. The Lakeside Elementary PTO is on the case. It appears that Jane might have been a prostitute who supplemented her income with a little substitute teaching on the side. After vowing to vet substitute teachers more carefully, Mustang and her two best friends go head-to-head with Davina Hasselhoff who runs the local brothel.Deep in her heart, Mustang knows that she shouldn't shop at a yard sale outside of a brothel, but she can't help herself. They are selling all of Jane Dough's things. She's hoping for a clue, but all she gets is a concussion and a mummified finger.What do a severed penis, a dead body, a brothel, and a mummified finger have in common? Mustang must figure it out before the killer sends her another body part.