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Named sole heir to her aunt's estate, Charity Gannon arrives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, hoping to find a link to her past. She's not looking for lost treasures; she is searching for a connection to the aunt she barely knew.What she finds is a thirty-something-year-old mystery and questions with no answers. A sad, secluded cottage, all but hidden amid the vines. A man's suit of clothes, tainted with dried blood and a bullet hole. Four forgotten boxes, stuffed into a large bag and buried in the far corners of the shed.These are not just any boxes. These are unopened, undelivered boxes, left behind by the now-defunct Kingdom Parcel. All four boxes are marked March 14, 1984... the very day her uncle, president and driver for the delivery service, was said to have committed suicide. Four forgotten boxes, whose owners might still be out there, waiting for a delivery that never arrived.The undelivered boxes haunt Charity, tugging on her conscience. Hadn't someone noticed them missing? Hadn't anyone wondered about the failed delivery? Thinking it might be fun to surprise the recipients after all these years, Charity sets out to deliver the packages to their rightful owners. Along the way, one of the love stories she discovers is her own. Fate throws her into the sturdy arms of Tarn Danbury, a burly sugarmaker with eyes as beautiful as the mountain pond from which he was named, and a voice as smooth and rich as the dark syrup he produces. The story behind one box is delightful. Another is heartbreaking.And one might very well be the death of her.
ER Nurse Laurel Bennett is fully dedicated to her job. She may be petite, but she'll take on any behemoth who threatens her patients' safety and well-being. Her feisty protectiveness creates problems when police detective Cade Resnick comes around, investigating a hit and run. There's no denying the sparks between these two professionals, but now is hardly the time to explore their attraction to one another. Laurel befriends a desperate mother and her teenage son, but soon finds herself drawing unwanted attention from a local loan shark. As Cade zeroes in on his suspect, Laurel won't make it easy for him, not while the suspect is under her care. More than once, the two clash when Cade's quest for justice collides with Laurel's concern for her patients.Come along on the start of a new series and meet the staff and professionals that give the hospital its heart. There's never a dull moment at Texas General Hospital, or in the lively college town of College Station, Texas. A fresh approach to quick cozy reads, some dedicated to mystery, some to romance. Welcome to Texas General Cozy Cases
When an asthma patient under Laurel Benson's care dies, the ER nurse quickly realizes it wasn't of natural causes. Faint bruising around the neck indicates the woman was strangled, right there in the recovery room Always a champion for her patients, the headstrong nurse is determined to find out who's to blame and how they got past her watchful eye. The hospital is keeping the cause of death under wraps lest the media gets wind of it, especially when evidence points to it being an inside job. Knowing a killer walks among them is stressful enough, but Laurel's stress skyrockets when someone breaks into her home and ransacks the old Craftsman. Oddly enough, the only thing taken is her sense of peace and security.Given their so-called 'relationship, ' Detective Cade Resnick is barred from handling the case. Worse, he's pre-occupied with another high-profile murder that pulls him away from her side. Laurel doesn't bother telling him about the other odd occurrences around her house, or about the second break-in. And she'll go to any lengths to avoid 'the talk' he insists is long overdue. Those, she knows, never go well.With suspects around every gurney, danger in her own house, and twists she never sees coming, Laurel has her hands full with A Case of Strangulation by a Stranger, Book 3 of Texas General Cozy Cases of Mystery.From the best-selling author of The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series and Forgotten Boxes.
She's changed her name. She's changed her life. She's moved away from everyone she's ever cared about. But he's going to find her . . . Sara is content to live a quiet life, living alone in her rambling old farmhouse in the sleepy Texas countryside. Her forever home. Then there's a knock at her door. It's a police detective. An escaped prisoner is on the loose. Convicted killer Thomas Barnard has been sighted just a few miles away. "If you see this man, do not open your door," he warns. Sara's peaceful little town is suddenly swarming with cops, reporters and television cameras. But it's not the escaped prisoner that frightens Sara the most. Her biggest fear is that he might find her here - in the one place on earth she thought she was safe. As storm clouds gather, a lethally dangerous man makes his way purposefully towards Sara's farmhouse. He's getting closer . . . but what is it he really wants? Sara is about to face a nightmare beyond her worst imagining . . .
Latest book in the Award-Winning The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series Madison Reynolds can't wait for Christmas this year. Rebuilding her life as a single mom hasn't been easy, but after a challenging twelve months, she's excited about the holidays. She and her twins have settled quite nicely here in The Sisters, renovations on the house are complete, her business is slowly growing, and, best of all, Chief of Police Brash deCordova is in her life. Visions of the perfect Christmas dance in her head. The tinsel begins to tangle when someone targets the community for a series of 'Christmas Crimes.' Homes are broken into and wrapped gifts are stolen from beneath trees. Even vehicles loaded with presents aren't safe, particularly on a lone stretch of highway. Things like this just don't happen in Naomi and Juliet. Torn between solving the rash of burglaries and shutting down the gambling ring that's active in the area again, Brash does the only thing he can: he hires In a Pinch to help with the investigation. Finding the common link between cases is like finding the bad bulb on a string of lights. Every lead is a short circuit. The frustration mounts when Madison and the Angel Tree she's involved with fall victim to the crimes. Only the worst kind of Grinch steals from needy children Brash has plans of his own for the perfect Christmas. With the help of a new jewelry store, he thinks he's found just the right gift for Madison, until the Grinch strikes again. This wasn't the surprise he had in mind. Ready or not, Christmas is on its way, and time is running out to create the holiday of their dreams. As the house fills with unexpected guests, Madison and the twins honor favorite traditions from the past while creating a few new ones of their own. Who has time for being kidnapped by men in Santa suits and bad beards? This is one Christmas that no one in The Sisters will ever forget
Things in The Sisters are heating up, and Madison Reynolds is in the hot seat.When a local woman dies in a most unconventional way, In a Pinch takes on the quirky case and once again, Maddy finds herself in the middle of a would-be murder investigation. Even with the help of her grandmother and best friend Genny, this case may be too hot to handle. As summer scorches its way across Texas, drama as thick as the August humidity rolls through the twin towns of Juliet and Naomi. Granny Bert reveals a secret that rocks Maddy's foundation. A celebrity designer joins the renovation crew at the Big House, bringing twice the chaos and twice the fans. Madison's estranged mother-in-law convinces the twins to spend the summer with her in Dallas. As if all of that isn't enough to wreak havoc in Madison's life, Barry Redmond continues to propagate his ridiculous grudge against her. Things really start smoking when Cutter's grandfather, rodeo legend Sticker Pierce, returns to The Sisters and tries to rekindle a romance with old flame Belle, aka Granny Bert. And Maddy's latest brush with death prompts Brash to finally make his move. With renovations almost complete and the love of a good man behind her, Maddy is ready to tell the world: I'm home again, and starting over. Don't miss Book Four in the award-winning The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series.
Named Best Mystery Series of 2016 & 2017 by the Association of Texas Authors. Life comes with stipulations.If you want to fit into last year's swimsuit, you can't eat ice cream and a Gennydoodle cookie after every meal.If you want to go to Heaven, you can't raise Hell on Saturday night and show up in the church pew on Sunday morning, hungover and reeking of cheap perfume.And if you want your hundred-year-old mansion completely updated and remodeled for free, you have to sacrifice.Stipulations, my child.-Granny Bert CessnaNow that Madison Reynolds has agreed to be part of a reality-television home remodeling show, she barely recognizes her own life. The show is an instant success, bringing cameras and reporters right to her doorstep, eager to chronicle her every move in the small Texas town. With In a Pinch Temporary Services hovering on the thin line between prosperity and extinction, Madison takes on another quirky case, this one concerning a property dispute. Complications turn a simple mission into all-out danger, and once again Madison finds herself embroiled in an intriguing mystery. Between her cantankerous grandmother, a moody teenage daughter, an ever-starving son, townspeople eager to grab their fifteen minutes of fame at her expense, and a mother-in-law appalled by her undignified foray into the public eye, Madison had her hands full, long before the skeleton was discovered. Now work is interrupted at the Big House, ghost stories abound, more secret passages have been unearthed, and someone is trying to scare her away from her new home. What she needs is another session of Brash deCordova's unique 'river therapy'... not to mention the kiss that eludes them with frustrating regularity. What she gets is another round of stipulations and complications.
Named 2016 Best Mystery Series by Texas Association of Authors. When Madison Reynolds finds herself widowed and penniless before forty, she does the only thing she knows to do - she packs up her teenage twins and moves back home with her eighty-year-old grandmother. Life in The Sisters, Texas has not changed much since she's been gone, but at least her best friend Genesis is there to soften the transition back into small-town life. To make ends meet, Madison opens In a Pinch Temporary Services. Her first real client is Ronny Gleason, but when she shows up for the first day of work at the Gleason Poultry Farm, Madison makes a gruesome discovery. The dead body she finds belongs to Mr. Gleason. When a local man is arrested for murder, Madison takes on the job of proving his innocence. Even though she is not a private investigator, both mothers are desperate: Lucy Ngyen to clear her son's name, and Madison to pay her bills. But as she begins asking questions around town, her interference is not welcome. With a daughter determined to go back to Dallas, a son settling into small town life, a feisty grandmother who knows all the town gossip, bill collectors calling, and now someone trying to keep her silent, Madison has no time for re-kindling her high school crush with police chief Brash deCordova. She has her hands full just trying to stay alive. If she survives her amateur investigation, Maddy has a decision to make. Will she go back to her life in Dallas, or will she build a new life here in The Sisters?
Madison Reynolds is rebuilding her life, one obstacle at a time. But the building blocks aren't standard issue: widowed at thirty-nine...betrayed by her late husband...mother of teenaged twins...finances in shambles...living with her eighty-year-old grandmother...still attracted to her teenage crush Brash deCordova, who just happens to be the Chief of Police in The Sisters...embroiled in yet another murder mystery... How will she ever get all the blocks assembled and stacked one upon another, in order to build a future for herself and her children?Madison's newest client at In a Pinch Temp Service is a suspicious wife, up against a formidable foe-the lovely Caress Ellingsworth, former soap opera queen. When the star is murdered and Madison is eyewitness to the deed, she wonders if the shadowed person she saw commit the crime might really be her client. Now Madison is torn between uncovering the truth and keeping her customer's name off the suspect list. Caress is not the only star in town these days. With a little help from Granny Bert and Madison's best friend Genesis, the popular television show Home Again arrives, with some crazy notion about remodeling the Big House for Maddy and her twins. The problem is, Madison can't afford to buy the house, much less pay to have it renovated. No matter how tempting the offer-or how tempting the show's star, Nick Vilardi-Madison sees it as just another block that will not fit. Even if she manages to stack the blocks in a semblance of order, even if she climbs her way up and reaches for the sky, what happens when the stars fall? Book Two of The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series. Homegrown characters, mystery and romance.
Will a case of mistaken identity be the death of her? Madison Reynolds is looking forward to a few days of rest and relaxation. Her best friend Genny is judging a celebrity bake-off near DC, so it's the perfect opportunity for a girl's getaway. With fun-loving Granny Bert in tow, the trio heads to the very heart of the Intel community. Deep in alphabet soup territory-surrounded by CIA, NSA, FBI and more-it takes only moments for things to go awry. A mix-up at the airport leaves Madison with the wrong luggage, and a last-minute change in accommodations lands them at The Columbia Inn at Peralynna. How can they know its ties to the spy world will soon spin them into its web?Designed as a CIA safe house, the inn has a fascinating history. When it seems a mysterious man in a dark coat is following her, Madison scoffs at her over-action imagination. She's listened to too many spy tales, spun by the innkeeper herself. The stories of espionage and agents are intriguing, but too incredible to be real. The Texans know nothing about secret codes and counterintelligence. They've never heard of The Lilac Code, or the illusive agent-for-hire known simply as Kalypso. Back home in The Sisters, a drama is unfolding that involves Madison's precious twins. She's raised them to do the right thing, no matter the consequence, but will their quest for justice put them in danger? Thrust into impossible situations of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the twins risk everything to save their school, while deep in spy territory, Madison and Genny race against the clock-and the elements-to save Granny Bert's life. The award-winning The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series continues in this exciting Book 7. This is a stand-alone book, but best when enjoyed as a full series experience.
Three ghosts, two sexy men, one murder, and more tricks and turns than the law allows The Grand Opening is set for the Spirits of Texas Inn, and Hannah Duncan has one goal -Go Big, or Go Home To kick off the auspicious event, Hannah brings a Wild West Show to town for opening weekend. It's a lot to tackle during the grand opening, but Hannah is taking a play from her uncle's rule book. JoeJoe always says you never make your mark by playing it safe.When the show's wrangler is found dead before the gates even open, all Hannah's efforts may be in vain. Shelton Long, the farrier caring for the inn's horses--the same man who wants to date the innkeeper--comes to the rescue, offering his expertise at the last moment. The show must go on, but it's not without consequences. When the elusive Goyen makes a surprise appearance, Hannah knows something serious is afoot. The ghostly medicine woman gives her an amulet to ward off evil spirits, but she offers no explanation of where, or who, the evil comes from.Trickery abounds in Book 2 of the lively, fun-loving Spirits of Texas Cozy Mystery Series. BOOK your trip to Hannah, Texas today, and join the excitement--and the danger--of Opening Weekend Team Hannah (Hannah, Walker, Sadie and Fred) are committed to making your visit with them memorable and fun.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Hannah Duncan ignored the old adage, and now there's a would-be killer in town. Hannah considers fishing a peaceful, relaxing sport... until she hosts the 23rd annual Trifishlon at The Spirits of Texas Inn. On the first day of the three-phase fishing tournament, she discovers nothing can be further from the truth It was her bright idea to up the ante: this year's grand champion would take home $10,000 and become the official spokesperson for Luckenbach Poles. It was a huge improvement to the customary prize of one thousand dollars and a cooler full of beer and gear. How was she to know the lengths some people would go to in order to win? She had no idea someone would be willing to kill for the prize. When a series of bizarre accidents plague the competition, Hannah and her team suspect sabotage. Now they have four days to determine who is capable of murder and how to stop him or her from striking again, this time successfully. It's a topsy-turvy, fun, fast-paced adventure you don't want to miss. With help from Team Hannah (handsome attorney Walker Jacoby, the lively gray-haired sisters Sadie and Fred Tanner, and the faithful ghosts who reside at the inn), Hannah races against the clock to keep the tournament and all its contestants afloat. With so much at stake, she discovers exactly what some people do Inn the Spirit of Competition From the best-selling author of The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series, Plain Roots, and Forgotten Boxes. Book your visit to Hannah, Texas today
By all accounts, everyone loves Genny. So why does someone want her dead? There's something special about Genesis Baker, owner of The Sister's popular New Beginnings Caf . With her dimpled smile and twinkling blue eyes, Genny has practically the entire town eating from the palm of her hand. But Genny is hiding a secret. Despite her sunny disposition and golden touch, there is heartache in her past, and heartache, they say, comes in threes. Heartache Number One: An unwelcomed customer shows up at New Beginnings. Apparently, the restraining order against him has lapsed. Heartache Number Two: Genny's arch nemesis from high school returns to town. Twenty years has done nothing to mellow the bitter feud between these two women. Heartache Number Three: As Genny finally acknowledges her feelings for a younger man-sexy firefighter Cutter Montgomery-memories of her first love come back to haunt her. On top of it all, someone is stalking Genny, determined to make her life miserable. As it turns out, being kidnapped is only the beginning of her troubles... Great as a stand-alone cozy mystery, but Book Five of the award winning The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series, voted Best Mystery Series by the Texas Association of Authors, two years in a row
From the author of The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series and Forgotten Boxes, comes an intriguing new book series, the Spirits of Texas Cozy Mysteries. When the tiny hamlet of Hannah, Texas goes up for auction, Hannah Duncan's fun-loving uncle sees it as the perfect gift for her thirtieth birthday. After all, what's more fun than a town bearing your own name? Nestled in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, the 'town' isn't much -- a dozen or less buildings in various stages of disrepair--but it comes with a dedicated pair of caretakers, a menagerie of farm animals, a surprisingly generous trust fund, enough stipulations to make her head spin, and a handsome but maddening attorney to oversee the handling of the estate. Originally a stagecoach stop, Hannah, Texas resolves around the historic and rather charming Spirits of Texas Inn. The old inn comes with a colorful past, the mystique of hidden treasure, loyal guests who still book summer vacations there, and three surprise residents: true spirits of the past, who didn't cross over as expected. Now Hannah has her hands full, coming to terms with her unexpected status as an innkeeper, adjusting to life in the country, fighting her attraction to attorney Walker Jacoby, plus dealing with ghosts To top it off, two fortune hunters arrive to search for the hidden treasure, and they don't care who stands in their way. They'll stoop to any means--including murder--to get their hands on the legendary stash of gold. Don't miss out on the fun, right from the beginning. Book your visit to Hannah, Texas today
Hidden fortune. Not-so-hidden danger.Madison Reynolds deCordova is about to uncover a dangerous secret...literally.During In a Pinch Professional Services' latest gig at an upholstery shop, Madison finds a chair that's perfect for her husband's birthday gift. At least it will be, once she removes the worn velvet. Hiding the chair at Granny Bert's, Madison tackles her first solo upholstery project, but soon discovers more than she bargained for A hidden treasure beneath the cushion puts her in the middle of a new mystery and new danger.The treasure isn't her only problem. While helping a young boy find his lost dog, Madison lands on the wrong side of surly businessman Lamont Andrews. Meanwhile, best friend Genny is worried about one of her caf patrons. Mr. Pruett's wild stories are getting wilder each day, and now he's missing. Plus, there's the matter of a troublesome new habit Maddy seems to have acquired: breaking and entering. It's a harsh term for simply trying to rescue a dog and save an old man.Somehow, she knows it all fits together. But what does a lost dog, a cluttered old barn, Mr. Pruett's disappearance, and a hidden treasure have to do with her chair? Now someone is stalking her and her grandmother, and Madison knows that danger is on its way.As always, The Sisters are full of fun, excitement, family antics, and more danger than the law allows Book Nine of the best-selling and award-winning The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series.