B T Gottfred

Athena West is West of Love, West of Danger, and WEST OF DEATH----------------------------------------A Crazy Cozy Murder Mystery sends a Snarky Sleuth diving into Deadly Drama, Bitter Betrayals, and Fatal Flirtation----------------------------------------"Ms. West, are you confessing you had more than one motive to kill Ms. Diaz?"I wasn't very good at this. Jotted down my first notes on the yellow notepad. About Elizabeth. About Detective Blue's mustache. Then drew flowers with big petals. I like drawing flowers. Though I was about as good at drawing flowers as I was at feigning innocence."Ms. West, what are you writing down?""You can call me Athena." (Was I flirting with him? I was. I'm the type of person that believes you can meet your soul mate at anytime, anywhere. Why eliminate the possibility of true love just because the circumstances were not ideal or the timing was bad?)"Ms. West."(The timing of meeting Detective Blue definitely wasn't great... and the circumstances probably couldn't be worse.)"Did you kill Elizabeth Diaz?""I mean... sorta?"

A NOVEL ABOUT THE VERY REAL SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL PURPOSE____________________________________________________________My parents took me to get a puppy the day they told us they were getting divorced. At the shelter, I picked out a half-shepherd, half-chow. Black coat with a brown mane. She looked like she had lion blood. I named her Flame. She died when I was twelve. Tumors no one knew were there until it was too late. The day Flame died was the day I stopped believing in God. It was also the day I became obsessed with finding something new to believe in.

A NOVEL ABOUT THE VERY REAL SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL PURPOSE____________________________________________________________My parents took me to get a puppy the day they told us they were getting divorced. At the shelter, I picked out a half-shepherd, half-chow. Black coat with a brown mane. She looked like she had lion blood. I named her Flame. She died when I was twelve. Tumors no one knew were there until it was too late. The day Flame died was the day I stopped believing in God. It was also the day I became obsessed with finding something new to believe in.

When Carolina and Trevor meet on their first day of school, something draws them to each other. They gradually share first kisses, first touches, first everythings. When they're together, nothing else matters. But one of them will make a choice, and the other a mistake, that will break what they thought was unbreakable. Both will wish they could fall in love again for the first time-but first love, by definition, can't happen twice.Told in Carolina's and Trevor's alternating voices, this is an up-close-and-personal story of two teenagers falling in love for the first time ... and discovering it might not last forever.

When Carolina and Trevor meet on their first day of school, something draws them to each other. They gradually share first kisses, first touches, first everything's. When they're together, nothing else matters. But one of them will make a choice, and the other a mistake that will break what they thought was unbreakable. Both will wish that they could fall in love again for the first time ...but first love, by definition, can't happen twice. Told in Carolina's and Trevor's alternating voices, this is an up-close-and-personal story of two teenagers falling in love for the first time, and discovering it might not last forever.