Heather Balog

A missing teenage boy. Three friends who know what happened. A secret they swear never to tell. Until the secret comes back to haunt them...thirty years later.Jack, Matt, Cassie, and Lisa are four friends growing up on "The Edge", a cul-de-sac in the 80s. The alpha male, the lucky one, the goody-two shoes, and the glamorous hottie that all the boys want. On the outside, they seem to have it all. Yet inside, the teens are shattered in pieces. It is their unbreakable friendship with each other that prevents them from falling apart. Until the one night when tragedy is set forth into motion by their actions, leaving one of the four dead...and missing. The remaining three swear to never speak of that night again...or to each other. They go their separate ways, hoping to bury their mistakes and the past.Thirty years later, one of the friends gets an ominous message. Someone is digging into their past and threatening to expose their secret. Who is it and what do they really want? Is their secret the only thing that isn't safe, or are their lives in danger, too?

I just knew something would go wrong if the whole family went on vacation-I had a sixth sense about it. A week of fun in the sun at an all-inclusive resort on the beach should be a relaxing time for the whole family, right? Not for the Maxwell family.Because prepping for a family vacation as a mom is akin to Chinese Water Torture, I find myself dreaming of a solo vacation before the wheels of the plane even touch down on the runway. The kids are begging to upgrade our WiFi package, I've discovered that I can't seem to get away from Jason Collins, and Roger's acting suspicious. To top it all off, I've been noticing there are unsavory characters at the resort that immediately set off my Mom radar.Unable to stop myself from snooping, I stumble upon another mystery, one that involves a half-naked man with a palm leaf covering his nether regions, and Roger and I in serious danger of being filleted with his spear.

Amy Maxwell still hasn't caught up on laundry, her daughter Allie is still acting like a rebellious teen (and schooling her younger sister in that art), the two boys are still causing her to rip her hair out by the roots with their antics, and her husband Roger is STILL sitting in his arm chair uselessly engrossed in a reality show marathon. To add to her already mounting stress, Amy has decided to go back to school to get a degree Yeah, yeah...she's GLUTTON for punishment. And so Amy's new quest for a career in law enforcement, coupled with the Seven Deadly sins, puts Amy in a position she's never been before...the back of a trunk, bound and gagged. That's right...Wrath, Greed, Lust, Sloth, Envy, Pride, and Gluttony are the reason she's in her current predicament. And what's more, they're not all her sins, but the sins of everyone else around her including her oh so perfect sister, Beth. Find out how the Seven Deadly Sins lead Amy into a tangled web of mistakes and missteps (and the trunk of a Chevy) in this hilarious sequel to "The 8 Mistakes of Amy Maxwell".

Suspicious neighbors. Drug ring rumors. A nosy mom erring on the side of fantasy. It's a recipe for disaster...or untimely death.Stress? Amy Maxwell's got stress all right. She has four kids, a husband who's allergic to housework, crusted applesauce on her yoga pants, and hasn't met a meal that she can't burn in under five minutes flat. Amy's exhausted and dissatisfied with her life, feeling like she's a disappointment to everyone-her kids, her husband, and most of all, herself.To relieve her stress, Amy finds herself fantasizing about everything from the hot pool boy next door to her daughter being switched at birth. It's harmless, she thinks. That is until Jason, a very sexy forty-something moves in across the street, and Amy finds her wild imagination has gone feral. Something about Jason and his family sparks suspicion in Amy, and she launches a full-scale investigation into their origins and activities. That's when Amy and her thirteen-year-old daughter Allie stumble upon the body of another neighbor, shot in her living room. Before she knows what hit her, Amy is thrown together with Jason in the most unpredictable way. She tries desperately to halt her fantasies and deny her underlying attraction toward him as this who-done-it mystery slowly unfolds. Amy soon realizes that not only was her nosiness a mistake, it's also a mistake to trust anyone...two grave errors that just might be the death of her.

Shannon Clayton is 35 year old woman with a troubled past. When she tries to kill herself on her wedding day, her fianc commits her to a mental hospital. Her psychiatrist is the best in her field, but Shannon will not speak to her. She will only communicate through letters. The doctor needs a new perspective on Shannon's tormented soul, so she calls on Kathryn. Kathryn is Shannon's twin sister who wants nothing to do with her. But she can't turn her back on her sister because she is drawn to the letters Shannon has written for some inexplicable reason. She is drawn to her sister's misery no matter how hard she fights it. Why can't she turn away? What is it about Shannon that makes it impossible for Kathryn to ignore? It's a secret they share, that only the letters will reveal.