After her grandmother Arlette’s death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs (all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age) in order to care for Arlette in their dilapidated, albeit charming home on the English island of...  more

After her grandmother Arlette’s death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs (all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age) in order to care for Arlette in their dilapidated, albeit charming home on the English island of Guernsey. Her will included a beneficiary unknown to Betty and her family, a woman named Clara Pickle who presumably could be found at a London address. Now, having landed on a rather shabby street corner in ’90s Soho, Betty is determined to find the mysterious Clara. She’s ready for whatever life has to throw her way. Or so she thinks... In 1920s bohemian London, Arlette De La Mare is starting her new life in a time of postwar change. Beautiful and charismatic, she is soon drawn into the hedonistic world of the Bright Young People. But two years after her arrival in London, tragedy strikes and she flees back to her childhood home and remains there for the rest of her life. As Betty navigates the ups and downs of city life and begins working as a nanny for a rock star tabloid magnet, her search for Clara leads her to a man. A stranger to Betty, but someone who meant the world to her grandmother. Will the secrets of Arlette’s past help Betty find her own way to happiness in the present?

For anyone who makes resolutions on January 1st- only to break them all by January 2nd... Leni Lomond isn't one of life's risk-takers.  A creature of habit, she's been stuck in her comfort zone for so long she's practically asleep. So, on December 31st, she vows that...  more

For anyone who makes resolutions on January 1st- only to break them all by January 2nd... Leni Lomond isn't one of life's risk-takers.  A creature of habit, she's been stuck in her comfort zone for so long she's practically asleep. So, on December 31st, she vows that things will be different this year- new job, new man, new life. Less than a month into the New Year, Leni's first resolution is fulfilled when she accepts a job as PA to TV astrologer Zara Delta.  And her new assignment- to date men from every sign of the zodiac- looks like it might just help her with the second. As the year goes by, the men Leni has to date include wannabe rockstar Matt, who sees Leni as his ticket to fame and fortune, overgrown teenager Harry- a man whose idea of a good date is a night at the amusement arcade- and therapist Craig, whose psycho babble is even more of a turn-off than his beard... But just when Leni's ready to give it all up her fortunes take a turn.  Will this year finally be the one in which Leni changes her life- or is her destiny already written in the stars?

Someone is murdering pickleball players in Loon Lake and Sheriff Ferris is on the hunt for their killer... When a local pickleball player is shot in the head while practicing at an abandoned tennis court with his partner-slash-lover, Sheriff Lew Ferris suspects that the bullet was a stray shot...  more

Someone is murdering pickleball players in Loon Lake and Sheriff Ferris is on the hunt for their killer... When a local pickleball player is shot in the head while practicing at an abandoned tennis court with his partner-slash-lover, Sheriff Lew Ferris suspects that the bullet was a stray shot from hunters in the area. It’s not until a second player–the first victim’s mistress and pickleball partner–is killed that Sheriff Ferris realizes this is no hunting accident. Someone is hunting people, and it’s up to her to find out who. With the first victim’s crazed widow breathing down Lew’s neck, there’s no room to breathe, let alone to find time to appreciate the beautiful Loon Lake fall and go fishing. Adding to Sheriff Ferris’ difficulties are three pickleball players convinced someone has targeted them, someone who will do anything, even murder, to frighten them away from the courts where they play – but why? Who is really at risk? The pickleball players, or Lew and the people close to her?