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|  | | Aria in Ice
A spooky castle, the search for a "magic flute", murders, ghosts, and maintaining a secret romance with one's fiance add up to danger for dancer Abby Fouchet.
Scouting for a “must be chilly/must be spooky” medieval castle in Prague to use as the background for a musical film based on a Gothic novel is, to quote Gershwin, “nice work if you can get it.” Dancer Abby Fouchet, acting as location scout for film company Headlights Productions has “got” it. She’s also got her soap star fiancé playing wannabe burglar, a psychic with more costumes than a Broadway touring company, assorted film divas and grave-robbers popping up around Kouzlo Noc, Abby’s choice for the atmospherically creepy castle. Then there’s the ghost. Ignatz Jezek, flautist and craftsman | |  | | Cold Wind to Valhalla
Old movies collide with new TV soaps to help provide motive for the murder of a friend dance/actress Abby Fouchet believes was killed for love.
Actress Colette Currie mutters "history repeats, cold wind, cinnamon and ken-see", then dies in the arms of Abby Fouchet. Aided by her fiancé Johnny Gerard, Abby pursues clues in theatres, cemeteries and abandoned movie studios and calls upon her own gifts of second-sight to solve an eighty-year-old mystery and find a klller.
An Abby Fouchet Mystery
| |  | | Dancing to Care
Newly widowed ballroom dancer Mattie McLean must choose between the prospect of a new love or returning to the life of a competitive dance and coach.
Professional ballroom dancer Mattie McLean has spent four years juggling care-giving for her husband Sean during his battle with cancer, while continuing to teach at a local studio. Soon after Sean’s death, she meets and falls in love with small-press publisher Mick Cervantes, who is raising a teenaged daughter, preparing to take on the role of care partner with his mother, who is exhibiting symptoms of Alzheimer’s, and sorting through his financial options to save his company. Mattie must decide whether to jump back into the world of competitive dancing and coaching, which will keep her from | |  | | Deadly Deja Vu
Reclusive writer Natalie Willis stumbles onto a crime scene at her neighbor’s house that is eerily similar to the Halloween night seven years earlier when her parents and younger siblings were murdered…with one exception. Her neighbor’s young son is missing. New Moon Valley police chief Gil Acosta must hunt for a killer, search for the boy and wrestle with his instant attraction to Natalie. Can he also protect her from an evil seven years in the making?
After 17-year-old Natalie Willis is dropped off at her Birmingham, Alabama home following a Halloween party, she discovers that the house has been ransacked and her parents and younger twin siblings have been brutally murdered. Natalie is attacked by one of the killers, but rescued by the police who arrive in time to save her.
Fast forward seven years to another Halloween night. Natalie, now a reclusive author of children's books, stumbles onto another crime scene when she checks to see how her neighbors fared during a tornado. She sees the bodies of Emma And Craig Hadley ly | |  | | Endgate Island
An invitation to design a mystery theater in a haunted castle on remote Louisiana island sends Teddie Grant searching for buried truths while becoming embroiled in an unexpected romance.
When Teddie Grant decides to accept her best friend's invitation to move to Endgate Island and work as the set designer for an interactive mystery theater, she can't wait to shed her past and start fresh. Not long after arriving, she meets Eric Desmarais, a prominent Broadway director, and the chemistry between them is sudden and more familiar than logical explanations can provide.
With a history of pirate settlers, slave traders, and violence, Endgate Island is not what it appears. In the midst of life-altering secrets, storms, and a vicious property battle, Teddie and Eric work | |  | | Four for Texas
A compilation of four short stories set in Texas
A quartet of short stories set in Texas, including:
Treasures-a Mystery
Labor Day/Ladies Night - a fun chick lit set in "unusual" circumstances
Wilkinson Roses: A ghostly fairy-tale romance
Center Floor: a memoir | |  | | Ghosts, Wandering Here & There
Six straight men in the cast plus free Tex-Mex food? My friend Lida Rose sure knew how to persuade me. I signed on the dotted line and dusted off my dance shoes. I knew Bad Business on the Brazos would have them rolling in the aisles and standing up to cheer, whichever came first. But I didn't expect the ghost problem. . . . As in the ghost of Don Mueller, the actor who was killed during the last performance of this show fifty years ago.
Note: Previously published as Ghost of a Chance
When dancer Kiely Davlin receives a
frantic call from her best friend, director Lida Rose Worthington asking her to head to Texas to choreograph the 100th anniversary of melodrama Bad Business on the Brazos, Kiely knows there's trouble ahead. She's right. Temperamental performers are one thing. But murder and the ghost of the last man to play the villain in Bad Business fifty years earlier might just send Kiely back to Manhattan - or into an early grave.
| |  | | Haunting Melody
A search for the ghost of a chorus girl chorine haunting a costume designer’s Manhattan apartment leads to an encounter with an eccentric, mischievous witch with the ability to send folks back through time…in this case, the 1919 Ziegfeld Follies.
An antique musical doll, cranberry-stained sheet music and the machinations of an eccentric, stupidly-short witch with a fondness for Elvis throw Melody Flynn through time to the 1919 Ziegfeld Follies. Mel soons finds herself dealing with jealous chorus girls while trying to learn songs and dances created nearly 100 years before she was born.
That’s the easy part. When she begins a race to track down missing chorines, she’s suddenly battling fanatic Egyptian cultists, murderous bordello madams - and her growing feelings for stagehand Briley McShan.
| |  | | Hot Stuff
Scoundrels, sinners and slayers vie for the cursed statue of the goddess Saraswati, aka Shiva's Diva, held by American linguist Tempe Walsh.
Tempe Walsh is fluent in ten languages and she can't say no to adventure. Next stop: India! Her mission: find the priceless - and mysterious - statue known as Shiva's Diva. Her man: Briggan O'Brien, a sexy Irishman on the run from the Mumbai Mob. Brig has a strange way of doing business, whatever that business may be . . . and Tempe's still not sure how she ended up in his arms when the shooting started.
Nominated for Best Romantic Suspense (2005) by RT Book Reviews.
| |  | | Legacy of Silence
When Miranda Nolan inherits a house she soon discovers a need to solve the mysteries surrounding the late owner along with resolving the strong attraction she feels for a co-claimant who lost his hearing and faces a world of silence.
Even as a little girl, Miranda Nolan loved to sing and dance, especially for her reclusive neighbor, a woman who was more like a second mother. She never expected to inherit her mentor's estate and to have to put her career as a performer on hold. Even more confusing, she's found herself settling affairs with co-claimant Russ Gerik, an interpreter who lost his hearing in a tragic bombing and struggles to find his way in a now-silent world. Unimaginable.
As the two work together to catalog the possessions of—and understand—a woman shrouded in mystery, they forge a powerful connection. | |  | | Moondance
Blending Southern Gothic mystery romance, fantasy, theater, dance, music, and flashes of humor, tells the story of a pair of lovers in two separate time periods who find themselves battling an evil fifty years apart.
1997: Autumn in Texarkana and the harvest moon is shinin' on. Sybil MacKenzie (Mac), in town to choreograph "South Pacific" for a local theatre is feeling moonstruck. She's falling in love with a younger man, Johnny Chandler who's playing Joe Cable in the show. In between rehearsals, the pair are entering swing dance contests, sharing stories of traumatic events in their lives, and searching for clues to the identify of a killer. They also are experiencing physical events that happened to a pair of teen lovers in the mid-1940s, who were caught in the grip of the Texarkana Phantom Moonlight Kil | |  | | Paris Nocturne
Facing imprisonment in 2061’s dystopian Manhattan, Cori Christopher is given the opportunity to time travel to Occupied Paris in 1941 to try and save singer Noel Matheson, leader of the Cafe Violette Resistance, from Nazi destruction…and perhaps save herself as well.
2061: While facing capture from a hostile regime in 2061’s dystopian New Manhattan, Cori Christopher hears, and falls in love with, the voice of singer Noel Matheson on a 1941 recording.
1941: Singer Noel Matheson headlines at Cafe Violette and helps grounded British pilots escape Occupied Paris, risking his life with every rescue.
When Cori Christopher mysteriously appears at Cafe Violette, Noel soon realizes he loves her.
Realizing his feelings will incense a jealous Nazi officer, Noel avoids Cori, leading Cori to wonder if he cares. But Cori is determined she traveled more | |  | | Pick Up the Pieces
A cryptic note leads singer Bebe Beccera back into the world of rock music, mystery, and a lost love.
“pick up the Pieces.” The words, written in embossed lettering on a cream-colored card within a pricey thick envelope, arrive at the door of Bebe Beccera’s New Jersey apartment, throwing Bebe into confusion and annoyance until she determines Pieces refers to the rock band she sang with when she was a student at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Pieces broke up after its lead soprano, Marigold Blume, vanished one night during a Beta Zeta sorority dance gig ten years ago. When Bebe learns the same sorority wants Pieces to “come home” to sing for their reunion dance, she fears returni | |  | | Remake the Song
I loved him. At age twelve he touched my heart with his music. At age twenty he captured my heart when our eyes met as he sat on a stage and sang Four months later, he fractured my heart with his refusal to allow us to stay together. At age seventy, in another life, I’d bought a record album and some sheet music at a flea market in Texas and tumbled into an abyss of time in order to save him.
2025: Shiloh Meridien teaches dance, dates, roams flea markets and is relatively happy. But she’s harbored a life-long love for singer Marcus Kennedy, and, when given the opportunity to travel back in time to try and save him from a killer, Shiloh grabs it.
1975: Marcus Kennedy sings and protests for causes. He rescues Shiloh as she experiences a strange post-traumatic event, instantly falling for the dancer, but pushes her away after he’s diagnosed with Parkinson’s. When Shiloh is attacked by the person determined to murder Marcus, destroying her dreams of dancing professionally, she mu | |  | | Scarecrow's Dream
The bio ended with Shane Halloran's death in 1973. His motorcycle had sailed off an ice-covered bridge in Upper Manhattan during a freakish April snowstorm. It was rumored Holly Malone had been with him. I stared at my aunt. "You're saying . . . you're saying that was me? I'm Holly? And I . . .died?
When Holly Malone staggers into her Manhattan apartment at one-thirty in the morning, she's shocked to discover more than forty years have passed, since she was last in the building. She has a vague memory of being involved in a motorcycle crash.
No one can see her, and only a few can hear her- her now-aged aunt and the man she'd been clinging to when the motorcycle sailed off an icy bridge in 1973...Shane Halloran, who was assumed dead along with Holly.
Shane hides behind an assumed identity. The wreck that took his and Holly's life i different ways was part of a series of | |  | | Serenade to a Cuckoo
In order to save her own life, actress P.L. McGinnis must solve a real life mystery after dead bodies keep appearing in and around her own TV forensic crime drama.
Portraying Detective Jocelyn Girard on television forensic drama Crime Unit New Jersey involves dealing with special-effects corpses, high speed chases, and flamboyant gymnastic feats for actress P.L. (Princess Louise) McGinnis.
But when P.L. begins stumbling over "real live dead bodies" she's thrust into a mystery which mirrors C.U.N.J. episodes, including a pursuit-on-horseback-by-a-clown scene in the middle of a New Jersey Thanksgiving Parade. If P.L. can't produce the antique clock which holds the key to the murders, her final scene might be filmed at her own funeral. | |  | | Sweet Cream Ladies, Ltd.
Following several murders, means, motive, and opportunity all point to out-of-work actresses Bootsie Kittredge and Babs Harrison. Their claims of righteousness and lack of guilt seem fabricated, thanks to a cheerfull announcement made to the patrons at Maria’s Diner by an enthusiastic and quite inebriated Babs.
“Need someone bumped-off? We’re Sweet Cream Ladies, Ltd. You Call…We kill.”
The plot is hatched over scones and Irish whiskey by two out-of-work, forty-something actresses Bootsie Kittredge and Babs Harrison. Relieve financial hardship while satisfying an urge for payback. Start a contract killing business.
The plot thickens over nachos and margaritas when Bootsie and Babs weave scenarios to murder each’s ex-spouse, one phony, cheating psychic, and an actress know more for performing on casting couch than on stage. They make up a name, Sweet Cream Ladies, and add “Ltd” for a more professional sound and keep their friends and fellow diners at Maria’s Casa laughing | |  | | Sweet Dreams
While trying to make it big on Broadway, dancer Abby Fouchet finds herself falling in love, falling in rehearsal (!), and trying to outwit a clever killer out to destroy the man she loves.
I inherited my name, Abby, my height (5’2”), and the gift of second sight from my great-grandmother, Abigail Dumas. Precognition hasn’t stopped me from falling for “soap” star Johnny Gerard, or keeping the two of us from being hounded by mobsters, lawyers, contract killers, and loony daytime drama fans. Johnny and I are rehearsing for a new Broadway musical. But, if my latest vision comes true, we won’t live long enough to hear the overture from the orchestra. Where’s Granny Abigail when I need her? |
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