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|  | | Hey Guys, the Redhead's Back!
How I rediscovered my single self while going through my divorce with the help of some firefighters and my horse.
When you're faced with divorce, getting back into the workforce, raising two teenagers, and taking care of eight horses, it sometimes help to have a sympathetic ear. In my case, the sympathetic ear belonged to my horse, Amigo. Unsympathetic ears belonged to the men of the Shaker Heights, Ohio Fire Department where I spent time researching for a book about the fire service. During the process, I not only rediscovered the person I was before my marriage, I found a new career in the fire service. This book is about how it all came about. | |  | | Memories: Book One in the Firehouse Family Series
Memories deals with the emotional trauma of fire fighting and how Jake McCann and his friends cope with those memories when they move to a small Ohio town.
Memories begins the Firehouse Family series in 1932 with Jake McCann's appointment as fire chief in the town of Woodhill. Until Jake's arrival in Woodhill, Laura Darvey's life has been fairly predictable; she is 31, married, a nurse, and horse breeder. Upon Jake's arrival her life changes when she learns of Jake's interest in horses. Their friendship deepens to a love affair that leads to terrifying consequences when Jake inadvertently discovers Dan Darvey's deepest secret. | |  | | The Demise of the Horse Fairy: Book Four in the Firehouse Family Series
Over the space of several weeks in the summer of 1935, 13 starving horses and ponies, along with one very fat pony and a goat, are left in Woodhill, Ohio. The unknown person behind the arrival of the horses earns the nickname, The Horse Fairy, but The Horse Fairy is not out to save lives; he is gangster Bobby Darvey, who is determined to harm Laura Darvey and Fire Chief Jake McCann.
Gangster Bobby Darvey is obsessed with destroying Laura Darvey and Fire Chief Jake McCann. In Las Vegas, Bobby hires Nina Hernandez and her daughter, Ramona, to be a cook and maid for his Aunt, who lives in Woodhill. Since Ramona is a horsewoman, Bobby intends to use her to learn the best time to torch Laura’s horse barn with all the horses—and Laura—in it. Nina and Ramona are driven to Woodhill by Bobby’s top man, Benjy Talbot, who on the trip, falls in love with Nina.
Using a false name, Bobby finances a local man’s plan to oust Jake as chief. As part of his plan, Bobby hires men t | |  | | The Farm Fires: Book Three in the Firehouse Family Series
A serial arsonist is setting rural fires and the local fire chief is blaming them on disgruntled farmers. Fire Captain Freddy Pratter sets out to prove him wrong.
A scroungy palomino horse brings Glynis Hampton, daughter of dairy farmer, Ben Barneshill, into a chance meeting with Woodhill Fire department Captain Freddy Pratter at the scene of the horse owner's death. Freddy falls in love with Glynis even as his investigation leads him to suspect that a member of her family could be the serial arsonist who has killed twice and could kill again in his thirst for revenge. | |  | | The Quarry: Book Two in the Firehouse Family Series
Dr. Jessica Malloy falls in love with the son of a critically ill patient and a labor riot brings her face-to-face with medical ethics issues in the 1930s that we still grapple with today.
The Quarry introduces elderly Maudie Hegerty, whose son, Boris, is foreman of the local quarry. Boris is facing not only the threat of labor problems, he is trying to come to terms with the colon cancer that is killing his mother. Maudie is being cared for by Dr. Jessica Malloy, the physician in charge of the emergency department at Woodhill Memorial Hospital. In the course of her work, Jess befriends Woodhill Fire Department first-aid officer, Eli Sheffler, who becomes her steadfast friend through events that threaten everything they hoped would be in their future. |
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