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|  | | Dead on Arrival
A merry southern romp with a young widow,the Memphis PD, the FBI, and a host of zany friends and relatives all trying to find out who done what?
Widowed at twenty-four by her husband Horace's motorcycle accident, Maggie Murphy is broke, unemployed and all the cosmetic companies say your skin starts drying out at twenty-five. She finds a part-time job which turns into full time when she finds the mutilated body of the man she replaced behind the office dumpster. Her husband's ghost hovers trying to tell her his death was dead wrong as the police investigate the body she found and the mutural attraction between Maggie and the handsome policeman deepens. They investigate the accident and the murder aided and abetted by friends and relativ | |  | | Memphis In Our Hearts
Memphis In Our Hearts begins with a puzzling murder and takes place in the chaos after the war between the states and the onset of the yellow fever epidemic. Times change, but people come in the same varied bouquet they always have. Step back in time to cheer for the characters as they handle their joys, hardships, heartaches and the perils of the time in which they live.
The perils, joys and adventures include boarding a tug boat mid-river before dawn; an attack by river pirates; and an escape to St. Louis to avoid the yellow fever epidemic only to be brought back to aid a friend accused of murder! | |  | | Merrywinds A Dowry Girls Adventure
In a small village in England, Patience and Gwenneth face a bleak future with no suitors in sight and Patience must leave the convent on her next birthday with no job or marriage offer in sight. When businesses band together in the new world to offer passage to young girls of good character to come and make homes for their employees (as did the original casket girls)the two girls brave the sea, their loved ones' objections and their own fears to set off on the Merrywinds to find love and new lives.
| | | | Once Burned
Beautiful, brilliant, self-sufficient career woman Christine Lovell has scars that don't show. Only people who are the closest to her know where her hurts are the deepest. Abandoned by everyone in her young life she's dared to love and depend on Chris stands on her own two feet until Fate throws her into the path of the handsomest man she's ever seen! She stands gawking at him like she's never seen a man before till her legs get the message to move and she runs in panic and embarrassment. End of story NOT! He pursues and starts a game of determined hide and seek to the amusement of her friends. She successfully dodges the drop dead gorgeous Mystery Man until he turns in a fire claim on his tire store and she can't run anymore - she's his insurance claim adjuster! Can he break through the wall she's built around her heart or will her dreams go up in smoke - again?
| |  | | Recipe for Trouble
A tale that starts with a Bang! As author Mattie Carrington starts writing her second cookbook, her kitchen explodes. Then when she rents a cabin on the lake to work uninterrupted, she's poisoned and the whold thing is beginning to look like a recipe for trouble.
At the moment, Mattie Carrington wasn't thinking of herself as a celebrity. Getting into her younger sister Katie's car, she was thinking about what she wanted at the grocery store.
"Ready?" Katie smiled affectionately at her older sister as she started the car.
Mattie nodded. She fastened her seatbelt. As Katie backed out and started up the street, her mind already roamed familiar aisles and was planning tomorrow's breakfast goodies. She settled back as the car began to pick up speed.
An instant later, the sound and vibration of an explosion made Katie swerve to the | |  | | Recycling Humanity
A modern day, street wise adventure of two friends, Martin, a brilliant but aging thoracic surgeon, and Aaron, with so much money and investments he qualifies for the ' wheeler-dealer par excellence' title Martin confers on him. The hospital where Martin works has been taken over by a conglomerate, and Aaron's greedy daughter-in-law, Blanche, is trying to wrest control of his financial empire from him. They meet at and escape from a care facility together to share and handle both their problems and adventures.
Martin, and Aaron have the money and the know-how to help handle the problems they run across. They manage to do hip replacements, needed health care for Leona's patients at her volunteer job, get a molester of children off the street and use him for a blood donor, survive a gang war, and elope to Las Vegas for a double weddng in their quest to recycle humanity. They do a lot of good unhampered by red tape using their considerable talents and money while keeping a low profile as Blanche, the daughter-in-law from hell hunts as he says "for my ass and my assets!" Every patient they help is an | |  | | Spanish Eyes
Eleana, a beautiful and legal alien arrives in Texas to work and meet her brother. But Carlos is missing without a trace and her sister-in-law may have entered the country illegally.
Eleana Castillo arrives in Las Flores, Texas from Mexico to work and meet her brother. But Carlos has disappeared and her sister-in-law, Carlotta, is missing too and may have entered the country illegally. As Eleana's beautiful Spanish eyes search for her brother, they cast a spell over Oliver, a handsome artist, who volunteers his and the Sheriff's help. Is Carlos in danger? Can they find him in time? Unable to talk frely with Oliver, will she lose his love? And where can Carlotta be? Eleana is forced to walk a tightrope of fear and deception between her, her love, her family,and the authori | | | | Spanish Eyes
Spanish Eyes: Timely new romance-suspese, hardback came out from Five Star Sept. 20.gagard.
Spanish Eyes: Available in Hardback - large print November, 2008. | |  | | Stranger in Paradise
Romance-suspense: a vacation in a tropical island is ideal for a small town girl on vacation. She finds her Prince Charming but can't talk to him!
Plunged into an exotic place where she doesn't know the language, Laura Carroll meets handsome Esteban who works in her hotel but they don't speak each other's language. They overcome this with a charade of signs and body language and their feelings grow into love. But Esteban gets an urgent message and leaves before Laura has to go home.She goes home and to Hawaii as Esteban undertakes a dangerous mission through a rain forest to an emerald mine. Can they find each other again? Will Estebam amd their love survive? And who sent that message that could not be denied? | |  | | The Devil in Maryvale
Sheriff Cas Larkin investigates murder from a trailer park to the country club and sets a trap for a cold blooded killer.
| |  | | The Nelson Scandal
Sheriff Cas Larkin and his matchmaking wife, Connie, follow hot clues and cold paper trails to solve four murders, two of them more than a hundred years old!
| |  | | Welcome To Lazarus
En route to a reporting job in Little Rock, car trouble forces Bob Smith to spend the night in Lazarus, Arkansas. Suspecting the town is hiding some bucolic Fountain of Youth, his curiosity and investigating skills take him close enough to the town's secret to fall victim to it. He manages to get away with his life, his car repaired well enough to get him to Little Rock, and a twenty-four hour gap in his memory only to be drawn back by nightmares and puzzling deja vu flashes to Lazarus where he finds the love of his life and danger as he hunts for those lost hours.
Bob Smith arrives at his new reporting job and enjoys his work and the opportunity to learn more about photography. In spite of a disturbing stop en route to Little Rock which left a twenty-four hour gap in his memory, he uses his camera to mask his
intentions of finding out what happened to him in Lazaras and pursue the story his gut feeling insists is there. He meets a beautiful girl who steals his heart, not knowing her very presence is synonymous with danger or that the people who helped him get away with his life are still hovering, trying to protect him. Fascinated to the point of e |
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Marooned
by Jennifer Miller
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 Marooned is the 1860's saga of Justin Radcliff, a young American, who is beaten and thrown overboard by his evil twin brother, Edward.
Kolya, a handsome Black man and new leader of the transplanted Zulu tribe there, finds Justin caught in hi |
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