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Tranquil Peace or Death Trap? Gwen Trobert is a mess: grief-stricken, drug-dependent, and convinced her husband is cheating. When Aunt Marge, a woman she hardly knows, offers to let Gwen stay at her farm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Gwen sees it as a chance to reflect on the future and heal herself. But Marge's farm, Giiwe, is a place of secrets, some of them disturbing. Marge is taciturn and unfriendly. Her farm hand Charlie has a shocking,...

Carrie Walsh is a 1960s girl with a job she hates and a tendency to think of herself as unimportant. When she witnesses a murder in Flint, Michigan, Carrie's life takes a new direction. Following the instructions the victim whispered as he lay dying, she goes to meet Jack Porter, a handsome, brooding Vietnam veteran mistreated by life and disabled by war. The two join forces to find out why his best friend and army buddy was stabbed in an alle...

Headless corpses found on the streets of London, shock Elizabeth Tudor along with everyone else. When one of her own ladies is murdered, Elizabeth joins with new friend Simon Maldon to find the killer. Henry VIII, upset by the possible implications for further religious troubles, assigns one of his Welsh guardsmen, Hugh, to investigate.Suspects include a madman, a courtier, a reformer, a well-known criminal, and others, even Elizabeth's castel...

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Beth Lousiere, once known as Loser, learns there's new evidence concerning the murders of her husband and daughter three years ago. The crimes, along with suspicion that she was responsible, sent Beth into such despair that she lived on the streets of Richmond, Virginia, for almost a year, lost in grief and pain.Somewhat recovered though still plagued by insecurity and odd phobias, Beth returns to Richmond to face the past. Soon she's the susp...

In the 3rd book of the Simon & Elizabeth Mysteries, Elizabeth Tudor is accused of treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Most, including Elizabeth herself and her old friend Simon Maldon, believe she will never leave the place alive.Loyal to a fault, Simon manages to get in to see his "Highness, " once a princess but now demoted to simply Lady Elizabeth. Leaving the Tower, Simon meets another old friend, Peto the Pope. Peto is accused ...

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Tessa macFindlaech meets three witches on a Scottish hillside as she leaves her home to join the household of her uncle, Thane Macbeth. The weird women make predictions for her future, but Tessa sees no likelihood of truth in them. After all, the first crone claims Tessa is on her way to England, which is in the opposite direction.Surprises await that make her reconsider the prophecies. When Tessa discovers that Jeffrey Brixton, a guest in her...

When one of Edward VI's council members is poisoned, Elizabeth fears a plot against her brother the king. Her fears worsen when whispers surface that she herself is responsible. With no one she can turn to at the palace, she asks her old friend Simon Maldon to help her prove that she isn't guilty of murder and treason. The two old friends face a clever killer who cannot be caught and will not be stopped.

Simon Maldon is sent by Queen Elizabeth to form an honest assessment of the her cousin Mary, the Queen of Scotland. With Simon gone, his son Henry, wife Hannah, and old friend Calkin must delve into the murder of Simon's brother-in-law, Will Clark. Determined to hide his crimes, the killer is willing-even eager-to murder again.Simon faces his own trials when border outlaws capture his party. In order to thwart their leader's grandiose schemes,...

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Hailed as the "Homeless Hero" after her adventures in Book #1, Loser, also known as Beth Lousiere, needs to recuperate from the stress and her injuries. She returns to West Virginia, where her foster mother left Beth her home and property. When another of Marta's foster daughter's shows up, Loser is drawn back into danger, with a teenage boy to rescue and a criminal operation to uncover and defeat.People want to help: her lawyer Bert, her stre...

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How do years of sharing everything, from genetics to hairbrushes, result in people so different from each other?Three sisters raised in Michigan follow completely different pathways. The oldest, Nettie, threw away every advantage she had while still in her teens, and her mystified parents and siblings watched in horror as she spent years in squalor and degradation. Middle sister Ruth fell in love with a wealthy man and now has a life beyond al...

Loser washes up in gas station restrooms, wears Salvation Army giveaways, and eats what she can find, beg, or filch. Life on the streets of Richmond, Virginia, is hard, but it's better than facing her demons. That is, until she meets Bryn, a little girl who steals her heart. When Bryn's daddy is accused of murder, there's no one willing to help except Loser. Penniless, almost mute, and terrified of failure, Loser attempts to gather her resourc...

Robin and her unique group of friends track down cheats and insist they change their ways. When they learn about Neil Preston, who rules his drug company like a king, cheats his way through the testing process, and jacks up drug prices, they decide he needs to hear from them.It won't be easy: Preston lives on a huge estate outside Tulsa, where his formidable security manager, cunning attorney, and fast-talking PR man jump at his every command....

From the author of mysteries such as KILLING SILENCE and HER HIGHNESS' FIRST MURDER comes a compelling women's fiction story of friendship, love, loss, and the life-changing power of helping others. This powerful novel, which spans the decades from the 1960s to the present, plays out in two primary locations, Thailand and Michigan's Mackinac Island. On a cruise ship in the Gulf of Thailand, passenger Elvera Tharp has a reputation for being dif...

Scotland's King Macbeth has been dead for a decade, yet his legacy changes forever the lives of his twin nieces, Jenna and Jessie macFindlaech. Viking raiders on a blood feud come to their home in the Cairngorm Mountains, intending to kill all males of Macbeth's line. Finding only female descendants in the clan-hold, the Vikings declare they will seek out the older sister, who has two sons. Knowing she must somehow warn Tessa, Jenna escapes th...

From the author of KIDNAP.org and Pharma Con comes Book #3 of the Kidnap Capers. Readers of the series know the lovable misfits who make up the Kidnap Gang: Robin, a former legal secretary, Cam a guy with developmental delays, Hua, a former victim of human trafficking, Tom, a disabled veteran, and Luca, a woman with an "interesting" past. In an earnest desire to right wrongs for the little guys, the Kidnap Gang abducts cheaters, shows them the...