Calamity Jayne Heads West

WHAT DOES A BLONDE GET ON HER INTELLIGENCE TEST?

DROOL.

Ace cub reporter Tressa Jayne Turner is carrying a full load--and we’re not talking post-holiday pounds. Back in college for the fourth time (but who’s counting!?), she’s also looking to nab a raise from her stingy boss at the Gazette, Stan. So, what’s to stop her from making the grade—besides the old “dog ate my homework” story, that is?

• A wrinkled roommate rekindling an old flame

• Maid of honor madness run amok

• A botched betrothal that’s more than just schoolyard gossip

• One man who likes her for herself and another who wants to save her from herself

• And a campus criminal out to teach the student body a lesson—one one crime at a time

It’s a case of murder and mayhem by the books...and failure is so not an option.

(Note: This book is part of the author’s backlist, originally released in print in 2007 by Dorchester Publishing)

WHAT’S A BLONDE PIRATE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR, EVEN THOUGH IT’S RIGHT BEHIND HER?

HER BOOTY

Ahoy, mateys! With her grandma wedded and bedded (eeow!) Tressa Jayne Turner is looking forward to the weeklong cruise that follows. Good food. Warm beaches. Romantic sunsets. A swashbuckling ranger-type, Rick Townsend, who shivers her timbers. Nothing can take the wind out of Tressa’s sails this time.

Nothing that is except this particular Love Book has Iceberg ahead! written all over it. Why? It’s a lo-cal “biggest loser” cruise, Tressa’s bad-boy faux fiancé and his marriage-minded aunt Mo are stowaways, and Tressa’s barely got her sea legs before a dastardly murder plot bobs to the surface. It’s a foul wind that’s blowin’ to be sure—and not from the exercise-obsessed passengers. Throw in one whale of a Bermuda love triangle and Tressa knows just how Jack Sparrow feels when the rum is gone.

Yo ho ho and a bottle of V-8!

Arrgh!

(Note: This book is part of the author’s backlist, originally released in print in 2008 by Dorchester Publishing)

WHAT DO YOU CALL A BLONDE IN A FREEZER? A FROSTED FLAKE.

She's baack! Tressa Jayne Turner, known in her hometown as 'Calamity Jayne' for her unconventional exploits, is ready to put a rather disturbing interlude of hide-and-seek she'd played with a stiff early in the summer behind her and enjoy the last weeks of summer at Iowa's annual celebration, The Iowa State Fair.

The homegrown good-time is Tressa's favorite time of year--donuts, funnel cakes, cotton candy, turkey legs--it's also her Uncle Frank's busiest. His ice cream stand is in a prime location, and he's poised to scoop the competition. But when a soft-serve saboteur appears at the same time her cousin goes missing, it's another fine, sticky mess she's gotten herself into. Worse than a King Kone with a hole.

It's "circle the wagons" time at the State Fair. Between a string of malicious pranks, to scary, psycho dunk-tank clowns, two geriatric Jessica Fletcher wannabes, a dishy state trooper, and a sister who may have her eye on a certain ranger-type, and it's mayhem on the midway time.

But will Ranger Rick Townsend, the Don Juan of the Department of Natural Resources--and bestower of the hated 'Calamity Jayne' monniker, ride shotgun?

Only all-knowing, all-seeing Psychic Sonya, the seer of the State Fair knows for sure. So, let the carnival games begin!

(Note: This book is part of the author’s backlist, originally released in print in 2006 by Dorchester Publishing)

WHAT DO YOU CALL A BLONDE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET?

LAST YEAR'S HIDE 'N' SEEK CHAMP

It's autumn in the heartland, when football rules and homecoming royalty reigns--and full moons don't just mean a passing high school varsity bus. But this year, Tressa Jayne Turner can't seem to get into the 'spirit' of the season. Our intrepid young reporter is trying to recover from a ten day run at the State Fair. After being stalked by a psycho dunk-tank clown, all she wants is a slower pace, some candy corn, popcorn balls, and caramel apples--and a serious story she can sniff out on her own.

And guess what. She's in luck! Eccentric and reclusive bestselling writer Elizabeth Courtney Howard is coming to little ol' Grandville to conduct some family business and finish her latest book. So, what's stopping Tressa from getting the goods on the mysterious mystery author--besides a blackmailing six-foot-two-inch homecoming queen candidate with all the charm of Frankenstein in taffeta, a rival reporter out to scoop the competition, a séance-hosting roommate who happens to be her grandmother, and a Natural Resources Ranger-type who could make a nun reconsider her vows? Only the fact that the skeletons to uncover are all in a closet in Haunted Holloway Hall--a house only Norman Bates could love.

It looks like a mother of a story.

(Note: This book is part of the author’s backlist, originally released in print in 2006 by Dorchester Publishing)

No one’s perfect.

At least that’s what Lucy Mathews tells herself. Except faced with her boyfriend’s rodeo queen ex-wife and perfectly trained Australian shepherd, she has to wonder if maybe this whole ‘no one’s perfect’ thing was made up by someone like...Lucy.

Lucky for Lucy though, things are hopping around Helena. It’s rodeo season, and she has a booth. It’s a great opportunity to expand her clientele and maybe even snag a cash prize for Kiska as the world’s first sheep herding malamute.
Except Kiska can’t herd, Lucy loses her wallet, and oh yeah...there’s that dead rodeo queen Lucy just stumbled over.

Good thing her boyfriend’s a detective. Except that’s not going so well either. A new detective is in town, and he’s convinced Lucy’s involved in the rodeo queen’s murder. Her boyfriend is no help at all and worse he’s spending a little too much time with his ex-wife.

Lucy finds herself out of money, out of love, and maybe this time, out of luck.

Steve Huntington had a way of offering jobs that were too good to be true. Mark Huntington made offers too good to turn down. Sedona had a habit of being caught in the middle; somewhere in the proximity of bad guys with guns and family members she was trying to avoid.

Good thing the latest case involved a hospital. Then again, not all hospital personnel were interested in the lasting health of the patients…or that of their co-workers.

Executive Sick Days is book three in the Sedona O'Hala series. Book one is: Executive Lunch. Book two is: Executive Retention.

Who killed Helena Henry? The shorter list may be who didn’t want her dead.

Psychic Raissa Bordeaux thought she’d left her former life behind, but when a child is kidnapped, she risks her secret identity by offering the police help with the case. New Orleans Detective Zach Blanchard doesn’t believe in psychic hooey and is certain Raissa didn’t get her facts about the case from a crystal ball. He suspects her of something besides being the most intriguing and attractive woman he’s ever come across. But when Raissa’s secrets put her in danger, can Zach convince her to trust him with the truth before it’s too late?

Trixie and her friends, Berklie and Sophie, are excited about the opening of Read/Wine their new business venture of a bookstore/wine bar. All is going well until they happen to find a dead body in the shop and that wasn’t part of the business plan. All signs pointed to Berklie since it was her ex-husbands lover who was murdered. Trixie knew Berklie hadn’t murdered Sylvia so who did?

Sabine LaVeche needs to locate a blood relative fast – her life depends on it. When Helena Henry shows up offering help, Sabine knows she’s really in for trouble when it’s the best idea she’s heard in a while. When private investigator Beau Villeneuve takes on her case, things heat up in more ways than one, but as they begin to uncover the secrets of Sabine’s past, the one thing that becomes clear is that someone doesn’t want Sabine to get the answers she seeks.