Retirement Can Be Murder

A Baby Boomer Mystery by the author of Retirement Can Be Murder. Empty nester Carol Andrews would prefer leaving her beautiful antiue home in Fairport Connecticut feet first to selling it and moving on. But her Beloved Husband Jim convinces her that a nearby active adult community is a better fit for them at this time of life. The house sells, and Carol returns alone the night before the closing for a private pity party farewell tour. And finds the dead body of the buyer in her living room. Wow. Talk about seller's remorse!

When a former high school classmate dies, three "sixty-something" widows are determined to prove that the cause was nothing less than foul play. Certain that they know the culprit, the ladies turn the lives of everyone around them upside down in their hilarious quest for justice.

Praise for the Tea Series: I got a copy of the last book first, and just had to get the rest of the series. As the title implies, these were fun reads and had just enough intrique and mystery to keep you reading, long after you should have turned off the light and gone to sleep. Loved the main character...perky, sassy, and quirky enough to be believable as the girl next door. – Nonna

The characters in the Tea Series are people you'd like to know and part of a family that welcomes you with open arms. More than 150,000 copies of the books in this series have been sold. You will find that each book in the series is a fast and fun read. Each installment is a hybrid of the traditional novel and the serial novel (each book is a full-length novel and leads directly into the next book - the series is best when read in order.)

The First Four – The Tea Series is a bundled set of the first four books of the Tea Series.

Hot Tea -- Cara O'Flynn finds herself in an unusual position. She's quit her job and can afford to take a few weeks to find a new one, plus, her roommate has run off and left her with an empty room to fill. If she can just accomplish those two tasks before her mother finds out she has no income and no one to help pay the bills, she will be in good shape.

The problem - Cara didn't plan for three careers in as many days nor did she anticipate the new guys that dropped in her lap. And then there's her sister Teagan, always helpful and funny, she can be a bit annoying at times.

When you are Irish, all things (good and bad) come in threes. It's inevitable. Cara should have remembered not to forget that part.

Cara and Teagan bring laughter, intelligence and family tradition to every experience then encounter.

Sweet Tea - Cara and Teagan are dealing with wishes come true. The good news is that each of them has found the man of their dreams, unfortunately this is not news easily broken to their traditional mother. Further complicating their lives, they find themselves in the middle of a serial murder investigation; worse still, Cara may have come to the attention of the murderer.

With their lives spinning slightly out of control, some of it good, some of it not, Cara and Teagan depend on each other, humor, their family and their not so common sense, to keep them going.

Iced Tea - Cara and Teagan are dealing with wishes gone awry. The serial murderer, if there is one, is still out there. The new guys are supportive, as is the family, but Cara and Teagan don't want the people they love most in danger. Knowing there is a serial murderer in your sphere of influence is disorienting. What you do has consequences, but that doesn't mean you see them in advance.

The crazy cop is around more than ever. There is a wedding to be planned and although Cara has always been the organizer of the family, she's not even kept in the loop.

Life has been spinning out of control for some time and now it's up to Cara and Teagan to put it to rights.

Green Tea - Cara and Teagan are more determined than ever, but determination without focus doesn't get you very far.

There's a wedding just days away. A time to celebrate and enjoy family and tradition, but Cara keeps her distance as situations outside of her control threaten her in ways she is just beginning to recognize. Things are changing quickly and Cara needs to come to terms with the fact that one of the people she loves most may not be around much longer.

Cara and Teagan finally get to the bottom of one mystery, only to find another much closer to home.

The First Four – The Tea Series is approximately 276,000 words and is now professionally edited and formatted.

Praise for the Tea Series: Just finished Peppermint Tea! Was a great continuation of Cara and Teagan's stories. I found the Tea Series by complete accident and am so happy that I did, Sheila is a fabulous writer and storyteller you get sucked in further with each novel she writes. Can't wait for the next installment, Tea to Go!

The characters in the Tea Series are people you'd like to know and part of a family that welcomes you with open arms. More than 150,000 copies of the books in this series have been sold. You will find that each book in the series is a fast and fun read. Each installment is a hybrid of the traditional novel and the serial novel (each book is a full-length novel and leads directly into the next book - the series is best when read in order.)

Peppermint Tea – the fifth book in the Tea Series begins right where Green Tea left off.

With complications swirling around Cara and Teagan, a cruise to Alaska might be just the opportunity they were looking for to calm things down and reconnect.

They didn’t count on things changing so much while they were gone. One bad guy out of jail, another unaccounted for and just what did their mother do with their boyfriends?

Cara has always counted on Teagan to walk with her through the good and bad parts of her life, but even that seems to be changing…

Peppermint Tea is approximately 70,000 words and is now professionally edited and formatted.

Praise for the Tea Series: I would recommend all of Sheila Horgan's Tea Books. I can't wait for what she publishes next. They are a light, fun, beach type read. Very entertaining. -- Cheryl

The characters in the Tea Series are people you'd like to know and part of a family that welcomes you with open arms. More than 150,000 copies of the books in this series have been sold. You will find that each book in the series is a fast and fun read. Each installment is a hybrid of the traditional novel and the serial novel (each book is a full-length novel and leads directly into the next book - the series is best when read in order.)

Tea to Go – the sixth book in the Tea Series begins right where Peppermint Tea left off.

Cara’s mother always told her that the things you fear most in life you draw to yourself. One of Cara’s greatest fears seems to be coming true. Teagan has decided to move away and Cara has no idea how she is going to deal with it.

Morgan has problems of her own. The monster she thought she’d left behind is back and more threatening than ever.

But the problem you know is easier to deal with than the one you don’t recognize. Cara and Teagan are finding out just how sheltered their lives have been.

They would have preferred it to stay that way…

Tea to Go is approximately 63,250 words and is professionally edited and formatted.

Praise for the Tea Series: Unfortunately, I got this book on a weekday and stayed up half the night reading it. Fortunately, it was really worth the sleep loss. The dialogue in these books in the Tea Series is fascinating and so accurate, and you cannot come to a stopping point to quit reading. The plot is full of unexpected twists and surprises, so I am totally caught up in the people in the story. I can't wait until there is another one! -- Wisteria

The characters in the Tea Series are people you'd like to know and part of a family that welcomes you with open arms. More than 150,000 copies of the books in this series have been sold. You will find that each book in the series is a fast and fun read. Each installment is a hybrid of the traditional novel and the serial novel (each book is a full-length novel and leads directly into the next book - the series is best when read in order.)

Summer Tea -- the seventh book in the Tea Series begins right where Tea to Go left off.

Cara has lost count of which three she’s in. She’s pretty sure the pregnancy three ended with Jovana’s daughter-in-law becoming pregnant. Not sure where she stands in the mystery count. But it’s a whole other count that she’s worried about.

As if that weren’t enough to worry about it looks like she’s going to have to empty the trunk that Bernie left her to see if there really is a mystery that needs to be solved. That not only ruins her plans to open one small gift at a time – for a lifetime – but worse, Teagan gets her way.

One of life’s biggest lessons is perspective. Your perspective can change in a heartbeat. Cara is learning that life lesson the hard way.

Summer Tea is approximately 63,000 words and is professionally edited and formatted.

Product Description:

Bestselling Romantic Comedy and Humorous Mystery Author D. D. Scott is back...this time, with a Special Edition Boxed Set, featuring the first six books from her Bootscootin’ and Cozy Cash Mysteries Series.

It’s Chick Lit Gone-Country...with a bunch of Bond, James Bond tossed-in.

Book Description:

This six-book set includes...

Bootscootin’ Blahniks

Think Sex and The City meets Urban Cowboy

A Manhattan apparel designer, who’s also a country line dancing queen, has traded in her stiletto-clad clientele for (1) the frequent shoppers of a Music City tractor supply store and (2) a tomato-grown’, bootscootin’ cowboy, but she must accept that her best fit is on the dance floor moving to her own style and his lead.

Stompin’ on Stetsons

Think Hell’s Kitchen mixed with Meet The Fockers

A Manhattan-raised, culinary-schooled pastry chef, teams up with her favorite cowboy, a Meat n’ Three diner owner, to cater the wedding of a Music City socialite, but to get the job done, they must handle the heat sizzling between them while rising above their ex-factors as her ex is the wedding planner from hell and his is the bride-to-be.

Buckles Me Baby

Think paparazzi-hell and Ponzi-scheme fall-out meet home-shopping and Babies “R” Us

A Manhattan-raised, marketing and promotions impresario and her Nashville TN homebuilder beau are forced to face overnight fame from their success on a home shopping channel, but can they handle big business with twins on the way, especially when they’re dodging paparazzi-hell on account of one of their parents’ Ponzi-scheming past?

Thug Guard

Think The Rachel Zoe Project meets Bond, James Bond and a Madoff-style, Ponzi-scheming King.

Zoey Witherspoon is a Rachel Zoe-esque Hollywood Stylist to The Stars - who's also a wanna-be Stephanie Plum. She’s teamed-up with her very own Bond, James Bond-style double agent who's about to bring down a Madoff-type, Ponzi-scheming King. Oh...and along for the adventure...try The Bootscootin' Books Mom Squad - now a blue-haired version of Charlie's Angels - plus all the rest of your fave Bootscootin' characters too!

Lip Glock

Think Will and Kate gone Bond, James Bond...and the blue-hair version of Charlie's Angels too...Under the Tuscan Sun.

Buckle your seatbelts! Cozy Cash Mystery, super-hot, international crime-fighting couple Roman Bellesconi and Zoey Witherspoon - now very Will and Kate gone Bond, James Bond - once again team-up with The Bootscootin' Books' Mom Squad, now the blue-hair version of Charlie's Angels, to recover billions of bunches of hedge fund cozy-cash...but this time, all Under the Tuscan Sun.

It's a super-sonic speed, action-packin' thrill-ride, full of pot-bellied pigs, hydrofoils, and gelato!

Fluid Fulfillment

The Mom Squad Mini-Mayhem Mysteries are a unique treat for fans of D. D.’s Bootscootin’ & Cozy Cash Mystery Books...a short story-sized peek into her collection of interconnected books.

For Fluid Fulfillment, think Victoria’s Secret meets Kill Bill.

Each Mom Squad Mini-Mayhem Mystery (short story) will feature at least one of The Mom Squad quirky-crazy, blue-haired Charlie's Angels wanna-be's!

You'll get to meet their extended families plus learn the unique skill each Mom Squad Member has been trained-to by The Cozy Cash Mysteries' Quarter Master R.

About the Author:

D. D. Scott is a Bestselling Romantic Comedy and Humorous Mystery Author and a Writer’s Go-To-Gal for Muse Therapy, plus the #1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Muse Therapy: Unleashing Your Inner Sybil and the co-founder of The Writer’s Guide to E-Publishing, your destination site for Everything E-Publishing.

For updates on her books, visit her website D. D. Scott-ville.

“...one of the top Romantic Comedy/Humorous Mystery writers out right now.” – Ereader News Today

Single mom Hayley Powell is barely keeping her leaking roof over her head when her boss at the Island Times gives her a new assignment--taking over the paper's food column. Hayley's not sure she has the chops--she's an office manager, not a writer, even if her friends clamor for her mouth-watering potluck dishes. But the extra income is tempting, and Hayley's chatty first column is suddenly on everyone's menu--with one exception.

When rival food writer Karen Appelbaum is found face-down dead in a bowl of Hayley's creamy clam chowder, all signs point to Hayley. To clear her name, she'll have to enlist some help, including her BFFs, a perpetually pregnant lobster woman, and a glamorous real estate agent. As she whips up a list of suspects, Hayley discovers a juicy secret about the victim--and finds herself in a dangerous mix with a cold-blooded killer.

Includes seven delectable recipes from Hayley's kitchen!

"What a delicious debut mystery!" Laura Levine

"A delicious read that I ate up in one sitting." Isis Crawford

More Mouth-Watering Praise For Lee Hollis And Hayley Powell!

"Sleuth Hayley Powell slides down as easily as one of her Lemon Drop Martinis (recipe included) and readers will be calling for a second round from author Lee Hollis." --Leslie Meier, author of Chocolate Covered Murder

"Delicious and satisfying. Another course, please." Carolyn Hart

When landscape designer Nina Quinn agrees to deck the halls of Christmastowne, an indoor Christmas village, little did she know how dirty the job would be.

Christmastowne has been plagued by mishaps. Someone’s stealing toy donations, cutting lines to the security system, starting fires, and poisoning the poinsettias. Worst of all, Nina’s neighbor, Fairlee McCorkle (aka Mrs. Claus) is found murdered under Christmastowne’s enormous decorated tree.

The deeper Nina digs for clues to unwrap a killer, the more she discovers that some secrets are best left buried in the past.

(The 6th book in the Nina Quinn mystery series.)