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Ambassador Tull Redmond is looking for a quick ride home back to Earth after ending her twenty-year mission as peace negotiator. All she wants is peace, quiet, and to be left alone. She boards the Earth Starship Giuseppe Verdi with its questionable leader, Captain Ben Jacobs anyway. It's the fastest way home. Her quarters has a full bath, a space view window, and a large, real bed! How bad could this rule-breaking, authority-defying Captain Casanova be? High Council hates him, true, but his crew loves him. Surely, she's too old and tired to be drawn into this bad boy of the quadrant's ...

Samantha wakes up to a perfect life, with a handsome, attentive husband she doesn't remember. She has it all: a luxury vehicle, designer clothes, beautiful jewelry, and a condo on the beach. But this isn't the life she remembers. As time go by, Samantha discovers she is the object of an elaborate deception, one large enough to include, other worlds, body doubles, time travel, world-hopping, and a galaxy guardian as cold as ice. Is her charming husband in on this deception?

When the peaceful planet Korbus was attacked by a vicious alien species, Prince Talus was sent to Earth for his protection. He was hidden in a dilapidated apartment building in a large Midwestern city. However, he was ill-equipped to handle this new life, and worse still, he found himself trapped in the body of a poor middle-aged man. After a senseless, random murder, Talus found himself alone in a strange and dangerous world, with no one to trust. Will Talus survive?

Harper Ross is a quiet, shy man born to wealth and privilege; not large, not strong, not what you'd call hero material. Katy Westwind finds herself in danger from the cruel sheriff of Bellwood. If that's not bad enough, there's a giant monster that flies down into the town once every ten years and devours everyone and everything it finds. Town council has organized a lottery to choose a man to kill the monster before it awakens. The lottery is, of course, fixed.

In the aftermath of a significant personal tragedy, Cat Collier must find a way to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and move forward, not so much for herself, but for her children. Moving back to Heaton Valley, Ohio is the first step.

The Monday Mystery Society attracts ten diverse individuals, all attractive in their unique ways - and all of them single. Five stories of love in a small town.

Daisy Mazlo faces a dilemma. She's met the man of her dreams in Cooper MacNeill, a gentleman in every sense of the word: tall, handsome, wealthy, witty, and very interested in her. But Daisy can't accept his love, so she runs away, moving back to Oakville, where she grew up, to sort out her feelings. Will the small, loving community of her past help her find herself? Will Cooper come after her? Will a letter be pivotal in resolving Daisy's dilemma?

Cat's innate desire to help others works against her in this finale episode of the Cat Collier Mystery series. How many strangers has Cat helped over the years? How many of those strangers have become friends, true hand-selected family members? In the midst of illegal breaking and entering, interrupted robberies, false identities, and getting ready for Christmas with three young children,Cat discovered the safety and security of her precious, little family is threatened. One old case is solved with sad news at Christmas. Another old case opens up new problems when the young daughter of an ...

The Cat Collier Mystery short story series is described as a cross between Nancy Drew and Mike Hammer. Follow Mary Catherine (Cat) Collier on her journey from small-town obituary writer for the local newspaper to big city detective and beyond in this series that starts with January Black Ice. In October Masquerade, join Cat Collier as she finds new and novel ways to deal with Spencer Paxton in an attempt to regain custody of her children, Poppy and Dougie. Tweedy Gardner resurfaces with a plan to lure a killer into a deadly trap. Cat attends a costume party where nobody is who they pretend ...

The Cat Collier mystery short story series is described as a cross between Nancy Drew and Mike Hammer. Follow Mary Catherine (Cat) Collier on her journey from small-town obituary writer for the local newspaper to big New York City detective in this series, starting with January Black Ice. In her latest adventure September Solitude, Cat Collier, now married with two children, questions what she wants to do with the rest of her life, and where she wants to live. Tracking down a baby girl given up for adoption over twenty years ago meets with disastrous results. A midmorning bank heist in a ...

Join Cat Collier is this serial mystery short story series, described as a cross between Nancy Drew and Mike Hammer. Carter disappoints Cat in the worst possible way. She begins to doubt her worth. Can a new location bolster Cat’s self-confidence? Is she strong enough to let a new love in? June Green Leaves of Deceit continues and adventures and misadventures of Mary Catherine Collier, known as Cat, as she opens a second online investigation office, away from Heaton Valley and the love and support she’s known there. Can she make it on her own?

In August Red Dawn, the eighth book in the Cat Collier Mystery Short Story series, a new case has our girl-sleuth-turned-big-city-private-investigator Mary Catherine Collier Paxton, known as Cat, examining old family feelings and experiencing some terrifying new ones. The glow of big city life has dimmed. She hungers for her old small town life. But can she get her hermit husband to leave the safety of his New York City penthouse for Heaton Valley, Ohio?

In July Fireworks Sky, the seventh book in the Cat Collier Mystery Short Story series, private investigator Mary Catherine Collier, known as Cat, finds herself in a disturbing, life-altering situation related to her brother’s trial. The outcome will have far reaching effects for not only herself, but Carter, Spencer, and others. The location for this cozy mystery bounces back and forth from her quiet, sleepy hometown of Heaton Valley, Ohio to New York City, where Cat has another branch of her detective agency and a wonderful, new love. Will Cat finally find the honesty she’s looking for?

Join the further adventures and misadventures of Cat Collier, a woman who opens her own private investigation business in her small hometown on her journey from being a small town obituary writer to big city detective . In this fifth installment of the short story mystery series, Cat works to find a missing Chinese girl who came to the United States on a work/study program and disappeared into thin air. An informant takes a big risk. Nola is put in danger. The child of a prominent country club women has her Parentage questioned. Someone from Gus Black’s past shows up at the hotel.

In this fourth installment in the Cat Collier Short Story Mystery Series, a dear, old friend comes up missing, and Cat Collier must scramble to find her before it's too late. A powerful enemy resurfaces and claims responsibility for a personal attack on Cat's family. Nola relives Trent's murder. Carter proposes...again. Mary Catherine Collier, also known at Cat, started at the bottom of the ladder in the newspaper business. Literally the bottom. She wrote obituaries in the basement of the Heaton Valley Herald in a small town in northeastern Ohio. But what she really wanted to do with her ...

Small-town red-head Cat Collier runs an private investigation service called Red Cat Investigation out of her office in the beautiful Palazzo Castellano with the help of her secretary, Nola White, an ex-client Cat took in because she had nowhere else to go, her boyfriend, Erick “Carter” Larsen, and Carter’s father, the wealthy, influential, and shady lawyer, Detrick Bittmor. In this third installment of the Cat Collier Mystery series, after escaping from captivity in an abandoned train car, Cat stumbles upon a homeless man at the long deserted train station, who helps her get home to ...

Join Cat Collier from January Black Ice as she starts her own detective agency, Red Cat Investigations, inside the gorgeous old Palazzo Castellano Hotel and solves her first real paid case, the case of Shotzie, the missing French poodle. Just when she feels she is destined to find lost pets and missing luggage for the rest of her life in her beautiful new office, complete with business cards, magazines in the waiting room, and her Red Cat logo painted on the frosted glass door, a lovely, mysterious woman named Ms. White hires her to find out who is stalking her. A dead rat on her car. Being...

January Black Ice is a romantic mystery. A strong-willed, sharp-minded woman, Mary Catherine Collier, is a journalist and obituary writer for a local newspaper. When the city’s rich and most influential lawyer, Detrick Bittmor, summons her to his penthouse apartment, she can’t say no. Cat, as she’s better known, has a soft spot for the old lawyer with a nasty reputation. There’s something about this man she finds charming. Detrick entrusts her with a puzzling personal matter; he wants to find out who the mysterious young man is who sits on a park bench every day at noon and stares ...

This is the story of a little girl caught in the middle of war and abandonment in the late eighteen hundreds in Italy. It is a story of hope and betrayal. Murder and lies. Forced into a marriage to give a man on the run a new identify, Hope has to grow up quickly. Assassins are following. How much can one young girl handled?

The BelPittorio men come from a long line of exceptional artists. They all live together in a sprawling villa in southern Italy that is both home and art studio. They are talented, handsome, and wealthy. One would think they have everything one could ask for, but... After a break-up with his longtime girlfriend, Arturo BelPittorio is sent to New York City by his great-grandfather to pick up a marble bust and find an art restorer. What he finds is not what he expected.