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A car at the bottom of a cliff with the driver’s throat cut. A dead woman upside down in the servant’s stairwell. Rylly’s first convention isn’t going like she hoped. Rylly is beginning to think her resort is a murder magnet. They haven’t even opened officially and she’s been involved in three murders. For her first convention, she picks a group of travel writers. What can be more innocent than travel writers, not best selling authors, no groupies, just writers who write about what they see. Rylly’s heart sinks when she meets Winnifred Moore, her husband, and her husband’s ...

After Rylly’s two-timing husband’s car crashes through a guardrail, she discovers he has more than one secret. Rylly Barr’s life has gone to the dogs, literally. Returning from her husband’s funeral, she discovers a lost Shichon hiding on her front porch. Even though he ruins her black suit, it’s the best thing that happened all day. After receiving a frantic ‘come rescue Kohler call’, Rylly takes on a new challenge—guardian to her twelve-year old, orphaned nephew. What she doesn’t know when she invites Kohler to live with her, is that her husband’s secrets had secrets. ...

Amazon Best-Selling Author Bronze Medal-winning writer--Global Book Awards Terrifying Dreams Malicious Letters False Friends Former Blues Singer turned businesswoman, Ruth Arbuthnot isn’t sleeping well. Her dreams are haunted by murder, her own. Following her granddaughter’s instructions, she writes each dream before she completely wakes up. She discovers there’s a sequence to the dreams, a sequence, and a familiarity. Terrified, she enlists her granddaughter and her granddaughter’s ex-fiancé to help her find the source of her dreams. The dreams seem to mirror books she remembers, ...

Amazon Best-Selling Author Bronze Medal winner--Global Book Awards Haunted by obscure clues Hunted by a madman Faced with an impossible choice Tabitha Black is ecstatic. The man of her dreams, Charles London, Scotland Yard’s best Detective Inspector, needs her to drive him to Ghost Haven so he can recuperate from a bullet to the head. Her mind imagines witty conversations and maybe a stolen kiss or two. But on the drive down, he makes it very clear that he wishes she wasn’t driving him. Later at Ghost Haven when he collapses from his head wound, Tabitha is forced to approve emergency ...

A Student in Trouble Missing Chocolates Valentine’s Day will never be the same Rylly is sure she won’t survive Valentine’s Day. Her boyfriend is missing in action. She’s agreed to do another fund raiser, this time to help a boy get the surgery he needs, her first cooking class students are graduating, and there’s a dead body on her kitchen floor. If having a dead body on the kitchen floor isn’t enough, her close cop friend Mac has suddenly lost his mind. Even though she has an alibi for the murder, he keeps twisting her testimony so that she looks guilty. Then she wipes out her ...

Rylly hates Halloween with every fiber of her being. Her nephew volunteers her to help with the Halloween fundraiser. A recipe for disaster or something worse? Due to the many traumatic pranks Rylly’s older brothers played on her when she was a child, she has a near phobia about Halloween. But when her nephew and his friends decide to hold a Halloween fundraiser so that the scholarship students can stay in school, she swallows her fear and agrees to help. But Mr. MacPherson with his tests from hell has another idea. An idea that ratchets up the hate and discontent already rampant in the ...

A picnic turned deadly. A child falsely accused. An M. E.’s van in Rylly’s favorite tree The islanders on Rylly Barr’s Haunted Island are celebrating. Their new homes are finished. The picnic has all the fixings, fried chicken, corn on the cob and lethal potato salad. Kohler and Tommy find Tommy’s father, dead, killed when someone drops a heavy bowl of potato salad on his head. Tommy is falsely accused by an overzealous cop, the first hurricane of the season puts the M.E.’s van in Rylly’s favorite Oak tree and a tornado not only takes out the only bridge to the mainland, it cuts...

An unconscious teen A squirrelly aunt A missing rare coin Rylly Barr has been looking forward to Christmas Vacation but Thanksgiving is barely over when a fire puts one of Kohler’s best friends in the hospital in a coma. Rylly begins to panic when Kohler and his friend, Scott quit eating because they are so worried about CamiSue. Remembering some research she read about helping people in a coma, she meets with Nathan Mathews, CamiSue’s hunky, single doctor who agrees to let Kohler and Scott do homework with her in the hopes that they can help her come out of the coma. When someone ...

A Dirty Secret A Hidden Cave A Diabolical Plot Rylly Barr was plowing through the last set of finals on her last day of subbing, dreaming of spending the summer finishing her resort and getting caught up on her life and her new relationship with Anthony, a handsome Coast Guard Captain. The very last thing that Rylly wanted to do was to think about her Geology Immersion Internship at Monmouth Caves National Park. She only attended the internship because the professor was her dad’s best friend. Then one of the girls disappeared in the middle of the night. She was never found. Because they ...

Amazon Best-Selling Author Bronze Medal-winning writer--Global Book Awards Her life is heavenly Until all Hell breaks loose! She is receiving letters from her dead father. Her almost fiancé has disappeared. Her nephew is seeing masked men outside his school. Sheba Bentley has realized her lifelong goal—to find the Kingdom of Sheba. She has been assigned by her bosses at NSA to work with the Turkish archeologists to excavate this wonderful historical site. Without warning, a new overseer is appointed. Suddenly the dig is a dangerous place. Huge rocks that have stood for millennia fall ...

A Christmas Wedding Unwanted relatives Murder for the New Year Rylly and Kohler are excited for Christmas. Twelve real Christmas trees dot the mansion. The Christmas lights are up. Gus even has a red collar. Everything has gone smoothly. Their first Christmas wedding was gorgeous and calm—well, except for the bride’s mother going bridezilla, the bride and groom threatening to elope and seventeen huge boxes of wedding decorations, none in the bride’s chosen colors. But that is behind them and they are waiting for all their invited guests for a Christmas celebration like no other. Until...

A Dream Come True? Or A Nightmare in the Making? Rylly Barr’s long awaited dream is about to become a reality. Despite numerous mishaps including robbery and attempted murder, the grand opening of the Southern Comfort Cooking School and Restaurant is a rousing success until Bobby Spence, a television chef, tastes the Trinidad Chicken, clutches his throat, falls to his knees and dies at Rylly’s feet. Rylly is still reeling from Bobby’s death when she discovers the deed to an island in a hidden drawer in her husband’s dresser. The island consists of an island, a mansion house and ...

The only thing keeping Sheba and Braden alive is a good dead and the knowledge of the Kingdom of Sheba she carries around in her head. Sheba Bentley, an NSA analyst, has spent her life looking for the Kingdom of Sheba, the mythical land mentioned in the Bible. But when she unknowingly crosses a man with the same obsession she puts her nephew's life as well as her own in danger, for this is a man who will stop at nothing to fulfill his destiny. What is his destiny? As the many times grandson of the Queen of Sheba, his destiny is to rule the world from the Kingdom of his grandmother. His army...

Amazon Best-selling writer Bronze Medal-winning writer--Global Book Awards Silent Night, Murderous Night The presents, kidnapping, murder, treason and hate, under her tree weren’t what Ruth Arbuthnot had wished for. For the first Christmas since her husband’s death, she is looking forward to a wonderful Christmas Season with her granddaughter and her friends, but she has a mysterious enemy who is determined to ruin her holidays. Anxiously preparing for the return of the El Paso National Guard from Afghanistan, Ruth is blindsided when she calls an audit of her husband’s pet company and...

Amazon Best Selling Author Bronze Medal winner--Global Book Awards A Ghost A Seance Not a good combination Tabitha is still reeling from her encounter with DCI Parker when the man she loves gets engaged to Eugenia Windsor, not-so-lovingly nicknamed the Wicked Witch of the West End. Eugenia demands that she be allowed to hold a séance at Ghost Haven. When their live-in ghost, Aimee Bethia fights having the séance, Courtney and Tabitha tell Eugenia no way. Eugenia immediately begins a campaign to force Courtney and Tabitha to allow her to hold her séance. In this campaign, no holds are ...

Amazon Best-Selling Author Bronze Medal-winning writer--Global Book Awards In a quest to find the keys to a legendary queendom, will one fierce woman stumble on a hidden treasure or into an early grave? Sheba Bentley is thirsty for a breakthrough. On the cusp of discovering the capital of her namesake's lost empire, the NSA code breaker doesn't have time for a side mission chasing terrorists. But her world implodes when she receives a ciphered warning letter apparently written by the father she thought was dead. Enlisting her Army captain fiance along with a Romani supplying inside ...

Amazon Best-Selling Author Bronze Medal-winning writer--Global Book Awards Framed for Murder Haunted by a Ghost Hunted by a madman Tabitha Black isn’t having the Christmas Season she’s dreamed of. Hired by a wealthy philanthropist to paint six larger than life pictures of the Diva Ballerinas in his ballet company, Tabitha is buried in oil paint, turpentine and the flu when the diva of all divas ends up dead in her studio. Her nemesis, DCI Parker from Scotland Yard catches the case. Convinced that Tabitha is guilty before he even views the body, he forbids her going to Ghost Haven for ...

Amazon Best-selling writer Bronze Medal-winning writer--Global Book Awards Ghosts Angry relatives Murder, Most Foul When Tabitha Black, a popular painter, encourages her cousin, Courtney Spencer, to overcome her irrational fear of ‘dead’ Uncle William and attend the reading of his will, she doesn’t realize that they are walking into a ghostly maze of homicidal practical jokes, angry heirs, and murder, most wicked. When Courtney and Tabitha arrive at Mathews Manor, they meet the rest of the heirs. Heirs who hate each other and hate the ‘dearly’ departed. As more heirs gather, the ...