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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?

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?

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 ...

Dr. Laura Martin, Chief Extraterrestrial Life Scientist at The Touchstone Institute of Oceanographic Research, noticed troubling but subtle changes in the Atlantic Ocean. Before she could make sense of it all, her longtime assistant abruptly walked out. Laura hired young, handsome Scott Conner to be her personal assistant. Mayhem ensued, mainly because of Zara, the mermaid/siren/monster in the basement of the Touchstone Institute, who eyed Scott as her possible mate in a plot for total domination of planet Earth. “The Touchstone Institute of Oceanographic Research is the most fantastic, ...

Twelve of Earthfleet's finest starships are floating in space unmanned. The ships are intact with no visible damage, but no life signs or bodies are detected. Earthfleet Council has decided to send cadets out to fly the spaceships home, despite rumors of carnivorous space pirates. Is it a rescue mission? There are no life signs. Is it a recovery mission? There are no bodies to recover. It's more like a space parking valet mission. Locate and board spaceship. Bring it home. What could go wrong?

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?

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?

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.

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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.

Detective Brianna Rosetti is exiled from her big city police department in Missouri to a small, isolated out-of-state law enforcement unit in the woods. She hopes it's only temporary until things cool down at home. There's been no crime up in this pine forest community for four years, but on her first morning on the job, a body is discovered in the water.

Sarah is a beautiful redhead who works for a special agency that fixes broken timelines and rescues historically significant people who are in trouble. She has a special set of skills that allow her to 'tap' someone out of a dangerous situation. Her present assignment is to find and rescue a prince whose son eliminates hunger and disease on his island nation. “Save the Prince; save the King; and save the Reds. In doing so, Red Sarah may just save herself, who knows, but what might be the cost? Moving from modern day wisecrackery to a time of romance long ago, Carol Ann Kauffman’s tale ...

Charley is an old man facing heart surgery. He is forced to call his grown children home for the procedure. Fleur is Charley's business partner. She falls for Charley's handsome playboy son. Will this be a match made in Retail Store Heaven? Or heartbreak?

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?

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 ...

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?