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A USO singer, a sailor and a whirlwind WWII romance Suzy arrived in New York City in January 1944 with starry-eyed hopes and dreams for stardom. That all changed when she locked glances from her USO stage with a charming red-haired sailor with sapphire eyes. From then on her world turned topsy-turvy and back with an enchanting, all-consuming wartime romance to beat the band. With WWII raging, the fifteen-month whirlwind journey pushes and pulls her from boundless romantic glee and excitement to the farthest depths of utter loneliness and tear-jerking sadness. Can heart-warming true love ...

1950s reporter May Beck never gives up. She uses her noggin, iron-willed moxy and her own set of rules to relentlessly collect clues that lead her to the culprit. And she'll do or say anything to get to the truth, no matter the cost. So when a mysterious clue from the past leads her one clue at a time to the trail of a criminal enterprise, she'll risk everything to catch the criminal and save an innocent victim. But will attempts on her life dissuade her? Will she crack the case before it's too late for the innocent woman? And who can she really trust? When Walls Talk is the second book in ...

There’s a Panic at Peacock Perch! A hurricane hits the area causing havoc and uncertainty among the residents. When the dust settles and they begin to emerge from their cocoons, they find a couple lying dead in their own home, along with a crime spree of thefts. Are the crimes related? Was it an outside criminal ring or an enemy from within? When they investigate, the sleuths and the residents all turn on each other, pointing fingers of culpability and doubt in every direction. And with a new sleuth, Miss Direction, on the scene, will she cause more problems or create solutions? Where did...

Friendship and a sense of community exist anywhere you make them happen. Best friends Trudy and Niki opened a cupcake shop to fulfill their dreams and unexpectedly created a warm community environment of friendship with somewhere to belong.When they enter the highly competitive Sweets Off reality contest baking show, a filmmaker chronicles their journey through confessionals, and shares their personal trials and hurdles as women. She documents the caring relationships of their staff, customers and fellow shopkeepers and affects her own reality. As their small town and cupcake family rallies...

Can a group of senior amateur detectives solve the mystery and find their missing neighbor? Willow Wisteria disappeared, but not without a trace. Now it’s up to Madame Sleuth and the members of the Secret Senior Sleuths Society of Peacock Perch to find out what happened to her. They’ve set aside their bingo and bridge games and daily tennis and pickle ball matches to investigate “The Case of the Vanishing Vixen.” They’ll use all their cunning, life experience and the knowledge from their former occupations to follow the trail of gossip and social media posts about Willow to gather...

Can City Editor Buc Edwards Solve a 50-year-old Cold Case? Haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his friend and mentor, City Editor Buc Edwards gave up on existence. Fifty years ago reporter May Beck vanished without a trace while investigating a web of political corruption and organized crime. New evidence now breathes life into this cold case and he’ll risk everything to discover the truth, no matter the cost. But when he follows her path of puzzling clues through unexpected realities of time and space, the journey itself is more than he bargained for, taking him where he never ...

Men in Peacock Perch are in a Pickle. Madame has stumbled upon a series of mysterious maladies in Peacock Perch. Men are being injured at alarming rates under the strangest circumstances. No one died… yet. But when a pickle ball incident lands a man in a coma, the neighborhood scuttlebutt leads her to believe there may be a criminal conspiracy. As ridiculous as it seems, preliminary evidence points in that direction. Madame Sleuth and her team will investigate each and every lead to see what develops. Will they unearth a serial killing or a secret sinister plot or could it be nothing? In ...

It's Pandemonium in Peacock Perch Social Security checks are stolen. Identity theft is rampant. Credit card fraud is uncontrolled. Home conversations are recorded and posted on the internet. Technology has declared war on Peacock Perch with an epidemic criminal computer virus spreading like wildfire through the community. And it's up to the Secret Senior Sleuth's Society to find the conspicuous culprit and solve the mystery. But can a bunch of senior citizens and their technophobe leader decipher and decode the electronic evidence to crack the case? Or without their lifetime of experience ...

She nabbed the criminal. But the masterminds are still out there. Although she foiled the counterfeit ring and nabbed the criminal, there were still loose ends crime reporter May Beck needed to tie up. Determined to catch the rats that slipped through the cracks in the case, Beck and her protege Buc will employ her time tested set of rules to follow the clues. But will she get more than she bargained for? Will her search lead her to even bigger criminal masterminds and conspiracies? And is her life once again in danger? Collection of Lies is the third book in the Beck’s Rules Mysteries ...

Love is a euphoric feeling which engulfs us. And the adrenaline of the initial spark is unparalleled making every cell tingle. But is love at first sight possible or just a myth? Can you look across a water cooler, a bar, a street or a crowded room and fireworks ignite or at least flicker? It happens. This book celebrates love at First Sight based on real stories of real people who experienced sparks, trumpets and lighting bolts to fall in love in their first meeting.

A murder in Peacock Perch points suspicion to one of their own A murder case falls into the laps of the Secret Senior Sleuths Society leading the trail of clues to within the community for suspects, including one of its own. Madame Sleuth compiles an elite team from the senior detectives to follow the gossip and social media posts in the neighborhood to reveal potential clues, along with a combination of good old-fashioned sleuthing and technology-based investigation. With the high stakes of murder so close to their paradise home, can this group of senior citizens use their wits and ...

After a developer comes into change the face of their small town, St. Sebastian and the defeated owners of The Little Shoppes begrudgingly move toward a new reality with a big corporate water park in their town and the dissolution of The Little Shoppes family, but filmmaker Ellen has one card up her sleeve. She suspects there’s an heir to Jane’s estate, a secret child, who may be able to change the course of the town. Attorney and shopkeeper Randa and Ellen work together to discover the clues to find the secret child and if there is any legal recourse to have them contest the will. But ...

Everyone Needs a Place They Belong. Filmmaker Ellen believes she’s finally found a place where she can grow roots. After a lonely and turbulent childhood, she’s bonded with newfound friends in the small town of St. Sebastian to start over. While telling their life stories of friendship and personal trials and triumph, as seen through the lens of her camera, her connection with the women of The Little Shoppes deepens. As she reflects their journey, she develops stronger ties with the women shop owners and is embraced as part of their family. Focusing her viewfinder on Becky and her ...

Out of Tragedy Blossoms a Journey of Discovery Jackie grew up in the warm glow of her family's legacy. From her grandmother to her great-great grandmother, she embraced everything in her McIntyre and Donegal roots. But when a world disaster turns into a family tragedy, Jackie turns to her family and the land of her ancestors for healing and growth and finds a wonderful new world that captures her heart and takes her on a journey of enlightenment and discovery with a chance at first love, all in the magical landscape of the Emerald Isle. An Emerald Homecoming is the final chapter in A ...

Experience Music. Follow Freedom. Search for Bliss. Find Love. Society and her parents have chartered a life path for Peggy McIntyre. But with her inherited Scottish stubbornness and Irish wanderlust and beautiful songbird voice, she has different plans. In Summer of Love, Peggy escapes to New York in search of freedom, music, bliss and love in the middle of the flower child peace movement of the late 1960's. Can she find real love in the sea of free love or is it just a generational illusion? This is the third book in the Timeless American Historical Romance series, featuring members of ...