It may be easier to patch up an old home than a broken heart. But along the Louisiana bayou, where beauty and danger mingle all too seamlessly, thoughts of romance may have to simmer on the back burner . . .Twin sisters and fellow divorcees Sunny Taylor and Eve Vaughn have established their home repair and remodeling business with an eye toward quality and personal attention. So when they’re approached by hunky Dave Price to fix up his bayou fishing camp, they’re m...

Home renovation, like romance, can cause its share of headaches. And in Louisiana’s Bayou country, the path of love can be strewn with murder . . .Between maintaining a home renovation business and patching up their personal lives, twin sister divorcees Sunny Taylor and Eve Vaughn are too busy to meddle in their aging mom’s romantic affairs. That is, until the strong-willed senior makes plans to marry her retirement community’s newest resident. Her cadre of buddies...

Fixing up homes can be tricky.Finding true love can be even trickier.But finding a killer can be plain old deadly . . .Twin sister divorcees Sunny Taylor and Eve Vaughn have had their fill of both heartaches and headaches. So when they settle down in the small Louisiana town of Sugar Ledge and open a remodeling and repair company, they think they’ve finally found some peace—even though Eve is still open for romance wh...

"This is the most inspiring book I've read in ages." "I read this book twice and know I'll read it again."Comments like these continue to come in about this book that shows an ordinary woman's journey toward blossoming into personal fulfillment that began during her senior years. Nora Shaw, widowed former teacher and social worker and my mom, found her days ignited after she reached sixty. Even while macular degeneration ate away at her vision, her joie de vivr...

It's not enough Ami Landry got stuck in an honors English class. Sure, she knows grammar fairly well, but only because her mom pushes it on her since she's scared people might think her family's stupid. Ami is starting high school and wants out of that class, especially once they get their first test back and mega-smart and popular Erin Peterson and her buddies start acting mean to her.Ami doesn't need more worries. She needs to convince her mom to sign a request for a schedule chan...

Spunky young grandma Cealie Gunther tries to avoid her hunky sometimes-ex lover Gil Thurman so she can rediscover herself. She also wants to avoid relatives so she won't become dependent on them. But a cousin who antagonized her in childhood pleads for Cealie to come to Gatlinburg, TN, needing Cealie's help or she'll face dire consequences. And Gil couldn't be opening another of his Cajun Delights restaurants there—could he? Torn between flying off for her planned exotic vacation or landin...

Widowed Cealie thinks she wants to avoid her hunky ex-lover Gil as she travels while trying to rediscover herself. But he opens Cajun restaurants in many cities, and Cealie's not great at avoiding temptation.

After warfare destroyed most of the country, only one area remains where people can survive. Because of limited food and space, the leaders decreed that each person is allowed to have only one friend.A teenage girl believes things should be otherwise.Sixteen-year-old Alabama Long keeps her head high, even with the heavy metal ball the guards chained to her back. She feels the eyes of Tellers on her as she's led down the dirt road to the old stadium, where a scanner checks t...

An Introduction to Celebrity Protection and Touring offers a peek behind the scenes of the close protection industry, more commonly known as the bodyguard business. More than the stereotypical bullet blocker, the modern protection specialist is a skilled practitioner who utilizes verbal judo much more than its physical counterpart. This book, written by industry experts, Elijah Shaw and Dale June (United States Secret Service ret.), also narrows the focus...

Now that the pesky matter of her grandpa's "shotgun situation" is behind them, Maggie May Carver is ready to get on with settling down in Baker Valley, Colorado with her Newfie, Miss Fancypants.Unfortunately, when Maggie's nemesis, Janice Fletcher, is found dead, Maggie is the main suspect. Actually, she's the only suspect.Now, whether she wants to or not, Maggie has to find the real killer before she's locked up for life.

FACE THE MUSICBusiness is humming at Dodie O'Dell's Windjammer Restaurant, where she offers theme menus connected to the Etonville Little Theatre’s amateur productions. This June, the theatre is collaborating with the neighboring Creston Players to stage Bye Bye Birdie under the stars—their first musical! There's a contest in the play to pick a fan to receive rock idol Conrad Birdie's last kiss before he ships off for the Army, so Dodie plans a contest to ...

Since childhood Camryn has loved the sparkling beauty of snow globes, and now sells them. They're so popular, Cami and her friend-coffee shop owner Alice "Pinky" Nelson decide to host a snow globe making class. After everyone has gone off with their own handmade snow globes, Cami spots a new globe left behind on a shelf that features an odd tableau-a man asleep on a park bench. On her way home, she drifts through the town park and is shaken to come upon the scene from the globe-a man sitti...