Mt. Abrams was the kind of small, quiet town where, as any of its residents would tell you, nothing ever happened. That was why Ellie Rocca loved living there, even if her ex-husband did not.But even small towns had secrets, as Ellie discovered when Lacey Mitchell suddenly disappeared. Ellie caught Lacey’s husband in a lie, and one small discovery led to another until it became apparent that nothing about the Mitchell’s was quite what it seemed.Mother’s Day was just around ...

The first three novellas in the Mt. Abrams Mysteries Series.Welcome to Mt. Abrams, a perfect little community where, everyone will tell you, nothing ever happens.Until…A Mother’s Day MurderIntroducing Ellie Rocca and the small community of Mt. Abrams, where the disappearance of a local mom has the neighborhood buzzing. There’s a sexy detective on the case, but that doesn’t stop Ellie and her friends from trying to find their own answer to the question — wher...

Meet Enza Biondi—the ballsy, quick-thinking owner of Luxe Affairs. Armed with a pink notebook and killer curves, she's a party planner with no time for fools and a nose for murder.Finding a dead body was not the way Enza wanted the McGowan Tea Party to end. She's been hoping for a quick and easy clean-up so she could spend more time with the tall, dark and sexy guitar player who arrived with the entertainment. Instead, Enza and her partners find themselves in the middle of a crime ...

A sparkling romantic comedy starring a bestselling author who goes to Paris to overcome writer's block and rediscovers family, independence, and love along the way.All Maggie Bliss needs to do is write. Forty-eight years old and newly single (again!), she ventures to Paris in a last-ditch effort to finish her manuscript. With a marvelous apartment at her fingertips and an elegant housekeeper to meet her every need, a finished book—and her dream of finally taking he...

Dee Ernst's Lucy Checks In is a delightful work of romantic comedy about a disgraced hotel manager who travels to Rennes to rebuild a hotel and her own life in the process.Lucia Giannetti needs a fresh start. Once the hotel manager of a glamorous NYC hotel and intimately involved with the hotel’s owner, Lucy had her entire future planned out. But when the owner disappears, taking millions of dollars with him, Lucy's life as she knows it falls apart.

"That is not a ghost story. That is the RiverCliffe legacy." She looked at me, her eyes gentle. "Do you find that hard to believe?"Three years after her divorce, Risa Armitage is still trying to get back on her feet. Living in the basement of her mother's brownstone with three kids, one bathroom and no cross ventilation is not her—or her three kids'—ideal.When the family of the father that she never knew leaves her a surprise inheritance, RiverCliffe, Risa knows he...

The last three novellas in the Mt. Abrams Mystery series.A Deadly New YearEllie Rocca and her boyfriend, Detective Sam Kinali are off to a cozy inn with Sam’s friends. He’s planned the perfect get-away—a murder mystery weekend. But romance takes a back seat when a real body turns up to spoil the fun.A Malicious MidwinterA surprise blizzard traps Ellie Rocca with unexpected guests, including an alcoholic author and her cowering assistant. As the storm worsens...

Andy Williams. Yoga. Twitter. Costco.What do these things have in common?Well, at one time or another, I blogged something about each of them. As a writer, you are often told to write what you know. This should tell you a lot about how glamorous and exciting this writer’s life is.I’ve put together a number of short essays on these and other fascinating subjects, most of them previously published on one of my blogs, and am offering them as a collection. Most of them ...

Ellie Rocca is spending the New Year’s with Sam Kinali in a romantic Vermont inn for a murder mystery weekend with his law school friends. Practically perfect, right? It is, until a real dead body turns up. It’s pretty much an open and shut case. The killer has to be one of the inn’s guests, but Sam can’t get any of them to start talking.Ellie and Sam find themselves working together to find the murderer, but just when they’re getting close, an arrest is made. Back in Mt. Abrams, b...

Sarafina Castellano has lost it all — her popular restaurant, her famous boyfriend, and her beloved father. At odds with her disapproving brothers, she has found a new place to call home, a quiet southern town called Hills of Andrew.Starting over means a new job and new people, especially a new man who may want more than she is willing to give. As she tentatively moves forward, there comes a call from home; a favorite niece whose needs threaten to disrupt her fragile peace....

Sixteen-year-old Carrie Fleming thought she was doing a good deed when a charming Frenchman claiming to be a prince crashed the wedding she was working. All she wanted to do was make sure he didn’t get into any trouble. And since he seemed infatuated with her older sister, Sara, it just made sense to ask Sara to help.Sara Fleming just wanted to make it through her senior year and get into a great music school. She didn’t care about friends or boys or any of the other distractions o...

Ellie Rocca tapped the best party-planning company in the state, Luxe, for her mother’s seventy-fifth birthday party, and she’s not disappointed. The food is perfect, the wine and beer are flowing freely, and all the guests are having a wonderful time. In fact, everything is going along just perfectly until one of the guests turns up dead, strangled with her own scarf.Ellie’s police detective boyfriend, Sam, is at the party, so he’s off the case. Ellie doesn’t have much faith in th...