Petite fours, lemon drops, tea, and a deadly stabbing normally don't go together, especially at a colonial high tea.Deena Powers is back in Four Creeks to attend the annual event put on by her aunt's chapter of the Women of Colonial Heritage. But when her aunt's closest friend is murdered, Deena finds herself drawn to investigate a tangled web of misappropriated chapter funds, adultery and long-held secrets and she soon discovers that sins of the past are never left behind, no matt...

Marriage and motherhood aren't enough for Deena Powers. Anxious to re-establish herself as a capable professional investigator, she opens an agency in Four Creeks where she now lives. One of her first cases is for the Grimes Corporation, a property dispute, simple enough, but when the CEO is killed in a plane crash, she soon learns that farming is not a tame business. While juggling life as a working mother, she finds herself drawn into the turmoil within the grieving family. And then to c...

Deena Powers' life has come apart at the seams. Her father has been killed in an auto accident, and her aunt is under suspicion for a murder. Convinced her aunt is innocent, Deena intends to prove it. And who better to ferret out the truth? After all, Deena's a private investigator.When she arrives in Four Creeks in California's San Joaquin Valley where her aunt lives, she's in for a number of surprises, the first being that her former high school sweetheart, Avis "Buzz" Walker, is...