Karine Kelly’s dream of a fresh start as a mail-order bride in booming 1882 San Francisco becomes a nightmare when her charming Irish husband is murdered on their wedding night. Waking to destitute widowhood and fiercely angry in-laws, she discovers a series of shocking secrets that her husband left behind.Why did he tell no one about their wedding? Why was a Chinese assailant hunting him and now stalking her? Why do residents in the city shadows seem to know more about her husband...

Determined to carve out a respectable life for herself in the raw and unforgiving world of 1882 San Francisco, widowed Mrs. Kelly bakes for the Palace Hotel and rents an apartment with Miss Smith, who manages a fancy glove shop. But a fateful trip to fisherman’s wharf with her friend and the discovery of a dead woman tangled in a net with a bible, once again throws her into the cooly critical Detective Max Fisher’s path.Although Mrs. Kelly has no intention of pursuing the case, Mis...

In the heart of Old San Francisco, Mrs. Karine Kelly’s new career as the confectioner at the opulent Palace Hotel takes a deadly turn when the reverend from her small Minnesota town—a man she believes murdered her aunt—unexpectedly arrives with familiar and hated companions, eats one of her signature desserts and drops dead from poisoning. Suddenly, she’s ringing in the New Year as a murder suspect.Detective Fisher’s team is stretched thin after a freak snowfall hits New Year’s Day...

Loveda Brown thinks she's running from her hot-tempered husband, but a hidden killer in the tiny town of Idyllwild has other plans for her.When Loveda Brown arrives in the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, she is running from her husband. But when a body turns up the next day, she realizes she might have worse things following her… that cold, clenched fist holds something that forces Loveda to stay in Idyllwild and use a...

An Idyllwild wedding is threatened when visions of the future are clouded by secrets of the past.Loveda Brown is a bridesmaid in the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, but with the wedding only three days away, a guest drops face first into the chicken salad. Is it misdiagnosis or murder? Between a fortune teller, a nosy reporter, four physicians, and an overbearing aunty, Loveda wanders a maze of deceit to uncover the ki...

Loveda Brown finds herself on the run as a killer counts down, people go missing… and not even home base is safe.No one heard the girl scream. The tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, is struggling with a runaway boy, an unflappable sorority, a crippled woman, a pack of mules, and now a murder. When the Hemet police step in to assist, Loveda Brown is left to pursue her own suspicions. Is it sabotage, subterfuge, or somethin...

Loveda Brown inherits more than a tiny hotel in Idyllwild, she inherits the guests that come with it and the killer walking among them.Loveda Brown has inherited more than a tiny hotel in Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, she's inherited trouble. A pretentious lawyer, a Boy Scout troop invasion, insufferable suffragettes, and a pair of pompous honeymooners are about to interrupt her best laid plans. Between murder and a kidnapping, the pressure i...

In a mystery as twisty as the Rio Grande, Loveda Brown takes a fateful Texas two-step on her journey West and has to hunt down a rattler.Señora Loveda Dunn's newly found marital bliss is interrupted when she discovers the maid sleeping in the bridal bed instead of making it. A week after dismissing the maid in a flash of fury, Loveda finds the woman dead in the orchard. The handsome Mr. Dunn would rather she focus on her civic duties in town than the shadowy doings...

Loveda Brown must save an opera singer from his lethal pursuer, but a tangle of masculine admiration has her singing the blues.When opera singer André Bernardi arrives in the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, mysterious accidents follow him. Can Loveda Brown prevent his murder while fending off the advances of a passionate artist, and will a zealous paleontologist dig up more than he bargained for? A shocking package on ...

Loveda Brown's death was greatly exaggerated. But that doesn't stop the skeletons in her closet from celebrating.With Loveda Brown's wedding only three weeks away, the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, is shocked when her uncle arrives for her funeral instead. A guest is found murdered and her hopes of happiness dwindle. Can Loveda connect a string of threatening letters, a one-legged madman, a dead pocket watch, and a m...

Loveda Brown's wedding vows instantly unravel with a single shot through the minister's heart. Who was the bullet for and why?It's finally September in the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, and everyone is present for Loveda Brown's wedding. But, with a single bullet, the celebration is ruined. With the law out of town, Loveda needs all the help she can get to bring the killer to justice. Loveda Brown is getting married—...

Can Loveda Brown catch a killer before her framed fiancé hangs for it?Who killed Bill Tennyson? The sheriff wants to know. The reporters want to know. But if her fiancé is framed for the murder, Loveda Brown doesn't want to know. She wants justice. The tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, turns upside down when the arrival of Wyatt Earp sets off a chain of events that only a killer could appreciate.