She’s pursued the most dangerous news stories around the world. But can she survive going home?Injured in a bombing, war correspondent Kate Tessler returns to her hometown in Arizona to recover. For the first time in her life, she's starting to feel her age of nearly fifty despite living like a teenager again: staying in her childhood bedroom with only a cat for company, trying to understand why her sister resents her so much, and running into people who still refe...

Starting over at fifty might be hard, but it shouldn’t be deadly…Still recovering from an injury that might have permanently derailed her career as an international war correspondent, Kate Tessler is living in her childhood bedroom and pondering her second act when another case lands in her lap. Kate’s father and his coffee group are worried. Their friend Larry married a younger woman who now insists he has dementia and won’t let any of his friends visit. They’re c...

When a young geologist takes a job as rock and mineral curator at a quirky New Mexico western history museum, she expects a quiet life surrounded by stones, but not murder.Petra Cloch has a secret: she’s psychic. She can touch an object and sense the lingering emotions of those who held it; fear, rage, grief. Introverted and cautious, she’s avoided friendships, preferring rocks that rarely “talk” to her…until now.The moment she handles a jagged cry...

She didn’t anticipate a career change at fifty…Forced to leave her celebrated career as an international war correspondent after an injury, Kate Tessler now dabbles in detective work in her Arizona hometown. She and her sister, Jen, need to take any job offered if they want to become true PIs. When Jen’s college friend asks them to investigate suspicious activity at a motel he inherited, it sounds like a free vacation with a little surveillance thrown in.Bu...

Three cases. One body. Zero chance of staying out of trouble.Kate Tessler may have thought her days of chasing danger were over. But the former war correspondent’s “retirement” in sunny Paradise, Arizona, is anything but quiet. With her eccentric circle of friends and colleagues, Kate has built a new life—full of mysteries, mayhem, and the occasional stakeout—as she works towards earning her PI license.After wrapping her last case, Kate wonders wha...

A billionaire cowboy with something to prove. A feisty neighbor who wants nothing to do with him. And one bachelor auction that changes everything.For years, TC Tomlinson has lived in his older brother’s shadow. Now, with his family’s sudden lottery win, he’s finally ready to chase his own dream of raising alternative livestock on his Texas ranch. But when he catches a gorgeous stranger cradling one of his runaway ostrich chicks, TC jumps to the wrong conc...

Turning fifty in her childhood bedroom wasn’t on her bucket list…Kate Tessler is convinced her sister is trying to kill her. In fact, she might prefer death to Jen’s “50 for 50 Challenge,” where Kate will try fifty new things throughout the year she turns fifty. Still adjusting to her new underemployed life back in her childhood home in Phoenix, the last thing Kate wants is to prepare for paddle boarding, especially when she receives an anonymous message claiming t...

It’s hard to walk away from the truth when you need a cane…Former international war correspondent Kate Tessler had to trade her illustrious journalism career for her childhood bedroom after a brush with death almost took her leg. But when the editor of a local newspaper asks for her help, Kate is drawn back into her old world. A journalist covering a sprawling story of political corruption may have uncovered explosive new evidence, but she was run off the road in a...

Sensing the emotions of anyone who’s touched an object can be a gift…or a danger.After solving the mystery of her predecessor’s death, geologist Petra Cloch settles into her role as curator of rocks and minerals at a quirky New Mexico museum. But her friend and colleague Liberty suspects that the “accidental” death of Frank Underwood, a retired petroleum engineer and avid rockhound, may not have been so accidental. Frank had been acting secretive in his fi...

A geologist with an unwanted psychic gift, a man on the run, a dead body and a friend accused of…murder?Geologist Petra Cloch can touch an object and sense the emotions of the people who’ve held it before. Although her paranormal powers are a burden, they’ve helped her solve severalcrimes and make friends in her new southwestern small town**.** She’s enjoying settling into her new job when her landlord, Shelley introduces an “old friend.” Wayne seems cagey...

A billionaire cowboy. A hidden fortune. An attorney with a longtime crush. Sprinkle in some Christmas magic and let the fun begin.Texas rancher Josh Tomlinson never wanted fame or fortune, but overnight his family’s lottery win makes them billionaires; and strangers to one another. When he turns to family friend and sharp new attorney Carly Garza for help, he’s stunned. The tomboy he once knew is now a gorgeous, no-nonsense lawyer… and com...

Kate Tessler and her crew of misfits set out to blow the whistle on two feuding crime families . . .Former war correspondent Kate Tessler has solved multiple murders since returning to her Arizona hometown, to the grudging appreciation of the local police. Now Detective Padilla and the FBI approach Kate with a proposal. Two Russian crime families have rented a private historic train to the Grand Canyon for their children’s wedding. The route is scenic and remote. No cell phones. Th...