At 33, Lexie Royce has everything. She's beautiful, smart, and single again. As a self-made millionaire, her fame extends far beyond Fort Wayne. Best of all, she's just been reunited with her old boyfriend, Steve Wright. So what could go wrong? Plenty, as it turns out, starting with her fortune. Her family and financial advisor want a piece of it. And they'll do almost anything to get it. Lexie's romance with Steve doesn't go smoothly either. Not only is he reluctant to marry again, but two other women are fighting for his affections: a pretty young girlfriend, and Lexie's own executive...

At 28, Lily Anderson, a pretty, self-assured career woman living in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is facing problems in the law firm where she's the manager. She's also sick of living so far from her only sister. She wants a better work environment, warmer weather, and marriage before she turns 30. During Christmas vacation at her sister's house on Marco Island, Florida, she impulsively decides to change everything in her life. Moving to Florida and finding a better job turns out to be easier than choosing the right husband from among the three eligible men who want her: Jack Moon, her long-time...

Jerry Lee Beaudry, a rich widow famous for her opulent gardens in Naples, Florida, is on a quest to find the traitor who published a false abortion story about her daughter, Poppy Beaudry McBride, a former beauty queen. The abortion scandal imperils the future of Poppy's husband, a conservative politician running for reelection against the smarmy Myron Mullett. Jerry Lee will do anything to find and punish the leaker. Molly Standardt -- the gossip columnist from Face Off -- sets out to rehabilitate Poppy's reputation. And Tom Lawton -- the detective from Face Off -- is hired by Poppy's...

Finding Mrs. Hyde is an amusing and concise how-to manual of twenty-one tips for first-time authors of mystery fiction. Margarite St. John (the pen name for two Midwestern sisters who have published a number of murder mysteries) sets out the standard rules of good writing, adds a few hilarious tips, then boils everything down to its essence for a quick, informative read.

When the newly married Lexie Royce and Steve Wright (the principals in Murder for Old Times' Sake) learn that Antoinette "Tawny" Delamarter died of poison at Scuttlebutt's, a gentlemen's club in Fort Wayne, they merely note it in passing. After all, Tawny -- the skank of the Carroll High School class of '94, an exotic dancer with a "generous" reputation -- was not a friend. But then, they learn, Tawny is survived by a teen-aged daughter, Jacintha Caitlin, who is on a quest to find her biological father. Her only clue is a scrapbook Tawny had hidden for sixteen years. Lexie is always ready to...

Postcards from a Tuscan Christmas is the warm and funny story of Americans in Italy. Postcards reveal the transformation of both the travelers and the villagers. Steve and Lexie Wright, Fort Wayne entrepreneurs, take a dozen of their friends and employees to Tuscany for a long Christmas vacation. The old hilltop village of San Michele de Greve is enchanting -- especially the 9th century church of Santa Maria Maggiore, where Lexie finds that a fresco of the Blessed Virgin is in serious need of restoration. In an unexpected twist, she finds a way to do that while also transforming the life of a...

Thelma Cox is obsessed with finding the man who raped, strangled, and murdered her daughter in Chicago fourteen years earlier. With the help of an ex-CIA investigator and the Fort Wayne Police, she comes to suspect Clay Teeter, a prominent real estate lawyer and secret swinger who used to work for the United Nations. Teeter is part of a global cabal to enforce the United Nations' radical Agenda 21 in the heartland of America. Dick Fetters, the goodwill ambassador for the Midwest Community Alliance for Social Development, joins forces with Teeter. Having quietly adopted Agenda 21's...

The much-married Madeleine Harrod is a beautiful and talented woman obsessed with death. She sees things no one else sees. As one of the best forensic artists in the country, she visualizes the face of an unidentified skull before anyone else can. She owns Appledorn Exploratorium, which makes spooky scientific toys for a global market. Her oil paintings of dead people -- haunting and expensive -- sell nationally. Despite her success, Madeleine is troubled. She hasn't been her old self since, at the age of eleven during a picnic at the Dunes, she tried to rescue a girlfriend carried away by a...

Blond and beautiful Kayla Jesperson is on top of the world when she's hired as the Special Assistant to Congressman Tad Bristoll, a rich, handsome, and powerful politician with an eye for pretty women. Kayla's glamorous new life comes to an abrupt end when she's attacked by Tad's wife after a fundraiser. Kayla walks out of the hotel into a terrible storm -- and vanishes, leaving a crowd of suspects but no clues. After she disappears, Kayla's only contact is with her roommate, Bridget Deel, to whom she sends cellphone texts that read like brain-teasers. With help from a psychic, a fairytale...