Ruby Carmichael, a skinny thirteen-year-old, finds her stepfather leaning over her mother's deceased body. Protruding from Eleanor's chest was a pair of scissors plunged deep in her chest. Eleanor had been Jack Parade's ex-wife for more than five years. ... Jack turned and stared at Ruby, who was standing at the kitchen entrance. Ruby stared in disbelief. Her stepdad was leaning over her mother, and her mother was dead on the floor. Eleanor's face was white with fear, and her eyes were bulging out. Jack reached around Eleanor's body to check for a pulse. She was dead. She died after the one...

A Ruby Just The Same is a mystery/suspense novel set in central New Mexico. Olivia Roberts, a tall captivating transsexual woman with two mesmerizing attributes: A seductive walk and a deep, raspy erotic voice. Ms. Roberts is a selfish, forceful adversary to her old boss, Jack Parade, an Antique Broker from Albuquerque. Olivia is enamored by the Primero Commander of the Knights Templar Drug Cartel of Guadalajara, Mexico. Olivia risks her life to save her lover, Alejandro Mondragon, from the fierce drug lord. In order for Olivia to raise enough money to escape to South America with her father,...