Good Grief The Series, Volume 1...Joan Freed is a rebel life coach who believes that grief recovery can be fast tracked with her 7 step-7 day program. Joan has set out in her RV and old chevy truck to prove her theory that others pooh-pooh. Can she do it? Or will she be laughed out of the business -- or will the powers that be find a way to shut her up? These are her stories.

Meet Joan Freed, a rebel Life Coach and Nutritional Therapist with a low profile, but not hidden agenda. Gary's Demise takes Joan to Desert Breeze Park, near Phoenix, Arizona -- where a body is discovered that Gary identified as the man responsible for Gary's situation. Has Joan taken on a murderer? Sharee, from 'Rita's Story' makes an appearance, and you'll meet Marion, who has her own emotional roller coaster to ride.

Two women lay sprawled in front of my truck. They are very dead. Queenie sits like a statue on the passenger side of my vintage Chevy pick-up looking like the circus fat lady that she thinks she is - but she's not laughing. I am on sabbatical in the Kaibab National Forest, feeding my own free spirit with life changing time by myself, much needed and anticipated after my last exhausting coaching case. I know none of these women, but the two dead ones seem to have known me because they have magically materialized near each of my camps for a couple of seasons now. I met Queenie last evening and...

The body wedged in the doorway, floating on a pool glass shards and red liquid, was very much alive. But the body laid out under a palo verde tree in my retention pond was very much dead. The live body wedged in the doorway was blinded in the line of duty, living a demoralizing life of forced retirement with no enemies and no hope. The corpse under the Palo Verde tree was a county code enforcer with a plethora of enemies - and I was the targeted fall gal for the murder. This is the story of Max - the bored blind guy; Irene - the blind guy's discontented wife, who retired from school teaching...

I find .... asking myself the questions that were part of ..... dialogues between Rita and Joan and looking for my own answers .... - a good read and well worth the hike ... ....everybody needs to read this book. Author's note - this book was previously published as 'Rita's Story'. Why is Joan Freed a magnet for souls mired in grief? Is it because she has a life changing plan for personal growth that succeeds for those she attracts? Or is it because she's a free spirit, expanding her own horizons, tugging and propelling others through their muck and into positivity? Consider Rita. Rita is a...

...it's like you're there... ...a cozy mystery worth the short escape... Volume 3 of Joan Freed's Good Grief series is a trilogy of murder, mayhem, and demands - not necessarily in that order. Mad scientist, Gary, is the recipient of heavy metal toxicity - but cancer free - who is suddenly unemployed, unemployable, angry, depressed, and at the end of his rope. The fact that he looks like Mr. Potato Head doesn't help Joan's success oriented mindset to encourage Gary's personal growth or anger management. And when the drunk sleeping it off in the park turns out to be the body of Gary's boss who...

Mix Joan Freed - the rebel life coach, Jenny - her identity shifting friend. Add a flaky writer who is a cracker-jack geologist wanna be, who is - or is not - an unmarried widow, who is - or is not - a client. Attempt to toss them into an active volcano in the Ring of Fire - Mt. St. Helens, specifically, and what do you get? You get a life changing mysterious adventure about volcanoes, obsidian, garnets, and people. The journey begins in Arizona, but travels through Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and Washington before this Mt. St. Helens Affair winds up near the north rim of the Grand Canyon....

Have you ever pictured your life as a secret shopper? Do you share my old attitude of 'that's a job for a bored homemaker's pin money' or 'that's all a scam'? Surprise It's neither - if you know how to play your cards right. True Secret Shopper Diaries is a tell all book that paints a picture in words of what a secret shopper actually does; where one has to live; what special tools and skills are required; how to make more than pin money shopping; and answers the question, "Just how old is this profession?." Armed with this quick read, you can paint yourself into the picture and decide...

What's more fun than being stuck in rush hour traffic on the 10? How about another adventure with Joan Freed, the rebel life coach who only wants to start fulfilling her bucket list - beginning with seeing the Aurora Borealis up close and personal in Alaska. Alaska because she's feeling a distinct pull, magnetic if you will, to 'do' Alaska as a tourist. But first she has a coaching client near Mormon Lake who needs her attention. A client named Geraldine who's not only a character in her own right, but has a plethora of surprises that turns Joan's life upside down and forces her to unearth...