Seven Days of Friday opens with Days of the Week underwear and closes with a forty-year-old secret that refuses to stay submerged. Thirty-four-year-old Vivi Tyler is living her nightmare: gay husband, self-harming teenager, melodramatic mother. They're picking apart her sanity, one stitch at a time. She's crawling along rock bottom when the arrival of a mysterious package opens a new door to a new country. A desperate Vivi dives headfirst into the quicksand that is Greece-her parents' birthplace. But it's a paradise far from perfect, and instead of the new beginning she covets, Vivi discovers...
Seven Days of Friday opens with Days of the Week underwear and closes with a forty-year-old secret that refuses to stay submerged. Thirty-four-year-ol...
A fake (and very convenient) coma, an arranged marriage, and a disappearing-finger trick kick off the second book in the Women of Greece series. Twenty-eight-year-old Kiki Andreou has lived her whole life in Agria, Greece, a seaside village where old-fashioned mothers arrange marriages, and gossip moves faster than light. Kiki doesn't want to get married, so she's itching to pop the champagne cork when her fiance is a no-show at the church. Until tragedy strikes the town, and Kiki's brief splash of freedom is washed away by accusations of murder and infidelity. Soon life-long friendships are...
A fake (and very convenient) coma, an arranged marriage, and a disappearing-finger trick kick off the second book in the Women of Greece series. Twent...
Kat Makris was just a kid when her father spun wild and gruesome bedtime stories about Baboulas, the Greek boogeyman, a fearsome creature with a penchant for stealing gold and clashing with the gods. Now Kat is twenty-eight, single, an only child halfway to orphaned, and her father's weirdo fairytales lie crumpled at the bottom of her childhood closet, in the house where she still lives. But when her father is abducted by men with crooked noses, she discovers his old stories were true-true crime, that is. What does Kat know about crime? Nothing, that's what. Her only transgression, to date,...
Kat Makris was just a kid when her father spun wild and gruesome bedtime stories about Baboulas, the Greek boogeyman, a fearsome creature with a pench...
With her father still missing, and no news or ransom demands, Kat Makris is sweating under the blistering Greek sun. But when her grandmother receives a mysterious puzzle box from one of the Family's most questionable allies, Kat's not even remotely prepared for the worst. Kat's quest to find her father takes her from the vertigo-inducing heights of Meteora to Greece's pebbled beaches, with a growing number of assassins on her tail. Kat's presence in Greece means times are a-changing, and Grandma's enemies hate change-unless it turns a tidy profit. The last thing they want is an unknown...
With her father still missing, and no news or ransom demands, Kat Makris is sweating under the blistering Greek sun. But when her grandmother receives...
With Grandma's second best henchman and his wife tagging along, Katerina Makris is back in Portland to untangle some of her kidnapped father's secrets. However, she gets sidetracked when she discovers her house is one corpse less empty than it was when she left. To complicate things, a pair of American cops are snooping around, asking questions about her missing father and a fellow detective they can't seem to locate ... When it becomes apparent that her father's secrets extend beyond the small safe in the bathroom wall, Kat races back to Greece, where she discovers the sexy, and...
With Grandma's second best henchman and his wife tagging along, Katerina Makris is back in Portland to untangle some of her kidnapped father's secrets...
After a covert attempt to buy Marika a pregnancy test fails, everyone in Greece wants to know who is the father of Kat's baby? If a rampant case of mistaken pregnancy isn't bad enough, an encounter with Greece's National Intelligence Agency turns sour fast, and soon Kat finds herself stuck in Naples, Italy, with a probably-pregnant Marika and a crime lord's nephew for company. No money. No food. Working cellphone? Fuggedaboutit. What they do have is a gun, thanks to their new-and suspect-guardian angel, a hobo with urinary issues and what used to be a very nice coat. There's no way out of...
After a covert attempt to buy Marika a pregnancy test fails, everyone in Greece wants to know who is the father of Kat's baby? If a rampant case of mi...
It's not easy being dead. Just ask Kat Makris. She's stuck in an underground bunker, watching her own funeral, where more people are laughing than crying. Being dead has other consequences, too. Her face is in all the papers, her bank is convinced she's an identity thief, and the sexy Detective Melas is under siege by his trampy ex-girlfriend, who happens to work for Greece's version of the CIA. The timing couldn't be worse; she just figured out where her missing father might be. Escaping Grandma's cozy bunker is the only way find her dad-a feat that would be simpler if she could access her...
It's not easy being dead. Just ask Kat Makris. She's stuck in an underground bunker, watching her own funeral, where more people are laughing than cry...
Now that her father is dead and she's dropped out of high school to help support the family, Effie Makri's future is carved in marble. Until a crime in the dark throws her into the path of Nikos Lemonis, the local police detective's son. He's dedicated to following in his father's footsteps, which means his tolerance for deception is low. With Nikos, her future can be something better. But to get there she'll have to tell the truth and risk losing a piece of herself.
Now that her father is dead and she's dropped out of high school to help support the family, Effie Makri's future is carved in marble. Until a crime i...
For fifty years, Greece has been calling out to Fotini Manitou. But when she fled during the aftermath of a terrible crime, she swore she'd never return home. Now her granddaughter Lucy wants to see Greece, and Lucy is the one person to whom she can't say no. But what if they remember her face? What if they remember her name? Once old bones float there's no way to rebury them.
For fifty years, Greece has been calling out to Fotini Manitou. But when she fled during the aftermath of a terrible crime, she swore she'd never retu...