The Lady Tickleworthy is not amused at the arrival of a baby brother. With her butt-ler and maid doing double-duty as footman and cook, she's already short-staffed Then, one day, after a severe tickling, she begins to appreciate her new sibling and learns the true meaning of Tickleton Abbey.

When a traveling saleswoman begins an affair with her road partner, there's more at stake than just her marriage. Or his. For anyone who has ever sung the blues, this short romance with a musical twist will pull you in and leave you wanting more.

The second in a series of noir romance "Blues" novellas, Brick City Blues centers on a chance meeting between two strangers on an airport layover in Newark, New Jersey--the Brick City. She's shuttling between her teaching job at Cornell and a research project in DC; he's on his way to deliver a briefcase full of cash from the Cuban mob in Miami to a local capo for the Italian Mafia in Utica, New York. But opposites attract.

Unaware of what he might be mixed up in, she finds herself slowly drawn to the tall, well-dressed stranger with the black briefcase. And he is...