Sitting Ducks
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Newcomers have Hobart Junction in an uproar. At the Beauty Mark, Wendy has fallen hard for a mysterious stranger operating a commodities trading pool in an abandoned farmhouse at the edge of town. Gretta’s new beau is excellent help at the Good Food Café, but members of Stitch and Bitch are sure he’s only after her money. Their suspicions are confirmed when Gus and the breakfast cook take off together. Meanwhile, Police chief Frank Beemer has his hands full trying to catch wily burglars who always seem to stay one step ahead of him.
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The Trouble With Diamonds
It is the summer of 1943 and the military wives living at Bagley's Quiet Motor Court have a new project. They're sewing for Lily. the teenager in Bungalow 3 due to have a baby in just a few months.
When Camille and MaryJo discover a magnificent diamond ring hidden under Camille's mattress, they decide to keep it a secret while they track down the rightful owner. They bury the diamond to keep it safe, but the ring won't stay put.
Without warning, Camille is fired from her job at the air force base, accused of passing information to the enemy. A Gypsy fortune teller warns of danger ahead, but neither woman expects terrifying thugs to show up and threaten their lives and the lives of their children.
Faced with increasing peril, they reveal the existence of the valuable diamond to other members of the War Wives Sewing Club. Now they all could die.
As MaryJo says, "it's all good and well till your bobbin runs out."
Paperback and ebook versions of this, the second in the Home Front series, are available at amazon.com
When Camille and MaryJo discover a magnificent diamond ring hidden under Camille's mattress, they decide to keep it a secret while they track down the rightful owner. They bury the diamond to keep it safe, but the ring won't stay put.
Without warning, Camille is fired from her job at the air force base, accused of passing information to the enemy. A Gypsy fortune teller warns of danger ahead, but neither woman expects terrifying thugs to show up and threaten their lives and the lives of their children.
Faced with increasing peril, they reveal the existence of the valuable diamond to other members of the War Wives Sewing Club. Now they all could die.
As MaryJo says, "it's all good and well till your bobbin runs out."
Paperback and ebook versions of this, the second in the Home Front series, are available at amazon.com
Special Interests
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The time has come to vote for the next mayor of Hobart Junction. Boyd-The-Barber thinks he has the election sewn up. But several other candidates join the fray, and the battle for votes is on.
The gals at Stitch and Bitch may differ on how to vote, but all agree something needs to be done about rogue dogs roaming the streets. It's time to bring in a sharp shooter who won't miss. Talk around town is that Teenie's marriage is on the rocks. And Rita Lee's ex-husband is back to win her love all over again. And did you hear? Julia Roberts is buying the old Quigley Place! Paperback and ebook in this second of the Hobart Junction series are available from Amazon. |
WAR WIVES POKER CLUB
It's the summer of 1944. Women's lives are changing in ways they could only imagine just a few short years before. Along with victory gardens, scrap drives and rationing, women are wearing pants for the first time and enjoying freedoms long denied
As World War II drags on, the Flanigan sisters, Kathleen and Polly, do their best to hold things together on the home front. But a charming traveling salesman appears, Polly's wedding plans are derailed by the richest woman in town, and a skinflint banker threatens the family business.
It will take the War Wives Poker Club and a lot of moxie to make it through till fall.
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Ladies Night Out
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When Rita Lee Taylor hires the Top Cats, six male strippers and their diva MC, all she has in mind is raising money for the Hobart Junction volunteer fire department. But the firestorm she creates is more than she bargained for. Soon hair styles, a mysterious decency committee and a missing park fountain complicate matters.
Rita Lee is much too busy to notice the growing intensity of her friendship with Walt Billings, editor of the town's newspaper and its most reluctant eligible bachelor. When police raid the show, four of the community's most prominent women are arrested, and the town is forced to take a second look at what it means to be "moral." And Rita Lee and Walt must decide if the risks of love are worth taking. |
"Funny, sassy, full of surprises. I loved the characters."
Sally Portman, author of The Smiling Country
Sally Portman, author of The Smiling Country
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