My Bad

A long-lost sister. A new disappearance.

A journalist called home to face her haunted past.

When another woman vanishes in broad daylight from the same countryside community where Paige’s sister disappeared fifteen years ago, the past and present blur in a chilling echo of familiar rumours and unsettling memories.

With no investigation or news coverage to counter the widespread gossip painting her sister as a rebellious runaway, Paige launched her journalism career determined to write the truth. Yet, the one story that’s eluded her is her sister’s, muddled in a haze of unchallenged gossip, unanswered questions, and personal grief.

Returning home means dredging up painful memories, challenging the skepticism of the police, and confronting the fractures in her own family. But with her journalism career hanging in the balance, this could be Paige’s last chance to give voice to the silenced, and make sense of the ghosts that haunt her.

In a tale of lost souls and found purpose, can Paige confront the shadows of her past to illuminate the truth and find redemption? Dive into a gripping mystery where one woman’s quest for answers might just be the key to her salvation.

Tombstone, Arizona, 1880s

I thought I’d have my bakery in Chicago forever but it all disappeared in a single afternoon. Everything gone-my family business, my home, my future. What was I supposed to do? As a young, single woman in the 1880s, there were very few options.

Fortunately, my twin sister Suzanne had moved to Tombstone and built a business of her own with her husband. She wrote that her husband’s best friend needed to get married fast to get a loan to open his fancy restaurant and would I consider it. I missed her enough and was desperate enough to say yes. The only problem was, she didn’t tell him I was an accomplished baker in my own right-and that’s not what he had in mind at all.

When I stepped off the stagecoach, it was shocking. Tombstone was nothing like what I expected. I’d pictured cactus and dust and lots of gunfights. So as I passed by the Grand Hotel, the library, the schoolhouse and even an ice cream parlor, I thought maybe this wouldn’t be so bad after all.

I got to meet the six Archer sisters and their grumpy, widowed father, and they embraced me like one of their own. I thought things were going well, but the shock on Tripp’s face when Suzanne introduced me-her identical twin-had me praying that he wouldn’t send me straight back to Chicago. Nothing was waiting for me there but heartache and starvation, and I resolved to do my best to help him make his fancy restaurant a success. That is, if he’d let me.

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She crossed an ocean to start her life over. Can she nab a killer before her quaint village becomes a graveyard?

Recently widowed Leta Parker desperately needs a change of scenery. Pursuing her lifelong dream of retiring to the Cotswolds, she leaves her soulless corporate hustle in Atlanta and moves to England with her talking dog and cat companions — Dickens and Christie. But she’s barely begun making new friends when she stumbles across her housekeeper’s body…

With several villagers pegged for the crime, Leta teams up with a retired English teacher and her sharp-as-a-tack octogenarian mother to track the killer before the trail goes cold. As the not-so-friendly local policewoman elbows them out and scandalous rumors plague the tight-knit community, it’s left to the ladies and their pets to sleuth for the truth.

Can Leta, Dickens, and Christie sniff out the culprit before the cute little town loses more than its charm?

Bells, Tails & Murder is the delightful first book in the Dickens & Christie cozy mystery series. If you like spunky literary women, amusing animal sidekicks, and inviting cultural backdrops, then you’ll love Kathy Manos Penn’s engaging page-turner.

A disgraced soldier, a draco with attitude, and a thief who won’t let him quit. The fight for justice begins on the streets of Nike City.

Gideon Quinn, wrongly imprisoned for treason, is released under suspicious terms and sent to Nike City with nothing but a handful of starbucks, his pet draco Elvis, and a target on his back.

Gideon has one goal: clear his name and end the traitor who framed him. Nothing in that plan includes taking on strays — least of all an under-aged thief who crashes into his life, bringing chaos, questions, and — worst of all — more people.

But as danger closes in and enemies move in the shadows, Gideon must decide: continue chasing his solitary revenge — or stand up and fight for those Fortune has left behind.