It’s All About The Squirrels

I needed a date to my best friend’s wedding… not a Hollywood heartthrob in disguise.

Being a maid of honor should be fun. But when the best man also happens to be my ex, who cheated, and he’s bringing her as his plus-one? I’d rather get a root canal than show up solo.

Enter Teddy, the charming (and suspiciously handsome) guy who walks into my Wisconsin bakery and offers to be my fake date. I assume he’s just a nice guy… maybe even gay? (Who else volunteers for leg waxing prep and wedding weekend drama without blinking?)

What I don’t realize is that Teddy is actually Teddy Helms — as in, an actual movie star and suddenly, I’m living a real-life rom-com where secrets, sparks, and small-town shenanigans collide.

I know how this story should end. The celebrity goes back to Hollywood. The girl goes back to frosting cupcakes.

But what if this time, love decides to stick around?

Pity Date is a laugh-out-loud, romantic comedy with hidden identities, fake dating, a sweet slow burn, and more heart than a bakery case full of sugar cookies. Welcome to Elk Lake, where the men are handsome, the leg waxing is tragic, and love is just a little bit unexpected.

Perfect for fans of Hallmark vibes with all the vibes. Book one in a feel-good series of standalones.

An ancient mystery. A modern murder.

Cairo, 1919. As Egypt struggles for independence and fortune hunters scour the desert for ancient treasures, Sir Augustus Wall hopes to leave the horrors of the Great War behind him.

Scarred beyond recognition, he hides behind a prosthetic mask and moves to the native quarter of Cairo to open an antiquities shop. But Europe’s troubles follow him as a priceless inscription is stolen and those who know its secrets start turning up dead.

Teaming up with brilliant Egyptologist Moustafa Ghani, and Faisal, a mischievous street urchin he just can’t shake, Sir Augustus must unravel an ancient secret and face his own dark past.

Kindle Scout Winner in 2017

A true Vietnam War saga based on 50 interviews with veterans who were there and relatives of those who didn’t come home.

Monday, September 4, 1967…

Eyes peeled and moving quietly, Lance Corporal Jack Swan led 164 of his fellow US Marines from Mike Company, 3rd Battalion, Fifth Marines over the face of a bare, rocky knoll deep in the Que Son Valley of South Vietnam. The men knew every step could be booby-trapped and the enemy might be hiding behind any bush. Carrying unreliable M16 rifles that often malfunctioned, their job was to rescue an isolated company of fellow leathernecks besieged by the Communist North Vietnamese Army.

The sight of a serene, shrub-covered rice paddy greeted the Americans as they crested the knoll. “Too serene,” Swan thought as a bush quivered in the corner of his eye. “I think that bush just moved,” he whispered to his squad leader. “If it moves again, shoot it!” The shrub moved, Swan fired, and the bush went down.

Then, all hell broke loose…

A hailstorm of rocket-propelled grenades, thundering mortars, and AK-47 machine-gun fire strafed the exposed men from all directions. The Marines of Mike Company had walked into an ambush laid by over 2,500 well-camouflaged North Vietnamese warriors.

It seemed as if the Angel of Death was swooping down upon the Americans like a swift sword.

Instead of rescuing their fellow comrades, the Marines now faced complete annihilation. Outnumbered, out-gunned, and exposed, there was nowhere to hide. Would any of them survive to see the setting sun?

A smuggler, a stowaway slave, and a pirate find themselves on a collision course deep in the no-man’s-land of space, tracking a mystery that’s centuries old.

Maurice “Moss” Foote is down to his last hundred credits, which he needs to get his old ship back and start over. Again. But then, Moss is so familiar with rock bottom he has his mail forwarded there.

Hel was born a slave, or maybe she wasn’t. It’s confusing, just like the compulsion that keeps her building… something. When she sees an opportunity to escape aboard a ship, she takes it, not realizing the trouble she’s in for.

Roy “Hellno” Herzog is a pirate who prefers to work alone. Now he’s got a lead on a prize so big it could set him up for life, if he can stomach working with other people. All he has to do is track down one runaway slave.

When Nikki Knight returns to her childhood stomping grounds in Frog Hollow Georgia, she realizes life has become nuttier than the pecan muffins at her late grandmother’s haunted B&B. But the only ghost in the Moonlight Mansion is the previous lady of the house, still roaming the halls in her afterlife.

Not ten steps into town, Nikki finds herself with a furry new companion. An abandoned royal dachshund who just might carry the secret to his past owner’s untimely demise. But when Nikki is seen snooping around at one too many crime scenes, the local officer becomes suspicious and begins popping up where she least expects him.

Now, she needs to find out what happened ASAP and protect Prince Dasher Dangerdog Bean from falling into the wrong — and deadly — hands.

Can Nikki and her royal dachshund solve the case? Or will they end up roaming the Moonlight Mansion with her grandmother?

Brian and Dana Partridge finally felt safe after escaping from the FBI and the Temporal Analysis Unit to a place where no one could find them. But their relief was fleeting, as they soon found an intruder in their home, Colonel Schneider. They were bound, blindfolded and put in separate vehicles, with questions unanswered: Who is this Colonel working for? What does he want from them? Will they ever see each other again? Who will come to their rescue? Friend or Foe?

The time travel adventure continues.