Private investigator, Ricky Steele is on the case, trailing the philandering spouse of an old schoolmate. When the lothario turns up dead, Celeste, his widow, hires Ricky and her team to find his killer. Celeste slaps down a huge retainer, then insists on joining the investigation, designer PI wardrobe and all. Join Ricky and her team on another rollicking adventure where evil lies in the most unexpected places.
These are not, I should say at the outset, tales written for the benefit of good and well-behaved girls who always stick to the path when they go to Grandma's. Skipping along in their gingham frills - basket of scones, jam and clotted cream upon their arms - what need can these girls have for caution? Rather, these are tales for girls who have boots as stout as their hearts, and who are prepared to firmly lace them up (boots and hearts both) and step out into the wilds in search of what they desire. Taking her cues from the Brothers Grimm and Scheherazade, Rosie - a thoroughly modern Little Red Riding Hood - tells us of love and desire, men and women, heartache and happiness. Beguiling, clever and funny, Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls is a sheer delight. ss, wit, simplicity and directness, Rosie offers her clear-eyed, slyly funny and rueful take on life, love and everything in between.
Ricky Steele is on the case, this time hired to find two missed children, who have vanished, poof! The investigation plunges her into the underworld of child trafficking and exploitation as she moves from dark city streets to a wealthy beach front community, where evil lies behind a façade of gentility. Once again, Ricky is joined by her high school buddies, who are visiting for the weekend. Armed with cuffs, pepper spray and stun guns, the three Rambettes jump right into the investigation, mayhem and humor following in their wake. In this fourth book in the series, Ricky also finds love when Charlie Bowen, or Dr. McDreamy, as her friends call him, moves into her neighborhood and into her heart. His daughter, Mike, who wants to learn the PI business, joins Ricky, Wilda and the gang on yet another breathtaking adventure filled with danger, humor, pathos, and surprise.
Despite her incessant flirting, Aria Firorelli is actually quite inexperienced and clueless when it comes to men. Then gorgeous Jonas Miller breezes into town and sweeps her off her feet. When passion sparks between them, they share a sizzling night before he heads back east without a word, shattering her heart. Now, after six months of radio silence, Jonas is back, living and working nearby and ready to rev things up again. Never! Aria swears. How stupid was he to leave her, and how can he win her back, Jonas wonders. Of one thing he is certain—he cannot live without the violet eyed chef who has captured his heart so completely. Grab your copy of Aria’s Song and join the Morgans, Fosters and the Saguaro Valley community as Aria and Jonas explore the ins and outs of love in book 11 of Morgan’s Run!
Thrown together before their parents’ wedding, Buck Foster and Hazel Winthrop’s white hot attraction ignites. Each has a string of failed relationships and neither wants to get serious, or do they? How could she not fall for the man who saved her life? Hazel Winthrop, the youngest of Helen’s four daughters and the only one unmarried and still looking for what her sisters have—loving partners and children—comes to Saguaro Valley for a change of scene and decides to stay awhile, working for Robbie Morgan’s adventure tours company, a job she did for many years back east. Buck Foster, a successful California artist – painting and stained glass – comes to the Valley often to stay with his dad, Spark. When they both sign up as guides on a hiking and canoeing tour, Hazel nearly drowns, saved, and brought back to life by Buck. Their attraction already simmering under the surface explodes in the aftermath of the near drowning, then Buck hightails it back to Laguna Beach and leaves Hazel hurt and confused. Suddenly they’re stuck together planning and working on their parents’ wedding. Will this time be love, or another disaster? Come back to the Valley for #16, Morgan’s Run and share this couple’s wild, tumultuous second chance at love.
Heart shattered, Lolly Rogers vows she’ll never love again. She’s got her work, as partner in Merlin’s Closet, a successful children’s book catalogue, and her daughter Maisie. She does not, I repeat, does not need a man. Besides, even if she wanted a man, where would she find one in tiny little Horseshoe Crab Cove? Then blue eyed, hunky Jack Faulkner -- with a body that fits hers to perfection -- drives into town and she’s lost, gonzo. Falls like a ton of bricks! Jack has finally extracted himself from a tortuous relationship so the last thing on his mind is love. Then he spies two women walking down Main Street, one a raven haired beauty with intense violet eyes and the most luscious body on the planet, and he wonders if he might want to rethink the love thing, or at least the lust thing! Pick up your copy of Lolly’s Wish and join all your favorite the Morgan’s Fire characters as Lolly and Jack’s white hot love affair unfolds in book #5 of this popular contemporary romance series.
The #1 New York Times bestselling follow-up to Eat Pray Love—an intimate and erudite celebration of love from the author of Big Magic and City of Girls. At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which-after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing-gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Told with Gilbert's trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committed attempts to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert's memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.
This book brings together theory and praxis, so that feminist discourse interacts as a partner with the lived experience of women's social action. The selections combine classics in feminist thought with work from modern theorists and offer a solid foundation in international feminism. The conceptual understanding embedded in the terms 'feminism' and 'womanism' contributes to feminist discourse, a carefully differentiated focus on the ideological uses of language to define relationships that have been historically mired in domination. The terms also define the way gender often has been used to signify and support domination. Given that feminism and womanism are interpretative concepts, there is always a sense that knowledge-making is in progress; for there is nothing static or stagnant about feminism, feminist theory, and feminist action. The formative nature of the feminist movement has, of necessity, a parallel interpretative theory. This Reader embraces both the formative nature of the movement and the accompanying interpretative theories.It also pays attention to the chronological, cultural, geo-political, racial, and ethnic landscapes and sites where women live, carry out social action, and theorise issues of equality. For both the general and the academic reader, this book will be edifying while providing exposure to the feminist and womanist voices that inform the scholarship.
The wait is over! Silencing the Pen, book four of the Roger and Bess Mysteries is here. This time, Roger Demaris brings his RHD team (Regional Homicide Division), including his second in command, Pete Dugan, to Gooseberry Island to investigate the brutal murder of young poet, Daisy Davis. A participant in a writers’ retreat also attended by Bess, Roger’s wife, her friend and colleague, Jane Fellows, Hillary Dobbs, Pete’s girlfriend, and a host of other colorful characters, Daisy is killed in the newly constructed yoga studio where her mother, Fawn is teaching. As RHD team and Bess and Jane race to discover the murderer’s identity, shadows from the past loom over them, provoking another murder. Under Demaris’s gruff, authoritarian exterior lies a kind and loving spirit, and a heart big enough to embrace them all, including the killer. Protecting Bess and his team of detectives, who are like family, while investigating multiple murders, tests every skill in Demaris’s arsenal. As this beloved series continues, join RHD as they interview suspects, uncover clues, and discard red herrings in this cozy, island mystery.
