Sizzling Sunday Excerpts Breaking Free

Can a famous big city writer and a down home country girl find a common ground?

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A bell on the door tinkled merrily as she opened the door. Her eyes swept around the crowded room until she spotted an empty booth in the back. She reached it at the same time an attractive blonde did. 

"I'm sorry," Izzy apologized. "I didn't see you." She backed away from the booth, scanning the area for another available seat. All seats were full so she resigned herself to the fact that she'd have to come back another day. The coffee would have to wait. 

Words Of Wisdom Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with brevity of speech.

Sophocles

Sizzling Sunday Excerpts Behind Closed Doors

After witnessing two brutal murders, a woman is given a new identity and whisked away to a depressing remote location. When the male agent she'd known for the past two years is suddenly replaced by a beautiful female agent it doesn't take long for her to realize everything else that's been missing from her life. She's determined to force the agent to see that protection is not all she needs. Will her physical needs jeopardize her safety?

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Summer was an attractive woman and it had been a long time since Kera had been totally alone with the same sex, not to mention, far too long since she'd been intimate. Her mind drifted to the romantic nights Steffi and she used to share and the passion they'd felt when their love was unleashed. Her lips trembled. She'd never have that again. Steffi was gone. 

Words Of Wisdom Stephen Gardiner

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Gardiner

Sizzling Sunday Excerpts Partners: Blinded By The Trees

Private Investigators Frankie Barker and Johanna Obrien are looking forward to a relaxing Christmas holiday with Frankie's mother, Selma. Then they stumble upon a body behind some trees while picking out their perfect Christmas tree and their relaxing holiday is put on hold. 

When Sheriff George Ryker asks for their help on an unrelated case, they soon realize that the two cases are connected. They uncover some disturbing details about the victim's life, but can't understand why anyone would want him dead, and especially what he could have done to cause someone to attack him so viciously. 

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"Something smells good," Johanna said walking into the kitchen.

"I was going to send out a posse for you if you hadn't returned pretty soon."

Johanna laughed. "The stores were more crowded than I expected." 

"Well, I'm relieved that you're home," Frankie turned from the counter with spatula in hand where she'd been removing cookies from a baking sheet and placing them on a cooling rack. "I've got the gingerbread cookies made. Tomorrow we can decorate them. I thought we'd wait for Mom." 

Words Of Wisdom Gabriel Marcel

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Gabriel Marcel

Sizzling Sunday Excerpts Partners: The Other Woman

In book 2 of the Partners series, The Other Woman has Private Investigators Johanna Obrien and Frankie Barker planning a vacation with Johanna's visiting mother, Gracelyn, when a former lover of Johanna's, Gretchen Wyler, shows up demanding that Johanna take her case. They soon learn that Gretchen is heavily involved in an investment scam which implicates Johanna. Johanna must come to terms with the demons from her past and the secret she has kept from Frankie for all these years. The women hatch a plan to trap Gretchen and in the process dig up some disturbing facts which could destroy Johanna's life.


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Frankie shivered as she hurried into the office carrying a cardboard tray containing two cups of coffee. She walked over to Johanna's desk, which faced her own, took one of the cups from the tray and set it on the desk. "It's getting nasty out there. It feels cold enough to snow. What time's your mother's plane getting in?" 

Johanna smiled. "Thanks for the coffee, babe. Her flight gets in at two if it's on time. I figure I'll take off at twelve thirty just in case we do get bad weather, and barring any traffic snafus. I checked with the Philadelphia airport and so far there are no flight delays so I'm keeping my fingers crossed." 


Frankie patted Johanna's shoulder then moved to her own desk, set down the tray holding her cup of coffee, then strode to the storage room at the back of the office. She removed her coat and hung it on the coat tree. "Just be careful driving. I wouldn't be surprised if we get snow before the day's over," she said as she walked back into the room across the dark beige carpeting and over to her desk. 

Johanna nodded. "I'm always careful. That advice goes for you, too." 

Words Of Wisdom Sophocles

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Sophocles

Sizzling Sunday Excerpts Partners: The Wrong Corpse

Twelve years ago Frankie Barker and Johanna Obrien became partners, then lovers, on the Philadelphia Police Force. After two years, the women were tired of city living. They quit the force and moved to Charlestown, Pennsylvania, where they built a log home and hung out their shingle as private investigators. 

Frankie and Johanna take a case they feel will be a cinch to solve, before embarking on a much--needed vacation. But the case turns out to be much more than they bargained for!

Graham McHenry hires Frankie and Johanna to follow his beautiful, much younger wife Cassandra, whom he believes is having an affair. They find the information their client is seeking, but the next morning they learn the woman has been murdered. The time of death places Cassandra at a motel, at the same time they had been following her to her mansion. Now McHenry wants to know who killed his wife, and Frankie and Johanna are determined to find out who they were following!


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Frankie glanced up at the skylight. She smiled. It had been her idea to have it centered directly above the king--sized bed. She sighed contentedly. The day had dawned bright and clear, a perfect summer's day. She hoped that the steady downpour of the previous night had swept away the oppressive heat and humidity which had enveloped the city for the past week. Last night the stormy weather had made for a cozy romantic night spent in bed, making love for hours, with the love of her life.