Sunny McKillip moved to Texas to take a position as a professor's assistant. When the professor is fired, Sunny lands a job as a personal assistant to the local matriarch of Mule Stop's society. Honeybelle Hensley is loved by many, but hated by others. When Honeybelle's daughter-in- law forces her out of the garden club and the university president tries to force her to donate money for a new stadium, she suffers a heart attack.
Her nurse drives her directly to the mortuary and the burial takes place so swiftly, everyone is stunned. When her will is read, leaving everything to her dog, Miss Ruffles, life takes a bizarre turn for Sunny. Sunny and two other employees are promised a million dollars each if they stay and take care of Miss Ruffles for a year.
Sunny feels honor bound to stay since she is convinced there is something suspicious about the speed at which everything happened. Sunny must do what she can to find the killer and then rescue Miss Ruffles after she is kidnapped. Only Honeybelle really liked the dog but the employees will do all they can to fulfill Honey's wishes.
Miss Martin has left the Blackbird Sisters behind with MISS RUFFLES INHERITS EVERYTHING, an entertaining mystery which will keep the reader trying to keep up. There are so many threads in this first novel in the Miss Ruffles series that it is fascinating to watch as Sunny tries to untangle the web of unexpected events. Miss Ruffles will win everyone's heart, and the reader will feel complete sympathy with poor Sunny as she tries to protect Miss Ruffles.
Rich and flamboyant Honeybelle Hensley, the most colorful
character in Mule Stop, Texas, dies a suspicious death
and enrages the whole town by leaving her worldly fortune
to the most undeserving recipient-her dog. The
incorrigible Miss Ruffles is a Texas Cattle Cur, not a
cuddly lapdog, and when Honeybelle was alive, Miss
Ruffles liked nothing better than digging up Honeybelle's
famous rose garden after breakfast, chasing off the UPS
man before lunch and terrorizing the many gentleman
callers who came knocking at cocktail hour.
But now Miss Ruffles is in danger, and it's up to Sunny
McKillip, the unwilling dogsitter, to keep her safe.
Sunny is new to Texas, and sometimes she feels as if
she's fallen into an alien world. If it isn't the pistol-
packing football fans and the sweet-talking, yet ruthless
ladies of the garden club who confound her, it's the
rowdy rodeo hounds and the tobacco-spitting curmudgeon at
Critter Control who have her buffaloed. With a killer on
the loose and a cowboy lawyer keeping a suspicious eye on
her every move, Sunny needs all the help she can get
understanding how Texans think. There's more to
Honeybelle's death than meets this Yankee's eye, and
Sunny has Miss Ruffles to protect, too. It's a bucking
bull ride of an adventure for Sunny, and if she's not
careful she might just get killed . . . or her heart
lassoed.
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