This is the first time that Judith and Stan Winters' family
has not been with them at Thanksgiving. Their three
children have all moved away to other states with their own
families. Thanksgiving dinner is too quiet and is
depressing for them both, but Judith takes it much harder
than Read more...
Return to Longboat Key, Florida for another Matt Royal
mystery in CHASING JUSTICE. Matt is temporarily giving up
his beach bum life, putting back on his lawyer suit to
represent Abby Lester, wife of the Chief of Police of
Longboat Key. Abby is accused of the murder of Read more...
Two years ago, Callie Daniels opened her bakery in Preston, Missouri. A
college friend brought her to this small midwest town, and she just loves it.
Recently, Callie took the
job of the Pantheretts dance coach at Preston High. She
brings a lot of dance and pageant experience to the Read more...
Anne Richardson is a wedding planner in Seattle. She never
had the wedding of her dreams, but she is determined that
her clients will have theirs. When her daughter Laney gets
engaged, Anne sets out to make her daughter's wedding just
what she believes her daughter has always wanted Read more...
A frantic phone call pulls Hunter Galen from his mother's
sixtieth birthday party, only to find his business partner,
James Nowak, dead in his office. As if on cue, the police
walk in moments later and find Hunter holding the gun he
found in James' hand. The police don Read more...
He goes by the code name "Watchman" and prefers to be
anonymous, to blend in with his surroundings. That keeps
him alive to take another contract job with the CIA. This
time, Marc Portman is called upon to extract Edwin Travis
from the Ukraine. Travis is a State Department official Read more...
Susan Mallery returns us to Fool's Gold, California with
Maya Farlow and Del Mitchell's story. Del grew up in Fool's
Gold, but Maya only lived here a short while when her mom
was married to a local resident. We were first introduced
to Maya in KISS ME Read more...
A year after the death of his wife Belinda, Silas Fry is
moving his two teenage children to Pinecraft, a community
in Sarasota, FL where all orders and fellowships of Amish
and Mennonite families live and work together. He's been
on
the missions field for the past ten years Read more...
FBI Special Agent Sami Bennett is in Vancouver, BC
tracking
a serial killer; however, she's the only one who believes
the dots all connect to bring her to this motel and room
218. She's using her vacation time to do this. Before she
can burst into the room Read more...
Juliet Montague Capshaw returns to her hometown of
Ashland,
Oregon after ten years as a pastry chef on a cruise ship.
She's taking a break from her unfaithful husband Carlos
and
sorting out her life. The family bakeshop, named Torte, is
the perfect place for Jules to figure out Read more...
Zane Nicholson is Fool's Gold's most eligible bachelor and
a fifth generation cattle rancher. His half-brother Chase
is seventeen and ready to split from Fool's Gold as soon
as
he graduates from high school. He's a computer genius and
wants to head to MIT. When Read more...
Lark Porter finally gets the ropes on her hands to break
loose. Maybe she can make her escape when the man coming
in
the old dilapidated trailer she's been held in for a week
opens the door. But having her legs bound too makes her
escape a bit difficult Read more...
As MURDER FRESHLY BAKED opens, Amber Bowman, manager of
Amish Village in Middlebury, Indiana, watches Ryan Duval
cross the finish line of Race for a Cure, then fall dead
from a gunshot wound to his chest. It's happening all over
again! This is the third death/murder of the Read more...
Thomas Crocker is the leader of a SEAL Team known as Black
Cell. It doesn't exist on paper according to the CIA and
Washington, DC. The team takes the most dangerous missions
that, if not accomplished, could result in a very nasty
backlash for the United States. Crocker and Read more...
Krista Curry has moved back to Portland to care for her
Opa. That's "grandfather" in German. While attending a
soccer event with Opa, Krista finds a backpack that a
young
man leaves in the stands on his way out. She calls to him,
but he just runs away. After Read more...
Kelly Adkinson, an emergency room RN, wheels a gunshot
victim into the ER while being held at gunpoint herself.
The victim's brother is demanding that someone do
something
to save his brother. Dr. Mark Baker is the doctor on duty
that night, and his first thought is to find Read more...
Salvatore "Falcon" Russo races across the base as he
watches the Communications and Electronics building at
Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan go up in flames. He
catches Lieutenant Cassandra Walker as she staggers out of
the building. This is yet another attack on the US
military's secure network. Cassie has Read more...
Navy SEAL Chief Kelly Ballard sees the two Taliban RPGs
hit
the Chinook helicopter and rip it in two. As it falls to
the ground, he sees someone crawl out through the
windshield. How could anyone survive that crash? Kell is
on
a Black Ops mission in the Hindu Kush Read more...
Kipling Gilmore, known to his fans as G-force, moved to
Fools Gold a few months ago after he recuperated from a
ski
accident that took his career from him. Now he is in
charge
of the town's search and rescue operation known as HOPE
(Help Emergency Rescue Operation Read more...
Detective Alex Brody did not anticipate breaking in a new
partner, much less a female partner and a Cavanaugh to
boot. Alex lost his partner in an accident on their last
case. Not that his partner was killed, just badly hurt,
and
his ex-partner's wife gave him an Read more...
Viki Ferrell
Viki is a former School Library Media
Specialist who spent 37 years in
education and is now enjoying her
retirement. She and her husband, Jeff,
live in Oxford, FL (central part of
the
state). They have two grown
daughters, two grandsons,
one Dalmatian and one Yellow Lab.
Reading, decorating, crafting
and
volunteering at church take
up most of her
spare time. She has been a successful
grant writer and done some tutoring
and
coordinated an afterschool program
through
grants she has written for her
church. She is also the Choir Director
and Women's Ministry Leader there.
Viki is active in her local Alpha
Delta Kappa chapter, an international
women educators organization. She
looks forward to doing a lot of
traveling after her husband retires.