

Books in series

#1
Just Treat Me
2022
This is gonna be one wild night! Halloween night gets very strange when innkeeper Gwen Compton meets a mysterious man in her kitchen. He says he's a secret agent on the trail of an arms dealer...right before her elderly aunt knocks him out with a sack full of pennies. And when he wakes up, he can't remember anything—not even who he is!
Jared Winchester is a former FBI profiler turned true-crime writer. He decided to show up at his scapegrace cousin's in-character murder party to break out of the dark mindset his work causes. Little did he know that his party invitation had been misplaced and the party was last year!
Waking up after a head injury, he remembers nothing and the only clues to his identity are the (fake!) documents in his briefcase and a stunning blond who says he's some kind of secret agent!
So what's an amnesiac secret-agent-man supposed to do?
Well...stop the crime, catch the bad guy, ferret out the secrets of the old house, deal with the mischievous ghosts, and seduce beautiful, tantalizing Gwen, that's what!
Book one in the Welcome to Derryville series launches the adventures of the three Winchesters and links to Just About Perfect and Just Killing Time. It comes complete with lots of laughs and a guaranteed HEA and can be read as a standalone.
This book was originally published as Trick Me, Treat Me. It has been substantially revised and updated.

#3
Just Killing Time
2004
She's got TV ratings—and legs—to die for!
KILLING TIME IN A SMALL TOWN is the name of a new reality TV show, but it also describes how bad boy Mick Winchester has been feeling about his life lately. He supposes he deserves his reputation as the scoundrel of his small town. But he's grown tired of the same old life with the same old people. Maybe it's even time to stop trying to heal a broken heart in the arms of so many other women and find just one to love.
But then a a reality TV show crew rolls into his hometown. The producer is none other than Caroline Lamb...Mick's college sweetheart and his one true love. And all his resolutions fly straight out the window as he sets his sights on seducing her back into his arms.
Caroline has changed. Gone is the nice southern girl with big-city dreams. This Caroline is a Hollywood hotshot all wrapped up in a thousand-dollar power suit and killer spike heels. And Mick wants her more than ever.
Caroline—Caro—Lamb isn't the barracuda she pretends to be. She's just desperate to make her murder-mystery reality show a hit. She can afford no distractions...and her former lover, playboy extraordinaire Mick Winchester, is one huuuuuge distraction.
Then there's the little problem of a real corpse turning up on the set.
Whoops.
The network bosses are ecstatic. Think of the ratings! But actual murder is way too much reality, even for Caroline. Especially when all clues point to someone very close to Mick Winchester.
With her career on the line, her heart completely vulnerable, and a murder to solve, Caro can't possibly get involved with the sexiest man she's ever known—again! And no way would the consummate ladies' man fall for a woman whose whole lifestyle means she'll be leaving his world very soon.
Love is out of the question.
If only their hearts remembered that.