Missy was at a loss. She couldn’t leave the resort, and didn’t want to show her face in any of the public areas after the treatment she’d received from some of the staff, so she was basically confined to her room. She looked over the ingredients that Chas had purchased for her, and, although she ...
Her cell mates were many and varied – women who’d been arrested for prostitution, shoplifting, public intoxication, and every other social ill that Missy could think of, and some that she’d never even heard of. Keeping to herself, she never made eye contact, her heart pounding with fear and adren...
Her contractor estimated that she might actually be able to reopen by the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, which would be perfect timing – the holidays were her busiest time of year by far. Orders flooded in beginning as early as September for holiday parties, gift boxes and baskets, and special occ...
Chas was right, she had just been watching the mayor’s press conference regarding the “tragic retaliation,” that had been visited upon a “person of interest” in the Kingsman murder case. The conniving man even had the audacity to say that, “While I completely understood the impulse to impart just...
Pulling it out of her pocket, she saw Echo’s number and answered the call. Her friend was in a state of panic, and Missy couldn’t seem to calm her down enough to get a coherent picture of what was upsetting her, other than that something had apparently happened at Sweet Love. “Do you need me to c...
The grieving widow thought that he had merely gone out to pick up supplies when he wasn’t in bed or at the store early this morning, and was heartbroken when the police came by to give her the bad news. Elmer had been a volunteer crossing guard at Dellville Elementary School for years, so when th...
They were arriving at the family home a day ahead of time so that Missy could bake cupcakes for the party, and Chas could make an attempt at reconciliation with his brother and sister. The only qualm that Missy had about taking the trip with her handsome detective was that she’d be away from her ...
It seemed such a shame that someone who had done no harm to anyone had been killed without rhyme or reason. She turned the situation over and over in her mind, frustrated at the lack of any sort of clue or direction. Deciding that some fresh air would do her good, she gathered a backpack filled w...
“Chas?” she approached hesitantly. “What can I do for you Ms. Gladstone?” he responded curtly, raising a skeptical eyebrow. Missy was taken aback, they had parted on such good terms, and now it seemed that their lovely evening together had never happened. She had come to him today hoping for sup...
Missy called out cheerfully when she entered Sweet Love, the vegan ice cream shop owned by her free-spirited friend, Echo. She was carrying a Chocolate Toffee Crunch cupcake in hopes of cheering up the young lady. “I’m so sorry about what happened at the bake-off,” she said, presenting the cupcak...
Missy told the heavyset sergeant at the reception desk of the LVPD.“He’s out. You wanna leave him a message?” the gruff-voiced man asked.“Umm…no, I suppose I’ll just call…” Missy began, not knowing what to do.“Gladstone?” she was interrupted by an abrasively nasal female voice. Much to her dismay...
He had finally regained consciousness and had immediately demanded that she be given access to him. She had encountered Officer Parsons in the hall, bestowing a scathing look upon him, and he’d refused to meet her gaze, but now she stood in the hall, heart pounding. She wanted to see that he was ...
Something just wasn’t adding up. He’d sent a patrolman to Samantha Lemmon’s apartment on the night that Missy’s books were burned, and not only had the young woman been sound asleep, but, as Missy had described, she had no nails to speak of and the ones that she did have were completely unpolishe...
Snapping the lead onto the loving animal’s collar, Missy walked her to the park and back in a daze, worried sick about Ben. She knew that Chas would call her as soon as he was done at the hotel, but the waiting seemed endless.Mechanically, Missy prepared dinner, despite a profound lack of appetit...