Puritans believed that everyone from birth has already been determined whether or not to be saved--preordination I think the term is. No matter how good you are on earth, it doesn't matter. That's how Anna views this magical dress--whatever she sees *must* come to happen, and she *must* go along...
What one of us would not like a man whose arrival was heralded by lightning? Although this book has a somewhat predictable plot, the characters are unique, a pair of blind twins with different talents in compensation, a woman with a big secret and her daughter. This was a fun read, somewhat magic...
A tornado goes through Gretchen’s farmland, bringing with it a familiar stranger. This stranger is found under a walnut tree with no memory of who he is or how he got there. The stranger reminds Gretchen of her long lost love Sam Winston the father of her daughter Abby and the man that’s been mis...
I'm 45 and find myself struggling with this "cougar" concept. This story was light and entertaining. Three high school friends reunite in their hometown. They are each mid forty and have experienced relationships, jobs, careers, etc. the book was a quick read and easy. I liked how each chapter h...
Mixing a dash of Dallas society, a pinch of Janet Evanovich, and murder in the land of big hair, Blue Blood is the first installment in award-winning author Susan McBride's sassy Debutante Dropout mystery series. To the dismay of her high society mother, Cissy, Dallas heiress Andy Kendricks want...
Website designer and high society rebel Andrea Kendricks would never have gotten involved with ego-in-pumps life-style hostess Marilee Mabry if it weren't for the underhanded machinations of Andy's upper crust mama. But thanks to Mother Cissy, Andy's donning designer duds to attend a launch party...
Sarah Lee Sewell still believed in romance, even in her seventies. Discreetly being a member of the Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club, an exclusive online service for the wealthy, she was enjoying discreet meetings with the carefully selected male members. A woman still needed to be touched by a man,...
Renegade rich girl Andy Kendricks isn't the belle of any Dallas ball — and that's just the way the debutante dropout likes it! She's got a good life and a great man: her defense attorney boyfriend, Brian Malone. Brian's such a straight arrow that he had to be dragged kicking and screaming to a cl...
They call them "pretty parties," and they're the latest rage among Dallas debutantes—get-togethers with light refreshments, heavy gossip, and Dr. Sonja Madhavi and her magic Botox needles. Former socialite Andy Kendricks normally wouldn't be caught dead at such an event, but she's attending as a ...
The sky above them looked thick with gray clouds, and the air smelled ripe, like rain. The humidity made it feel warmer than it really was, and Jo had rolled up her sleeves as far as they’d go and had unbuttoned her shirt as much as she could without getting called into Dr. Percy’s office for a w...
Evans,” the sheriff said grimly. “The evidence seems to be stacking up against her.” Helen couldn’t believe what she was hearing! “But why would Nancy take the manuscript from Grace’s house? And why burn it? She was looking forward to the publication of the book. She told ...
He reread a note left by Delilah Grone. She’d apparently come by his office when he’d been out to lunch. Mrs. Evans told me to get in touch, said the loopy cursive. I was in River Bend the night Milt was killed. She’d left a phone number scrawled at the bottom of the page. ...
The day had been long enough as it was, what with the LCIL meeting in the morning, then finding Stanley Duncan tearing up Eleanora’s house, not to mention Biddle’s dropping in at Jean’s to tell them Eleanora had been poisoned and then insinuating that Jean was his prime suspect. And, last but cer...
Malone phoned,” Cissy explained before I’d even asked how she knew. “And thank heavens he did, or I could have been waiting and waiting for you to show up after you dropped that dress off at Olivia’s, and I wouldn’t have known where you were. You certainly didn’t see the need to inform your own m...
Tessa’s sudden confession was beyond surreal, worse than any nightmare. How many times in the last four years had Katie turned to Tessa when something went wrong? And then she’d begun to count on Mark as much as Tessa, maybe more. But now Katie didn’t know who or what to believe. She felt complet...