Gretchen Rix: 13 books

An angel of God who can't remember his purpose. Two legendary lovers. Three strangers, battling one another and the ancient menace one carries unknowingly on her back into the West Texas arroyo. Their bond takes them from the flying saucers of Marfa to the vampire temptress of San Antonio, and then...

All that stands between Captain Carmady and an exceptionally ugly death is his First Lieutenant Joan Chikage. And she will not budge. The Goodall Marauders, book three in the Goodall series of science fiction mysteries.

The adventure continues for Lieutenant Joan Chikage of the USS Goodall. Surely, after all she'd gone through, he couldn't mean to put her back in the same boring assignment. Even if it was important in some way, she was done with that job. And ready for something else. She'd commanded...

A Texas mystery about a dog, strong women, and small-town living (or is it dying?). Shoot! I'll cut right to the chase. When me and my sister's mastiff Boo Radley drags me off my feet during the damned cemetery tour right onto a dead corpse, the dog poop hits the fan. And that's just chapter one....

How can you run a successful annual Writers' Tea party when your guest author turns up murdered, and when your choice for a substitute speaker might be the prime suspect? Think old timey British mystery novel, but set it in Texas and put some barbecue in it. Add the unruly American mastiff...

All the normal sounds usually reaching the lower decks of the USS Goodall during routine subspace flight have just been cut off. As if someone at the controls suddenly wants the crew isolated. No loudly arguing male voices, no deliberately mishandled supplies tumbling down the corridor,...

In each of these original Boo and Baby stories from the author of The Cowboy's Baby and Talking To The Dead Guys, something always goes wrong. These tales introduce you to two of the quirkiest animals that Texas has ever seen. There's singing involved here somewhere. It says so right in the...

Walking death, they're called. And those horrible macadamia trees. But their real names are Whig, Mary Jane, and Quetzalcoatl, just to name three of them. Trees don't walk. But here they do. In Ill Met By Moonlight they walk, they kill, they eat people, and then they-- Nope. Telling...

Name: BROWN (just Brown, ma’am) Physical Appearance/Demeanor: BEAR (that’s grizzly - consider yourself warned) Occupation: Private Dick Clients: San Antonio’s Finest Area’s most notorious Gang Boss Hitmen World Renowned Artists Olmos Elementary School entire third grade...

As mischievous goats gleefully terrorize an outdoor charity event... When Sleeping Beauty meets Prince Charming and first takes her cowboy boot-shod foot off his chest... And friends scramble to stake their claim to true love's bliss... The Cowboy's Baby stands in the way. This...

Cannibals. Man-eating lions. Crocodiles. Pygmies. Monkeys. Lost Cities. Lots of naked people. Mr. Bryce, the best Great White Hunter of them all, rues the day he ever met one Miss Gafford from Texas. Darkest Africa may never be the same. Little does he know, but Miss Gafford's...

Having her will cost Junyur Wilde everything else he’s ever wanted. Letting him go will force May Ling back into the whorehouse she’s hoping to escape. The Cimarron Bride is their story, a western romance set against the backdrop of the very last Oklahoma Land Race. It’s 1895, and the rich young...

Former diplomat Leona Robin wonders if she made a mistake moving to rural Texas. Her son loves it here, but in a place where it's normal for a prize bull to have his own pet pig and hay bales are raining from the sky, Leona wonders how she'll ever fit in. That is, until she's thrown right into local...