Wordworks: 17 books

With the war over, Lieutenant Heyward Elliott needs work. The job hunt is made no easier by the meddling of Sophie, who is all smiles and helpfulness one minute and snobby and argumentative the next. Complicating matters is her constant companion Helen, a strange young lady with a propensity to drop...

Nathalie can't believe it. Her best friend Reagan is ditching her to be BFFs with the class popular girl. They'd been best friends forever, but when Queen Blair decides that she wants Reagan to be her BFF, Reagan is gone in a flash. Catherine and Isabel can't believe it either. They're best friends...

Her last clients fired her. Now investigator Karen Maxwell needs to prove she can be trusted to solve hard cases or she'll be out of a job. But will she ever be taken seriously as an investigator when her only cases involve a broken jump rope and a dead parrot?Karen discovers a whole new world...

On her 30th birthday, Catherine Sharp has a lot to celebrate: a great IT job in Las Vegas, a growing mastery of technomancy, and a deity or two on speed dial. She’s barely had a chance to blow out her candles when she finds a half-dead body on her doorstep.  Marius.  For centuries,...

In beginning of 1774, Jack McCready and Mara Weingardt may have been the only two people in the colony of Maryland who couldn’t care less about the British tax on tea.Mara, a widow with two boys to support, had enough difficulty simply keeping her small farm together so that she would not have to...

Women, Motorcycles and the Road to Empowerment explores the relationship between women, motorcycling and personal power. Fifty women motorcyclists share stories of how they have tapped into that power and how it has shaped their lives. Using her own story as a framework, Liz Jansen provides first-hand...

Christmas is an inconvenient holiday for Helen Wright. Her sister Lucia always invades the household with her husband and seven children. Her stepfather insists on carrying on ridiculous traditions and her brother, Geoffrey, constantly invents new ones. The result of all this chaos is that Helen has...

Paintings slashed... Furniture broken… Someone is wreaking havoc at the Blue Moon Art & Antiques Gallery.Fledgling private investigator Karen Maxwell goes undercover as a salesclerk to find out who’s behind the vandalism, and why. She learns little from Vicki, a friendly clerk who seems...

For years after her divorce, Karen Maxwell handled administrative paperwork for her brother’s private investigation agency while he ran around town doing the “fun” part—the investigation. When his partner retires, he finally offers her a chance to take a case of her own. She soon finds out...

It was bad enough that gods gambled with human souls, but Catherine Sharp’s soul just had to be won by the Greek goddess of Discord, Eris. As if working a dead-end tech support job didn’t suck the life out of her as it was. Now, Cat finds herself performing random tasks for the goddess in her...

Technomancer Catherine Sharp has an extensive resume. Rewiring celebrity panic rooms. Doing IT work for the best casinos in Las Vegas. Completing server repair. But nowhere in her job description does it say she’ll be investigating grisly murders. However, a girl is dead, and the gods are calling for...

Amanda, her young sister and her unconventional mother move to a small house in a remote village just before Christmas—and discover it lacks furniture and everything else they need. Charles, son of the local squire, bursts in to "rescue" them when he mistakes smoke from the clogged chimneys...

The traumatic events of the first Madison Mystery Promise Denied, fostered an unlikely friendship between widowed sorority housemother Roberta Palmer and police detective Bob Swenson. In this sequel the death of a reclusive elderly man, sorority cook Betty's next door neighbor, draws them into an...

Lucia Wright needs a holiday. After years of caring for her “eccentric” younger brother and sister in the country, she accepts a friend’s invitation to spend a few weeks enjoying the season in London only to find that life among the city’s elite may be even crazier than at home. Lord...