Plumeria Press: 9 books

We were ready to flit through Paris, but mother mentioned the Chunnel Train and drifting down the Grand Canal of Venice.  What about Paris?  That’s how the “roundabout” began.  London, the train, a Bed and Breakfast in Paris, driving south to Aix en Provence and fumbling onto a Marseille...

Two friends caper across England after leaving their husbands behind in Virginia for two weeks to fend for themselves. Humor carries them past a few frustrations as they learn the train system, walk over cobblestones, sap up Brit's history and laugh their way through it all.

Hawaii! Manuela's small Spanish village buzzes with tales of life in a faraway land free from starvation and angst.  In the early months of 1911, with nine children between three Silvan Hernandez (and Gonzales) families, they boarded a British immigrant steamer, the SS Orteric, bound for the Hawaiian...

When Callie tries to bring Pablo Picasso’s dream to fruition, she ends up in the crosshairs of the Alonzo brothers and their unsavory connections. Callinda Beauvais can almost see Picasso’s dream at her fingertips.  First, she struggled to speak halting Spanish.  Then she needed to find...

Scarred by personal tragedy, Callinda Beauvais returns to Provence to help solve a mystery for her French family; embezzled vineyard funds, a missing nephew and a Spanish señorita riding on a cork across brandy bottles supposedly belonging to Pablo Ruiz Picasso.  Brimming with tension, Callie enlists...

Olivia and Callinda never imagined their determination to change Larkspur Insurance Company’s drug card would fuel treachery from within or they’d be fighting for their lives and patching broken bones.             Attorney Bram Carle and co-worker Nate Leander work beside them...

When Callie tries to help a teenage child wade through the emotional trauma caused by a demented uncle, she ends up in the path of the monster herself.  Pumped full of romance and excitement, Callinda Beauvais returns to America to sell her Oregon house and cottage, so she can move to France. ...

Two fathers.  Three sisters.  A cloisonné jewel box with secrets.When Ashton learns the troubling secrets his mother has kept from him since birth, he loses one father and gains another.  When he tries to grant her dying wish, he must trust a stranger who has secrets of her own.  Dodging...

She didn't expect her life to change when a crime wave rocks her town.  Eight people bound together by honor, betrayal, and love find their lives derailed when a man  uses power and connections to hide a dirty secret.  Can she make life choices in San Francisco or Paris to find the music...