Short Stories

A Frankie Chandler, Pet Psychic short story. It's Frankie's first Christmas in Arizona, and holiday cheer is proving evasive. She misses her family, she misses snow, and with best friend Penny taking part in a production of "Scrooge", she's forced to attend rehearsals to offer morale support. When she finds an abandoned kitten on the doorstep of U Behave, her animal behavior business, Frankie...

Roxanne Wilder is spending Christmas in Wilton, Illinois, with her family. She agrees to help the Women's Guild Decorating Committee prepare for the senior holiday luncheon at the Old Hall, but when the women are snowed in, they have more to worry about than claustrophobia. Annie Verona's gigantic ruby ring is missing, and the dreadful diva is pointing an accusatory finger at each member of the...

Bowers and Frankie are finally dating, but they are about to hit their first real obstacle--Thanksgiving dinner. Can their new relationship hold out against a handsome farmer, a turkey infatuated with ducks, and the horror of candied yams? Not to mention a toy store riot and the mysterious happenings at the Good Morning Bakery? Only time will tell.

One of the few things that brothers Edward and Nicholas Harlow agree on is a traditional Christmas celebration. When Edward decides to scrap conventions in favor of current fashions--including a pre-decorated tree from Kaiser Tree Farms--his decision sets off a series of mishaps that lead to the theft of his tree and the death of a Kaiser employee. As Nicholas and Edward attempt to track down...

A Short Story. When reluctant pet psychic Frankie Chandler recieves images of an elderly neighbor's unnatural demise via that woman's pet Pekingese, she wonders who could possibly want a harmless old woman dead. Even more curious, how is the dog able to send her details on a death that hasn't yet happened? And can she stop the murder in time?

If only Mrs. Battencourt's diamond necklace hadn't disappeared, then she'd still be willing to make a donation to MGC Middle School. Teacher Sheila Baker only knows one person nosey enough to track down the lost gems, and crime reporter Evan Miller is happy for the chance to get back into Sheila's good graces. As a bonus, read the first chapter of "The Body Guy", an Evan Miller novel.

Bowers and Frankie are about to experience their first St. Valentine's Day as a couple. With her favorite steak awaiting her at La Hacienda Chop House, what could go wrong? When a service dog walks through the door giving off very bad vibes, Frankie's sure the evening isn't going to go as planned.

When author Edward Harlow offers to host an Easter egg hunt for St. Michael's Group Home, his secretary and brother, Nicholas, bears the brunt of the workload, which includes placating an overbearing event organizer, wrangling orphans on a sugar high, and managing a gigantic Easter Bunny with a bad attitude. Then someone dumps a body in the laundry hamper, and both brothers scramble to discover...