Bøger af Shay Lawless

Rosie Mauer is the high school librarian, lunchroom attendant and after-school detention monitor at Laurel Grove High School. She sings in the church choir and knows that even though her IQ is off the records, she blends into the world with as much flair as the wilting honeysuckle growing along the wall in her mom's garden. She figures her life will always be so bland. That is, until she is hired incognito to be the nanny for a rich man's son who is a suspect in the murder of two girls whose disappearance and deaths may also mirror those of her aunt who vanished forty years earlier. As Rosie Mauer, she's an awkward young woman with a crush on her sister's fireman boyfriend and who can't seem to fit in with the redneck side of her daddy's family or the stuffy, rich side of her mom's. As her alter ego-beautiful and outgoing Violet Popovich, she's getting more guy attention than she can handle and finds herself digging deeper into a crime surpassing the imaginations of those around her and puts her on the trail of possible serial killer. Between her two worlds, she is running out of time as the bodies start to pile up. And it is getting more difficult to hide her secret life.

Fifteen years ago, a young woman was brutally murdered, her dead body dumped along the lonely shore of Stone Cold Creek outside Quail Hollow, West Virginia. Her brother, Marcus Freeman, was imprisoned for the crime.Brandy Devereauxs thinks she has her life all wrapped up in a neat little bow. She has a rich fiancé, an upcoming career as a chef, and she's running with the local dream team at the National Fire Mountain Redneck Run. Then all hell breaks loose when Marcus Freeman is released from prison and asks her to solve the murder he swears he did not commit. As the clues to the murder begin to come together, the strings to not only Brandy's perfect life start to unravel, but the fate of her beloved hometown is in peril. Brandy must find a way to not only solve a cold case crime without getting murdered herself, but change the direction of the ill-fated path she is leading--hand-in-hand with her hometown.

A small mining community museum is burglarized. A man vanishes and is assumed murdered. Harley Davidson hasn't always made the right choices. She's trying to turn that around. But when an ex-boyfriend vanishes along with antiques from the local museum where she volunteers and fingers point to her, Harley's life spins out of control while she digs into the past to find clues to the mystery behind the town-and perhaps, find the missing man.Old treasures never unearthed. Dark secrets undiscovered and better left alone. An old mining town with a mysterious past and perhaps, a doomed future. And, of course, a bit of romance.Harley's not looking for romance. But while she's discovering the dark secrets of her town and trying to convince her grandpa she can be a part of his ragtag baseball team dreaming of competing in the local Brandy Mountain Big Ball Tournament, she has a chance encounter with not only her ex-boyfriend's best friend, but a man who certainly isn't her type, but shares her love of the mystery in which she is unwillingly entangled.

Austin Jackson had come to accept her life is simply going to be less ordinary. She collects monsters, mutants and freaks for her rich, eccentric boss. She's got ADHD and a powerful urge to protect. But when destiny knocks at her door and she receives a cryptic message for help, she returns to her small town along with her collection of peculiarities. She finds out there is more that has drawn her back and it isn't just the boy she once fell in love with. The town is slowly being taken over by a man with evil intentions. Small town romance with a sci fi twist. Monsters and mutants --a skinwalker, a fairies, a rougarou, a golem, and descendants of gods and goddesses form a motley team of superheroes not so dead-set on stopping evil from conquering the world. Join the adventure as Austin uses the abilities of friends to overcome evil and finds her own special abilities that come from her Native Indian background.

Brandy Alexander Devereauxs spends her Friday nights at the Crazy Kettle bar, fiddling with her wedding band and staring at the empty seat next to her. She's fending off drunk men's advances and waiting for her maybe-dead ex-husband to return. Barring these slight eccentricities, Brandy's life is pretty ordinary. She wants nothing more than to finish college to become a chef. Oh, and to compete in the National Fire Mountain Redneck Run and succeed in triumphing over the hometown dream team consisting of four mean girls, the upper pecking order at her job at Mister Smiley's Grocery. And. . .Brandy never expects her life to take a strange veer when her drunk mama brings her a mysterious lock box with clues to Brandy's ex-husband's disappearance. A surprise romance. A mystery waiting to unfold. Family secrets. And more.