Bøger af Tina DC Hayes

Sparks fly when two people wind up looking after a rambunctious Yorkie who needs a new home. Kaylee Rose is thrilled when a neighbor asks if she'll consider taking in her teacup Yorkie, Valentino. But there are strings attached. The dog's other caretaker turns out to be Carter Hartley, an arrogant jerk she'll have to deal with until they decide who keeps the pampered pooch permanently. Kaylee and Carter can't stand each other even though they both love the dog, but they're forced to either get along or risk losing Valentino to a heartbreaking fate.

When her sister is sentenced to death by cancer, Lisa must overcome her own premature grief and help Dana enjoy the time she has left. Lisa Elkins is devastated to learn terminal lung cancer will claim 39-year-old Dana Yager's life in a matter of months. Though she goes along for moral support when Dana plans her own funeral, Lisa has a hard time coming to grips with her sister's impending death. After one of Dana's near-fatal ER visits, Lisa realizes she's been smothering her sister with care and precautions, and that forcing Dana to stay in bed, bored senseless, isn't going to cure the disease or prolong the inevitable. Dana simply wants to enjoy her final days as best she can, but will Lisa be able to stop her overprotective tendencies before it's too late?

Darci Shelton is compelled to help a woman reclaim her rightful name and possible inheritance, which means uncovering dark family secrets someone may have killed to keep hidden. She gets a letter addressed to Addie Brown, the ghost who haunts Petal Pushers flower shop. Turns out a deathbed confession prompted Ellen to write in hopes that somebody in the small Kentucky town might know what happened all those years ago, when her great-grandmother, Betsy, went on the run with newborn twins. What happened to Betsy's husband, and why did she hide behind an alias the rest of her life? When Darci starts asking questions, she snoops her way into legal trouble. She's already struggling to overcome financial problems in the shop, so that's the last thing she needs. Miss Addie is eager to help, especially since Betsy was her BFF, but a dead lady can only do so much. Darci must solve the mystery in time . . . without falling victim to the cover-up.

Darci Shelton has just one year to make her new flower shop a success, but she must come to terms with the store's resident ghost while struggling to put Petal Pushers in the black. Customers in the small Kentucky town keep Darci busy with flower arrangements and landscaping jobs. She also has to watch over her pregnant employee, and puts herself in jeopardy trying to help the sheriff crack a murder case. While all that's going on, the ghost heals puny plants, entertains the parakeet, and her cold spots keep the cooling bill down, but a dead woman who pops up beside floral displays just isn't good for business. Financial ups and downs are hard enough to deal with, plus Darci needs to find out what the apparition wants, before it scares everyone away . . . or worse.

Harlie Steele is building a new life for herself and her two-year-old daughter, away from her controlling ex-husband. When she falls in love with rock legend Lex Callatori, their whirlwind romance pulls her away from her small-town home and sweeps her into his tempestuous world of paparazzi, tabloids, and bodyguards. She wonders why he'd fall so hard for her when he could have his pick of buxom blonde groupies, and whether the tabloid reports of his violent temper, womanizing ways, and drug addiction could be true. She opens her heart to Lex while emotional scars from years of domestic violence begin to fade. But trouble looms near, casting a sinister shadow on Harlie and Lex as their passion grows stronger. Driven by jealousy, someone is hell-bent on ending their relationship, one way or the other. Harlie literally fought to stay alive when she left her abusive ex and has no intention of being anyone's victim ever again, but when an obsessed stalker raises the stakes, her strong spirit and will to survive are put to the test.

To say Judith Webster is quirky would be an understatement . . . turns out she's an alcoholic serial killer hell-bent on getting everything her heart desires. She hates her job at Gas 'N Go, but works to fund life's necessities: gambling, eBay, and her schnapps collection. When a hunky Irish actor joins the cast of her favorite soap opera, Judith's new goal in life is to meet and marry Evan Gallagher. Her husband will just have to deal with it. Nobody would ever guess Judith is insane, that she duct tapes her cat inside a goldfish-shaped bed from hell, or how mad she gets when Harry Qualls struts down the street with his mailman purse. Her biggest secret, however, is the way she deals with people stupid enough to piss her off. On her shit list is a dangerous place to be, but she's taking names. She hasn't been held accountable for her crimes before, but a girl can never be too careful.

Darci Shelton finds an old cookie tin buried in the cellar under her flower shop and can't stop wondering why it was hidden there in the first place. More questions arise when she goes through the contents. What possible significance could some faded pictures and a straggling key hold? Between her floral business and a campaign party at Clydell Manor, Darci already has more than enough to worry about before weird things start happening at the shop. The key keeps vanishing, she's nearly strangled by her own necklace, and the computer crashes after a mysterious message appears on the screen. Miss Addie might act up on occasion, but the resident ghost's antics are never malicious. With Halloween coming up, she figures someone might be playing an elaborate prank, and hopes the crooks responsible for a string of local burglaries don't have their sights set on Petal Pushers. Just when it looks like her questions are doomed to go unanswered, Darci discovers a secret that somebody intends to keep hidden . . . by any means necessary.