Handmade Stained Glass Creations

 Killeen Ames has it all…beauty, brains, a college softball scholarship and a rich and handsome boyfriend who has helped to stretch her college funds and fill her social calendar. He is the only boy she ever allowed past second base and now he’s her baby daddy. However, being a father was not in his short-range plans. He graduates, then he splits, leaving Killeen to decide what she wants to do about the pregnancy…and to worry about how she’s going to keep her scholarship. With no marketable skills, no job, no home and medical bills for her and the baby on the horizon, she knows she must move forward. A knock at the door of her boyfriend’s apartment changes the game forever when an attorney gives her the news of an inheritance from an unknown dead relative. After traveling to Austin, Killeen walks into the meeting and is surprised to find out that the relative was actually her birth father, and he had been a popular music star who recently died of an overdose. Even more shocking are the four strangers who share the same absentee dad. He has left them a highly successful private investigation agency, Scandals. The catch is…they have to make the commitment to work there. Their introduction to the P.I. business almost gets them killed when a bomb goes off in the warehouse that sends Killeen to the hospital. She has kept the secret of her pregnancy from everyone, including Christopher, the totally irresistible manager of Scandals. Their hot night of wild sex in the office was a one-time thing…right? She chalks up her attraction to him as just raging hormones. They have no chance of a future together. He’s gorgeous, intelligent and successful. He would never want anyone with so much baggage. Christopher has a secret of his own. He’s been investigation the possibility that, despite popular opinion, their father’s death hadn’t been an accidental overdose. He thinks it was murder. Even though the five siblings still haven’t accepted the fact that they have a father who made no attempt to be a part of their lives, they join together to discover the truth about his death. The search throws Killeen and Christopher together and their passion grows hotter. As her feelings for him slowly become more serious, she knows she must tell him about the baby. After a fun day in the sun, an event happens that outs Killeen’s secret. Christopher, as expected, doesn’t take the news well. But they must continue to work together to track down a killer, especially since the killer has now focused on them. Someone doesn’t want them to stay and take over the business. In fact, someone wants them all dead and now the decision on whether or not to be a part of the agency seems very unimportant compared to the job of trying to stop from being killed. They set up a trap that goes terribly wrong. Suddenly, Killeen must make a big decision. Who should she save? Her baby? Christopher? Her new brothers and sisters? Their lives are in her hands. Due Dates is the first book in the Scandals New Adult series of romantic suspense. Each book of the series will focus on one of the offspring of Roger Elliott, a famous musician who left them with a legacy they weren’t expecting. This book is about Killeen Ames who must deal with an unexpected pregnancy, an absentee baby daddy, an irresistible attraction to a hot new guy and four new half-brothers and sisters. Killer Date, the second book in this series will be released in Summer, 2014 and will tell Reno’s story. 

 Killer Date is a New Adult contemporary romance recommended for mature audiences due to language / mature subject matter / sexual situations. An inheritance brought him more than he ever could have imagined… Jenny Caldwell works two jobs to pay for her sister’s college tuition. Ever since their parents died, Jenny has taken care of her sister, Angie. She thought she was doing a pretty good job…until Angie went missing. Reno Marks, one of the new owners of the Scandals Investigation Agency, is first on the case to help Jenny find Angie. But his motives are not totally honorable. Even though she’s not his type, there’s something about the independent, sassy, beautiful woman that heats his blood to the boiling point. For Jenny, Reno is too slick…too experienced. He’s gorgeous and funny, but they have nothing in common except their determination to find the missing Angie. Her sister is all she has left of her family. But is she willing to give up all she has for something she’s always wanted? For Reno, it’s lust at first sight. He’s never known love and doesn’t expect to find it. His tortured past holds too much pain for him to hope for a happy future. Especially with someone like Jenny. Killer Date is the second book in the Scandals New Adult series of romantic suspense. Each book of the series will focus on one of the offspring of Roger Elliott, a famous musician who left them with a legacy they weren’t expecting.  

 Tulsa Wiggins is on her first case since she inherited the Scandals Investigations Agency with her four brothers and sisters in Austin, Texas. Her assignment is to track down a hacker who has stolen the IDs of several clients of the Linked on-line dating service. When the hacker turns killer, the case takes a dangerous turn. To find this cyber-criminal, she must go deep into the dark web, where anything goes and the lowest lifeforms prosper selling child porn, drugs, IDs and offering murder-for-hire and even human trafficking. Linked, the dating service that promised only the best and the brightest matches has been compromised, and everyone’s safety is at risk as the hacker infiltrates their phones and computers. What started as an innocent search for love has turned into a complete loss of privacy with phony texts, disabled security systems, death threats and stalkers lurking in dark parking lots. Cody Daniels is an Austin firefighter…and the #1 suspect. When he and Tulsa accidentally bump into each other, sparks fly. But how can she trust him when all signs point to his guilt? Tulsa is forced to work with Cody, a job that has some definite perks. With her heart at risk and her life in danger, she must race to find the truth before the killer strikes again on the WORST DATE EVER.